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Our new FBI Director sells a supplement that “detoxes other people’s vaccines out of your body.” Sure. Why not.

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I feel like more needs to be made of this. It's been an overt attack in the House from the Deputy PM and Cabinet on the equal rights of citizens to participate in our electoral system, and any migrant or child of migrants should find it as chilling as I do.

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EXCITING NEWS! Canterbury University Press will be publishing my second short story collection, currently titled THE EMOTION DEALER AND OTHER STORIES. No idea when it'll come out other than probably this year, all depends on editorial availability and printing and such.

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Kartik Popat reviewed as a best of 2024 book by Hannah August on RNZ (and in stellar company)! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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If you’re from Aotearoa New Zealand and you’ve got even half an interest in politics then this is the book for you. Loved it @brannavan.bsky.social #nzpol

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Potentially relevant

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I know that I’m old at a music festival when I’m hoping the bands are sunblocked

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Simon Joyner is playing Vogelmorn on Thursday week. His latest album, Coyote Butterfly, is devastating. And to top it off, Peter Jefferies (!) is opening www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/94076/Si...

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The almost reflexive use of "controversial" to flatten the nature of what is being talked about, to elide a faux pas with seething bigotry, is in my view the single worst bit of journalistic cant. It's avoiding describing what you plainly saw in search of a false position of neutrality.

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Btw I'm now programming the shows at Pyramid Club - the beloved home of experimental music in Pōneke! Get in touch if you're into that kinda thing and wanna get involved - or ifya have any hot tips on who to book! 💓 www.pyramidclub.org.nz

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we've changed the law so this kind of thing can never happen again! Next time the landlord won't have to make up an excuse

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Oo. Oo. New Womb!!! Greatest band in the world. w--o--m--b.bandcamp.com/track/angels

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I would say it’s not just about the aggression/might is right as ideology, but also the kayfabe and attitude era shitfuckery as an orientation towards reality, truth and facts as goods on the free market, etc

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Thank you @imogenrw.bsky.social for including Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions in this awesome roundup: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... 🦕

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The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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I’m never gonna stop talking about how much of a loser this Kartik Popat is

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Look mum! I wrote a blog! if-we-knew-how-to-we-would.ghost.io/ive-forgotte...

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One thing that people in countries that haven't fallen to the far-right could do is work to have their countries take in more refugees, partly for to counteract other countries restricting refugee & asylum seeker entry, but also because it's a good thing to do anyway

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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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Lol thespinoff.co.nz/books/02-11-...

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Big nostalgia trip taking the kids to the newly re-opened Te Ngaengae Pool (my local growing up) and watching my child trying to cram in as many trips up to Zoomtubes (now plural!) like we used to do. Hopefully brings folks back to the Naenae shops too

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Why Aren't Aotearoa Publishers Releasing More Trans-Authored Books? Publisher @alwaysbecominging.bsky.social breaks it down in this essay www.hurtbooks.com/blog/why-are...

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uh oh! It's the internet's darling @brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job. heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

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Libraries are the best. Thank you libraries. So grateful to have Audition along with two other books from Aotearoa in the Dublin Literary Award longlist. dublinliteraryaward.ie

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Five things I’d quite like for 2025 www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/02/a...

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Without evidence, Israel has arrested the last doctor at the last hospital in North Gaza and declared that he's a "militant". Here is his piece from earlier in December for NYT Opinion www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

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At least 5 newborns have frozen to death in Gaza in the past week alone. 30 day old Juma al-Batran died in his father’s arms due to lack of heating and his twin is in medical care. These babies have never known any other existence. Their moms spent their entire pregnancies surviving a genocide.

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Realising that I am the exact target audience of The Life And Opinions of Kartik Popat by @brannavan.bsky.social, which is an indicator that I am 100% an Xennial NZ politics tragic with delusions of artistic grandeur

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NEW: For over a year, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths. A calculated policy. An act of genocide. 🧵⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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OMG!!!! Ariel view of utter devastation in Mayotte. Horrific! 📹 @Gendarmerie on X #CycloneChido #Mayotte #Chido

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