Hamish
@haminoon.bsky.social
A believer in heliocentric world theory.
I didn't even realise Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani knew each other.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I didn't even realise Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani knew each other.
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One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Conversation in workroom about whether Elizabeth Knox works across genres, transcends genres, or demolishes genres.
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Conversation in workroom about whether Elizabeth Knox works across genres, transcends genres, or demolishes genres.
I realise this sounds like a fever dream, but we just stopped at a pub in the middle of nowhere and the house band is Upper Hutt Posse featuring Jeff Henderson
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I realise this sounds like a fever dream, but we just stopped at a pub in the middle of nowhere and the house band is Upper Hutt Posse featuring Jeff Henderson
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"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career."
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career."
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In other news, up at dawn for the tōhi tāngaengae for our beautiful brought back to life central library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. You are going to love it! In front of the amazing Darcy Nicholas rawa, with some of my fave colleagues Laurie Foon, John Apanowicz and @geordierogers.co.nz
September 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
In other news, up at dawn for the tōhi tāngaengae for our beautiful brought back to life central library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. You are going to love it! In front of the amazing Darcy Nicholas rawa, with some of my fave colleagues Laurie Foon, John Apanowicz and @geordierogers.co.nz
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Aotearoa - A variety of ropū are behind this #GrantTheVisas campaign, which is urgently calling on the Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties to NZ.
They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com
They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com
Urgent Appeal to New Zealand Government for Emergency Humanitarian Visas for Palestinians in Gaza | Aotearoa New Zealand | Grant The Visas
We urgently appeal to the New Zealand government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Help support this crucial cause and mak...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Aotearoa - A variety of ropū are behind this #GrantTheVisas campaign, which is urgently calling on the Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties to NZ.
They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com
They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com
First time I've been part of an entire movie audience singing a waiata. (the Jafar Panahi film at #nziff)
Don't get depressed by the bigots and the govt that panders to them.
Don't get depressed by the bigots and the govt that panders to them.
August 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
First time I've been part of an entire movie audience singing a waiata. (the Jafar Panahi film at #nziff)
Don't get depressed by the bigots and the govt that panders to them.
Don't get depressed by the bigots and the govt that panders to them.
This was one of my highlights too. You can see it for free on Beamafilm
Gabrielle Brady's ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, following a trauma therapist at a detention camp on Christmas Island, Australia, is on my mind today.
My 2018 review (scroll down) is preoccupied with genre trends, but seven years later the film powerfully lingers.
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My 2018 review (scroll down) is preoccupied with genre trends, but seven years later the film powerfully lingers.
thespinoff.co.nz/media/30-07-...
NZIFF: The Green Fog, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Mirai, Let the Corpses Tan & more
The sixth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
thespinoff.co.nz
July 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This was one of my highlights too. You can see it for free on Beamafilm
It's weird that there's a NZIFF film still crowdfunding to complete it while NZIFF has started selling tickets. Never seen that happen before.
July 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It's weird that there's a NZIFF film still crowdfunding to complete it while NZIFF has started selling tickets. Never seen that happen before.
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The streeties have been warned they'll be arrested if they stand outside Newtown Mall. Anyone know how legal this is? I've never seen anything like it
June 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The streeties have been warned they'll be arrested if they stand outside Newtown Mall. Anyone know how legal this is? I've never seen anything like it
Watching Threads with 2 people from the post-Reykjavík Summit generation tonight.
May 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Watching Threads with 2 people from the post-Reykjavík Summit generation tonight.
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Despite the horrific weather in Pōneke tonight and the hard-to-reach spot, we turned up in mass to tell the USS Blue Ridge to f*ck off out of Aotearoa and the South Pacific.
May 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Despite the horrific weather in Pōneke tonight and the hard-to-reach spot, we turned up in mass to tell the USS Blue Ridge to f*ck off out of Aotearoa and the South Pacific.
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Opinion: The extraordinarily complex job of a librarian almost always requires a master’s degree. There isn’t a single male-dominated profession with comparable skills that requires the same, so why, asks librarian Mandy Henk, are librarians being repeatedly denigrated?
I'm a librarian and you're right Mr Luxon. But not for the reasons you think.
newsroom.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Opinion: The extraordinarily complex job of a librarian almost always requires a master’s degree. There isn’t a single male-dominated profession with comparable skills that requires the same, so why, asks librarian Mandy Henk, are librarians being repeatedly denigrated?
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VISAS NOW! is #1 on the Unity Wellington Bestseller chart. Congrats @murdochstephens.bsky.social, Left of the Equator, and everyone else involved 🙌
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The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 11
The Bookshop Detectives are back!
thespinoff.co.nz
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
VISAS NOW! is #1 on the Unity Wellington Bestseller chart. Congrats @murdochstephens.bsky.social, Left of the Equator, and everyone else involved 🙌
thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-04-...
thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-04-...
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Wellington Library trials new shelving system based on Māori deities
www.rnz.co.nz
April 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Visas Now! is out from the great folks at Left of the Equator Press and is a handbook / first-hand accounts of why we urgently need to update our refugee policy
What happened to my friend Dr Tariq Habibyar
What happened to my friend Dr Tariq Habibyar
'As a policy setting it chafes; as something that happens to a close friend it is infuriating.'...
thespinoff.co.nz
April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Visas Now! is out from the great folks at Left of the Equator Press and is a handbook / first-hand accounts of why we urgently need to update our refugee policy
"Today’s overt politicization strips away that veneer, confirming what critical catalogers have long maintained: neutrality in classification simply doesn’t exist."
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Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Today’s overt politicization strips away that veneer, confirming what critical catalogers have long maintained: neutrality in classification simply doesn’t exist."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...
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New video:
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations.
Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations.
Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...
Militarised deforestation in Papua: how Indonesia is converting indigenous forest into farms
YouTube video by The Gecko Project
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March 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New video:
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations.
Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...
The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations.
Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...
I don't get why so many council managers feel the need to act on complaints from total bigots.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Bus safety campaign briefly paused after complaints over teen’s clothing
A youth wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh in a bus safety campaign attracted a slew of complaints, Stuff understands.
www.stuff.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I don't get why so many council managers feel the need to act on complaints from total bigots.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
It's funny how the most quintessential British musicians; Spinal Tap, Scott Walker, and Ian Rubbish; are all Americans.
February 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's funny how the most quintessential British musicians; Spinal Tap, Scott Walker, and Ian Rubbish; are all Americans.