cal is fine

my book

my book on my head

IT'S REAL

pre-order if you dare
www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/...

#booksky #author #nzfiction #pleasereadmybook

Rachel Boyack & the $26,000 alpaca Labour's arts spokesperson struggles to think of NZ authors

Steve Braunias not being a dick challenge: impossible

newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/03/r...

In a dim Yokohama side street, a neon-lit Japanese man with dreadlocks smokes a cigarette outside a bar window

smoke break

Yokohama, Jan 2024

Fujifilm X-S10, XF23mm F2

1/30s, f/2.0, ISO400

Absolutely fucking disgusting behaviour from the Wellington Repertory Theatre. Shame on them for defending a rapist, shame on Gryphon Theatre for choosing to stage this show, and shame on anyone who still supports WRT.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3502...

ehehehe my girlfriend @hannahmarsh.bsky.social is AMAZING! so proud of her for making this shortlist 😍

ending the Christmas tyranny of inoffensive sam smith summer rock with Dedicated Side B. this one's for the gays

-- “I was out for fuckin’ four days?”
-- “Nah, you were out for eleven days, ya fuckin’ druggo.”

i grew up hearing about how much Rogernomics and Ruthanasia fucked this country. now the new generations get to experience that firsthand, and i think that’s beautiful 🥰

“If you’re saying I play favourites, you're wrong. I love all of my lenses equally.” Earlier that day: “I don’t care for my Fuji XC 15-45mm”

in the five ish months I've had my camera I've taken ... four thousand or so photos, but I've only posted a dozen or so anywhere. I have no idea what to do with them. dump them on insta in scheduled posts? sling them here? I want to share them w ppl, but I also want critique. h e l p

We decided it was time to join #kikorangi. Coincidentally, did you know applications are open for the 2024 Penguin Random House Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship?

Come and study with us! tinyurl.com/5b43b9bv

the immediate urge to throw yourself out a window when you get to work and realise you forgot your headphones

winding down the nicotine in my vape juice (aiming to quit by the time I leave for Japan) and holy HIKA the urge to snack is back with a vengeance. time to start chewing gum again :)))

I feel like we're months, a couple of years at most, away from “have you run a givealittle campaign” as an official frontline MSD query

people don't talk enough about how green beans are still beans. not as musical as baked beans maybe but they still have that magic

this was a fascinating read! it might be bc it’s late, but I couldn't tell if the preferential yes/no format ever made a meaningful difference to a referendum?

tonight I'll be watching my favourite 2019 movie (Cats) as the Lord intended: with herbal snacks and a freshly baked lemon cake. should be fun

ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO YOU NI
SHONEN YO, SHINWA NI NARE

Anti-Vaxxers xkcd.com/2806

hi it's me goblin personified. i can uhh write and do uncomfortably accurate gollum impressions

... *Dr* bees?

I'm used to series with rough beginnings (cough, Dresden files) but I like seeing an author grow and hit their stride so I just did pub order lol

sic mundus creatus est

threads is rancid, I scrolled for like a minute without seeing a single throot by someone I followed. not the kind of psychic damage that'll keep me around

THISSS. it took me about five years, three different antidepressants and multiple dosage strength variations to find a balance that worked and helped with the myriad interrelated symptoms that needed treating

made the mistake of interacting with a drug prohibition enthusiast/white conservative South African on Twitter and, well, I am Fine with this place staying invite only for a while

gossip girl says go piss girl

idk if it’s the adhd or what but I physically cannot not say go piss girl any time someone says they’re going to the bathroom

i wake up in the morning. my skeets have (not) gone viral overnight. someone quote-throoted my throot-thread and sent five hundred bots after me. the only reply to my toot was ‘bestie tooting is a problematic word :/’. tweets have been renamed nfteets.

life is good.

nimona has a deep cut Metric track AND the first song is Grrrl Like, this movie was honestly made for me