Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first substantive review of Dirty Work was dropped at 10pm last night www.instagram.com/p/DdlhY9hBiSh/instagram.comTi on Instagram: "Just finished reading “Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest expose on the dodgy and deceitful tactics used by the right in New Zealand politics. There are a lot of things to be concer...171 likes, 3 comments - commitii on September 22, 2026: "Just finished reading “Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest expose on the dodgy and deceitful tactics used by the right in New Zealand politics. ... 041
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Only 12 reserves on Dirty Work so far. Books will be heading out this morning. wcl.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spyd... 011
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It would be a perfect book week if U.X.O. sells out too. 020
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The inside story of the campaign to destroy Maiki Sherman's career is told in Dirty Work 010
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Unity Books already full. Staff are claiming they don't even know the name of the book 040
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm betting money on the Nicky Hager book being about shady dealings in Malta. Not everything has to be NZ election related. 000
Reposted by HamishBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic 27927
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Turning 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. 161
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Those numbers were calculated by comparing Wellington with councils that outsource more jobs. It's weird how the media repeat the numbers as if they were facts. 140
Reposted by Hamishwomblingweka.bsky.social @womblingweka.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The 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. 14212
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I once worked in a place where no-one could get fired, and it was every bit as racist as the beehive. An awful place. 030
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Imagine having Luxon as a boss. You could get away with anything. 140
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The actual Greens Digital policy is pretty good on this. It says "Improving Aotearoa New Zealand’s data sovereignty by strengthening local digital infrastructure". 150
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026It seems to be worded to exclude local data centres of any size, such as the ones that Catalyst Cloud build. 210
Reposted by HamishAndrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The 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. 31811
Reposted by HamishStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Roger 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 1228285
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026NZ must be unusual in that the only organised opposition to hyper-scale data centres here comes from climate change-denying conspiracy theorists. 020
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026That sucks - I loved your cartoons. I hope your work will still be published elsewhere 040
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It's concerning how much time he spent doing youth work in developing countries. It's very difficult to follow up complaints in those situations. 071
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yup. So what's the difference between you and the person you're quote tweeting? 000
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I remember people dialling into Kirikiriroa to get internet packets. They had to be fast 'cos of the toll charges. 110
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Solidarity with everyone in Otepoti dealing with the aftermath of this. 010
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Is it true that Dean Ballinger coined the name? And that it had something to do with the INTERNET starting in Kirikiriroa? 210
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm gonna fight anyone who defends him, makes excuses for him, minimises his actions, or blames the victim(s). 160
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm so disgusted and angry about this. So many vulnerable children have had "well-connected" men take advantage of them and make their lives so much worse. 110
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026That name was mentioned a few times in the WSS lecture last night 100
Reposted by HamishD Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Grooming 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. #nzpolrnz.co.nzFormer owner of The Captain Cook Hotel jailed for paying minor for sexA Dunedin entertainment industry figure who paid a 15-year-old for sex can now be identified. 2216
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'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. 061
Reposted by HamishEddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Our 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. 03712
Reposted by HamishStef Animal @stef-animal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Okay 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 64216
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I've read a lot of the literature on the uses of AI in libraries, and this appears to be the best example. 040
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Racism of Anti-Racists: Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted Orientalism firenexttime.net/the-racism-o...firenexttime.netThe Racism of Anti-Racists: Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted OrientalismThere’s a kind of violence that doesn’t wear a uniform, doesn’t raise its voice, and doesn’t need to spill blood to be effective. It speaks in well-published books, sits on academic panels, tweets … 000
Hamish @haminoon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Rewatched Fallen Angels at FilmSoc tonight. Completely different subtitles and story to last time, but same visuals and audio. Story was better this time around. 010
Reposted by HamishTze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026One 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.comOffside - trailer - IFFR 2007YouTube video by International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR 0145
Reposted by HamishABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/06/2026Titan Ridge volcano in Papua New Guinea inundates Manus coastlines with pumice stoneabc.net.au'Desert' of floating rock traps islands after undersea volcanic eruptionResidents are concerned about access to food and fresh water as pumice stone makes travel difficult for Papua New Guinea's seafaring communities. 01610
