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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 49m

Here's a couple more that wouldn't fit in the post limit of 10. Honestly I'd intended to include this hihi shot originally and just forgot. Plus another kaka in recognition of just how many I saw yesterday!

Tight shot of a kaka clinging to a branch, head side on, looking at the camera.

Hihi perched on a vine high in the canopy, glancing back over its shoulder.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 11h

Zealandia today. Got some great shots (those tieke and tui ones in particular). *Lots* of kaka around the place. Part of it is spring, but I also think taking the feeders away mean they are more widely distributed across the valley.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 16h

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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J m McDermott/joe m mcdermott @jmmcdermott.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of this push to get kids into trades because that's where the jobs are don't seem to notice that the building boom that drives the trades will die with the boomer generation and ai bubble. Raise your kids to be revolutionaries. Raise your kids to overthrow, and rebuild.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Christmas Carol --> The Female Man How does that work? That's the essay. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com (it's by @effjayem.bsky.social, who knows their stuff)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New season of Apothecary Diaries kicking off this week. One of the most reliably entertaining (and well-produced) anime out there. Mashup of court drama, mystery comedy, and slooooow burn romance. And Maomao is an extremely compelling protagonist.

static.klipy.com

Anime Disgust

Alt: Maomao is displeased.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 03/10/2026

sorry to double quote myself, but I’m struck by how Newman’s quote exhibits the essential elements of a good husband: lust, respect, patience, and determination. damn skippy

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Headed to the Leavers' Dinner for this year's graduating class at Vic Law & it's always an absolute pleasure. But as with any student event there is a cast iron rule any faculty in attendance must comply with (& I will be complying with): leave gracefully before the dancefloor is in operation.

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I'm looking at your author website, I'm trying to find out: 1. Are your books related? If so how and what's the reading order? 2. If you're writing a series, is it finished? If not, is there a release date for the next one? 3. Any other release dates, backlist reissues, or works in progress?

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 01/10/2026

Good news, everyone! After a change in distributor, my near-future post-capitalist, post-climate change mystery, The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human, is again available in ebook and paperback!

darusha.ca

The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human - M. Darusha Wehm

The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human is told with a consistent gentleness, and generosity, that gives [its] philosophical questions room to breathe.— Niall Harrison, LOCUS February 202...

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Keen to see international readers' guesses for how 'almost extinct' before they click through

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the logical endpoint of trope tag marketing, tho in a music context. Please serve up what I *think* I want and nothing that will challenge or surprise. (In reality, of course, whether certain tropes are enjoyable is 100% down to execution. Frequently disappointed by things I 'should' like)

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Goataburra chews on the old gum tree.

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Lyn Chapman @lynchapman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kapiti Island as a wildlife sanctuary has been another " low key" success. Citizen predation trapping has also seen our variety of birdlife flourish here in Porirua. It is a joy. My late father would be beyond delighted.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So these were taken on my walk to work, from an inner suburb to the city fringe (Karori to Kelburn, for locals). I grew up in the area, and I absolutely would never have seen these birds in people's front yards 30 years ago. Wellington & its people made a choice to bring them back & we succeeded.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Queernormative I think pretty uncomplicatedly means "queerness is not an axis of bigotry". A world where queerness exists just means "plausible worldbuilding". (& I think we do better for a literary scene which has books that centre queer characters in both contexts)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unscheduled photo dump because I was treated on my walk to work today to two quite different "bird enjoys spring flowers" experiences. Tūī: "I shall delicately sip nectar yum yum" Kererū: "FEED ME FLOWER"

Tui reaches up to sip from a white blossom

Tui curls around a white and pink flower cluster, about to drink.

kereru bends around a kowhai branch, about to snip a flower off with its beak.

kereru attempts to stuff entire kowhai flower down its cavernous gob. It ate about another half dozen in the minute after I took this photo.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.

ippr.org

Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I discovered that might help other people: if your phone charging cable stops staying in the port, try scraping the bottom and the side of port with a pin. My experience suggests a truly shocking amount of lint may have felted itself to the inside of your port.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Poll was released at 6pm last night, took till 12pm following day for the abuse to ramp back up again. And people think it isn't coordinated and deliberate.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Annnnnd the death threats have started again 🙃

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having the (agreeably) difficult experience of judging a literary award where very few of the submissions have been poor. And when I think I have some idea of my favourites, the next book I pick up is good as well. Making a shortlist is going to be *hard*.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deleting silly kitchen rules post because it seems to have made the discovery feed. I even deprecated that in the new settings, but have a host of people with no followers in common descending and I am not here for it. Get out of my kitchen, and get out of my feed lol.

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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I was going to St Ives I met a masc with seven wives

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a pretty uncomplicated untruth right? It's in Hansard. Audrey Young found the full quote for her column today. Thomas is a lobbyist & former staffer. He knows how to search Hansard. If he genuinely looked for evidence & couldn't find it then he's totally incompetent at his job.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spring photo dump. Spring really is sproining. And a shout out to boring imported birds, who are doing their best to look photogenic alongside the more immediately appealing native manu.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Important research here on tracking the brainworm infestation

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spring photo dump. Spring really is sproining. And a shout out to boring imported birds, who are doing their best to look photogenic alongside the more immediately appealing native manu.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Put the horrid substantive politics aside for a second. Important to note that the vast majority of Winston's assertions are fact free, ahistorical nonsense. NZF's Teaty policies intersect with empirical reality about as much as their RFK-esque health policies do: very little.

stuff.co.nz

NZ First announces plan to abolish Waitangi Tribunal

The party vows to replace the tribunal with a temporary commission, targeting what it calls a 'make-work industry'

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The change is absolutely better than nothing. But it's not a replacement for parties in government actually valuing proper Parliamentary processes. Which funnily enough being in government tends to make them less keen on.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Life imprisonment for people who have long phone conversations on public transport.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wind of Earth, Wind of Tau Ceti, the novel I blurbed (!) is out in December. One of the best things I've read this year; well worth picking up for yourself as a slightly early Christmas present. www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-... (There's a 20 page sample if you're curious now)

“A naturalistic, well-observed mosaic novel telling the story of
a space colonist and the lives that intersect with hers, Wind
of Earth, Wind of Tau Ceti is a quietly brilliant book. Through
over a dozen overlapping vignettes from multiple perspectives,
we're given a vivid pointillist picture of the future on a decay-
ing Earth, in a city on the moon, and on a colony orbiting the
titular Tau Ceti. It resembles nothing so much as a lost novel
from the great Maureen McHugh; the sort of ground-level,
matter of fact SF that has been sadly uncommon in recent
years. But McDermott is dealing in far more than pastiche or
tribute here: his spare but evocative prose elevates the narra-
tive above the humdrum atmosphere 'mundane' SF can tend
towards and instead gives us a narrative that foregrounds the
very personal joys and traumas inherent in living a life—the
one hand in hand with the other."

—Eddie Clark, contributor, nerds of a feather, flock together,
http://www.nerds-feather.com/

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My eyes could not roll harder. a) Soares wrote his doomer book with the Harry Potter fanfic cult guy. b) The comparison is not playing Carlsen or Federer fairly. It's shooting them in the head. Then it doesn't matter how good they are at tennis or chess. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

“The kill switch sort of works if you know how to use it, and then it only works if the AIs are still only running on the computers you think they’re running on. You’ve also got to be very wary of the AIs sort of playing along while you hand them all the power,” says Soares.

As Soares puts it, debates over exactly how the AI beats humans if it ever becomes a competition between us and them can miss the point. If we make something vastly more intelligent than us, it will simply win.

It’s the same way I can say with certainty that if I played Roger Federer at tennis or Magnus Carlsen at chess, I would lose.

The actual moves they use to beat me are harder to predict, but the outcome is never in question. If we build something smarter than us, it will shape the world, not us.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The bullet independently traversed the air and entered the torse as it progressed actions without direct human authorisation to ensure it was able to complete the activity it was assigned"

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's also worth noting that Gaëtan Dugas, the man targeted by the label, spent the last months of his life assisting epidemiologists in contact tracing. There are some understandable reasons a gay man in the early 80s might have been skeptical of medical advice to stop having so much gay sex.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

webworm.co

This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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