The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

I posted a piece from Mark Harris about an individual who had kept a list of everyone he personally knew/knew of in the NYC theater/dance/opera community who died of AIDS. Someone interviewed for the story remarked “It’s like the entire company of Wicked dying twice a year for 20 years.” 😔

It was a great privilege to live here and I am grateful

I signed. I encourage you to support whānau our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re... #nzpol

We are now OPEN for submissions for our first anthology! The vibe is wondrous sapphic specfic, and we want to see diversity. It's taken a lot of effort/fundraising to get to this point, but proud to say we offer professional rates. #booksky #submissions #writingcommunity #sapphic

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts."

The butter chicken pie has risen from a niche fusion food to New Zealand’s third-best-selling pie flavour. Who gave the nation this unique culinary taonga? thespinoff.co.nz/kai/01-12-20...

One word for graduation is "whakapōtaetanga", which I translate to "the Enhattening" and no one can tell me any different. (Yes, the Master's is all OFFICIAL official, now.)

✍️ In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers By Philip O'Brien

This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).

For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.

Always blow on the pie, Doug!

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

The artist formerly known as Prince was a beta tester for the first Oregon Trail (he was in third grade at the school near the developers)

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

Two new measles cases confirmed today, bringing the national total to 21. Locations of interest 👉 spr.ly/61847cKYy - new locations in Nelson, Auckland and Waikato. More: spr.ly/633217cKNR

You can recreate the social tabs apparently bsky.app/profile/text...

The language of the law and human rights isn’t always easy to understand - but the kaupapa is clear. It’s about doing what’s right and it’s about upholding the mana of our communities by treating everyone with dignity and respect.

What kind of absolute monster says this to the Pike River families

Some good news: those wankers withdrew their charter school application for Kelston Boys #nzpol

The bastards.

That's going to joss a lot of happily ever after fics. Cannot wait!

I’m watching “The Twelve” and Marlon Williams plays Sam Neil’s son and in the episode they play a Marlon Williams song so in that universe Marlon Williams exists and his doppelgänger is getting stoned with his estranged dad drinking wine (from Two Paddocks?) open.spotify.com/track/2IQotX...

Also some very pleasing intel that Hard To Find is not going to leave Auckland, no matter what happens to its current digs which are on the market. Which is a very good early Christmas present - book shopping on line just doesn't float my boat. www.realestate.co.nz/42920306/com...

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

My speech on the Regulatory Standards bill. It was 10 minutes long, but I think I covered the essence of my message in the first 16 seconds.

Peeps, here we go.

🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Shame on this government.

This is Dan Brennan, street hustler, drug addict, but still the best damn starpilot in the Interstellar Republic. His story's available in HAZE by Katharine Kerr, out tomorrow in hardback.

Shortland Street doesn't escape this conversation unscathed.

If Dawn & Sage meet... #ShortlandStreet

Forgot the alt: book cover of Fire and Ice: secrets, histories, mysteries and treasures of Tongariro National Park, by Hazel Philips.

This is great. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to the Auckland events. waateanews.com/2025/11/08/l...

The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Just read pg 168 of @tkingfisher.com's What Stalks The Deep and I am overcome. "IT IS LIKE HUMAN TALKING."

Ooh, seeing this tomorrow night!

NZ and AU accounts, accustomed to a more vigorous use of language as punctuation than the comparatively prim US, might at the very least set it to warn so you know people are saying things even if you are nervous about be unshielded from "no constructive purpose". Wordcloud of NZ Twitter 2021

Audiobooks.com is so excited about the audiobook for Daughter of Mystery that they've revised the 50% off to 75% off! I'd love for this audiobook to do well enough that the rest of the series gets picked up in audio. And now, back to working on Alpennia #5. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads). us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Accept no imitations

It is penguin of the year time and I would suggest you all vote for chaos bisexual Dave www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/pengui...

You can now watch black comedy Kiwi gem Millie Lies Low for free on Whakaata Māori. And I implore you do. It's so damn good and we, as a nation, should be talking about it more. www.flicks.co.nz/movie/millie...

huh. @stechlab-labels.bsky.social seems like it's doing something *actually interesting* and *actually useful* with its labeler, and I can't subscribe to it and I don't know why

This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”