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Craig Cliff

@craigcliff.bsky.social
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Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti

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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jimmy, I don't believe you
Sign says "Jimmy's nice and easy" in front of a mountain bike track that is roped off with "danger keep out" tape
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nice full-circle moment. Siobhan Harvey reviewed my first collection of stories for the Listener back in 2010, and now says nice things 16 years later about my follow-up for Kete Books. www.ketebooks.co.nz/reviews/revi...
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Review: Offshore Service and Other Stories, by Craig Cliff
Review: Offshore Service and Other Stories, by Craig Cliff
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In today's Sunday Star Times...
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wahs win 45-26... Gotta be an NRL scoragami, right?
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grateful for everyone who came out tonight in Ōtepoti to help launch OFFSHORE SERVICE. My brother from the wrong island was a surprise attendee. John from Paper Plus was busy on the book sales table. And Hera Lindsay Bird's launch speech did NOT disappoint! 🥹
Craig Cliff stands at a lecturn in the Dunningham Suite at Dunedin City Library, about to give a reading from OFFSHORE SERVICE & OTHER STORIES. To his left sits Hera Lindsay Bird and Sue Wootton (OUP). Part of the front row of the audience is also visible.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A reprint from my new collection, OFFSHORE SERVICE (and that very cool Long and the Short of It competition Sport/VUP did back in the day)...
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
See quote skeet for the reason book launch will be at the Dunningham Suite...
Text reads: "save the date ōtepoti, 19 Aug, for the launch of this sucker". Image is from the cover of OFFSHORE SERVICE & OTHER STORIES by Craig Cliff (OUP, 2026).
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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
the kids are alright &c
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I've received my first AI scam email about my new book (dissection of themes, flattery of technique etc etc)... even though it doesn't come out for another two months. Maybe we've skipped sentient AI and gone straight to precognition?
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Minority Report: Don't Think As Human
Alt: GIF from Minority Report - Tom Cruise's character looking at a Precog lying in a bath, with the dialogue as a subtitle: "It's better if you don't think of them as human."
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Let's hear it for the Ockhams 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winner Ingrid Horrocks! #theockhams @thwupbooks.bsky.social @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Read news NBA player Brandon Clarke (29) died before I boarded plane to Auckland. Then guy in window seat said empty seat next to him was his mate's, but he'd recently died. Spent the non-wifi hours wondering who #3 would be. Turns out it was Jason Collins, NBA's 1st openly gay NBA player. Fuck. 🙏🙏🙏
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is such a great roundtable with the four shortlisted writers for the fiction prize. All four books reward your time and attention. See youse in Tāmaki Makaurau next week!
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The Ockham NZ Book Awards Fiction Round Table 2026  – Academy of New Zealand Literature
The finalists on mysterious lives, freewheeling voices and close-range discomforts.
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Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

"Wemby's too emotional." "Wemby should stop crying." "Wemby's gay."
Can we stop with the tired old clichés that treat emotions as a weakness, either in sports or in life in general?
I asked Wemby about why that is. Here's his response:
"That's a tough question. I think it's first and foremost a fear of judgment. Like this feeling that you have to act a certain way, social codes, I guess. Personally, I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions."
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ah yes, a govt subsidy to keep cars on the road in a fuel crisis rather than a government subsidy to get cars off the road in a fuel crisis. Masterful. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Watch: $50 a week for some families as fuel crisis relief package unveiled
Thousands of families are expected to qualify for the tax credit amid what the PM is calling the greatest disruption to fuel supply in a generation.
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual artists and Mozart Fellowship for music composers are coming back to @universityofotago.bsky.social in 2027! www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo... #art #music
E H McCormick Archive of Frances Hodgkins Photographs
Acc. No.  RC2001/22 E H McCormick Research Library
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Many people reckon Simeon Brown should have asked more questions about the risks of his mandatory higher speed limits in neighbourhoods, around schools & on dangerous highways — evidence that was readily available to him at the time, and that continues to accumulate in the form of injuries & deaths.
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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please check your enrolment status BUT don't use autofill to do so, as that can cause the site to fail to find you. I will be endlessly barracking people about this closer to Writ Day.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Saw Nirvanna The Band The Show The Film last night (the one and only session in Dunedin)... Still thinking about it. The stunts, the gags, the things that have changed since 2008. Can't wait for the sequel in 17 years
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
finding out one of your least favorite NBA players of all time didn't even have his own bit is an invigorating hit of hateration
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Uh yes Stuff I do actually have a question, why did you start something called 'The Forever Project' in 2019 where you promised much more coverage of an issue that you yourselves labelled as 'existential' and now you don't give a shit and just rag on cycleways while the world burns? #nzpol
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What you need to know: Ask us anything about this chaotic weather situation and we’ll try to help
The relentless summer of extreme weather continued this weekend with states of emergency declared for the entire Manawatū District, Ōtorohanga, Waipā, the Tararua District and the Rangitīkei District ...
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Great launch for Breton Dukes' new novel PARTY BOY at Woof! featuring songs from the Broken Heartbreakers (one named after the book), nice words (incl. from editor Lawrence Patchett, pictured) and a peppering of awkwardness and peril the befits the book.
Lawrence Patchett gives launch speech for Breton Dukes' PARTY BOY, with the author standing to his right, head bowed.
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
most important movie ever made youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen with WOMEN lead singers Sleater Kinney Big Thief Black Belt Eagle Scout Fur Patrol Tadpole (Picked bands only, sorry Aldous, Nadia, Courtney etc etc)
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Give me videos like this over a true crime podcast any day... No cheesy music cues or padding for time, just hard core chemistry and net sleuthing.
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Uncovering the details on Donut Lab's Solid State Battery
YouTube video by Miss GoElectric Industry
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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.
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Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism
The government has announced the Autism NZ Education Hub will start in Term 3 for neurodivergent secondary students who are struggling with traditional schooling.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩 Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks @thwupbooks.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪 thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
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How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home
Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 20/07/2025
no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12/07/2025
25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss
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Short story: Collective Tissue, by Craig Cliff
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice
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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The optimist in me says this 'Gen-AI as Polyester' take sounds likely. Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today. AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker. culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
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GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Aurora from Blackhead Beach, Dunedin
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Carson @neohazard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It has always been important to count blessings... Like discovering your wife's second cousin has a crib in Aparima Riverton and it's available this week.
Sunrise this morning at Mitchell's Bay, Aparima Riverton
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Still bathing in the afterglow of a fantastic morning event on campus, a collab with the DCC. The end of daylight saving doesn't have to be the end of active commuting!
A photo of people and their bikes queuing for free hot drinks from Grid Coffee Roasters van, and free h-vis gear from the DCC, and free bike check ups from Bike House mechanics, in front of the University of Otago tohu on the corner of Cumberland Street and St David Street, Dunedin.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trying to enjoy [sic] a post-climate apocalypse audiobook, but keep getting thrown by mispronunciations. Who says dungarees with a soft "g"? And my guy keeps saying "cachet" when he means "cache". What surprises will the remaining 11 hours hold?
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Love stories like Bill Fay. 41 year gap between 2nd and 3rd albums. And what a return. Plus a further two albums (and maybe more posthumously). R.I.P. Bill. There is a valley
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 01/02/2025
This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Roadtrip goals: picked up a haskap plant from St Mary's Berries, Makikihi. The rare fruit for which Dunedin might not be cold enough.
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Never in my lifetime had a player on my favourite team ever had a signature shoe, so it was pretty cool to open up a pair of Fox 1's for my birthday last week. Time to hoop 🏀
Photo of a pair of Under Armour Curry Brand De'Aaron Fox 1's basketball sneakers and shoebox
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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
2025 READING Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
The Islanders by Christopher PriestThe Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock SerongDoxology by Nell ZinkFunny Story by Emily Henry
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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