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Totally.

Happy May 4th from the Theory Twink

lol lmao

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

Dear trans people, You are loved. You are worthy. You deserve to live a good, beautiful, ordinary and fucking fabulous life! Arohanui from quite a LOT of cis people image: the above words written on a giant placard, attached to a fence in the Octagon, Ōtepoti (statue of Robbie Burns in background)

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

do people know the revenge fantasy genre well & have recommendations for me? any form works film, book, play, etc i am looking for guidance!!!

Mōrena Wellington, please stay away from the South Coast if you don’t need to be there today. Things still a bit dicey and people going to have a looksy is less than helpful!

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Applications are open for our 2025 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence, for writers at an early stage of their careers. It includes a writing room, mentorship, and a stipend of $15,000. Deadline 31 May. Come and work on your project with us! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Sadly, this has been apparent for some time.

Voting isn’t a privilege, it’s a right. You don’t lose your humanity at the prison gate. This govt wants to silence the voices it locks up, mostly Māori. If they can take voting rights this easily, whose rights are next? #NZPol

Every day another thing that makes it hard to keep hope. Having an arts minister who is also Minister of Justice breaks my heart every day. 'Prisoner voting ban to be brought back - Paul Goldmsith.'

God what a bleak first read of the day. This govt really spinning the big wheel that says "fucked up bad ideas" and stopping on every single one

It's hard to talk about the impact of opaquely funded lobby groups and international networks like Atlas without sounding conspiratorial. Understandably, people are suspicious of bogeyman narratives (this is a healthy and important critique in an age where disinformation benefits from scapegoats).

Going to assume Martin Niemöller didn't put a line in about when they came for the toddlers with cancer because he hoped we'd have got the gist of what was going on before then.

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Normalise buying NZ lit for Secret Santa.

This actually crushed my heart today.

What’s a line delivery you think about a lot?

Movie you've seen more than six times.

Catching a Tory in a gotcha whilst using the exact same language that's been used to legally exclude trans people from society isn't good actually.

3 actions you can take with a spare 30 minutes… 📚 submit feedback on draft RSE curriculum. 🍉 email local MP to demand they support the Greens ‘Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Sanctions Bill’. 🚒 sign petition to give volunteer firefighters ACC cover. (For guides/details: linktr.ee/benjamin.doy...)

An example of birchbark biting, a traditional Indigenous art form across various nations made when women bite patterns into spring birchbark with their teeth, by Cree artist Pat Bruderer. The technique goes back many centuries.

@theanarchistturtle.bsky.social 🚨 received a suspension for sharing the publicly available information of an ICE agent involved in the harassment and kidnapping of community members. Bluesky is apparently running cover for these agents.

yuck

"You can't even tell they're trans" is not the compliment you think it is.

jesus get these people out of power and public life

Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately? You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet. Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm a "yellow viking" in the sense I'm a coward and descend from the Jarls of Orkney. Seriously tho, how do these dumb motherfuckers get and keep these jobs??

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... New Zealand doesn’t define sex or gender in law at the moment. This is a good thing because even without trans people biology is messy and doesn’t care about random lines we draw. If you ask a biologist for a universal test for sex they’ll say one doesn’t exist.

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

Congrats to PNG writer Baka Bina! We met at Melanesian Arts &Culture Festival’s Haus Storian in 2023. Listen to Baka: www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... Baka Bina is a supporter of Sot Sot Storian, Vanuatu’s microfiction comp. Delighted to be part of Sot Sot Storian again! Check it out at: rb.gy/ad2b1s

One way that Musk dragging Twitter into the toilet has harmed everyone. It took years for institutional accounts to come to trust Twitter as a kind of public utility. Its transformation into edgelord debate club upended that utility.