Pip Adam
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was there no one else to profile? a woman of color who is just really good at her craft without doing inappropriate fuckshit?
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
was there no one else to profile? a woman of color who is just really good at her craft without doing inappropriate fuckshit?
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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has labour tried running against national?
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
has labour tried running against national?
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Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
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For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.
In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.
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Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Great idea for an article (nb/ @pipadam.bsky.social introduced me to Womb, which I will be forever grateful for!) thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-11-...
Eight New Zealand novelists on the music they write to
From one song played masochistically on repeat to a sprawling 12-hour playlist, this is the music behind the books.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Great idea for an article (nb/ @pipadam.bsky.social introduced me to Womb, which I will be forever grateful for!) thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-11-...
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The NZ Lyrical Ballads cover has a sibling. Here is the UK cover for Bill Manhire’s new collection, publishing in March by Carcanet (Feb in NZ by Te Herenga Waka!)
This cover features an 18th century mezzotint plate by Thomas Wright from his An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.
This cover features an 18th century mezzotint plate by Thomas Wright from his An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The NZ Lyrical Ballads cover has a sibling. Here is the UK cover for Bill Manhire’s new collection, publishing in March by Carcanet (Feb in NZ by Te Herenga Waka!)
This cover features an 18th century mezzotint plate by Thomas Wright from his An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.
This cover features an 18th century mezzotint plate by Thomas Wright from his An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
I got so many really nice replies from Labour MPs but over a week later I can't seem to find a formal Labour Party statement about their plan to reverse the ban on puberty blockers. We are living in grim, grim times.
The people: ‘can we have pay equity?’
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
Chris Hipkins will not say whether Labour will commit $12.8b to restore pay equity.
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I got so many really nice replies from Labour MPs but over a week later I can't seem to find a formal Labour Party statement about their plan to reverse the ban on puberty blockers. We are living in grim, grim times.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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Breaking finance minister begs banks to help her out of the mess she created.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Breaking finance minister begs banks to help her out of the mess she created.
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Lovely launch last night with spectacular cake provided by Leah Dodd. Contributors include grads Sarah Scott, Stacey Teague, Alison Glenny and Chris Tse (who all read their work yesterday), and Carrie Rudzinski (MA25). A big, happy crowd - poetry is in good heart in Pōneke.
Such an astoundingly good new issue of Sweet Mammalian. Thank you everyone!!
www.sweetmammalian.com
www.sweetmammalian.com
Sweet Mammalian
www.sweetmammalian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Lovely launch last night with spectacular cake provided by Leah Dodd. Contributors include grads Sarah Scott, Stacey Teague, Alison Glenny and Chris Tse (who all read their work yesterday), and Carrie Rudzinski (MA25). A big, happy crowd - poetry is in good heart in Pōneke.
Such an astoundingly good new issue of Sweet Mammalian. Thank you everyone!!
www.sweetmammalian.com
www.sweetmammalian.com
Sweet Mammalian
www.sweetmammalian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Such an astoundingly good new issue of Sweet Mammalian. Thank you everyone!!
www.sweetmammalian.com
www.sweetmammalian.com
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
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I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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But these cruel, nasty people went ahead anyway. Because they'd rather go with their own feels than with evidence-based advice.
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal
Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
But these cruel, nasty people went ahead anyway. Because they'd rather go with their own feels than with evidence-based advice.
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches
Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
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It's so funny how sinking 3 Waters is the main reason for the increase in rates from council to council yet this government are pretending it had nothing to do with them, it's hard not to think on sinking the regional council as a convenient way to hide the body #NZPol
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's so funny how sinking 3 Waters is the main reason for the increase in rates from council to council yet this government are pretending it had nothing to do with them, it's hard not to think on sinking the regional council as a convenient way to hide the body #NZPol
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Yesterday I was in Te Awe Library. This place and the people who work there are doing incredibly important work filling the gaps in social need left by central government cuts. Above and beyond what you might considered traditional 'library' work. This report is heartbreaking & shortsighted.
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yesterday I was in Te Awe Library. This place and the people who work there are doing incredibly important work filling the gaps in social need left by central government cuts. Above and beyond what you might considered traditional 'library' work. This report is heartbreaking & shortsighted.
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Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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A fourth? Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional www.commonwealmagazine.org/charlotte-wo...
Wrestle, Wrestle
In Charlotte Wood's 'Stone Yard Devotional,' an atheist woman retreats to an abbey in New South Wales—and stays.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A fourth? Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional www.commonwealmagazine.org/charlotte-wo...
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Three? Yuko Tsushima's Wildcat Dome www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
A Country Imperfectly Pulling Itself Together
Wildcat Dome’s characters can’t escape the calamities that marked their lives—and their country’s history.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Three? Yuko Tsushima's Wildcat Dome www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...