AndrewPaulWood
@andrewpaulwood.bsky.social
Cultural mercenary. Mostly harmless. 🇳🇿
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
This isn't any more helpful than misusing the term tbh. If a significant portion of your assets remain in your country of origin, you aren't seeking citizenship and are leaving returning to your country of origin open, yes, you are an expatriate, or seeking asylum.
Dear white people, you aren't "expatriates", you're immigrants
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This isn't any more helpful than misusing the term tbh. If a significant portion of your assets remain in your country of origin, you aren't seeking citizenship and are leaving returning to your country of origin open, yes, you are an expatriate, or seeking asylum.
I endorse the position the Ockham's are taking on AI covers. There is, I think, an onus on authors to keep an eye on publishers. I wouldn't have noticed the Obligate Carnivore one myself, but the Angel Train one can be clocked from space. I'd probably make exceptions for the self-published though.
A new ruling on AI means the Ockhams are in the strange position of judging a book by its cover.
Ockhams dump books from awards over AI covers
newsroom.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I endorse the position the Ockham's are taking on AI covers. There is, I think, an onus on authors to keep an eye on publishers. I wouldn't have noticed the Obligate Carnivore one myself, but the Angel Train one can be clocked from space. I'd probably make exceptions for the self-published though.
That's funny, I don't remember ricocheting golf-ball-sized hailstones in last night's weather report.
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
That's funny, I don't remember ricocheting golf-ball-sized hailstones in last night's weather report.
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Sir Donald McIntyre, the New Zealand bass-baritone whose commanding Wotan shaped the history of Bayreuth’s Centenary Ring, has died at 91 in Munich
Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/sir-donald-m...
#donaldmcintyre
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#donaldmcintyre
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Sir Donald McIntyre, the New Zealand bass-baritone whose commanding Wotan shaped the history of Bayreuth’s Centenary Ring, has died at 91 in Munich
Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/sir-donald-m...
#donaldmcintyre
Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/sir-donald-m...
#donaldmcintyre
Oh dear.
“I was prepared to vote against Trump for all the right reasons,” artist Andres Serrano wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. “But I’m so disgusted by the outrage over ‘grab them by the pussy’ that I may give him my sympathy vote.”
Artist Andres Serrano Discussed Trump in Emails With Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein also weighed in on the provenance of “Salvator Mundi” in a newly released trove of documents that sheds light on his art world connections.
hyperallergic.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oh dear.
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#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
Michelle Hurley, Emily Writes and Brough Johnson should start a book club.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Michelle Hurley, Emily Writes and Brough Johnson should start a book club.
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“The most unfortunate of all cards, as far as one tradition goes”
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
Nine of diamonds, or the curse of Scotland: an etymological drama in two acts: Act 1
The origin of this mysterious phrase, "nine of diamonds," has been discussed for over two hundred years. Nor are surveys wanting. I cannot say anything on this subject the world does not know, and I h...
blog.oup.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“The most unfortunate of all cards, as far as one tradition goes”
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
I'm really not convinced by the makeup in the new Frankenstein movie
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm really not convinced by the makeup in the new Frankenstein movie
Nelson? Say no more.
A passenger who performed an indecent act with her boyfriend on an Air New Zealand flight has been sentenced to home detention.
Nelson woman sentenced after indecent act on Air NZ flight
A passenger who performed an indecent act with her boyfriend on an Air New Zealand flight has been sentenced to home detention.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Nelson? Say no more.
For some reason I recalled the time Duncan Greive went on a crusade against people on Waiheke being able to use their gold card on the ferry while ignoring that around 40.8% of the people on Waiheke moved there when it was cheap and aside from land value are on fixed incomes.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
For some reason I recalled the time Duncan Greive went on a crusade against people on Waiheke being able to use their gold card on the ferry while ignoring that around 40.8% of the people on Waiheke moved there when it was cheap and aside from land value are on fixed incomes.
I have completely lost track of who the Spinoff's audience is supposed to be these days, but surely they deserve better than something that is barely an Onion throwaway caption joke. Oooh, elitism bad... edgy...
Michelin who? The finest places to eat in Aotearoa, according to local tyre shops
Michelin who? The finest places to eat in Aotearoa, according to local tyre shops
Tread experts across the country share their best local culinary tips for free....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I have completely lost track of who the Spinoff's audience is supposed to be these days, but surely they deserve better than something that is barely an Onion throwaway caption joke. Oooh, elitism bad... edgy...
The people who think the price tag is too high clearly have no idea about Auckland Council budget allocations. Also, for something that will probably be used for decades, it's actually a bargain.
$300,000 Auckland Christmas decorations spark mixed feelings
$300,000 Auckland Christmas decorations spark mixed feelings
Auckland Council has commissioned an artist to build a series of five-metre tall pillars but some in the city are saying the price tag is too high.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The people who think the price tag is too high clearly have no idea about Auckland Council budget allocations. Also, for something that will probably be used for decades, it's actually a bargain.
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
If you can't understand why the Brits voted for Brexit you only need to watch a few episodes of The Chase to see how ignorant most of them are of their own country let alone the wider world.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
If you can't understand why the Brits voted for Brexit you only need to watch a few episodes of The Chase to see how ignorant most of them are of their own country let alone the wider world.
Probably shouldn't have fired all of those IT people
Government puts millions into bolstering Defence Force's protection from cyber threats
Government puts millions into bolstering Defence Force's protection from cyber threats
Defence Minister Judith Collins said there was "no point having the latest kit if the systems and the people that use them aren't well protected".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Probably shouldn't have fired all of those IT people
Attention seeking is the lowest form of art.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Attention seeking is the lowest form of art.
YouTube didn't kill the TV star. Streaming services and corporate greed wallowing in shitty reality shows because it gets around writers unions did.
YouTube killed the TV star: What new NZ On Air stats tell us about media’s last decade
YouTube killed the TV star: What new NZ On Air stats tell us about media’s last decade
Back in 2015 YouTube was 'extremely popular' with NZ children. Today, we’re going to need a bigger adjective....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
YouTube didn't kill the TV star. Streaming services and corporate greed wallowing in shitty reality shows because it gets around writers unions did.
While the comparison is clearly hyperbole, there is an unpleasant Roald Dahl story "Skin" as to why that would be bad.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
While the comparison is clearly hyperbole, there is an unpleasant Roald Dahl story "Skin" as to why that would be bad.
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Top of the morning.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Top of the morning.
We already did. It was back in the 1980s and we've regretted it every since...
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We already did. It was back in the 1980s and we've regretted it every since...