‘The decision cements New Zealand as one of the handful of countries (alongside Trump’s America and perhaps Javier Milei’s Argentina) set on worsening the climate crisis.’

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

Been thinking it’s time to write your first book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction? Apply for the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML and have the support of a writing community, Deadline 1 November

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Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

yeah not to get too dark but I nearly gave up writing entirely over how trad treated me. This year has been pretty healing, I've been spending time in-person in the community, focusing on people, craft, and joy. I've been lucky to have that. Without it, Dawnhounds 3 would probably be my last book.

Book cover fashion always works like this. But I’m guessing these are very very different books… #ThingsAuthorsHate

Our book is released today. It's edited following the "grand elementary principle of pleasure". I love all the poems and critical essays we've gathered together, found much insight & delight in my co-editors' insights as poets, & hope youse can too. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

Ingrid Horrocks reading from her Mary Wollstonecraft story at a packed launch for All Her Lives tonight - books were flying out the door!

Trust me - from close proximity - for a 19 year old struggling with mental health challenges job-seekers is terrifying but these changes will make things far, far worse for so many of our young people. Imagine extra funding to support 18/19 year olds through this tough time?

I saw most of it I think, maybe all - I tend to use film and tv as a distraction from reality so it felt like too much reality!

almost at the two thirds mark, just need 34 more people to pledge $5. In my experience, the closer you get to the goal the more pledges pick up, so if you can space $5 please do (note you won't be charged until November 1st, and then only if the goal is met)

Yes I did realise but then I thought there’s lots of things happening now that none of us would’ve expected to see a year ago. Apathy and general lack of caring will get to us the way it is in North American cities. Maybe not in Te Aro park which is too small anyway but it’s coming.

I wrote a thing that is set in an imagined near-future where there is a tent city in Te Aro park. I would very much like sci-fi/speculative fiction/dystopic fiction to remain in any way fictional. I would like it if I imagined an awful thing and it didn't turn out to be not as awful as reality.

Thankful for people like Emily, saying what we are all feeling.

So fucking angry.

This is a really excellent piece from Emily Writes, about genocide and incitement and political violence and victimhood.
#nzpol

Apparently Shakespeare invented calling someone "an egg" as an insult, I had no idea he was a New Zealander!

This is good news, but why do NZ First keep going up? This is the worst of us ick (Act beyond the pale, cant even contemplate what their presence says about us, but NZ First have had too much power for too long in our govts)

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

So, even if your books were exploited by #Anthropic, you're only eligible for a payout if your work was registered in the US.
Typical. The rest of the world doesn't exist.
$1.5billion is going somewhere, but it ain't to millions of non-American authors.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

What I'd just say to you is, if you listened to these economists you'd think we were on the Titanic. And even if we are you can be damn sure I won't be going down with it.
#LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovEver #EconomicVandals #NZpol

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

“The world doesn’t owe you a living”

Vs

“I’m entitled to my entitlements”

The face of cruelty #NZPol

Here’s Ingrid Horrocks in the Writer in Residence office at the IIML that she occupied last year: next year she’ll be teaching in the MA programme while Chris Price is on leave www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...