Eddie Clark
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
Personal account so expect eclecticism. Law, politics, SFF books, anime, gaming, music. Queer stuff.
Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
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Eddie Clark
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Really feels today like everything is happening so much, so forgive me a #booksky metathread of book rec threads from me in my year on bluesky.
Maybe you'll find something to dive into if you, too, are finding things just a bit much at the moment.
Maybe you'll find something to dive into if you, too, are finding things just a bit much at the moment.
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Basic #OIA rules: don't rant. Just ask for (specific) information. If you do both, your rant will bury your actual request.
[Response] Ministry of Justice replied about There is a gap in the law which facilitates and condones self represented lawyers to commit crime in the civil jurisdiction
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Basic #OIA rules: don't rant. Just ask for (specific) information. If you do both, your rant will bury your actual request.
A) Yes
B) Also the massively underrated Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Idol agency demon fighting JRPG.
B) Also the massively underrated Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Idol agency demon fighting JRPG.
Having seen this, I’ve got to say, the KPop Demon Hunter fans need to re-discover Final Fantasy X-2, where you play a girl band who changes fighting classes by changing dresses and has no less than two concerts on the way to saving the world from a giant weapon.
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A) Yes
B) Also the massively underrated Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Idol agency demon fighting JRPG.
B) Also the massively underrated Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Idol agency demon fighting JRPG.
Husband has been in Canada, I asked him to bring me back some coffee crisps (basically coffee flavoured kitkat; only available on Canada). He may have been slightly excessive.
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Husband has been in Canada, I asked him to bring me back some coffee crisps (basically coffee flavoured kitkat; only available on Canada). He may have been slightly excessive.
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A tip for folks who use kobo to buy ebooks (at least the UK & US stores: until the end of the week, they're having a "buy 50 dollars/quid of gift cards & we'll give you a $10 credit" promotion... and they don't stop you sending the gift card to yourself.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A tip for folks who use kobo to buy ebooks (at least the UK & US stores: until the end of the week, they're having a "buy 50 dollars/quid of gift cards & we'll give you a $10 credit" promotion... and they don't stop you sending the gift card to yourself.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
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Regardless of where you stand in terms of political party allegiance, or even just on the political spectrum ... rhetorically positioning a commitment to Te Tiriti as inherently "anti-government" speaks a lot to how you view the policy positioning of the government you're a part of.
Boards Chair here - before our BOT passed a motion affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti, I received emails from parents and teachers urging the board on.
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Regardless of where you stand in terms of political party allegiance, or even just on the political spectrum ... rhetorically positioning a commitment to Te Tiriti as inherently "anti-government" speaks a lot to how you view the policy positioning of the government you're a part of.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
A tip for folks who use kobo to buy ebooks (at least the UK & US stores: until the end of the week, they're having a "buy 50 dollars/quid of gift cards & we'll give you a $10 credit" promotion... and they don't stop you sending the gift card to yourself.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A tip for folks who use kobo to buy ebooks (at least the UK & US stores: until the end of the week, they're having a "buy 50 dollars/quid of gift cards & we'll give you a $10 credit" promotion... and they don't stop you sending the gift card to yourself.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
Effectively 20% off 50 bucks of books.
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After two years following work toward this, I can finally report that more than 40 duty lawyers are taking industrial action over pay rates in January.
It’ll include 80 per cent of those in Auckland District Court.
Duty lawyers act for those charged with criminal offences who don’t have lawyers.
It’ll include 80 per cent of those in Auckland District Court.
Duty lawyers act for those charged with criminal offences who don’t have lawyers.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
After two years following work toward this, I can finally report that more than 40 duty lawyers are taking industrial action over pay rates in January.
It’ll include 80 per cent of those in Auckland District Court.
Duty lawyers act for those charged with criminal offences who don’t have lawyers.
It’ll include 80 per cent of those in Auckland District Court.
Duty lawyers act for those charged with criminal offences who don’t have lawyers.
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Page 27, a half-sentence reads "In addition, personnel expenses incurred by Health New Zealand were $0.5 billion lower than forecast..." It doesn't even rate its own sentence! 😠
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications...
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications...
Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ended 30 June 2025
Accessible version Only the Financial Statements Summary has been prepared in HTML.
www.treasury.govt.nz
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Page 27, a half-sentence reads "In addition, personnel expenses incurred by Health New Zealand were $0.5 billion lower than forecast..." It doesn't even rate its own sentence! 😠
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications...
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications...
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The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
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I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
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do we have a "most cursed/awful (hilarious) post of the year" award yet?
Imagining an intensely cursed alt-history timeline where the Axis powers won the war and people are by now using the term "Volkx" to try to be more intersectional
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
do we have a "most cursed/awful (hilarious) post of the year" award yet?
I was excited by the premise and it pretty much wholly pulls it off. Beautifully written, too.
THE WOLF AND HIS KING, a retelling of Bisclavret focused on yearning, chronic illness feelings, and the mortifying ordeal of being known, comes out tomorrow! Which is to say, in about an hour! Or in two months if you live in North America, sorry.
finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I was excited by the premise and it pretty much wholly pulls it off. Beautifully written, too.
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Final week of pre-sales.
*𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘*
3 lucky random people who order one of my calendars before xmas will receive a 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 signed 11x17 Matt Print (Valued $75) in their parcel.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
*𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘*
3 lucky random people who order one of my calendars before xmas will receive a 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 signed 11x17 Matt Print (Valued $75) in their parcel.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
Ok it's finally happening.
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
My Calendar 2026 is now available for pre-order. Printing by end of the month to allow for international shipping.
(sorry no international orders just yet, still setting that up).
So happy I could cry.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Final week of pre-sales.
*𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘*
3 lucky random people who order one of my calendars before xmas will receive a 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 signed 11x17 Matt Print (Valued $75) in their parcel.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
*𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘*
3 lucky random people who order one of my calendars before xmas will receive a 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 signed 11x17 Matt Print (Valued $75) in their parcel.
paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...
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This is a very good and important thread
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is a very good and important thread
One preliminary point worth noting on this - because it's pretty opaque if you're not a nerd - is that a public inquiry (which this is) has functionally exactly the same powers and independence that a Royal Commission does.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
Inquiry into handling of the Tom Phillips case announced by government
The inquiry will look if the right steps were taken to ensure the welfare of the fugitive dad's children.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
One preliminary point worth noting on this - because it's pretty opaque if you're not a nerd - is that a public inquiry (which this is) has functionally exactly the same powers and independence that a Royal Commission does.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
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The clues are in the coalition agreements: one is largely about getting the administrative state to deliver on its goals; the other leans more towards symbolic battles and using the House as its stage.
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The clues are in the coalition agreements: one is largely about getting the administrative state to deliver on its goals; the other leans more towards symbolic battles and using the House as its stage.
Listening to music on shuffle as I edit some photos and man, I do like The War and Drugs but they're also an out and out Dire Straits tribute band lol.
Adam Granduciel is an American Mark Knopfler for millennials (mostly complimentary).
Adam Granduciel is an American Mark Knopfler for millennials (mostly complimentary).
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Listening to music on shuffle as I edit some photos and man, I do like The War and Drugs but they're also an out and out Dire Straits tribute band lol.
Adam Granduciel is an American Mark Knopfler for millennials (mostly complimentary).
Adam Granduciel is an American Mark Knopfler for millennials (mostly complimentary).
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Just one of the many ways in which being an above-replacement-level lawyer means knowing what arguments not to make
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just one of the many ways in which being an above-replacement-level lawyer means knowing what arguments not to make
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Useful ruling from the Ombudsman on an extension decision, which reinforces a number of points. Specifically:
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Useful ruling from the Ombudsman on an extension decision, which reinforces a number of points. Specifically:
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
* extensions cannot be used to cover staff absences. Organisations can't use their own administrative inefficiency to gain more time...
Post your warning label (yes, I do own this t-shirt)
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Post your warning label (yes, I do own this t-shirt)
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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I also people realise that if they love an author and want to keep reading their work, publishers will drop authors whose books are not selling and it’s probably destroying the midlist.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I also people realise that if they love an author and want to keep reading their work, publishers will drop authors whose books are not selling and it’s probably destroying the midlist.
Always a cursed time on book social media when the pro vs anti piracy discourse gets going. & always strikes me that the pro side - who actually have a point re US chauvinism & global availability/affordability & shareability - undermine their argument by fantasising straw man rich American authors.
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Always a cursed time on book social media when the pro vs anti piracy discourse gets going. & always strikes me that the pro side - who actually have a point re US chauvinism & global availability/affordability & shareability - undermine their argument by fantasising straw man rich American authors.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.