Watch: $50 a week for some families as fuel crisis relief package unveiled Thousands of families are expected to qualify for the tax credit amid what the PM is calling the greatest disruption to fuel supply in a generation.

Ah yes, a govt subsidy to keep cars on the road in a fuel crisis rather than a government subsidy to get cars off the road in a fuel crisis. Masterful.

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E H McCormick Archive of Frances Hodgkins Photographs Acc. No. RC2001/22 E H McCormick Research Library Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual artists and Mozart Fellowship for music composers are coming back to @universityofotago.bsky.social in 2027! www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo... #art #music

Many people reckon Simeon Brown should have asked more questions about the risks of his mandatory higher speed limits in neighbourhoods, around schools & on dangerous highways — evidence that was readily available to him at the time, and that continues to accumulate in the form of injuries & deaths.

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I will be endlessly barracking people about this closer to Writ Day.

Sorry, Will, you gotta do better than this. Better record = lower pick as others have mentioned.

Saw Nirvanna The Band The Show The Film last night (the one and only session in Dunedin)... Still thinking about it. The stunts, the gags, the things that have changed since 2008. Can't wait for the sequel in 17 years

finding out one of your least favorite NBA players of all time didn't even have his own bit is an invigorating hit of hateration

What you need to know: Ask us anything about this chaotic weather situation and we’ll try to help The relentless summer of extreme weather continued this weekend with states of emergency declared for the entire Manawatū District, Ōtorohanga, Waipā, the Tararua District and the Rangitīkei District ...

Uh yes Stuff I do actually have a question, why did you start something called 'The Forever Project' in 2019 where you promised much more coverage of an issue that you yourselves labelled as 'existential' and now you don't give a shit and just rag on cycleways while the world burns? #nzpol

Lawrence Patchett gives launch speech for Breton Dukes' PARTY BOY, with the author standing to his right, head bowed.

Great launch for Breton Dukes' new novel PARTY BOY at Woof! featuring songs from the Broken Heartbreakers (one named after the book), nice words (incl. from editor Lawrence Patchett, pictured) and a peppering of awkwardness and peril the befits the book.

If you are talking about increasing the cost of electricity, and not investing in distributed, resilient solar and battery capacity, nor electrification of transport in multi modes, you don’t understand the problem and should not be anywhere near power (pun absofuckinglutely intended)

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

People. are. dying.

A negotiator friend used to say that in the Paris Agreement carbon markets negotiations when the debate veered into obstructionism and game-playing.

There were sometimes embarrassed laughs: it was hard to equate the bean-counting work being done there to life and death.

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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen with WOMEN lead singers

Sleater Kinney
Big Thief
Black Belt Eagle Scout
Fur Patrol
Tadpole

(Picked bands only, sorry Aldous, Nadia, Courtney etc etc)

Uncovering the details on Donut Lab's Solid State Battery YouTube video by Miss GoElectric Industry

Give me videos like this over a true crime podcast any day... No cheesy music cues or padding for time, just hard core chemistry and net sleuthing.

Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism The government has announced the Autism NZ Education Hub will start in Term 3 for neurodivergent secondary students who are struggling with traditional schooling.

This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.

Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩

Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?

Screenshot of Slow Down: the degrowth manifesto by Kohei Saito (audiobook) from the Libby App

Screenshot of The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown (audiobook) from the Libby App

Screenshot of Flesh by David Szalay (audiobook) from the Libby App

Screenshot of The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone (audiobook) from the BorrowBox App. Book 1 was okay. Listening to Book 2 now but kinda losing interest...

#61-#64 I've only read two books in the Booker Longlist so far, but really rooting for Szalay...

Photo of the poetry collection A Lack of Good Sons by Jake Arthur

Screenshot of Pure Innocent Fun by Ira Madison III (audiobook) from the Libby App

Screenshot of Well Met by Jen DeLuca (audiobook) from the Libby App

Screenshot of A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan (audiobook) from the Libby App - for some reason the cover still says Coming Soon, lol.

Catch-up time again... #57-#60

Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Motherfucking wind farms…

How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.

Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪

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You could borrow it via WCL and the Libby app, once the 19 people ahead of you in the queue are done 😅

no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars

Short story: Collective Tissue, by Craig Cliff

25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss

The Forgotten Forest by Robert Vennell. Screenshot from the Libby app. Probably better as an illustration physical book, or a guided meditation.

Playworld by Adam Ross. Screenshot from the Libby app. Felt like a novel written by someone immersed in the college creative writing industrial machine who takes a long time between books. Oh wait...

The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe. Screenshot from the Libby app. I read lots of Coe around the time of Like a Fiery Elephant and The Rotters Club. Nice to see him still punning with structure and tackling the Liz Truss era.

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Screenshot from the Libby app. Note to audiobook producers: when you have an hourlong foreword, it helps to let the listener know who wrote the foreword at the beginning rather than the end (Reader, it was Satre).

#53-56 Highlight from this bunch: The Proof of My Innocence

Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies. Photo of hard copy, which I've reviewed for Landfall Review Online.

The Demolition of the Century by Duncan Sarkies. Photo of physical book.

How to Hold a Cockroach: a book for those who are free and don't know it. Screenshot of audiobook in Libby app. This is classic self-help grifter BS, and so excruciatingly repetitive it becomes funny, until it becomes excruciating again. Still don't know if Maxwell has even read Kafka (seems unlikely).

Universality by Natasha Brown. Screenshot of audiobook in the Libby app. Loved Assembly. This one felt like a long book that had been compressed to the point it loses all fidelity.

#49-52

Photo of Landfall 249 (hard copy of literary journal), which features my story-in-bio notes, 'Connective Tissue'.

Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Screenshot of audiobook in the Libby app.

Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw. Screenshot of audiobook in the Libby app.

Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera. Screenshot of audiobook (English edition) in the Libby app.

#44-48 (Been neglecting this thread but not the TBR pile)...

Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice

Writer Maurice Gee has died The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.

Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
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