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Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
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Nick Young
9 days ago
Awkward for Shane Jones. Former head of Marsden Oil refinery: "Most other countries in the world outside MAGA US states and New Zealand are [going for 100% renewables and electrifying transport] now, at pace. For some reason, New Zealand 's going down the 1980s' path."
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Simon Ward
3 days ago
Had to see what difference the accurate proportions would be ... turns out a lot.
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Gwyn
3 days ago
Do you think there's some reason the "much better" bar on here is visually larger than "much worse" even though it's numerically smaller? š¤
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KiwiNikki
3 days ago
National is why we canāt have nice things.
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www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
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Unredacted briefing blunder reveals hidden Cook Strait ferry costs
Internal documents from Ferry Holdings Limited reveal hidden procurement costs and the logistical dance required to keep the national highway operational.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360967717/unredacted-briefing-blunder-reveals-hidden-cook-strait-ferry-costs
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Carl Quintanilla
2 days ago
FRENCH NATO GEN. YAKOVLEFF: ā.. [Trump] wants to share the political risk, not the military risk. .. Heāll drop us the minute it suits him. .. This isnāt the time to buy a promo ticket on the Titanic.ā
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Jonathan King
15 days ago
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
ās WAKE earns her a place on this list!
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Claire Mabey
10 days ago
It was a beautiful day AND my book arrived! š
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onion person
about 2 months ago
we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???
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Ellie Leonard
about 2 months ago
We have new totals, folks
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Dr Bex
about 2 months ago
National squandered $6B for climate resilience projects, using it to top up tax cuts for their mates, and now local councils are footing the bill instead šš¼
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Kirsty Johnston
about 2 months ago
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last weekās storms
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Otto English
about 2 months ago
The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
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Dr Bex
about 2 months ago
We had a $6B climate resilience fund and Nationals squandered it all on tax cuts for their mates so now we get boxes of KFC after weather events instead of properly funded supports and help. Yay for us I guess??
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What The Fug Is Happening?
about 2 months ago
#GinnyAnderson
"Are wages keeping up with the cost of living when white bread has gone up 58.3% in the past year?"
#DavidSeymour
"Consider wholemeal." Ginny Anderson: "It's more expensive." David Seymour: "Eat less." You first, Scrooge McFuckFace. You first.
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Fergus Barrowman
about 2 months ago
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Courtney Johnston
3 months ago
I saved up
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ās latest book for the summer break and was DELIGHTED to re-enter her fictional world of Southland, the setting of Dreamhunter + Dreamquake, brought up to the current moment
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Benjamin Dreyer
3 months ago
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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There Is No Mary Problem in āItās a Wonderful Lifeā
Georgeās vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its trueāand profoundāmeaning.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/there-is-no-mary-problem-in-its-a-wonderful-life?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Acyn
3 months ago
Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trickle release of Epstein files on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties
The justice department is using a variety of tactics to try to obfuscate the US presidentās connection to the sex offender
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/epstein-files-release-strategy-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Our beloved ones
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Forty names for kÄkÄ
The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot weāre going to ...
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/forty-names-for-kaka/
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Te Herenga Waka University Press
3 months ago
One more piece of wonderful news that we're bursting to share before we close up shop: we're publishing Night, Ma by Elizabeth Knox in April 2026!
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Cover: Todd Atticus,
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Kings of This World by Elizabeth Knox - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
A 'coming-of-age adventure set in a boarding school steeped in supernatural talent'.
https://www.nzreviewofbooks.com/kings-of-this-world-by-elizabeth-knox/
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Shayne's memoir Dead People I Have Known is also amazing
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
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Life in One Chord review ā the Dunedin sound through the eyes of a music maverick
Based on a memoir by Straitjacket Fits frontman Shayne Carter, this documentary maps out the New Zealand town that birthed an indie movement
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/03/shayne-carter-documentary-life-in-one-chord-film-review?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Sapling
5 months ago
'⦠what is becoming an adult if it isnāt working out to use your little piece of power, for the good of others, or yourself'
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reviews the new YA novel from
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www.thesapling.co.nz/review-kings...
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'Much of the appeal of Nolanās films lays in his tangible trust that his viewers will be smart enough to follow him'
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Interstellarās second life: how Christopher Nolanās most divisive film became his most loved
When Nolanās space epic was released in 2014, critics picked at the plot holes and scientists picked at the science ā now, 11 years later, itās the internetās favourite film. Was it just ahead of its ...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/21/interstellar-christopher-nolan-film-memes-divisive-most-loved?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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IIML
5 months ago
Great to see our colleague Kate Duignan taking 3rd placing in the hotly contested (14720 entries!) Sargeson Prize judged by Elizabeth Knox and won by Becky Manawatu, with PhD student Sam Keenan and MA grads Leah Dodd and Harriet Salmon on the Highly Commended list.
www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/...
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From shattered to shining: Becky Manawatu wins Sargeson Prize for story of a broken vase :: University of Waikato
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/news/from-shattered-to-shining-becky-manawatu-wins-sargeson-prize-for-story-of-a-broken-vase/
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Jess Piper
5 months ago
āThe 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.ā If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
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Just Jack
5 months ago
If youāve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss. Youāre caught up. Ps: Welcome back.
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Christopher Webb
5 months ago
On the Charlie Kirk show, Vought said federal firings could hit ānorth of 10,000ā during the shutdown. Companies lay people off to survive. This is different. He sounded like heās enjoying the chance to fast-track his agenda. This isnāt about saving money, itās about sabotaging the government.
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Foxes
5 months ago
These motherfuckers! $30 for a kilo of fucking mince!
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/record-leap-in-co2-fuels-fears-of-accelerating-global-heating?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Craig M. Ranapia
6 months ago
Highest praise for
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's KINGS OF THIS WORLD: Husband grabbing it out of my library bag, ripping through it in a day then straight into DREAMHUNTER, DREAMQUAKE & MORTAL FIRE so he could linger in its world.
#BookSky
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www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/...
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Kings of This World - Elizabeth Knox
Kings of This World - Elizabeth Knox
https://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/Elizabeth-Knox-Kings-of-This-World-9781991142283
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IIML
5 months ago
Is that WAKE, Elizabeth Knoxās horror novel, on Jacindaās bedside table during Covid? Almost yelled out in the theatre. Really good film anyway. PRIME MINISTER
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Bevan Holloway
6 months ago
Here are a couple of suggested polls for Stuff. Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who arenāt employed by the Ministry of Education? Should our curriculum be written overseas? Should we care if democratic process is violated?
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Paul Eric
6 months ago
Gaza BEFORE the Genocide š
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Rep. Dave Min
6 months ago
The EA acquisition continues an alarming trend of media consolidationāsocial media, TV, print news, and now gamingāby Trumpās inner circle of oligarchs. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook and we should all be alarmed.
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Just Jack
6 months ago
Happening now: Trump and Bibi are speaking to the press about the Gaza ceasefire proposal. The real story here is Trumpās mental decline. Itās getting worse. Much worse. Heās been rambling incoherently since it began. Itās jarring. Somehow the press will find a way to dance around it.
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Judd Legum
6 months ago
1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
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Trumpās Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary
https://popular.info/p/trumps-argentina-bailout-enriches
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Michael Paarlberg
6 months ago
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Mother Jones
6 months ago
āIt is to intimidate the largest immigrant groups in this country. Itās full racism. Itās shameless racism. There is no way to deny, and itās absolutely deliberate.ā
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When home isnāt safe: Immigration enforcement meets housing discrimination
āWhat weāre seeing is people are terrified, and itās deliberate.ā
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/when-home-isnt-safe-immigration-enforcement-meets-housing-discrimination/
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Stu Fleming
6 months ago
"Killing/eating other contestants not seen as a drawback to success"
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Ron Filipkowski
6 months ago
Presidents get too much credit when the American economy is strong & too much blame when it isnāt. But in the case of farmers who canāt sell crops, Trump clearly gets 100% of the blame. Rare when you can point to economic disaster in a sector directly attributable to a president.
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Acyn
6 months ago
Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, āWhat could be helpful?ā the answer would not be the United States military.
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Robšø
6 months ago
It utterly failed, she had to borrow tens of billions to make it work its still failing No resignation Willis lies
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Republicans Against Trumpism
6 months ago
Masked ICE agents slammed a 79-year-old U.S. citizen to the ground during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash. Now heās suing DHS for $50 million.
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Just Jack
6 months ago
Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved. Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf. No class, dignity or graceā¦just like their cult leader in the White House.
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