Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso.bsky.social
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
We shall start with the spelling.
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We shall start with the spelling.
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Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
It's the First Annual Gianni Infantino Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Peace.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's the First Annual Gianni Infantino Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Peace.
An incredible piece.
“I was analysing systems of state power at the exact moment one of those systems was destroying my family.”
Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
The profit of distance: how universities exploit Palestinian expertise - Overland literary journal
My mother was killed on 5 December 2023 in Khan Younis. An airstrike hit our home around 3 pm. The building collapsed. I learned she was dead while I was in Taiwan, working on research about how polit...
overland.org.au
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
An incredible piece.
Speaking of music, my son asked for a portable CD player for his birthday and since then—our family subscription to Tidal be damned—he's been going to the library and borrowing CDs. So he gets to listen to them as discrete albums instead of drowning in the ocean of endless playlists. SMOOTH move.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Speaking of music, my son asked for a portable CD player for his birthday and since then—our family subscription to Tidal be damned—he's been going to the library and borrowing CDs. So he gets to listen to them as discrete albums instead of drowning in the ocean of endless playlists. SMOOTH move.
Russians by Sting. Hands down.
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Russians by Sting. Hands down.
[Seinfeld jazz riff]
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
[Seinfeld jazz riff]
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“Planning is political, especially in a country where it has been used to facilitate settler frames of land commodification and exclusion.”
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
Settling the city: urban planning as a vector of settler colonialism - Overland literary journal
The key tools of urban planning, like master planning, zoning and state acquisition of land, are derivatives of the state’s perceived need for centralised control. Urban planning assumes there is a bl...
overland.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Planning is political, especially in a country where it has been used to facilitate settler frames of land commodification and exclusion.”
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
Pege Hegseth, Ssecretary of War
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Pege Hegseth, Ssecretary of War
Not so much prescience as science (but pronounced so it rhymes with prescience).
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not so much prescience as science (but pronounced so it rhymes with prescience).
Actually a terrible outcome as Peter Griffin explains in the article. It says AI companies can still train their LLMs on works of literature without permission so long as they don't acquire the content using dodgy websites. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
NZ authors among global payout out after AI chatbot trained on pirated books
Award-winning author Catherine Chidgey's books have been caught up in a class action in the US which saw Anthropic AI agree to pay up to $2.6 billion.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Actually a terrible outcome as Peter Griffin explains in the article. It says AI companies can still train their LLMs on works of literature without permission so long as they don't acquire the content using dodgy websites. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
The common experience of accumulating followers on platforms one is not on.
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The common experience of accumulating followers on platforms one is not on.
A clickbait headline about rage-baiting.
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A clickbait headline about rage-baiting.
Trump doesn't know what part of his body was medically scanned in an unusual case of patient-patient confidentiality.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump doesn't know what part of his body was medically scanned in an unusual case of patient-patient confidentiality.
Our once beautiful city is officially dead.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our once beautiful city is officially dead.
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“Perhaps the poor essay still reveals, through its derivative gestures, the outline of the writer it tried to replace.”
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
With respect to the poor essay - Overland literary journal
Once, many years ago, I was on a panel discussing something for a new redundant culture publication with a few different writers of my cohort concerning the topic of “Fake News” — a panel which I glad...
overland.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“Perhaps the poor essay still reveals, through its derivative gestures, the outline of the writer it tried to replace.”
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Fuck them up, PATHA.
BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fuck them up, PATHA.
Please reply to this post with all the other things I should know, at the age of 54.
Then I found out that every oven has a self-cleaning steam function. You just need to fill a tray with water and run it at 150°C for half an hour.
Now my question is WHY AM I JUST DISCOVERING THIS NOW? It seems like something they would teach you at school.
Now my question is WHY AM I JUST DISCOVERING THIS NOW? It seems like something they would teach you at school.
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Please reply to this post with all the other things I should know, at the age of 54.
Looking into buying a new oven (the old one is carking it) and moving away from gas, which is expensive for a bunch of reasons. A big factor in the purchase is the presence of a self-cleaning option, of which there are two kinds
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Looking into buying a new oven (the old one is carking it) and moving away from gas, which is expensive for a bunch of reasons. A big factor in the purchase is the presence of a self-cleaning option, of which there are two kinds
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
This presumes quite a lot of my trust in Vance's reporting. It all just looks like the National Party having factions, which is a normal thing in many countries. Ours do too, it's just not spoken about for some reason.
Bishop so useless he can't even roll the most hopeless Prime Minister New Zealand has ever had.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop in failed National leadership coup - report
Former Hutt South MP and Transport, Housing, Infrastructure and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop was behind a recent failed coup plan within the National Party, The Post has reported.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This presumes quite a lot of my trust in Vance's reporting. It all just looks like the National Party having factions, which is a normal thing in many countries. Ours do too, it's just not spoken about for some reason.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is worse than Grenfell, absolutely horrifying.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is worse than Grenfell, absolutely horrifying.