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RNZ homepage screenshot showing the headline of today’s tragic top story “‘Never seen that much water’ - Man dies amid widespread flooding in Ōtorohanga”, with a picture of said flooding, topped with a red breaking news banner that reads “Christchurch City Council issues boil water notice for eastern suburbs”. It’s all too much.

The state of things. Tragedy intensifies. 😢

Remind me, which “waters” did those bamboozled billboard people think they wanted to “stop”… and why, again?

Oh swoon.

Yes and – might want to update the terms of this enquiry to also cover the Standard of the Shit we are Expected to:

* swim in

* ingest unknowingly via our tap water

* serve up to hungry children under the guise of “Healthy Lunches”

* wade through as we flee for our lives

What have I missed?

kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage . ALT: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

Yaaaaaaaay!!! Can. Not. Wait!

Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa | Te Papa This landmark collection presents fresh, progressive perspectives on what it means to be ‘Asian’ in Aotearoa.

The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.

i've never been quite as frightened of something i've written as i am of this thing i've just written. which makes me realise i'm not sure what it would be like to write something that doesn't scare the life out of me. and for each thing to get more and more frightening.

Poster for AWP off-site event: with Dorothy, Kelsey St. Press, FC2, Airlie Press, and Case Western. Thursday, March 5 at 8pm at The Lithuanian Hall, 851 Hollins St. Join us for a literary reading featuring these presses and schools doing tight fives, an extraordinary cake buffet, social fun, books 4 sale, and a cash bar. Lana Lin, Lindsay Turner, John Haskell, Abigail Raley, Emcee Dufresne, Alex Niemi, Chin-in Chen, Angela Woodward, Yanara Friedland, Jess Yuan, Rohan Chhetri, and Caren Beilin!

Another AWP Offsite event for us! Also on Thursday, March 5, but this one has Lana Lin and a lot of cupcakes!

The difference in monitoring between this and any pennies through "māori" research funds 👀👀👀

❤️

Thank you. This makes it SO much clearer to me.

THANK YOU.

Oooo. Wild. Because I find it SO triggering. Like really destabilising. I had to turn the radio off the other day. Wow. That makes so much sense.

ahahaha not a zuru exec complaining in public that they know people in the epstein files but it’s unfair because they’re not “guilty” and reputations are being “unduly affected”

I wish I was a smarter person & could work out the elements of the strategy both Pam Bondi & Nicola Willis are using - it's wild. The whole, 'Riddle me that,' line from Willis yesterday is the epitome of it but I can't work out what they are both doing. Is it simply shout lies & belittle?

Given that we still have an 81 on the perceptions of corruption index, there’s still plenty of room to move down!

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

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'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job The outgoing minister was the only person considered for Law Commission president - with no recruitment process and no others candidates.

"How on earth can we possibly say that somebody was appointed because they were the best person for the job, when there was a decision to not even consider anybody else for that job?" - Chloe Swarbrick. #NzPol

Lyrical Ballads Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend s...

Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
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RNZ piece on NZ's falling in the Corruption Perception Index, illustrated by a stock drawing of a hoodlum sitting at a computer.

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

This really has to be internalised by everyone. It's the core of every social ill. No more billionaires.

The organisation I am part of accepted a collective agreement that was awful because this economy sucks & people are worried about jobs etc our employer played on this. Jobs were safe but this govt has created fear and delivered a terrible economy. I hope they get obliterated at the election #nzpol

I absolutely guarantee you that the below and Luxon announcing a gas terminal isn't a coincidence. Corrupt piece of shit #nzpol

A marine biologist says the Moa Point sewage spill could be a massive ecological disaster that would take many years to reverse.

Millions of liters of raw sewage now pour into the sea, following a catastrophic sewage treatment plant failure in NZ’s capital city.

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We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy. But because it's easier than Mars.

Yes. Just need to check the recording (it was a bit windy) and check it with Jordy. Should be out by end of Feb. Thanks so much for coming along.

This looks great - two of the smartest and most intriguing writers I know of, chatting about timely topics together.

Bound to be invigorating for the busy ol’ brain, especially in these weird and wearying times. A most welcome and refreshing invitation! #pukapuka #nzbooks

I'll do my best!!

can we PLEASE get some fucking coverage of Thiel’s interests here, past, present and future

huge red light flashing given the way media have almost completely ignored him

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.

THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.

Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

oh you mean NZ citizen Peter Thiel who NZ's entire media is just refusing to report on effectively, if at all, these last 2 weeks?