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Aquila1nz
@aquila1nz.bsky.social
Living in the future.
Interests and obsessions: SFF, NZIFF, Fandom, Kayaking, f/f
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I didn't do post as I read microposts this year, but here's my list of every Queer Speculative Book About Women that I read in 2024 aquila1nz.dreamwidth.org/41073.html Favourites to follow. 🌈📚🇳🇿🌈🚀💫💙📚
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Peeps, here we go.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Shame on this government.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is Dan Brennan, street hustler, drug addict, but still the best damn starpilot in the Interstellar Republic. His story's available in HAZE by Katharine Kerr, out tomorrow in hardback.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Shortland Street doesn't escape this conversation unscathed.
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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If Dawn & Sage meet... #ShortlandStreet
a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Forgot the alt: book cover of Fire and Ice: secrets, histories, mysteries and treasures of Tongariro National Park, by Hazel Philips.
I got a lot out of this collection of historical and geographical curiosities of Tongariro National Park. It’s a Pākeha history, although there is discussion of pre-European land use and tikanga.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This is great.

Sadly I won’t be able to make it to the Auckland events.

waateanews.com/2025/11/08/l...
Landfall! Hōkūlea And Hikianalia Make Safe Landfall In Aotearoa After 17-Day Deep Sea Voyage
waateanews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Just read pg 168 of @tkingfisher.com's What Stalks The Deep and I am overcome. "IT IS LIKE HUMAN TALKING."
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Ooh, seeing this tomorrow night!
Auckland Theatre Company presents ‘Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking’ the play by Witi Ihimaera, brought into the 21st Century so ably with Katie Wolfe directing, magnificent performances by Miriama McDowell and Nī Dekkers-Reihana. An eerie opening, a must see!
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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NZ and AU accounts, accustomed to a more vigorous use of language as punctuation than the comparatively prim US, might at the very least set it to warn so you know people are saying things even if you are nervous about be unshielded from "no constructive purpose". Wordcloud of NZ Twitter 2021
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Audiobooks.com is so excited about the audiobook for Daughter of Mystery that they've revised the 50% off to 75% off! I'd love for this audiobook to do well enough that the rest of the series gets picked up in audio.

And now, back to working on Alpennia #5.

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
75% OFF Daughter of Mystery
Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit Baron Saveze's fortunes—even less his bodyguard, a ruthlessly efficient swordswoman known only as Barbara. Wealth suddenly makes Margerit a hi...
www.audiobooks.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
Adopt a kākāpō
Kākāpō adoptions are a special way to support the conservation of this taonga species. You can adopt a kākāpō for yourself or as a gift.
www.doc.govt.nz
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Accept no imitations
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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It is penguin of the year time and I would suggest you all vote for chaos bisexual Dave www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/pengui...
Penguin of the Year
Help us decide this year’s ‘Penguin of the Year’ at the National Aquarium. Who will take the title of being Penguin of the Year this year? Get your vote in!
www.nationalaquarium.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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You can now watch black comedy Kiwi gem Millie Lies Low for free on Whakaata Māori. And I implore you do. It's so damn good and we, as a nation, should be talking about it more. www.flicks.co.nz/movie/millie...
Millie Lies Low | Where to watch streaming and online in New Zealand | Flicks
How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Millie Lies Low in New Zealand + release dates, reviews and trailers. When a would-be intern misses her big flight to New York City, she lies low in her hometo...
www.flicks.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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huh. @stechlab-labels.bsky.social seems like it's doing something *actually interesting* and *actually useful* with its labeler, and I can't subscribe to it and I don't know why
November 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Who needs secrecy when you can have helpful signage instead? #nzintelligence
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I am required to show off this spectacular cover (artist: Juan Bernabeu) for my near future political novelette coming on @reactorsff.bsky.social on Nov 5.

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Book 2 of the well-reviewed The Witch Roads duology drops next week (The Nameless Land). As does a near future political sf short story on @reactorsff.bsky.social
I recently turned in an epic fantasy novel in the Witch Roads world. I am chugging along!
Today, 20K into a new book: Why is this crap?
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM