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Stephenjohn Holgate

@mistaholgate.bsky.social

Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA candidate at the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author πŸ‡―πŸ‡² ➑️ πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory

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This is what happens when you need migrants but hate the fact that you need them.

08.10.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

09.10.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 504    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9
Baseball Sickos cartoon

Baseball Sickos cartoon

When the Yankees get eliminated

09.10.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2881    πŸ” 473    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 15

FUCK THE YANKEES! WOOHOO!

09.10.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck the Yankees

08.10.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | the National Library of New Zealand is turning 60 and we're all invited to the party! Archive fiends can sign up for one of the rare back-of-house tours on 18 Oct. Or check out Don McGlashan's lecture (6 Nov), a poetry reading with 11 Laureates (27 Nov) and more.

08.10.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As you shop, consider how the material will age, not just how long it will last. Will it age beautifully over time? Can you easily repair it? Will the repairs add to the item's appeal? As always, buy less, buy better, and take care of what you own. True beyond clothes

IG carolinafurniturecollective

08.10.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 642    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1

@vicciho.com

08.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

as I tried to explain to corey robin, the Nazis were incompetent boobs.

not that that's much comfort to all the people they murdered.

08.10.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

This is an important point: one of the defining characteristics of fascism is FRAUD. Frailty mimicking strength, lies mimicking truth, chaos mimicking order, theft mimicking law. It depends on illusion to conceal insecurity. Burns hot then collapses when the easy prey is gone. It’s weak.

08.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

07.10.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Ah yes. In no way is this repeated usage of the image of arguably one one of the most famous disabled people in history symptomatic of a eugencist society running on meta-eugenic structures. Nor is is it indicative of the way gen AI enhances the fash aesthetics. In. No. Way. AT ALL. (!) /sarcasm

08.10.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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07.10.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, please!

07.10.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
06.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Richard Edmonds - Wikipedia

Tommy claims to have been in BNP just from 2004-05 then leaving over his black friend being unable to join! This is a 2007 photo of him at a local branch meeting to listen to Richard Edmonds, a key BNP and NF activist,a holocaust denier, jailed for racist violence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

05.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
A crowd of people marching along Tory Street, Wellington, some of them carrying Palestinian flags

A crowd of people marching along Tory Street, Wellington, some of them carrying Palestinian flags

It rained. We marched for Palestine.

04.10.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1,000 people turned out in pissing down rain in Wellington to march for Palestine, and how many media outlets covered it? Two. And by two I mean, RNZ wrote an article and 1News "syndicated" it

But hey that Chocolate Fish Cafe news is devastating, amirite

04.10.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 280    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

…is he….you know…..

04.10.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, in Saudi Arabia, they'll just execute the trans people criticizing him and burdening his free speech.

02.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1635    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 4
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Kash Patel severs FBI's ties with the ADL "This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs," Patel wrote on X.

It's important to note that the ADL also helps coordinate the security and safety of Synagogues and Jewish community centers with federal law enforcement. Kash Patel ended that arrangement yesterday right before Yom Kippur and today there was an attack in the UK.

www.axios.com/2025/10/02/k...

02.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 650    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11

Alt text in the close up goes hard

02.10.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This also helps explain why in Israel the pro-hostage movement is largely anti-Netanyahu while in America it is pro-Netanyahu (or at least, all of his policies re Gaza).

There is a disinformation campaign targeting Jews & all Americans to convince us supporting hostages means supporting genocide.

01.10.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Gordon Brown was wrong to apologise for calling that bigot a bigot and THIS is where it's got us...

01.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Further evidence that I was right to rescind membership of this party and then leave the country.
Systemic racism is bad, but god forbid someone feels shame for being called racist…

01.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wut??

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01.10.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are tryna make us accept racism as NORMAL

29.09.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Except, dear reader, they are racist.

29.09.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES THEY ARE!!!

29.09.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Tried to persuade my mum and sister to get their UK citizenship over lunch (both on settled status).
They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years.
Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously.
I think they should.

28.09.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1120    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 10

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