FiveEvil threw me. I through I'd hate it, but it is easily the best OSR/NSR style horror game I've seen so far. Reminds me of the way D&D 4th inspired a bunch of other games. Perhaps if it hasn't been noted as a 5e thing at all more peeps would be hot to it?

if you’ve had trouble finding yourself on the electoral roll, this may help: vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Let’s start Thursday with a protest song! Sets the tone for the day!

My favourite song since just right now. I think protest songs are my new obsession. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

⚖️ "Who'll Stand With Us? ✊🔥 New Protest song by Dropkick Murphys www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...

Still. Cannot. Stop. It.

Māori Queen Nga wai hono i te po becomes Kōhanga Reo patron, continuing the legacy of her grandmother Dame Te Atairangikaahu.

Fab article! It reminded me I was awarded a book by Margaret Mahy as a prize in Form 3. And I loaned it to a friend and never got it back! Funny 🤣 I hope my friend enjoyed it. thespinoff.co.nz/books/28-06-... The bridge builder: my mother Margaret Mahy | The Spinoff

Tiberius— "There has never been a better time to watch this video"

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

This woof would like you to know he loves scritches, and to climb right into your lap and curl up like a cat. A big floofy, quite stinky cat.

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

It is a law as old as the hills: Permit agents of the state to use violence against civilians to "maintain public order", and they will use it to advance private and particular interests.

Sharp jump in Covid-19, respiratory infections www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This place is magic. Would be gutted to see it close. Please donate if you can.

Dear trans people, You are loved. You are worthy. You deserve to live a good, beautiful, ordinary and fucking fabulous life! Arohanui from quite a LOT of cis people image: the above words written on a giant placard, attached to a fence in the Octagon, Ōtepoti (statue of Robbie Burns in background)

Are you kidding me? They're now locking up permanent residents because they're union leaders??? If you're not pissed off, you need to wake up. www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/mar/27/...

I’m thinking of this quote for no particular reason

sound like a good moment to share the Pepper Raccoon store! Everyone in my family has some kinda Pep gears and stickers and badges and they make our life LESS DEATH FEARING! check it out! pepperraccoon.com

Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

NZers: if you're over 45 and haven't had a TDAP (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine in the last 10 yrs, you're due for a free booster. We are in a pertussis epidemic currently, which tragically has recently caused the death of a baby, so it's a good time to boost your immunity.

I need projects in my holiday. This year I digitised grandma's cookbook so we can all have a copy and cos it's fragile (and because I borrowed it & have to return it to a cousin). She started it in 1947 (when she married), and used it for about 60 years! And now we can all make Heavenly Pie.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

If you are able to help out with a donation, it does go a long way for this small organisation with a big task. www.projectjonah.org.nz/donate/

If you're worried about climate change and you don't know what to do about it, you're not alone. Most people fall into that category! Here is a social science-based list of the most effective ways an individual can catalyze change. For more ideas every week, check out www.talkingclimate.ca

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

this frame of a 'compound climate disaster' is a great one and more people should be looking at it that way

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"

I am never going to understand hotels/motels/accommodation who invest in amazing hot water pressure and great showers, and pass on the ventilation. Soggy, misty, steamed up bathrooms! 🤷🏻‍♀️

"Just like they did with smoking... 'Big Tobacco' has taken another addictive product, wrapped it in shiny packaging and added sweet flavours to create a new generation of nicotine addicts," Mr Butler said in a speech announcing reforms on Tuesday. "We have been duped."#nzpol

The @nytimes finally published a detailed account of how the IDF rationalises its war crimes. And then the editors immediately removed the report from the home page. A middle finger to their own journalists, all 7 of them who interviewed over 100 people for it. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

This is cool. The podcast No Such Thing As a Fish recorded a special episode in Wellington bar Mean Doses, which will only be available to listen to by going into the bar’s bathroom.

Just a FYI for Wellington peeps: Mean Doses on Tory St are showing Akira (1987) tomorrow. Original Streamline dub for maximum nostalgia. 4pm, free entry, free popcorn, great drinks and bar snacks available. The venue is cool too.

This is some interesting stuff. And extremely relevant to the final part of the FiveEvil Splinters, which should drop this week!

@homebrewandhacking.bsky.social just caught up with your pod chat about FiveEvil, thank you!!

My book 'Migration' just got a supersonic review on 'The Sapling' and I'm stoked, cos books are fkn hard and take ages and you never really know if what you're doing is worth it, or if you should chuck it in for a real job and then you could afford the good peanut butter, or whatever

This is cool: Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand are building out a distributed storage network with eight sites built on Māori land to give “iwi and hapū the power to control and make decisions over their own data.”

The Creative Marketplace at TedX Wellington today.

*Must watch*, AoNZ. Terrifying and galvanising. Thank you @mihiforbes.bsky.social youtu.be/IDS0RBMspGk?...

“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.”

A little lightness. This is my grandma gardening in a frock and high heels - her usual gardening attire. 🤣 She was an avid gardener with a gorgeous garden - plentiful in fruit and veggies as well as flowers. And always dressed for the occasion 🦋

This was a heartbreaking story to work on: New data from reveals the crushing burden of Long Covid in NZ. Reading testimonies is like reading obituaries. LC patients describe their lives in the past tense, because the lives they used to have are now gone. newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/17/t...

A friend has started up an online children's bookshop in New Zealand. All books are selected to be socially concious, inclusive and celebrating diversity. She is an awesome human and this venture has come from her own parenting journey and difficulty in finding such things online. Pls check it out!

Don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking that standing against genocide is being against a particular ethnic group of people. Standing against genocide is simply pro humanity. There are enough horrendous diseases and accidents that take us humans out without us turning against each other.

On the day of the war against the hospitals -