it's kinda hard to overstate how the central library was a focal point for daily wellington life, and how its closure has left the city centre so much emptier – this has been six years of work and I'm so glad it's almost finished

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Friends, if you’re able, please help Reem today 🫶🏽

gofund.me/4e333f55

happy 32nd birthday to this masterful, majestic album, the GOAT imho; moving & soothing & soaring & sonic, melancholic & melodious, opulent & furious; non-stop wall-to-wall bangers; absolute grandeur in its textural alchemy & oh the nostalgia. a 62:08min art work that makes mine heart work. love.

Jane Austen died on this day, 1817. Her sister Cassandra wrote: “I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow;”
#JaneAusten 💙

Here’s one! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Ooh that Claire Keegan can write, can she what. By jove.

If Hamas & before them the PLO are “terrorists” what do we call those they’re resisting who for decades w/ impunity steal their land, maim assault snipe rape slaughter; carpet bomb homes hospitals schools churches mosques & tents; deny food water & medicine; shoot the starving as they wait for aid?

I think if given the choice between a) we're gonna tax you, or b) we're gonna eat you, the rich will surely agree, taxation is preferable

Me too!

Perhaps there’s been some confusion and somewhere along the line some people have been told, “you need to see a counsellor; your demeanour is shitty” but they’ve heard, “you need to be a councillor or the mayor for Wellington City”

To ensure that passion and commitment to a vital cause are honoured. And to take away the bitter taste of the USA's action against her. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Labor’s unelected Anti-Semitism Overlord recently shat out a 20-page document demanding sweeping oversight of pretty much all areas of government to stamp out dissent against her beloved murder colony overseas which is starving kids to death daily. Here’s a snapshot of her sterling analytical powers

Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

-Langston Hughes

Tēnā koe, just want to say how much I appreciate your ability to articulate things so clearly, and your generosity of spirit in creating and sharing these resources. Ngā mihi maioha ki a koe.

tis a very rudeness at this age of 6 and 40 years to have the bod of an ailing octogenarian and the skin of a pubescent teen.

Ask the moon.
Ask what it has witnessed.

Poetic genius.

Applications for the UC / Creative NZ Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence positions for 2026 have opened today. Ōtautahi based, $84500pa pro rata across 2 x 6 month positions, closes 3 August. Please share with your writerly friends.

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James, I love this so much! Tis a real best of humanity situation right there innit. So lovely. So faith-giving. Blessings to the good people of that library, and to you and your parents too 📚❤️

I’ve said it before & Imma say it again cos worth repeating innit. Friends: LIBRARIES! HOW GOOD?! You just go & hang out! & read! & they let you take books away! & you just bring them back later! & then you take more away! & then more after that! ever onwards! Beautiful thing! Blessed places! Glory.

“don’t forget us, don’t turn us into numbers... we love life, we have dreams just like you. We have children and wives we love, but to be truly human means not to abandon those who need your humanity.”

I, too, have just donated to Tory's campaign. She is one strong wahine and even though I don't live or own property in Wellington, I wanted to support her personally.