Stephenjohn Holgate
@mistaholgate.bsky.social
Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA candidate at the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
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In the Queue for Ice Cream - takahē
In the queue at the cafe, four people are in front of me. All enjoying the usual delights of the English seaside when the sun comes up at the beginning of June. They all look pickled somewhere from br...
www.takahe.org.nz
New story out in @takahemagazine.bsky.social www.takahe.org.nz/in-the-queue...
This episode is excellent
Episode 1 of our new podcast series Aftershock is out now.
In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what would become an unprecedented expansion of US power. Public debate narrowed, but the LRB challenged this consensus.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what would become an unprecedented expansion of US power. Public debate narrowed, but the LRB challenged this consensus.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
Podcast Episode · Aftershock: The War on Terror · EP1 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This episode is excellent
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"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus"
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus"
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
lmao
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
lmao
crying howling struggling to breathe
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
crying howling struggling to breathe
With the climate catastrophe things are going to get a lot more racist a lot more quickly.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
With the climate catastrophe things are going to get a lot more racist a lot more quickly.
So immigrant doctors are leaving the UK? Hardly surprising.
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So immigrant doctors are leaving the UK? Hardly surprising.
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“to listen and read the British press over recent weeks is to get the impression that not only is Farage not in any way racist, but that to dare to suggest otherwise is a major affront to decency that risks putting his very life in danger.”
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“to listen and read the British press over recent weeks is to get the impression that not only is Farage not in any way racist, but that to dare to suggest otherwise is a major affront to decency that risks putting his very life in danger.”
The US needs to sort out that shitty presidential pardon thing they have going on.
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The US needs to sort out that shitty presidential pardon thing they have going on.
The glorious sunlit uplands of the computational renaissance.
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The glorious sunlit uplands of the computational renaissance.
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People will log onto Bluesky and say anything. “The Gestapo respected papers.” No they didn’t. That’s not true.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
People will log onto Bluesky and say anything. “The Gestapo respected papers.” No they didn’t. That’s not true.
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Have the Democratic Party, the Center for American Progress, and the architects of Project 2029 disavowed Larry Summers?
He's advising all of them and is a major liberal power player.
He was also used by the Dem establishment to attack Mamdani.
If they have, great; if not, why not?
He's advising all of them and is a major liberal power player.
He was also used by the Dem establishment to attack Mamdani.
If they have, great; if not, why not?
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Have the Democratic Party, the Center for American Progress, and the architects of Project 2029 disavowed Larry Summers?
He's advising all of them and is a major liberal power player.
He was also used by the Dem establishment to attack Mamdani.
If they have, great; if not, why not?
He's advising all of them and is a major liberal power player.
He was also used by the Dem establishment to attack Mamdani.
If they have, great; if not, why not?
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“China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.”
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.”
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He posted messages in a WhatsApp group that was secretly set up by Missus Kent, a Britain First and Tommy Robinson supporter.
In it he says he wishes Rupert Lowe was leader. People have been expelled from Reform UK for similar.
In it he says he wishes Rupert Lowe was leader. People have been expelled from Reform UK for similar.
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
He posted messages in a WhatsApp group that was secretly set up by Missus Kent, a Britain First and Tommy Robinson supporter.
In it he says he wishes Rupert Lowe was leader. People have been expelled from Reform UK for similar.
In it he says he wishes Rupert Lowe was leader. People have been expelled from Reform UK for similar.
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This is what Trump is hiding. He allegedly held cocaine fueled sex parties with teenage girls in the 90's. I wonder if that's his "wonderful secret" with Epstein.
archive.ph/G51zU
archive.ph/G51zU
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is what Trump is hiding. He allegedly held cocaine fueled sex parties with teenage girls in the 90's. I wonder if that's his "wonderful secret" with Epstein.
archive.ph/G51zU
archive.ph/G51zU
Read this! (Y’know if religion and social control and stuff is up your street and maybe if you’re into early Stephen King, I guess…) electricliterature.com/carrie-helpe...
"Carrie" Helped Me Process the Sexual Shame of My Religious Upbringing - Electric Literature
I feel broken in a way no one else is, and I refuse to talk to anyone about it
electricliterature.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Read this! (Y’know if religion and social control and stuff is up your street and maybe if you’re into early Stephen King, I guess…) electricliterature.com/carrie-helpe...
Please ruin them, authors of the world.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Please ruin them, authors of the world.
If you’re shocked by accusations of racism/antisemtism/etc. aimed at Nigel Fromage…I don’t know what to say to you. The prejudice has been part of his popularity. Please don’t pretend like it’s something else.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you’re shocked by accusations of racism/antisemtism/etc. aimed at Nigel Fromage…I don’t know what to say to you. The prejudice has been part of his popularity. Please don’t pretend like it’s something else.
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AI bubble bursting? lol
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
AI bubble bursting? lol
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The white people who are already pre-welcoming MTG to THEIR "resistance" are doing so because they have kin like her. I can't stress enough how most of what's happening in intra-familial drama among white people in this country. You and I are not central to that drama.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The white people who are already pre-welcoming MTG to THEIR "resistance" are doing so because they have kin like her. I can't stress enough how most of what's happening in intra-familial drama among white people in this country. You and I are not central to that drama.
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if trump wants to release the files, he does not need house republicans to vote for him to do so. he can just release them.
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
if trump wants to release the files, he does not need house republicans to vote for him to do so. he can just release them.
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You can also apply for courses in Creative Nonfiction, Television and Web Series Scriptwriting, and Long-form Fiction!
Want to explore the art of short story writing in a series of supportive workshops with me?
Apply for CREW 254 Tri 1 intake by 1 Dec @modernletters.bsky.social ✍️
Students consistently rate the course excellent. Or to quote from a recent thank you card: "BEST EVER."
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Apply for CREW 254 Tri 1 intake by 1 Dec @modernletters.bsky.social ✍️
Students consistently rate the course excellent. Or to quote from a recent thank you card: "BEST EVER."
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
How and when to apply | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Information for domestic undergraduate students applying for limited entry Creative Writing courses at Victoria University of Wellington.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You can also apply for courses in Creative Nonfiction, Television and Web Series Scriptwriting, and Long-form Fiction!
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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November 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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