move the FUCK over, Tiffany

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

The article states eventually we'll run out of young migrants, while it's true that birth rates are declining just about everywhere, climate change is going to create even more displaced people, so if we welcome people seeking asylum, a genuine population crisis is probably a century away or longer

No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...

I just did a very quick & unofficial count: since 2020, there have been 13 books by new Māori writers published (approx 6 years). In the whole of the 2010s, there were 7 new Māori writers published. Significantly, 7 of the 13 since 2020 wrote novels. Significant change!

We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Oh I didn’t see this earlier. Look at us nerds. Congratulations team and to the whole cohort 🌺🍾🥳

Oh it's happening www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Go behind the scenes with acclaimed Arts Collective FAFSWAG, 🤩 We give you an exclusive look at our collaborative practice and the development of our powerful new work, FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE, for the Manchester International Festival 2025 (MIF25). Full video on YouTube youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...

Two poems from the final collection of poetry by Serie Barford, in hospice care with cancer

Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices. Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

This person took this when they called the race

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated. For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.

The 'Post' working hard to make Mamdani look like the coolest motherfucker alive.

The invasion of Parihaka, 5 November 1881. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

Oh that’s funny: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis/Transformation was reviewed at the time of publication as “really lacking imagination & being boring” in one journal

We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge. Cover: Dudley Benson More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...

Celebrating the Class of 2025 tonight. Really proud of this lot. It was a blast.

‘Putting Lives at Risk’- mental health services facing closure after government funding dries up #nzpol

Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children

writing tip: write a story that makes you feel like you just set the needle down on the vinyl exactly where you'd wanted to

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Looking forward to seeing all those last minute applications for the 2026 MA workshop pouring in: if you're having any problems with yours, just contact us on [email protected]! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

WHAT THE FUCK JUDITH

So happy to see this available online. It’s a must-read. I love it when a piece of writing can bring you in this close. Transformative.

The new Social studies curriculum is atrocious in general, but I just want to shine a spotlight on the explicit retreading of literal Nazi propaganda that is woven through the year 10 content! Buckle up this shit is shocking!

This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.

Tonight I was talking to a friend about this and she told me, this is one more major milestone in the decline of German democracy. For many people, it will be the thing that makes them decide to pack their bags, in anticipation of what is coming.

Every time National is in power, we spend a lot of money on roads that suck

Delighted to see @tinamakereti.bsky.social's new novel, The Mires, at my local library this morning.

The government’s political interference in the healthcare of trans kids is holding up the publication of sorely needed guidance for clinicians supporting *all* trans people. We’ve been told they will not be published until Simeon Brown deigns to decide the fate of trans youth.

Love it!

TAUTOKO

So far no sign of a storm here. Just fiercely hot and a bit windy. Te Hau Kai Tangata at it again. You old trickster. #Ōtautahi #Norwester

#oct23strike @nzctu.bsky.social

Un be-fucking-lievable . I'm truly gob-smacked, $8500, you complete and utter bastard.

'Roche said the rate of inflation was only one way of measuring a deal. "It's very difficult to always keep pace with inflation."' Somehow the Remuneration Authority manages it for MPs though. How much are ya paid, Roche? Struggled with any bills lately? #nzpol

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

‘Too much pain, not enough empathy’: Ingrid Horrocks on a book she wouldn’t recommend

Shame on this government for the deeply racist Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Amendment Act, just passed into law.

The Mires at Shakespeare & Co in Paris and Hatchards display at the Cheltenham Lit Festival. I can't be in those places so I am very grateful for friends who are! But golly I wish I could be in those places...

Paging @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Wellington weather update: our weather station blew away overnight

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining