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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Only 12 reserves on Dirty Work so far. Books will be heading out this morning. wcl.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spyd...

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It would be a perfect book week if U.X.O. sells out too.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First batch at the local library

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The inside story of the campaign to destroy Maiki Sherman's career is told in Dirty Work

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unity Books already full. Staff are claiming they don't even know the name of the book

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm betting money on the Nicky Hager book being about shady dealings in Malta. Not everything has to be NZ election related.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Turning up to the local school with a truckload of books on Windows 95, Aspergers, junk DNA, left-brained neuroscience, 90's travel guides and another truckload of post-50 Shades slop.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Clarke, Keys, Luxton, Stamford, Swarbrook

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womblingweka.bsky.social @womblingweka.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The everyday Kiwi on the street needs to understand that most of the money any beneficiary receives goes immediately to private landlords - the beneficiary is just the middleman, and that is the problem that really needs to be solved, IMO.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Imagine having Luxon as a boss. You could get away with anything.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The UK ‘Labour’ Party’s descent into a puppet of the Israeli state is both shameful and terrifying. 14 years in jail for a journalist who reports information received from a group that the Home Secretary can designate as terrorist without having MPs vote on it. Same for aid agency workers.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Roger Waters 1979: in my album The Wall I invented a selfish and disaffected celebrity who becomes a paranoid Nazi as a cautionary tale Roger Waters 2026: At long last I have recreated myself as Nazi Pink from the classic AOR album The Wall

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

NZ must be unusual in that the only organised opposition to hyper-scale data centres here comes from climate change-denying conspiracy theorists.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm gonna fight anyone who defends him, makes excuses for him, minimises his actions, or blames the victim(s).

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Grooming a child with methamphetamine, alcohol and vapes, for statutory rape. Michael McLeod, the former owner of iconic Dunedin pub The Captain Cook Hotel, has been jailed for just 2 years and three months for contracting a vulnerable child for rape. A child. Not sex, rape. #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

Former owner of The Captain Cook Hotel jailed for paying minor for sex

A Dunedin entertainment industry figure who paid a 15-year-old for sex can now be identified.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm sick of people making excuses for this creep. Yeah I know, he's a "great guy" with "interpersonal skills" who can philosophise about why he's really the victim using "progressive" language.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our committee secretariat staff are overworked, underpaid, and disproportionately young and queer and yet every time a deluge of submissions that clearly cannot be processed immediately is not processed immediately a bunch of people onhere act like they're part of a right wing conspiracy. Come on.

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Stef Animal @stef-animal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Okay so my partner's submission said "my partner is trans" and got rejected by the select committee because "it considers that your submission shares personal, private, or medical information about a third party.” Turns out they're constrained by law in this, and she can amend the submission... 1/2

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've read a lot of the literature on the uses of AI in libraries, and this appears to be the best example.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Rewatched Fallen Angels at FilmSoc tonight. Completely different subtitles and story to last time, but same visuals and audio. Story was better this time around.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

One of my favourite Jafar Panahi films is Offside, filmed live & under false-script-pretenses at the Iran-Bahrain 2006 World Cup qualifier. The joy and unity documented in that final scene makes me think that fucking with the Iranian football team will unite Iranians in a way the regime could never.

youtube.com

Offside - trailer - IFFR 2007

YouTube video by International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Interesting article about the narrative the Stuff tech journalists have been pushing over the last week. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

bbc.com

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Made the mistake of looking at Twitter and my feed was full of the worst human beings celebrating the death of a great artist. These people lack compassion and the ability to extract meaning from comic books.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Deckston orphanage is being (loudly) demolished right now. I'm glad people are allowed to build warm, dry houses in Newtown now (thanks @misswhanau.bsky.social for your great work), but sad to see it go without public acknowledgement.

Front cover of the Deckston Story booklet

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

they're replacing libraries with a guy who just says shit

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When I lived in South Auckland I was amazed at the number of people who were "youth workers" or aspired to be "youth workers". But as soon as the youth organise anything for themselves, this kind of thing happens:

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Our buddy Jay was kidnapped by the IOF thousands of miles away from Palestine. He's in the hospital now with a concussion and a possible broken rib. The abduction was condemned by Spain, Türkiye and Brazil, but the NZ government has been silent. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

And that, frankly, is bullshit. The PCRF is a legitimate charity that has been funding aid and relief and food and medical treatment in Palestine for 35 years The kids have set up a petition to change the school's mind, and you can sign it here: www.change.org/p/organize-a...

change.org

Sign the Petition

Organize a Palestinian Bake Sale at Logan Park

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Solidarity with everyone not sleeping in their own beds tonight

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A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com · 20/04/2026

Wellington peeps, if you need one, this is your go home stay home warning.

An old pine tree has fallen across the road taking the power lines with it.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just going to the ATM, then buying a house in Pātea

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Congrats to this weirdly prudish Greens committee for being less progressive than Helen Clark-era Labour.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Interesting how quintessentially American the Lindy West disc horse is. The thing that tipped people over wasn't that the husband was a scumbag, but that he was a scumbag with no money.

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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

vibrating with excitement because they have zines at the library now 🙂

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One of the most embarrassing moments in the recent history of the world's coolest little capital (aside from every time we call ourselves that) was the turnout for the opening of Transmission Gully, a fucking road. Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui (re)opens this weekend. We can erase this historical stain.

A photo of our magnificent library, reborn

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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Peace Action Wellington is calling a peace vigil on Monday, 2 March at 5:30pm meeting at the Cenotaph on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street. All people who oppose war are welcome.

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Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

One of the things this issue has exposed is how many NZers believe in collective punishment. Someone harrassed them on the street once and now they want other people detained for sleeping.

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