Ingrid Horrocks reading from her Mary Wollstonecraft story at a packed launch for All Her Lives tonight - books were flying out the door!

Trust me - from close proximity - for a 19 year old struggling with mental health challenges job-seekers is terrifying but these changes will make things far, far worse for so many of our young people. Imagine extra funding to support 18/19 year olds through this tough time?

I saw most of it I think, maybe all - I tend to use film and tv as a distraction from reality so it felt like too much reality!

almost at the two thirds mark, just need 34 more people to pledge $5. In my experience, the closer you get to the goal the more pledges pick up, so if you can space $5 please do (note you won't be charged until November 1st, and then only if the goal is met)

Yes I did realise but then I thought there’s lots of things happening now that none of us would’ve expected to see a year ago. Apathy and general lack of caring will get to us the way it is in North American cities. Maybe not in Te Aro park which is too small anyway but it’s coming.

I wrote a thing that is set in an imagined near-future where there is a tent city in Te Aro park. I would very much like sci-fi/speculative fiction/dystopic fiction to remain in any way fictional. I would like it if I imagined an awful thing and it didn't turn out to be not as awful as reality.

Thankful for people like Emily, saying what we are all feeling.

So fucking angry.

This is a really excellent piece from Emily Writes, about genocide and incitement and political violence and victimhood.
#nzpol

Apparently Shakespeare invented calling someone "an egg" as an insult, I had no idea he was a New Zealander!

This is good news, but why do NZ First keep going up? This is the worst of us ick (Act beyond the pale, cant even contemplate what their presence says about us, but NZ First have had too much power for too long in our govts)

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...

So, even if your books were exploited by #Anthropic, you're only eligible for a payout if your work was registered in the US.
Typical. The rest of the world doesn't exist.
$1.5billion is going somewhere, but it ain't to millions of non-American authors.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

What I'd just say to you is, if you listened to these economists you'd think we were on the Titanic. And even if we are you can be damn sure I won't be going down with it.
#LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovEver #EconomicVandals #NZpol

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

“The world doesn’t owe you a living”

Vs

“I’m entitled to my entitlements”

The face of cruelty #NZPol

Here’s Ingrid Horrocks in the Writer in Residence office at the IIML that she occupied last year: next year she’ll be teaching in the MA programme while Chris Price is on leave www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...

Amazing. I'm all over the place right now due to end of semester but one day! 🥯🫶

"The world doesn't owe you a living"

One of those phrases that rolls off the tongue of, yes, monsters.

Think about that phrase for more than a few seconds.

The world doesn't owe you 'being alive'.

And sure, you can say 'that's not what he means!'

But it is what he says.

I can’t be bothered trying to be witty or offer analysis. The current administration is a nightmare.

As the child of two incredibly dysfunctional people, I concur.

I’m sure they’re good and if you need confirmation of their quality I am available for product testing.

Why is it so hard to get good ones in NZ then?

Benjamin speaking at Flag Waving on Friday giving an update on a statement received from MFaT regarding the three New Zealanders abducted by Israel

Information is coming out now from the activists who have been released that they weren’t treated well

#NZPol