Pāpango
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If I wasn't having fun, this would be intolerable.
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Donate to Tika | Supporting Victims of Sexual Harm
Support Tika's free legal service helping New Zealanders affected by sexual harm access justice through collective action. Registered charity CC62989.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A pernicious addiction
Written about the UK but equally applicable to #nzpol
Credit: @davidallengreen.bsky.social
Written about the UK but equally applicable to #nzpol
Credit: @davidallengreen.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A pernicious addiction
Written about the UK but equally applicable to #nzpol
Credit: @davidallengreen.bsky.social
Written about the UK but equally applicable to #nzpol
Credit: @davidallengreen.bsky.social
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Given the grim news in the political reporting at Teen Vogue, we need to support media like The Flytrap even more!
WE ARE SO FREAKING CLOSE, can we find 105 people to subscribe to The Flytrap until the end of the day so we can get to work to create feminist journalism for y'all for another year? the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Given the grim news in the political reporting at Teen Vogue, we need to support media like The Flytrap even more!
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When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
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You can become a free or paid sub either on my patreon above or on my Burns Notice site. Either are fine, and each will send you an email whenever I publish. www.burnsnotice.com/gopers-have-...
GOPers Have More Solidarity with Foreign Conservatives than other Americans
For Republicans and their international counterparts, the advancement of their ideology takes precedence over their own neighbors.
A news item that caught my eye this week was President Donald Trump ...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You can become a free or paid sub either on my patreon above or on my Burns Notice site. Either are fine, and each will send you an email whenever I publish. www.burnsnotice.com/gopers-have-...
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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
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as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)
September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)
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I have been boosting Bevan’s work for some time & am dismayed that there seems to be little interest by media to pick it up.
THIS needs to shared widely amongst #nzpol
The overriding of proper process and underhanded inclusion of colonial power in a govt curriculum document is an outrage.
THIS needs to shared widely amongst #nzpol
The overriding of proper process and underhanded inclusion of colonial power in a govt curriculum document is an outrage.
Who changed the senior English curriculum just before it went out for consultation?
Why did they erase Māori and Pacific authors and replace them with Shakespeare and 19th century texts?
Why did they erase Māori and Pacific authors and replace them with Shakespeare and 19th century texts?
Recapturing the Senior English Curriculum
2024 had been a good year for Stanford. The speed bump that was the outcry over the senior English curriculum and the lack of consultation had been smoothly managed by her, and she was on a roll wi…
bevanholloway.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I have been boosting Bevan’s work for some time & am dismayed that there seems to be little interest by media to pick it up.
THIS needs to shared widely amongst #nzpol
The overriding of proper process and underhanded inclusion of colonial power in a govt curriculum document is an outrage.
THIS needs to shared widely amongst #nzpol
The overriding of proper process and underhanded inclusion of colonial power in a govt curriculum document is an outrage.
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Patreon is still the best way to support my work but for those who don't want to create a Patreon account, you can now financially subscribe to my news letter for $4 or $8/month burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...
Welcome to Hell! Let's Walk Through It Together
I suppose here is where I introduce this newsletter and why I've started it. Quite frankly, I've felt left out from the newsletter game over the years, despite my presence on Patreon. This is not mean...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Patreon is still the best way to support my work but for those who don't want to create a Patreon account, you can now financially subscribe to my news letter for $4 or $8/month burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...
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the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
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"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important."
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
How a National Party MP Weaponized Violence to Target Academic Criticism
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important."
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
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Sorry. The bar to gun ownership cannot be high enough. Owning a gun brings certain very significant responsibilities. If you can't obey a few fucking traffic rules, then you are completely unfit to own a gun. Ditto if you email your police mate to help out.
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Email to former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming led to arms vetting policy change
The police commissioner said "better judgement could have been exercised and a more robust process followed" by McSkimming.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sorry. The bar to gun ownership cannot be high enough. Owning a gun brings certain very significant responsibilities. If you can't obey a few fucking traffic rules, then you are completely unfit to own a gun. Ditto if you email your police mate to help out.
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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A reminder that the brutal occupation of #WestPapua and the ongoing persecution of Indigenous Papuans is a horror that is largely undocumented & invisibilised. Like so much black suffering, furthest away in proximity to Whiteness, their revolution has NOT been televised.
#FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania
#FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania
September 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A reminder that the brutal occupation of #WestPapua and the ongoing persecution of Indigenous Papuans is a horror that is largely undocumented & invisibilised. Like so much black suffering, furthest away in proximity to Whiteness, their revolution has NOT been televised.
#FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania
#FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania
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if you don't like The Offspring then maybe you should have hired a different funeral stripper
July 30, 2023 at 9:56 AM
if you don't like The Offspring then maybe you should have hired a different funeral stripper
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The heroes here are the nurses getting paid crap to do genuinely great things for kiwis. They might not actually pay that much tax (net), but they are still worth a thousand times more than the rentiers who are winning at the game of hungry hippos that is our economy. Cheers! 🥂 [Ends]
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The heroes here are the nurses getting paid crap to do genuinely great things for kiwis. They might not actually pay that much tax (net), but they are still worth a thousand times more than the rentiers who are winning at the game of hungry hippos that is our economy. Cheers! 🥂 [Ends]
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not my circus but those ARE my monkeys and that's the whole problem
September 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
not my circus but those ARE my monkeys and that's the whole problem
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The first rule of Chinese Whispers Club is you never chalk a boot shiny wasp horse cubs.
September 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The first rule of Chinese Whispers Club is you never chalk a boot shiny wasp horse cubs.
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I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
September 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
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Whenever Charlie Kirk's snowflake fans try the "so much for the tolerant left" response.
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Whenever Charlie Kirk's snowflake fans try the "so much for the tolerant left" response.
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Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why?
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to leave alone with his kids?
Experts are calling for a full inquiry into the case, saying questions have to be asked about what agencies knew.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why?
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...