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wordsSHIFTminds is Auckland, New Zealand-based composer and musician Chris Bell. Music is the best. I also have a weakness for curry. https://www.instagram.com/wordsshiftminds/ https://soundcloud.com/wordsshiftminds https://wordsshiftminds.bandcamp.com
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Sonia Gray talks about Mind Menders, the psychedelic-assisted therapy documentary we made with her. Part 1 is on tonight! 8.30pm on Sky Open. It will also be available on Neon and (for free) Sky Go. Feels wild to have it ready to air six years after I had the idea. www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

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“The international deep-seabed is the common heritage of all humankind. It must be reserved for peaceful purposes.” — Claire Slatter and Maureen Penjueli.

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😵 Mental.

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'Festination' has had 9 plays this week on RDU, the Christchurch indie radio station. Love those guys. wordsSHIFTminds is big in Ōtautahi. 😊

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Grim. 💀

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I haven't done one of these for a while, so... This is 'Lefty Lucy', a work in progress from a forthcoming wordsSHIFTminds album (snipped short to comply with the three-minute Bluesky video limit). #music #synthwave #downtempo #electronica #synthsky #retro

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Read my poem 'Schmetterling' in 'Eunoia Review': eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/s...

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'Deal Or No Deal' but they're on an island and they've never met before and they're all virgins baking pies on an obstacle course.

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Perhaps it's because I'm old, but in the past, the label "activist" was worn as a badge of pride, showing that you weren't sitting around waiting for the world to change for the better; you were actively doing something about it. Now it's used as a pejorative. How did that happen?

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Read my poem 'Schmetterling' in 'Eunoia Review': eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/s...

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Letter to the Herald #NZpol

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We’ve heard the rage. The shame. The heartbreak. Channel it, let it fuel your fight. Make a submission: for yourself, your whānau, or your group. The #RSB is a right-wing attack on our rights. Anti-diversity, pro-corporatisation. They suspended our MPs now it’s your turn. Submit. Fight back #NZPol

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Several years ago, I predicted as much in my speculative fiction trilogy 'Songshifting'.

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Bizarre! Nicole McKee in favour of loosening restrictions on real semi-automatic rifles but wants tighter restrictions on Te Pati Māori pointing finger guns🙄

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From everything I've read here today, it sounds like business as usual in NZ parliament. 🙄

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Wow released 41 years ago yesterday & that intro is still terrifying. youtu.be/pO1HC8pHZw0?...

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Before Netanyahu, Israel's Mossad was known for its covert operations and would target and eliminate enemies in foreign countries. If the current Israeli regime is serious about targeting Hamas, why is the IDF killing Palestinian non-combatants indiscriminately? The answer is clear: Genocide.

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Memo to self: Feature idea - Forks, stealth weapon of the cutlery drawer.

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After denying the reality of climate science for years, and now opposing policies to cut emissions, rightwing political actors like Seymour and Hoskings are now having to explain why insurance premiums are going up as a result of climate change. www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-...

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The most important news you'll read today.

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