Hello UK friends! I’m delighted to say that my novel Song of the Saltings is now out in your country at all good bookshops! Pubbed by the wonderful folk at Guppy Books. Please spread the word! If you liked The Grimmelings I hope you’ll like this. #ukkidlit #kidlituk guppybooks.co.uk/book/song-of...

alright it's over the line, it is live. Still plenty of slots though, if you want to apply. go.bsky.app/PhVMreq

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Full story: finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

SpaceX, the company who needs to make a collision avoidance maneuver every few minutes with one of their satellites to avoid a catastrophic cascading event that makes space inaccessible, has launched a nuclear satellites.

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Such wonderful news, Hinemoana! Hinemoana Baker is currently working on a new collection of poems as part of her PhD thesis.

Tamatha was right #nzpol

Reminded that Trump was the one who originally wanted to ban TikTok after kids on TikTok reserved a bunch of fake seats for a rally, leaving an empty stadium. And then the Democrats handed him the ban (because they were upset that kids were saying mean things about Israel) for Trump to "save."

"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark

We're helping solve the big 'how to bomb schoolkids more problem' #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/6...

It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.

The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

🧵 Submission on the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill [summarised for Blue Sky word count] I oppose this Bill and ask the Committee to recommend it does not proceed.

Here's the full programme for the Marginalia Lit Fest (free and online, 16-19 July), featuring a fabulous line-up of local talent www.jackieleemorrison.com/marginalia-2...

Gutted to discover WCC are now charging for meeting rooms at Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui and not at a low rate - $21/hour for the rooms that fit up to 5 people. These rooms were such amazing community spaces and were being really well used. So many friendly interactions as people swapped over. Blergh.

Submissions on this Bill close on Thursday 2 July.

Me too.

Fourth Marginalia panel drop! Join Tīhema Baker and Emele Ugavule as they discuss how the concept of story sovereignty and reclamation affect their lives and work, and what we should all be doing to support marginalised storytellers. More info here: www.jackieleemorrison.com/marginalia

With my publishing 🎩, very pleased to announce the August release of 'That Was Not My Intention', the debut novel from Frances Pavletich. Check out more details on our webbie: www.lawrenceandgibson.co.nz/product/that... 🌐☮️💗

today is the first day in 40 years that Aotearoa New Zealand has not had a Ministry for the Environment. 💀

Third Marginalia panel drop! Join @pipadam.bsky.social and @antzlapwood.bsky.social for a discussion about the appeal of writing in worlds outside ours and the lessons we can learn from specfic 🛸 Details and link to watch: www.jackieleemorrison.com/marginalia — put it in your diary! ❤️

Second Marginalia panel drop! Join @andiwrites.bsky.social and @janna-ruth.com as they chat about how being neurodivergent has affected their lives and work, and helped propel their writing careers forward 🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

First Marginalia panel drop! This year, everything will be live streamed on YouTube (link in bio). Join authors Y.Y. Chan, Jean Lau, and @clairemabey.bsky.social to hear why they write kid lit and why they think you should be reading it, too! Put the date in your diary, I’ll see you there ✌️

Woohoo!!! Thank you @jaxies.bsky.social Come one. Come all!

Just announced: Audition by Pip Adam has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! ✨ Learn more: bit.ly/4vyqLhv

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

👏 Kieran McAnulty: "Pregnant women, people being discharged from hospital, & - I think the most egregious example - women & children escaping domestic violence that were deemed to have contributed to their own homelessness because they had a home & chose to leave it." 🎯 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I don’t actually think the lines quoted by Chidgey at the end of this are proven AI at all. Students do this sort of thing all the time, and giving human attributes to nonhuman entities isn’t so strange to non-Westerners - or speculative writers. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/29/a...

Pip's book Audition got nominated for the Le Guin Prize. Super cool.

Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙

But I mean yeah in all seriousness, a second shortlist spot (!!!!) in this incredible company for what I consider to be my PERSONAL most meaningful award in SFF is... is very something! Thank you so so much to @psychopomp.com @ecatherine.com @mkcurry.bsky.social @seanmarkey.bsky.social !

Glory be, @pipadam.bsky.social's Audition is shortlisted for this year's Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction!! @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @strangelightbooks.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social @giramondobooks.bsky.social www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26?ss_s...

Congrats to our friends at @coffeehousepress.bsky.social and the wonderful @pipadam.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Pip Adam and all the other nominees! What an enormous honor!!! 🎉🎉🎉 @pipadam.bsky.social

The Le Guin prize shortlist remains the best way to create a new and interesting reading list fucking incredible stack as always. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @pipadam.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com all in a pile back to back??? 3 of my absolute fave books this year. Embarrasment of riches.

Beside myself to see my book in this company. Thank you so much to everyone who nominated it. Thank you @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

DYING to block young people from the internet and require age verification tech across all platforms. But not DYING to develop online safety regulations that would actually help change online environments for the better. Let's talk about what Luxon had to say 🧵 #nzpol

I endorse every word of this thread. And the observation about how the coalition government is making a big show of forcing councils to amalgamate having done the opposite with water entities – for purely political reasons – would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious.

I do think it’s *interesting* that this isn’t Liberty, it’s Victory holding Liberty’s torch and wearing her crown. I do not think ultimately they are smart enough to have done this on purpose. But it’s INTERESTING

Sorry. i'll shut up soon but also can you imagine how few phone calls it would have taken to find out Auckland has no night shelter? And you know what, i am almost 100 percent sure this is not a 3D chess case of knowing & pretending he doesn't. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Extremely bad news today; Medical Council has rolled over and ceased work on drafting statements on cultural safety. Political interference from ACT and Simeon Brown successful. If Labour supports changes to Health Competency Assurance Act, I will spit fecking tacks. www.mcnz.org.nz/about-us/con...

Makes legislation knowing zero things.

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

And that’s why philanthropy is a rort. Tax the rich

This is scathing, and dead on.

New Zealand Science: Step 1: cut science funding. Step 2: be baffled there's nothing to commercialise. Step 3: blame the professors. #nzpol