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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1h

#pukapuka Loved this from writer Candice Tutauha, in Stuff’s Your Weekend yesterday. www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3610...

An extract from a Q&A with writer Candice Tutauha. Asked her favourite word, Tutauha replies:
Kaitiakitanga, and my other favourite word is onomatopoeia. Aside from the meanings, the consonant-to-vowel ratio lends both words a languid phonetic balance that rolls off the
tongue. I love that!

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 6h

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reading Monty Soutar’s Kawai: For Such a Time as This.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Horus @guynermie62.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tell me you’re a stalking horse for the right by telling me you’re a stalking horse for the right #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

nzherald.co.nz

Qiulae Wong says no tax reform next term 'worth considering' in potential deal with National

Christopher Luxon points to Wong's land tax when ruling out Opportunity.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#kai And this was lunch: a sunny, summery feast of a carrot and chickpea pancake with more asparagus, avocado, tomato ‘hummus’ and quartered pigeon heart tomatoes. A spot of the old Laoganma on the tomatoes and, ta da!

So this meal is much prettier: an orange-flecked pancake, grilled asparagus, cherry tomatoes, avocado and hummus.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#kai Look, I completely agree: it’s a rather unfortunate looking meal. But looks aren’t everything, and this mess of cannellini beans, leeks and miso in a thyme-scented ricotta and blue cheese sauce (served with roasted cauliflower, grilled asparagus and rye sourdough) was delicious.

Golden brown cauliflower, green asparagus, brown bread and very beige beans.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#nzpol I don’t think NZ Labour understands that ‘could they be any more disappointing?’ is an expression of frustration, not a challenge.

A screenshot of a headline and photo of NZLP leader Chris Hipkins from The Post. Headline reads ‘Labour not pushing to reverse benefit ban for teens’.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#kai I did have a little fishy, eight in fact, and not so much on a little dishy as on toast with avocado, preserved lemon and black pepper. And they were mighty fine.

Sardines tidily lined up on two pieces of avocado toast. Said toast tidily set upon a plate and accompanied by cherry tomatoes and sliced radish.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran, a political thriller set in Sri Lanka during the civil war. Recommend. Back to Kluge and work reading this week.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oops, missed my check-ins! Dirty Work by Nicky Hager (bleakly enraging, but less so than the media commentary normalising the TPU’s tactics). The Midnight Market by Joanne Harris (a fairy tale intended as light relief after the TPU’s shitannigans, but ended up a bit cloying).

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thing of beauty (1) revisited: Tulips still tuliping, still gloriously blowsy.

Fully open, double orange tulips dropping elegantly in their glass vase on the wooden countertop.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#kai Sunday breakfastPineapple and black tahini (incredible pairing!) over overnight oats with yoghurt, hemp and chia.

Chunks of bright yellow pineapple and a blob of glossy black in a bowl with yoghurt and oats.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things of beauty (2): the Citroën DS (or déesse if you’re into homophones). Vraiment sublissime.

A bronze coloured Citroën DS parked on a residential street.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things of beauty (1): a gloriously blowsy double tulip at Newday, Newtown.

Gloriously blowsy, gloriously orange double tulip in a glass vase on a wooden counter.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sending love to you all. I’m glad she was able to leave peacefully.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You’re absolutely right. In my haste, I thought I was reposting the original.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can’t go wrong with gochujang and lime!

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#kai A hasty, tasty lunch of palak paneer soup and toast with hummus, tomato and chilli, and avocado, sardines and chilli.

A bowl of murky green spiced spinach soup and a plate holding two generously topped pieces of toast , one with hummus and glossy red tomatoes, the other with avocado and sardines. And yes, almost everything is daubed with Laoganma chilli crisp. What of it?

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#kai a healthful heap of salad greens, avocado, and tomatoes with kūmara, lime and gochujang braised chicken and black sesame seeds. Also known as Use the Leftovers Salad.

A heap of green leaves, avocado and quartered pigeon heart tomatoes topped with with proper kūmara, braised chicken and a fiery sweet lime and gochujang sauce. Seriously and simply delicious.

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ha! I was asked my priority issue for this election: ooh, getting the fuckers out of office, which my caller supposed was one way of putting it.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was just about to suggest this!

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this. Ghastly, ghastly stuff.

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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The moon was huge over Pōneke this morning. Enrol to vote e te whānau. #nzpol

From Vivian st looking towards Victoria University of Wellington a large moon sets with Meow nui in foreground.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#kai Plants, plants, plants, breakfast, breakfast, breakfast: chickpea flour pancake and friends.

A golden pancake flecked with coriander and spring onions is topped with diced tomatoes in chili crisp, a mound of sun-dried tomato hummus and avocado.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s rather pretty. Like a Fair Isle motif.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#kai That’s a nice looking fish burger you gave there, Siân. Thank you, I made it myself.

A fish burger: ciabatta bun, rocket, grilled asparagus, lemon fish and avocado with a splodge of preserved lemon.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#nzpol Why yes, I did snort. Loudly and in public What of it?

Sharon Murdoch’s cartoon in today’s Post. Headlined The Impresario, its first frame shows a caricature of Louise Upston saying she can’t pull money out of thin air to support local performers and events. The second larger frame shiws her surrounded bye a tornado of found shows her surrounded by a tornado of paper money. The first bubble has her saying the money for big overseas acts didn’t come out of thin air. The second bubble says the $40 mill came out the wazoo. I defy you not to snort.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw people with three copies, heard of one person buying five. The nice thing though, was that the bus home was full of mainly young people chatting about the launch. We were heading into Wellington Bays, so I guess that’s not a surprise!

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So close! And just after a young woman in front of us bought three!

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An hour or so spent at a nice cafe, preferably within walking distance of a beach, with a good coffee and a new book. (Especially rewarding if you’ve just found the book in an op shop.)

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was next in line at Unity last night, when the ‘sold out’ call came.

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