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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 1d

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 2d

Poetry in Performance 2nd session Thurs 9 Oct with Gregory Kan, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-poet...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

And that's why GDP is an absolute bullshit metric for gauging the "prosperity" of an economic system. GDP measures how well the billionaires are doing, and it ignores what AI costs the average resident or their communities. Fuck billionaires. Fuck AI. And fuck GDP.

We need a universal income ASAP

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 1d

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 2d

Sophie van Waardenberg on the sonnet: "For me, they’re good containers because you have to be a bit declamatory, a bit argumentative, and then you can betray yourself, you can cast doubt on the whole thing, you can shrug the whole thing off and go out into the sunlight." badapple.gay/2025/08/08/v...

Very Good, In Fact – bad apple

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 3d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent launch speech for the new Nick Ascroft

teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/i...

'What more could you ask for, really?'

A new Nick Ascroft collection is always a thing to celebrate. On Wednesday 3 September we launched the excellent new book It's What He Would've Wanted, which has received advance praise by readers lik...

teherengawakapress.co.nz

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 8d

I always love a poem in which the poet names themself but this one is particularly brilliant: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy

Uniform Louis and I had this theory that nobody knewwe were fucking. Uniforms could do that to a bloke — help him blend in with a crowd. Only once, at a party,did I ever see him without the shirt, …

nzpoetryshelf.com

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 8d

So loving this new series! A Tuesday toast to the wonderful Jackson! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy

Uniform Louis and I had this theory that nobody knewwe were fucking. Uniforms could do that to a bloke — help him blend in with a crowd. Only once, at a party,did I ever see him without the shirt, …

nzpoetryshelf.com

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 8d

I was at that reading Jackson talks about where we all caught our breath at that volta!

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 8d

Going to the theatre is like being somewhere else
Reading memoir is like being someone else
Reading novel is like being sometime else
Poem is all banana moonlight spills on the sidewalk

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 8d

Waiting for the moment when the lightbulb goes on at Labour HQ & Hipkins stands up and says “ you know the billions this Govt has promised to the oil companies? Well, we’re going end that & invest it in YOU with subsidised solar on every roof in 10 years.”

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 9d

when times are hard sometimes you just need yeasty yeasty fry bread. and poetry. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/29/p...

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Rejuvenate’ by Aroha Witinitara

Rejuvenate Sometimes you reach a pointtipping breakingwhere you’…

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 11d

Yes

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 12d

The best thing you'll see all day 😍
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Scotty Morrison’s greatest Te Karere sign-offs, ranked

Just when you think the news is over, the magic begins.

thespinoff.co.nz

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 27d

They deleted it again.

Here’s the campaign - www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

And here’s proof Sahar is not a scammer - gizmodo.com/the-rise-of-...

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 28d

I've just submitted on the Electoral Amendment Bill for voters in Aotearoa New Zealand. It would remove right to enrol and vote on Election Day and would disqualify all prisoners from voting while in prison.

Submissions close at 1pm on Thursday 11 September.
#NZpol
www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Radware Page

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www.parliament.nz

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28d

Hi 🧪

Has there been any media coverage of this letter from almost 5000 scientists calling on Israel to stop its inhumane treatment of Palestinians in Gaza? I haven’t been able to find Anything.

sites.google.com/view/stateme...

Statement-by-scientists-Gaza

August 21, 2025 We, the undersigned, are scientists from around the world writing in our personal capacity as deeply concerned citizens. We are deeply distressed by the worsening humanitarian crisis i...

sites.google.com

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nice! I almost didn’t want a second volume, I loved the mystery of it as a stand alone piece. But…I also am quite excited to read more.

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · Sep 5

My winter reading highlights - from Solvej Balle to Karl Ove Knausgaard: www.annajackson.nz/enthusiasms....

Enthusiasms

Winter reading highlights On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle, a novel I really loved, from the very start, with the quietly disturbing idea of a person trapped in a single, repeating day,...

www.annajackson.nz

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · Sep 4

I've pre-ordered my copy, it looks terrific!

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · Sep 4

Clarice Lispector on writing a story about Laura the hen: "a hen is hollow"; "like a woman," adds Marina Collasanti; "of course!" says Lispector.

I did it because hens always had a big influence on me. When I was little, I looked at a hen a lot, for a long time, and I could imitate the way she pecked at the corn, I could imitate what she was like when she was sick, and that always had a big influence on me. Moreover, I’m very connected to animals, tremendously. A hen’s life is hollow—a hen is hollow!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

Out now! The 114th issue of takahē is free online for everyone to enjoy.

www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/

This issue is a little slimmer, but just as carefully curated with new words and art to challenge, stimulate and engross. We hope you love it.

Let us know your favourites! 🖤

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · Aug 29

"No matter how hard you try you can never spin as badly again" - the inimitable Jennifer Compton www.takahe.org.nz/first-wool/

First Wool - takahē

I was working in my aunt’s wool shop for a season when a woman came in wanting unusual yarn for a wall hanging. Nothing I could show her tickled her fancy. Then I remembered my sister’s first wool. Sh...

www.takahe.org.nz

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