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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have been thinking lately how low the Overton Window has edged in NZ (the Overton Ranch Slider?). Shit like this suggests the US is already glazing the basement

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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As for me and the kids, we've enjoyed our overnight expedition to see the penguins, total return transport costs: $12! (zone based fares coming in November)

Two kōrora beside a footpath on the way back to our hotel after evening viewing at Ōamaru Penguins

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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Riding the bus from Ōamaru to Dunedin and there are a lot of excited middle-aged people getting BeeCards for the first time. New public transport route opening up new adventures and creating new converts 🥹

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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

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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 · 16/08/2026

Literally called the Peter(s) Principal

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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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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sucks also to lose another venue for bookish events. Knew shit was going down when they stopped responding to event queries...

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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🎶And I'm haunted by the freakish size of Nancy Reagan's head (No way that thing came with that body)🎶

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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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Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Not quite as bad as it looks: this is part of 3-day user testing of prototypes

Screenshot of email that reads: "Dunedin – signage user testing

From 28-30 April, you may see representatives from Dotdash (the University’s signage consultant) and the project team carrying out a signage user testing exercise on the Dunedin campus.

Dotdash will be installing some temporary prototype signs to test their design and clarity in a real campus setting. As part of this, the team may approach people with a few quick questions about how clear or helpful the signs are as they move around campus. Participation is entirely optional.

This work supports the development of updated University-wide Signage Guidelines that align with our visual identity. Feedback gathered during this visit will help make sure future signage is clear, consistent and works well for staff, students and visitors."

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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...

rnz.co.nz

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 · 06/03/2026

Sorry, Will, you gotta do better than this. Better record = lower pick as others have mentioned.

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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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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.

rnz.co.nz

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