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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 1d

It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...

Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Article | AudioCulture

An excerpt from Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly, by Craig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025), published with permission. -- In the late 1980s Chris Knox worked out his solo songs at home with h...

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

Look, Kirsty, if you want more electricity just get together with 100,000 others and each invest $1000 and build your own wind farm. It’s pretty basic stuff …

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Finlayson following Sir Geoffrey is objectively very very funny (to an incredibly niche and slightly tragic group of us …)

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

I would like it to be known that Comrade Brown does NOT speak for Antifa NZ (South of the Bombay Hills faction) and that his incessant and intransigent demands for plain beige decor are an affront to all engaged in The Struggle …

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly this whole 🧵rings true for those of us approached to set up Antifa NZ. Couldn't get a decision on what colour to paint the office without a week of endless Zoom meetings. For globalists, their localisation strategy is terrible. Would not overthrow tyranny again.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly this whole 🧵rings true for those of us approached to set up Antifa NZ. Couldn't get a decision on what colour to paint the office without a week of endless Zoom meetings. For globalists, their localisation strategy is terrible. Would not overthrow tyranny again.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

Simpsons did it ...

The Simpsons - Move The Town

YouTube video by Your Daily Dose Of Simpsons

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

The below, in turn, helps to explain this ...

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

"The Government’s policy change to make many 18- and 19-year-olds ineligible for the Jobseeker benefit will go a significant way to helping it meet its target of reducing the number of people on Jobseeker by 50,000."

Stalin: "Death solves all problems, no man, no problem."

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 1d

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 1d

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 2d

All those “No to 3 Waters!” signs really paid off …

Waitaki District Council's standalone water services plan rejected by DIA

Department of Internal Affairs officials have ordered the council to carry out a full review of the district's water assets or face ministerial intervention.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 2d

Does it count if you've got an interior narrator who sounds EXACTLY like the one in Arrested Development?

Hylobatidae @waninggibbons.bsky.social · 2d

I don't trust anyone who doesn't have an inner monologue. What the fuck do you mean you go through life without an oversight committee.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 2d

When you've got John Darnielle saying this about you + then showing how much his own songwriting is a reflection of yours, then you are a bona fide musical genius (who chose to express it with whatever happened to be at hand at the time)

Brave

YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 2d

The second book this year from the Robertson brothers (following Grant's autobiography) - I honestly don't think many Kiwis know just how big a deal Chris Knox was (and still is) in terms of what music was seen as being able to be ...

Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love.

These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally

opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when...
#aotearoa
@audioculturenz.bsky.social

'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

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Hylobatidae @waninggibbons.bsky.social · 2d

I don't trust anyone who doesn't have an inner monologue. What the fuck do you mean you go through life without an oversight committee.

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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 2d

Judith Collins "aren't they lucky they can legally protest in NZ, you cant insome countries, maybe they should go there" WTF?

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 2d

That was my birthday! Thank you, Todd!! It was the best present a little boy could ever ask for!!!

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love.

These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally

opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when...
#aotearoa
@audioculturenz.bsky.social

'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

opdiner.substack.com

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 3d

Bobby's Law: "The degree of 'community buy-in' required for decisions around police resourcing is directly correlated with the rural-Pākehā-National/ACT-voting status of said community."

Controversial police restructure canned after public backlash

The plan included cutting roles and closing stations in rural and remote communities across Canterbury.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 3d

🎵"There is no cancel-culture in New Zealand ..."🎵

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d

Actor who shared Winston Peters' address online cut from One NZ ads

She also encouraged people to join a pro-Palestine protest outside his house.

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d

Actor who shared Winston Peters' address online cut from One NZ ads

She also encouraged people to join a pro-Palestine protest outside his house.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that someone has gone to the police and confessed their guilt will determine that question pretty quickly ...

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 3d

Worse than a crime. A mistake.

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d

Man arrested after window smashed at Winston Peters' home

Police say the man turned himself in last night and has been charged with burglary.

www.rnz.co.nz

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d

Man arrested after window smashed at Winston Peters' home

Police say the man turned himself in last night and has been charged with burglary.

www.rnz.co.nz

Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

I think you’re misrepresenting what I said, so I’ll leave things here.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

Sure. Let 1000 flowers bloom …

Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

“Evidence of research dissemination” … certainly not going to get you a chair, but anyone who thinks/claims “how brave! The VC will knife him for this” knows nothing of how Universities work.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

Irrespective of correctness, let this be a retort to all the “there’s no free speech on our campuses” crowd. Dennis can write this piece praising the ex-political nemesis of his now-boss and be 100% confident that next promotion round it will HELP his chances of becoming a full professor.

Opinion: Nicola Willis is right: the economy isn't as bad as the 'merchants of misery' claim

Blaming the current state of the economy on Willis' leadership ignores aspects of the bigger picture, writes Dennis Wesselbaum.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

New offence only applies if protest is directed at the residents of the apartments … won’t apply if protest is about anything else

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

Hmmm … think this is wrong? The protest must be “near any residential premises; and … directed at any regular occupant of those premises”

The Ihumātao protest just isn’t covered by it.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 4d

+1 to this …

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