Jack Remiel Cottrell
@jackremiel.bsky.social
Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
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It exists in physical form! THE EMOTION DEALER AND OTHER STORIES is only two months away from launch! Check out how great it looks!
In the current AI-cover kerfuffle, I just thought I'd say that The Emotion Dealer and other stories has a 100% organic cover by wonderful Canterbury artist Henry Turner, and also you can buy it now www.nationwidebooks.co.nz/product/The-...
Floating on my back in Lake Taupō, the water still and cool, the sunset overhead turning the sky all shades of dusky pink and orange. The only sound was the occasional magpie warbling. I had never been so perfectly alone as that evening.
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Floating on my back in Lake Taupō, the water still and cool, the sunset overhead turning the sky all shades of dusky pink and orange. The only sound was the occasional magpie warbling. I had never been so perfectly alone as that evening.
I've been at Condor 7s the past four days and honestly, it's been amazing. I had a pretty bad rugby season for various reasons and being able to finish it off with some great people and a really solid performance feels so good.
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I've been at Condor 7s the past four days and honestly, it's been amazing. I had a pretty bad rugby season for various reasons and being able to finish it off with some great people and a really solid performance feels so good.
In my 12 years of driving, I had never been breathalysed until this week, where I was stopped twice - once on Wednesday and once on Saturday. Looks like BOP are going hard on it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In my 12 years of driving, I had never been breathalysed until this week, where I was stopped twice - once on Wednesday and once on Saturday. Looks like BOP are going hard on it.
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Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
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An Auckland school teacher is taken out deer hunting by his prospective in-laws. It's not going to end well.
Short story: Camouflaged, by Jack Remiel Cottrell
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November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An Auckland school teacher is taken out deer hunting by his prospective in-laws. It's not going to end well.
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
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Show your support for @nzpsa.bsky.social health workers on strike tomorrow!
Share a tile to your page, use the hashtag #StandTogetherForHealth and tag us in your photos.
#NZPol #AotearoaUnions #NZUnions #tradeunions
Share a tile to your page, use the hashtag #StandTogetherForHealth and tag us in your photos.
#NZPol #AotearoaUnions #NZUnions #tradeunions
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Show your support for @nzpsa.bsky.social health workers on strike tomorrow!
Share a tile to your page, use the hashtag #StandTogetherForHealth and tag us in your photos.
#NZPol #AotearoaUnions #NZUnions #tradeunions
Share a tile to your page, use the hashtag #StandTogetherForHealth and tag us in your photos.
#NZPol #AotearoaUnions #NZUnions #tradeunions
It's a privilege not everyone gets, growing old.
![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 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's a privilege not everyone gets, growing old.
E hoa Kikorangi mā, what do you buy for an office secret santa when the only thing you know about your recipient is their name?
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
E hoa Kikorangi mā, what do you buy for an office secret santa when the only thing you know about your recipient is their name?
Do not be weird about it, don't ask why, just be inwardly grateful that if something happens you will have a sober adult around to help.
And try to have something else to offer.
And try to have something else to offer.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Do not be weird about it, don't ask why, just be inwardly grateful that if something happens you will have a sober adult around to help.
And try to have something else to offer.
And try to have something else to offer.
Truly, the purest form of shitposting.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Truly, the purest form of shitposting.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
I made a list! Number 5 on the Unity Books Wellington weekly list. Cheers to my family who undoubtedly created the bulk of demand.
thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-11-...
thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-11-...
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending November 21
The groundbreaking book about a first period hits the charts.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I made a list! Number 5 on the Unity Books Wellington weekly list. Cheers to my family who undoubtedly created the bulk of demand.
thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-11-...
thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-11-...
Just a reminder to all my queer and trans whānau who feels like you're being told you shouldn't exist - every day you keep going, those people lose. You don't even have to get out of bed to be victorious.
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just a reminder to all my queer and trans whānau who feels like you're being told you shouldn't exist - every day you keep going, those people lose. You don't even have to get out of bed to be victorious.
Can't imagine a parent having to explain to their 10-year-old that the government has decided they must suffer lifelong harm, because a cisgender child is more important than they are, so that child has to be kept safe.
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Can't imagine a parent having to explain to their 10-year-old that the government has decided they must suffer lifelong harm, because a cisgender child is more important than they are, so that child has to be kept safe.
Look, I get why web developers encourage organisations to build on SilverStripe. I do. However, if I click on an element to add content and get sent to the fucken homepage one more time I am going to do some Tron shit so I can punch this CMS in the face.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Look, I get why web developers encourage organisations to build on SilverStripe. I do. However, if I click on an element to add content and get sent to the fucken homepage one more time I am going to do some Tron shit so I can punch this CMS in the face.
In the current AI-cover kerfuffle, I just thought I'd say that The Emotion Dealer and other stories has a 100% organic cover by wonderful Canterbury artist Henry Turner, and also you can buy it now www.nationwidebooks.co.nz/product/The-...
It exists in physical form! THE EMOTION DEALER AND OTHER STORIES is only two months away from launch! Check out how great it looks!
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In the current AI-cover kerfuffle, I just thought I'd say that The Emotion Dealer and other stories has a 100% organic cover by wonderful Canterbury artist Henry Turner, and also you can buy it now www.nationwidebooks.co.nz/product/The-...
If only I had clocked this 13 years ago when I went to journalism school. On the upside, my 'kids with lambs' stories were very well written.
Reporting and writing are different skills. There are very good reporters who come up short in the writing department.
I'll take a good reporter I have to clean up over a great writer with no reporting chops any day.
I'll take a good reporter I have to clean up over a great writer with no reporting chops any day.
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If only I had clocked this 13 years ago when I went to journalism school. On the upside, my 'kids with lambs' stories were very well written.
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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Tonight I was delighted to attend the launch of @jackremiel.bsky.social 's second collection of short fiction, The Emotion Dealer & Other Stories. I've already started snacking on these tasty bites! So pleasing and yet tantalizing! What next to find?
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Tonight I was delighted to attend the launch of @jackremiel.bsky.social 's second collection of short fiction, The Emotion Dealer & Other Stories. I've already started snacking on these tasty bites! So pleasing and yet tantalizing! What next to find?
Same, jellyfish, same.
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Same, jellyfish, same.
Launch tonight! If you're free in Wellington from about 6:00pm this evening come along and check out my new book. There's free drinks (quality not guaranteed) and @brannavan.bsky.social will be speaking (quality guaranteed) if you need enticing.
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Canterbury University Press and Unity Books Wellington warmly invite you to the launch of The Emotion Dealer & Other Stories
www.unitybooks.co.nz
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Launch tonight! If you're free in Wellington from about 6:00pm this evening come along and check out my new book. There's free drinks (quality not guaranteed) and @brannavan.bsky.social will be speaking (quality guaranteed) if you need enticing.
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Do I know anyone who deals with clubspark for websites? Really just want to know how annoying it is as a CMS before I end up volunteering to assist with it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Do I know anyone who deals with clubspark for websites? Really just want to know how annoying it is as a CMS before I end up volunteering to assist with it.
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You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.