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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Recipe: Do not cut until it has completely cooled!! Me: girl I love you but you're crazy

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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God, this sucks. I just got paid and did my big grocery shop for the next couple weeks and now I'm sitting in the car having a wee cost of living crisis, because that's it, the money is all gone. And the supermarkets are making $1 million dollars a day profit.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Ka pū te ruha - Toitū Te Tiriti @kaputeruha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This comment sums it up for me. What good is an economy that crushes its own citizens while lining the pockets of a privileged few? #nzpol

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are men outside my house in hi-vis looking intently down an open manhole, and this Bodes.

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just finished "Second Class Charms" by @kehealey.bsky.social and it has been great. A mystery in a New York inhabited by the classic urban fantasy factions- this series have great pacing, fun characters, and a satisfying focus on community. An irresistible ride.

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 25/09/2026

Right now, the richest pay $9 in tax for every $100 they make, while a teacher pays $22. The Greens would give 96% of earners an income tax cut, paid for not by cuts to public services, but ensuring the super wealthy pay their fair share.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So a really important New Zealand book is published today. No, not that one. This one! The fourth and final Violet and the Velvets!

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He's not mad, he's just disappointed.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Of all my heroines, Charlie in Sparks and Recreation is the most like this. Which is not to say that she doesn't RECOGNISE the danger, she's just very, "fuck it, I'm doing it anyway, they can only kill me once."

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

If you steal from this book to feed
An AI made from peerless greed
May boils burn upon your skin
And worms bite you from within.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you organise your grocery list in order of your path through the supermarket, or are you a fey being incomprehensible to rational minds?

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For some reason I was just thinking about extremely helpful technologies that were also extremely harmful, like lead pipes, thalodomide and CFCs, all of which are totes still widespread and unregulated because they're "not going away".

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is what happens when you rush through ill-advised, undercooked, and punitive legislation. It’s also what happens when you pile extra demands on an organisation that was previously forced to make swingeing financial and staff cuts. #nzpol

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Tens of thousands of people underpaid after ministry errors, review finds

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has released its review into two issues that left tens of thousands of pensioners, veterans and beneficiaries underpaid.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Very cool and normal for my former publishers to claim 50% of the Anthropic settlement payout when all rights to those three titles were reverted to me.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“People want to reclaim agency and opposing data centers is a symbolic —“ NO. There is ample public evidence of the downside and zero public evidence of an upside. People know the difference between a job-creating factory and a really fucking loud server room that poisons neighbors.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I really am just... I cannot even find the words. Luxon got the people who work for him into an 8 am meeting and made them listen to "9 to 5", a song about how shitty it is working for someone like him. I know, I KNOW it's just Olympic levels of lack of self-awareness, but still...

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My workload involves talking to high school students about their goals and helping them make huge decisions about thousands of dollars of debt, and if I automated that I would deserve to be fired immediately.

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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Recently I have enjoyed: Magician First Class from @kehealey.bsky.social Wooing The Witch Queen from @stephanieburgis.bsky.social The Witch Roads duology from @kateelliottsff.bsky.social The Green Man's Holiday from @julietemckenna.bsky.social The Queen of Ieflaria from @effiecalvin.bsky.social

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Can't be the only teacher in New Zealand having a very conflicted evening about what I want to happen in Caucus tomorrow.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sometimes I read articles that are really insightful and hard-hitting and go to link to them and it turns out they're on Substack, and just a little too much of Substack's money comes from and goes to Nazis, so I don't. Not saying it's entirely a Nazi bar, but there are other bars you could be at.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/08/2026

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Redstone Rescue is a fantasy novel set in a republic that cares for and protects its citizens, surrounded by avaricious kingdoms. Is is my response to our genre's obsession with kings and chosen ones. Not a story of revolution, one that asks how a better world can be preserved.

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The Redstone Rescue

### A light-hearted utopian fantasy detective story “They say the crown lies heavy on the head of the king, but in Sataminva our crown lies on a perfectly counterbalanced plate in a display case in th...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026

Okay, let it

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Redstone Rescue now exists as a physical object and I have a very small number of them available to sell through Turn Another Page. If you've been holding off because you really prefer paper, this is your opportunity: turnanother.page/book/the-red...

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The 'Inv-Asian' migration wave of the 90s was dominated by nuclear family units. To be an Asian kid in the 90s like Lawrence (or me, though I was born here) was to grow up isolated & in the shadow of hatred and violence instigated by a guy who is currently the Deputy PM still doing the same thing.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

bit sick of the responses, including from the Race Relations Commissioner, characterising outright unhinged racism from on high that attacks migrants' rights to political participation, as unseemly, inappropriate, bad manners, undiplomatic etc rather than fundamentally damaging to our democracy

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026

what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone

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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1

Cover of Tides of Time by Andi R. Christopher. Cover shows a young woman in a leather jacket with magic like turquoise swirls around herand an old ship in the background.

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Know the signs, enroll online: vote.nz

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 27/07/2026

Incredible venting here. "It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible."

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

can’t find a night when everyone’s reliably free for it, huh

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Because you can’t have a garden in New Zealand there’s a community one out the back of every Mitre 10. Compared to supermarkets it’s pretty cheap and anyone can use it - you just have to pay for at least one item you don’t need every time you go.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Some of the other books included in that sale that I've already read & absolutely love are Charlotte English's Cold Days at Castle Draxx, @wrgingell.bsky.social's Twelve Days of Faery, @tansyrr.bsky.social 's Curse of Bronze, and @kehealey.bsky.social's Bespoke & Bespelled...and many more!

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You know what? I'm not even going to revolutionize the genre. I'm going to transcend it.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I have gone viral on Threads for the dumbest reason, and it's cracking me up every time I think about it.

A post that says "I will give a free book to anyone who can make out this item for my to-do list by the time I go to bed." Followed by a screenshot of two words in indecipherable scrawl.

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