Nic E

Headline: Defence Force deploys liaison officer to Israel

WHAT THE FUCK JUDITH

WTF!! Even the early 70s was more locally inclusive - I remember learning about the Pacific Islands, Aboriginies in Australia, Japan, countries in the Commonwealth, and Māori culture via kapahaka & games & oral histories (and this was Churton Park primary, ffs). And yeah, the composite class load 😐

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My Shih Tzu is hypoallergenic 💗

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Cicero, Orator, 120

not to bignote but um five or six of the things I have worked or advised on have won prizes or been longlisted. so there.

Wish I'd known that 6 months ago! Ugh, am so bored with my ms and also back to one income. Crap. Will share though. 💖

'hug a dog' much more effective anyway

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Long live Te Reo Māori, idiot gov't

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#stormytho

‘Keri was ahead of her time’: The Bone People’s historic Booker Prize win The Bone People won the world’s top literary prize 40 years ago, despite one judge describing it as “unreadable”. Was this global success to blame for author Keri Hulme never publishing a second book?

Still my favourite novel ever. Wonderful article.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies

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Unhinged + toxic

Faark, here's one for my Social Studies students on Tuesday!
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#corruption
#freudianslip

Too early to be screaming inside
😱☹️
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Strongly advise against lighting solid fuel heaters over the next couple of days. Whilst you may think "Oh it's an enclosed burner, it'll be fine", heavy winds can draw embers up and out of flues.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.

Seriously.

Rebecca Macfie: Unpacking poverty in Aotearoa It was while researching her two latest projects that Award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie came to realise the privileges colonisation had bequeathed her own family.

“Hardship & Hope published through Bridget Williams Books and Pakukore which she co-edited, explore the everyday struggles whanau across the country are facing and analyses the systems, institutions and policies that perpetuate cycles of poverty.” #nzpol

Hahahaa! I love her.

Robyn is such a legend.

And Kapiti 👏

Good humans
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#tangatatiriti

Nap if poss 💤

Clearly not above Wellington harbour there 😅

The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow & woe!

Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
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You can sign this, I did. #nzpol

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

This regime disgusts me. Be like Colombia, NZ gov't!
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And those people have their own strapping boots on your neck.
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"Happy eighteenth birthday, you are now an adult for taxpaying purposes but not for benefit or wage purposes"