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Stephenjohn Holgate
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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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Still from Father Ted. Man stands behind stone wall with a green field behind. Text overlaid in white states ‘I hear you’re a racist now, Father.’
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Screenshot from Father Ted. Man stands behind stonewall with a field behind him. Text overlaid: I hear you’re a racist now, father.
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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It rained. We marched for Palestine.
A crowd of people marching along Tory Street, Wellington, some of them carrying Palestinian flags
October 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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O, you like speech marks. Hate this modern trend for avoiding speech marks. I wonder what Edmund Spencer has to say…
Picture of a page from The Faerie Queene. The text is as follows: THE FAERIE QUEENE Be well aware, quoth then that Ladie milde, Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash prouoke: The danger hid, the place vnknowne and wilde, Breedes dreadfull doubts: Oft fire is without smoke, And perill without show: therefore your stroke Sir knight with-hold, till further triall made. Ah Ladie (said he) shame were to reuoke The forward footing for an hidden shade: Vertue giues her selfe light, through darkenesse for to Yea but (quoth she) the perill of this place I better wot then you, though now too late, To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does bate: Therefore I read beware. Fly fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe:) this is no place for liuing m But full of fire and greedy hardiment
September 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Man standing behind stone wall with green field behind him. At the bottom of the picture is the text: “I hear you’re a racist now, Father”
September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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People on wikipedia are fucking with Dean Cain
Screenshot from wikipedia that states: “In 2018, Cain was elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle Association of America.(34]|35] In August 2025, Cain released a video on X indicating that he had joined ISIS and encouraged others to join the agency as well. 136]”
August 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Screenshot from the article that says: The saga of Ewell and Pittard's marriage and divorce has now spilled out into the pages of three books (plus, for those keeping score, a 2017 essay by Pittard, a short story by Ewell and an excruciatingly detailed article in New York magazine about To me, it's a cautionary tale about how writers should never get married," said the novelist Adam Ross, the editor of The Sewanee Review, wmich published Pittard's essay, "Scenes From a Marriage." "There's just an infinite way to make a mess of things, and Hannah was not afraid to chronicle them," Ross said. "She's fearless." The words “To me, it's a cautionary tale about how writers should never get married," said the novelist Adam Ross,” are highlighted in blue for copying.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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No cheese :(
Picture of black mini-schnauzer from above. She appears to be looking toward the floor. The floor is light brown and the cabinets behind are white.
July 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Cheese? :)
A face on picture of a black mini schnauzer. She stands on a light brown wooden floor with white cabinets behind her.
July 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I must also offer apologies. Seems she’s also one of ours
Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for New Zealanders of Jamaican descent. Katherine Birbalsingh’s name is the only on listed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_people_of_Jamaican_descent
June 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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This is pretty disturbing. Especially decisions made by the police not to prosecute.
Screenshot from article that reads: What about the videos of women getting changed, filmed through a window? Under the Crimes Act it's illegal to intentionally or recklessly make or possess an intimate visual recording of another person without that person's knowledge or consent. But the police decided against charges. "I don't know why they chose to ignore that," says Zara, describing the video as "disgusting". "They should not have to filter themselves in a safe space ... which is just completely unfair and unjust." Screenshot from article that reads: So it's not illegal? A complaint was made to the police, but no charges were laid: the audio recordings were not illegal because, under the law, the consent of only one party is required to make an audio recording, which in this case was Forbes. The possession of photos of the women in gyms and shopping were not illegal because even though they are zoomed in close on parts of their bodies, they were taken in a public place.
June 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Threat to life?! Wellington why you do dis?
Text from weather service that reads: Strong Wind Warning - Red Period: 17hrs from 10am Thu, 1 May - 3am Fri, 2 May Area: Wellington Forecast: Severe gale southwesterlies with damaging gusts of 140 km/h peaking this afternoon, especially about the south coast and exposed hilltops. Winds are expected to begin to ease into this evening. Impact: Threat to life from flying items and falling trees. Destructive winds will cause widespread damage including powerlines and roofs, with dangerous driving conditions and significant disruption to transport and power supply. Action: Stay indoors or seek sturdy shelter away from trees. Avoid travel. Be ready for power and communication outages. Preparedness advice. Issued: 10:31 am Thu 1 May Next update: 9:00pm Thu 1 May Action advice supplied by the National Emergency Management Agency.
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Lol
Screeenshot of the account Unsolicited Manuscripts. The text below reads: Well, that was quick. I'm now a former literary agent. Thank you all.
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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New @thebaffler.com has arrived and is already hilarious.
Photo of the bottom page of The Baffler magazine. The text reads: It was four days before Donald Trump's inauguration when we set out in his battered old vehicle, and he spent much of that first day shouting at me about our new president, whom he referred to as Diaper Don. "This is a grown man who shits himself. Trump wears diapers, man. Incontinence. All the drugs he did in the eighties. Fucked him up," he told me. "But these Christian cowbays around here wanna suck his cock. He's a savior. Diaper Don has got superpowers. He and Elon are gonna open up grazing on Mars. I hate that bastard so much I'm gonna get me a Trump mask and fuck a cow's decapitated head with it on and put that shit on YouTube. I got plans! Here are some cows." We were passing a small herd in a vast grassland bordered by distant sawtooth mountains toward which we were headed. "You bring your Trump mask?" I had not. "I tried to shoot a cow here not long ago with a bow. But it was a piece of shit. Got it for eighty bucks. The arrow was supposed to go 18 feet per second, but it bounced right off the cow's hide at thirty feet."
April 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Go to page 33 of The Emerson Review 53 and read my story about human remains being on display. issuu.com/emerson_revi...
Screen shot of a Guardian article with the headline “Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals”
April 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Meme of Mickey Mouse in a black hooded trenchcoat with the text overlaid “THEY BEATING UR ASS IN THE QRTS”.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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This thing has just helped me do an hour’s writing without fucking around with my phone.
A close up of a white plastic tile with. The word BRICK written in the middle. It sits in the middle of my hand.
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Mabel’s idea of helping me to write. It is not that helpful.
A black mini schnauzer laying on a white bedspread looking backwards up to the camera. Her head is leaning against a grey lap des on which a piece of A4 lined paper can be seen. There is a little writing on the paper.
March 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Not getting in the water, but it’s mighty fine down here.
Picture of the ocean seen from behind a rock. There is a small island close by in the background.
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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MA reading but not really because I’m gonna read Tony Tulathimutte now before doing the school run
A close up of Zadie Smith’s collection of essays, Feel Free, held in my hand.
March 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Every day I check what’s happening in the news in the UK and…
Screenshot from Father Ted of a man standing behind a stone wall with a field behind him. White text overlaid at the bottom that says, “ I hear you’re a racist now, Father.’
February 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Looking at the US president Musk- VP Peter Thiel coup and the abject failure of Starmer’s Labour gov’t and that twat David Seymour’s cover-up of pedophilia and *gestures vaguely at the world*
Picture of a possum with it’s mouth open sitting in a tree. In yellow text at the top: Unfortunately due to personal reasons. At the bottom in yellow text: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Mabel is offering absolutely no help with this draft of the short story.
A black minischnauzer sleeps on the back of a large beige sofa. There are books and a tv in the background of the room.
February 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Excellent read.
The front cover of Tins Makereti’s “Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa”.
December 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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Weka says what’s up and where’s the money?
A weka facing the camera standing on a brown forest floor.
December 26, 2024 at 8:46 AM