Kai Simpson
@ksimpnz.bsky.social
I guess I'm on Bluesky now.
Kai (Kirsty), he/they. Writer, lapsed civil servant, occasional actor. based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington 🏳️🌈🇳🇿
Kai (Kirsty), he/they. Writer, lapsed civil servant, occasional actor. based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington 🏳️🌈🇳🇿
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Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.
Happy new year!
Also, proof that I go out and do things. Sometimes. Occasionally.
(My apologies to anybody who taught me photography)
Also, proof that I go out and do things. Sometimes. Occasionally.
(My apologies to anybody who taught me photography)
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Happy new year!
Also, proof that I go out and do things. Sometimes. Occasionally.
(My apologies to anybody who taught me photography)
Also, proof that I go out and do things. Sometimes. Occasionally.
(My apologies to anybody who taught me photography)
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Please, Rian. We need this!
Rian Johnson Responds After Fans Clamor For The Next 'Knives Out' Movie To Star The Muppets
www.comicsands.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Please, Rian. We need this!
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YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK
Sir David Attenborough, the British documentarian and naturalist, became the oldest person to win a Daytime Emmy on Friday at age 99. He beat the record set last year by Dick Van Dyke. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK
Went to the GGWP (Great Games With Pals) convention last weekend. Came away with far too many artworks and stickers as usual! 😅 It was a fun event though, and I love chatting with artists about their work
October 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Went to the GGWP (Great Games With Pals) convention last weekend. Came away with far too many artworks and stickers as usual! 😅 It was a fun event though, and I love chatting with artists about their work
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
Seems like a good time to share one of my favourite portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London, which I visited earlier this year. #JaneGoodall
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Seems like a good time to share one of my favourite portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London, which I visited earlier this year. #JaneGoodall
Yay for spending an HOUR this afternoon standing at the side of a busy road because the car decided to go bang and start smoking 🙃
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Yay for spending an HOUR this afternoon standing at the side of a busy road because the car decided to go bang and start smoking 🙃
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NZ First wants to copy the UK in defining ‘woman’. It makes no legal or human sense
NZ First wants to copy the UK in defining ‘woman’. It makes no legal or human sense
In a swift importation of global culture wars, NZ First has introduced a new member's bill....
thespinoff.co.nz
April 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
NZ First wants to copy the UK in defining ‘woman’. It makes no legal or human sense
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this entire thread
There's a lot of conversations about toilets and women's safety going on, but most of these conversations focus on general principles rather than specific figures. There's never really a sense of the scope of the problem, if any.
April 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
this entire thread
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I personally think AI gen stuff is ugly and super bad for the environment and I don’t think it’s fun!! Sorry!!!
March 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I personally think AI gen stuff is ugly and super bad for the environment and I don’t think it’s fun!! Sorry!!!
The current state of "journalism" in this country is so frustrating.
This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The current state of "journalism" in this country is so frustrating.
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Seems like a journalist should contact DCM and the Sallies and ask if they have indeed seen police throwing away the belongings of homeless people, and if so, to confront the Prime Minister about it.
The job is to look outside and see if it's actually raining, etc etc
The job is to look outside and see if it's actually raining, etc etc
March 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Seems like a journalist should contact DCM and the Sallies and ask if they have indeed seen police throwing away the belongings of homeless people, and if so, to confront the Prime Minister about it.
The job is to look outside and see if it's actually raining, etc etc
The job is to look outside and see if it's actually raining, etc etc
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"if we can't train AI on copyrighted works, then it'll never get to the point where we can make tons of money off of it" ok? how is that anyone else's problem? If I can't rob a bank, then I won't have $20 million tomorrow. Should I be allowed to rob a bank then?
March 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"if we can't train AI on copyrighted works, then it'll never get to the point where we can make tons of money off of it" ok? how is that anyone else's problem? If I can't rob a bank, then I won't have $20 million tomorrow. Should I be allowed to rob a bank then?
Came across a lighter that belonged to my late grandmother. Fortunately I had flint a lighter fluid from an earlier (failed) attempt to repair a similar lighter. Very excited to have gotten it working again.
February 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Came across a lighter that belonged to my late grandmother. Fortunately I had flint a lighter fluid from an earlier (failed) attempt to repair a similar lighter. Very excited to have gotten it working again.
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My sibling, explaining how xir uni degree works: there's a set of papers I have to do, and then some slots where I can choose, and I can pick papers that aren't related to my Bachelor's.
Me, who did one film course at polytech: so it's like D&D multiclassing?
Sibling: ...yes.
Me, who did one film course at polytech: so it's like D&D multiclassing?
Sibling: ...yes.
January 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My sibling, explaining how xir uni degree works: there's a set of papers I have to do, and then some slots where I can choose, and I can pick papers that aren't related to my Bachelor's.
Me, who did one film course at polytech: so it's like D&D multiclassing?
Sibling: ...yes.
Me, who did one film course at polytech: so it's like D&D multiclassing?
Sibling: ...yes.
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when i said i wanted to be mysterious, i wasn’t talking about unexplainable health issues
January 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
when i said i wanted to be mysterious, i wasn’t talking about unexplainable health issues
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I am once again begging you to understand that a man can be good at art AND a monster. Pretending once the truth comes out that the art was never actually that good only shelters the next monster.
January 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I am once again begging you to understand that a man can be good at art AND a monster. Pretending once the truth comes out that the art was never actually that good only shelters the next monster.
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Boy, BIG 'beware of the leopard' vibes trying to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill on the government's own website.
(They don't make it easy to find out – buy you can just email a written submission to [email protected])
(They don't make it easy to find out – buy you can just email a written submission to [email protected])
January 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Boy, BIG 'beware of the leopard' vibes trying to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill on the government's own website.
(They don't make it easy to find out – buy you can just email a written submission to [email protected])
(They don't make it easy to find out – buy you can just email a written submission to [email protected])
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Today’s poem is called ‘The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner’.
December 15, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner’.