Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)
@krveale.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer of Media Studies/Digital Media, and author.
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https://wheretofind.me/@krveale
"He/Him."
Tangata Tiriti.
All views expressed here are my own.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-8932
https://wheretofind.me/@krveale
"He/Him."
Tangata Tiriti.
All views expressed here are my own.
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Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
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It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
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Ideas for people looking to join the isekai TTPRG wave:
- players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually
- you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop
- slow life farming sim (horny)
- players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually
- you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop
- slow life farming sim (horny)
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ideas for people looking to join the isekai TTPRG wave:
- players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually
- you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop
- slow life farming sim (horny)
- players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually
- you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop
- slow life farming sim (horny)
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Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
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"But Stephanie, access to puberty blockers only affects a small number of people"
Those people have families and communities
It shows you care about autonomy, real freedom, equality, evidence based policy
The only people you lose were never voting for you anyway
Those people have families and communities
It shows you care about autonomy, real freedom, equality, evidence based policy
The only people you lose were never voting for you anyway
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"But Stephanie, access to puberty blockers only affects a small number of people"
Those people have families and communities
It shows you care about autonomy, real freedom, equality, evidence based policy
The only people you lose were never voting for you anyway
Those people have families and communities
It shows you care about autonomy, real freedom, equality, evidence based policy
The only people you lose were never voting for you anyway
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Taking strong positions on human rights is popular actually 👏
It demonstrates that your principles are real and apply to everyone 👏
Bigots are a tiny but well funded minority 👏
Show them the door to build genuinely broad popular support 👏
It demonstrates that your principles are real and apply to everyone 👏
Bigots are a tiny but well funded minority 👏
Show them the door to build genuinely broad popular support 👏
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Taking strong positions on human rights is popular actually 👏
It demonstrates that your principles are real and apply to everyone 👏
Bigots are a tiny but well funded minority 👏
Show them the door to build genuinely broad popular support 👏
It demonstrates that your principles are real and apply to everyone 👏
Bigots are a tiny but well funded minority 👏
Show them the door to build genuinely broad popular support 👏
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Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
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BRB, off to the beer pub for a handheld meat pie.
I did enjoy the seal in the bar story but the fact that WaPo described the bar as a “New Zealand beer pub” is doing my head in.
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
BRB, off to the beer pub for a handheld meat pie.
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Also means you literally will make better decisions because you won't be stewing in 1500+ ppm CO2 of cognitive fog.
So, vaccines are unlikely to be available in the initial stages.
How about mitigation - clean air and masking - to slow down the rate of spread while a vaccine is developed.
Simple, cheap, and given the speed of the Covid vax development - worth a shot?
Cheaper in the long run!
How about mitigation - clean air and masking - to slow down the rate of spread while a vaccine is developed.
Simple, cheap, and given the speed of the Covid vax development - worth a shot?
Cheaper in the long run!
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Also means you literally will make better decisions because you won't be stewing in 1500+ ppm CO2 of cognitive fog.
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6 days, £139 to go.
That's 7 physical copies or 12 pdfs.
That's 7 physical copies or 12 pdfs.
Gravity: A Roleplaying Game
A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.
www.kickstarter.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
6 days, £139 to go.
That's 7 physical copies or 12 pdfs.
That's 7 physical copies or 12 pdfs.
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Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry
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"Confirmed to Stuff" via a formal judgment of the High Court of NZ which also was published on the Courts of NZ decisions of public interest ... but sure, your news organisation got the scoop 🙄
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"Confirmed to Stuff" via a formal judgment of the High Court of NZ which also was published on the Courts of NZ decisions of public interest ... but sure, your news organisation got the scoop 🙄
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Gonna pitch a buddy cop show called Hawke and Hunt, and both main characters' first names are Mike, and see how long I could get away with it until the network execs stop me.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Gonna pitch a buddy cop show called Hawke and Hunt, and both main characters' first names are Mike, and see how long I could get away with it until the network execs stop me.
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By the way, if you enjoyed reading WE WILL RISE AGAIN, help us raise its visibility and give it a rating or a review.
love to see this review for WE WILL RISE AGAIN on amzn. so happy the book is working for people 💜💚🧡 @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
By the way, if you enjoyed reading WE WILL RISE AGAIN, help us raise its visibility and give it a rating or a review.
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Just watched a Mamdani podcast and he talks of moving poliy making from a culture of "no" to a culture of "how?".
Hell of a strapline for a political party there.
Hell of a strapline for a political party there.
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Just watched a Mamdani podcast and he talks of moving poliy making from a culture of "no" to a culture of "how?".
Hell of a strapline for a political party there.
Hell of a strapline for a political party there.
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Just thinking of soil as akin to a coral reef was enough to set my mind alight.
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just thinking of soil as akin to a coral reef was enough to set my mind alight.
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For the late night crowd: my paperback is on its best deal ever!
Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Someone You Can Build A Nest In [Wiswell, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Someone You Can Build A Nest In
www.amazon.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For the late night crowd: my paperback is on its best deal ever!
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anyway i beat it. it's $15 dollars and i really don't know if there's better games you could be playing right now
store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/...
Eclipsium on Steam
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
store.steampowered.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
anyway i beat it. it's $15 dollars and i really don't know if there's better games you could be playing right now
store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/...
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i don't know how to convey the intensity of what i'm experiencing right now but Eclipsium is doing a thing I've literally never seen a videogame do before
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
i don't know how to convey the intensity of what i'm experiencing right now but Eclipsium is doing a thing I've literally never seen a videogame do before
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”Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
Growth, at literally all costs.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Growth, at literally all costs.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Rather than publishing the findings or pursuing additional research, Meta called off further work.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
”Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
Growth, at literally all costs.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Growth, at literally all costs.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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The wellbeing of our rangatahi should be reason enough but trust me - no really, trust me - when I say that if we let this slide, so much more is at stake.
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The wellbeing of our rangatahi should be reason enough but trust me - no really, trust me - when I say that if we let this slide, so much more is at stake.
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For fucks sake, we are on the back of a global pandemic, with more waiting in the wings, we l8ve in a natural disaster prone country, and Maori have worse health outcomes across the country.
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking idiots?
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking idiots?
National Public Health Service faces job cuts to emergency management, pandemic preparedness, Māori health
National Public Health Service faces job cuts to emergency management, pandemic preparedness, Māori health
The staff cuts will see reductions to emergency management, pandemic preparedness and Māori health.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
For fucks sake, we are on the back of a global pandemic, with more waiting in the wings, we l8ve in a natural disaster prone country, and Maori have worse health outcomes across the country.
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking idiots?
What the fuck is wrong with these fucking idiots?
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Even after this coalition government cut new graduate nursing hours from 32 to 24 hours per week in a very strange effort to provide new grad nursing jobs, STILL less than 50% of new grad nurses in New Zealand have been offered jobs.
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Even after this coalition government cut new graduate nursing hours from 32 to 24 hours per week in a very strange effort to provide new grad nursing jobs, STILL less than 50% of new grad nurses in New Zealand have been offered jobs.
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Winnie and Ophelia have BEEN ADOPTED!
Please celebrate their foster graduation. I'm going to miss them dearly but their new family is perfect for them.
Please celebrate their foster graduation. I'm going to miss them dearly but their new family is perfect for them.
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Winnie and Ophelia have BEEN ADOPTED!
Please celebrate their foster graduation. I'm going to miss them dearly but their new family is perfect for them.
Please celebrate their foster graduation. I'm going to miss them dearly but their new family is perfect for them.
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools