My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now

Without reading any others, I can guarantee that this is the only Opportunity explainer that includes the phrase "Hegelian dialectic" and that you should read it for that reason alone

If you say this out loud it comes to "Spay sex's sex eh I"

At last, the definitive guide (for lefties): Should You Vote For The Opportunity Party? www.emilywrites.co.nz/should-you-v...

I mean we've had a year of articles going "was the orange or red warning justified?" Etc etc

Substack's dark patterns are out of control; twice now I've been subscribed to newsletters *simply by visiting them*, which is beyond the pale to the point that I think it's actually illegal.

So much of legacy media is beset by this problem: a kind of wild territorial gatekeeping. "no WE are the noble guardians of the fourth estate! not YOU!" coupled with a bizarre lack of introspection, a seeming total inability to grapple with their own morals or ethical entanglements.

The Wired profile of @edzitron.com has been bothering me since I read it months ago. It suffers from the usual pitfalls of profiles that are actually character assassinations: the sneering superciliousness, careful quote curation and source selection, a pretense of investigative interiority. But...

Parks and Reich

NZ$6.2m is ~US$3.5 million, or about one standard NIH R01. for our entire country. the full table of allocations is at gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20... new zealand's government is wiping out new zealand science, plain and simple

the Transition Research Fund, which replaces New Zealand's storied Marsden Fund, allocates just $6.2 million for science research relating to 'healthy people and a thriving society' that's less than my one single lab has spent in the last few years, but for all NZ basic science about humans #nzpol

huge subpost shoutout to the savvy political commentators in the chat who seem to be making the classic mistake of assuming that "centrist" swing voters are motivated by policy or logic and not deranged waking fever dreams that have an entirely tangential relationship to reality

the state of NZ political reporting is that they'll heap praise on a right-wing party for an uncosted policy consisting entirely of vibes and frame a couple of GDP's worth of roads as a "bold vision" but will savage the left-wing party's fully costed policy over an actual typo

The second con for my free game Mountain Resonance is coming up! Sign up to Convergence 2026 by the Waikato Roleplaying Guild in Aotearoa/New Zealand. convergence.waikatorpg.co.nz

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This is SOLID reporting from Emily and every working NZ journo who's regurgitated this government's propaganda about "low attendance" or "tackling truancy" or framed the issue as Tough-Talking David Seymour vs Lazy Teacher Unions should sit down and take some goddamn notes

I hate to use this word but this is a scoop: parents are being fined and chased by schools for having unwell, dying, and disabled children. Some have been fined of threatened for - among other things - keeping kids home when a parent has died. www.emilywrites.co.nz/parents-fine...

Embodying embodiment Why I've started writing things by hand and you should too....

the Christchurch Wizard is the final boss of Milkshake Ducks

the hypocrisy is the point. the impunity is the point. they love it when you hone in on their hypocrisy, because they don't give a shit. they like having power; that's the whole of the game; to them that is all that distinguishes smart from stupid, have from not.

@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com @cwgabriel.bsky.social I trust we'll be seeing Gabe's Very Own Walrus on the roster of beloved characters befitting disinterment www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/0...

When Australia did this it cost the federal government millions, ruined untold lives, and drove multiple people to suicide; but sure, let's learn nothing and do Robodebt here too

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

if we're arguing social media is too dangerous for kids 16 and under, we're basically saying it impacts the brain and potentially body like an addictive drug. this IS kinda true. people seldom carry that logic to its end. doing that would mean admitting every adult online is getting fucked up 24/7

it's going to become a superintelligent artificial god any day now

“Anti trans organisations exerting powerful influence over media and politics, new analysis reveals” www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/new-u...

Yes it sucks dealing with a cavalcade of endless fuckery from the Government but you know what's worse? Not dealing with it! www.emilywrites.co.nz/subs/

iS tHiS gOod?!1??

I am in my 40s, so it is time to talk about my neck, my back. Not the other things. IYKYK.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition

Friends, the now billionaire co-founder of Facebook, who we have to thank for the unlimited money going into the effective altruism cult who has now given us "AI", with all its "glory" including kids' suicides, has a dream good social media platforms good people like him dreamt up years ago 🙄

One of my favourite illustrations yet! This series is really hits the spot in terms of things I like to draw. Plus, all the interviewees are phenomenal people! What’s not to like?

The Wired profile of @edzitron.com has been bothering me since I read it months ago. It suffers from the usual pitfalls of profiles that are actually character assassinations: the sneering superciliousness, careful quote curation and source selection, a pretense of investigative interiority. But...

"All those books will make great fuel for one lucky roaming band of irradiated miseries who will enjoy a useful supply of kindling." If you're going to read anything from me this month please make it my job application as Curator for the End of the World Library www.tworuru.com/tinkering/in...

A must read for librarians of Aotearoa, and everyone else will enjoy it too. Start collecting vellum now 😊 @lianza.bsky.social

So. Not to get political on this apolitical website for people having a nice time online, but my kid's friend is trying to organise a bake sale to raise $ at their high school, and the school says it's too political. Because the $ is going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

the second sentence of my post is "I also applied for a job at British American Tobacco by dressing as a giant cigarette and asking teenagers to take up smoking" so I'm a little surprised it took them a while to realise I might not be entirely serious in my application to the apocalypse library

"All those books will make great fuel for one lucky roaming band of irradiated miseries who will enjoy a useful supply of kindling." If you're going to read anything from me this month please make it my job application as Curator for the End of the World Library www.tworuru.com/tinkering/in...

A phenomenal read – so satirically accurate it hurts: "Right now, flooding a shop or carrying away a bridge isn't an offence under legislation, but it will be." "Look, what I'd say to you is," said Luxon, addressing the floodwaters. They crept up to his ankles, overflowing his comfortable shoes...

‘The Government passed new urgency under legislation last night, hitting floods that occupied business premises without permission with instant fines.’

😆👏!

Job-searching was making me depressed. Then I saw an ad for an "End of the World Library" curator. I'm applying.

Job-searching was making me depressed. Then I saw an ad for an "End of the World Library" curator. I'm applying.

Hooray, the Coalition is FINALLY doing something about climate change! www.emilywrites.co.nz/coalition-go... #nzpol #kikorangi

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

after you've finished your chuckle at this cursed image it might pay to remember that National failing largely means votes bleeding to Act and NZ First and that if you want a leftist government instead of an even more right-wing one, the left might at some point have to do something

I for one am thrilled that this dude looks likely to lead National during the election