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Kieran Craft

@kierancraft.bsky.social
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Writer of Plays, Musicals, Short Stories; English Teacher, co-founder of Back and Forth Productions. He/him🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🍅🍉 Fuck AI. Free Palestine. ⚫⚪🔴Toitū te Tiriti. kierancraft.wordpress.com

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tldr: @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social are the only party with a fully ratified arts policy. Here, I looked it up for you: www.greens.org.nz/arts_culture...
greens.org.nz
Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mill Road sucks: "In other words, it would cost the country more than the entire City Rail Link project… to enlarge one local road in Auckland, parallel to an existing motorway, in a way that will change nothing: people will still be stuck in traffic." www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/06/t...
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Transport policy on the campaign trail - Greater Auckland
Election campaigning is now in full swing. We’ve previously reported on the (unwise)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If this is now $1B for 11km of road, that is what the new Dunedin hospital is meant to cost. ELEVEN KILOMETRES of ROAD or one brand new hospital for 300k people. #ohffs #nzpol
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/09/2026
I'm no demographer nor a criminologist, but I reckon that the Herald probably has Auckland's murder rate wrong here. I reckon it's probably lower than 3.6 per person.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Will never forget TPU's Wealth Tax Facebook poll and them having to delete it, because taxing wealth is more popular than taxing work #nzpol
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another piss-poor policy shambles has to be paused for a rethink. But only after councils wasted time and money on it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Government hits pause on council amalgamation plan until after election
The Government has told mayors around the country it's deferring decisions on amalgamating councils until after the election.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
but i kept being told that this wasn't real, NZ weren't actually involved, it was always the "US part of the business" etc etc etc by supporters of RocketLab This is a very significant shift in NZ defense policy, and certainly doesn't lend itself to independence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building
New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.
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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#RailNews: Recent Google Trends data shows New Zealand search interest for "Auckland CRL" has climbed notably. Searches for "things to do in Auckland CBD" have risen by around 40%. Via Stuff: stuff.co.nz/society/3610...
stuff.co.nz
As City Rail Link interest surges, Aucklanders are searching the inner city too
Recent data shows rising curiosity around things to do in the CBD
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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
Good. force national and act to say "No we think democracy should be bought and sold"
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‘It’s past time to act’: Greens pledge to cap political donations, introduce lobbyist register
A new policy includes a package of reforms, including capping political donations at $30,000, banning corporate donations, and establishing a public register of lobbyists.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Stanford was exposed for trying to remove all references to climate change from the year 1 to 10 curriculum she claimed it was just a cockup. This shows micro mgt by her office over the curriculum while avoiding the OIA www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
nzherald.co.nz
Watch: ‘This is OIA-able’ - Leaked video shows top official telling staff not to put information in writing
Anything that mentioned the minister's office's involvement wasn't to be put in writing.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 20/09/2026
These policies seem good. Fundamentally there is something broken about the incentives for commercial landlords that sees them willing to let tenancies sit empty.
rnz.co.nz
Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops
The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been emp...
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes. I think separating retail and wholesale is likely to be more effective that Kiwimart, personally, but I'm confident we wouldn't have everyone except ACT bidding different duopoly busting strategies if the Greens hadn't kicked it off. You *can* lead with policy, not just follow.
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*lexie @lleyksie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
leopardus tilcayo !
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
And this is why, when folks hijack conversations about AI safety to talk about the rise of the [benevolent|terrible] machine God, we should tell them to go play outside while the grownups are talking. Because the actual conversation is about the harms humans do, not about fictitious nonsense.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
for business and government, one of the most appealing features of AI is ability to say there's no one to blame
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A step in the right direction. We should be moving toward EU style free movement throughout the Pacific, would reduce cases of migrant worker exploitation and boost the economies of the small island states through remittances www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific... Crossposted with @openvibe.social
rnz.co.nz
Labour promises visa-free travel for Pacific as overstayer rates rise | RNZ
The Labour Party is promising visa-free travel to Aotearoa New Zealand for Pacific Islanders.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In shock news the subjects of the teen social media ban whose heads everyone has been talking over turn out to have coherent thoughts on the matter that someone should possibly listen to at some point. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/student-l...
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Teen's survey says harm of social media ban would ‘outweigh the benefits’
A student-led survey found 65.8% of respondents opposed a social media ban.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 15/09/2026
A new book says modern schooling, not phones, are behind youth mental health declines. Will anyone listen? www.theverge.com/policy/99570...
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What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Psychology researcher Peter Gray accuses his ex-colleague of stoking a moral panic.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 14/09/2026
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Time for the media to incessantly hound National to see if they will explicitly rule out a GST increase during their next term. #nzpol
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 09/09/2026
Honestly amazing that the ASA took any sort of stand. They have established a VERY permissive framework to evaluate political advertising.
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great reporting in The Post on the 'softened' school sick-day guidance. Reports how Health NZ did not assess the risks. Now, hospitals are cancelling surgeries while late-winter flu surges. Prioritising bums on seats over public health has consequences. 1/4 www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Seymour called for softer rules for sick days without health risks being assessed
Associate Health Minister David Seymour’s call for language around sick days to be softened to boost attendance was done without assessing the health impacts.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of newsletters by people who are otherwise not terrible that stay on substack and help them pay Nazis is astonishing.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 06/09/2026
The National Government's grand plan to address issues of consumer cost and lack of competition in our supermarket sector was to lightly tweak some largely meaningless regulation and then just sort of *hope* another chain might enter the market. When that (obviously) didn't work they just moved on
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Performing heart surgery with a hammer? Why we need a better cure for inflation
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Performing heart surgery with a hammer? Why we need a better cure for inflation
The OCR is a wildly inappropriate tool for a highly complex job....
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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There is literally a train station across the road, a mall down the road, a school & shops round the corner, and a frequent bus right outside... You could not find a better place for hundreds of apartments. Residents won't need cars, which is the whole point. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
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'Absolute chaos': 322-apartment Morningside development has just 78 car parks
AT is eyeing paid parking restrictions, saying nearby streets are effectively full.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I say again that professional services firms whose actions demonstrate they think they have little to add beyond generative AI are revealing exactly how much value they have *always* had to offer organizations: very little.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Compensation for time & effort spent on unsuccessful bids? Nice! Gosh, *imagine* if arts funding worked this way, or science and research, or indeed any gig whatsoever? "So sorry you didn't get the role, but here's a bunch of cash for making it this far. Best wishes for your work going forward!✨🥰 "
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is appalling. 47 full time equivalent roles is massive. It's more than 1 in 8 people working at the Library & Archives NZ. Archives is already understaffed and not capable of ensuring compliance with the Public Records Act. Democracy & functioning govt depends on access to info. #nzpol
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ive been thinking the same thing, and kind of hesitant to say it out loud because we're already a group considered to be luddites and technophobes, when its really our sense that students absolutely must train their own minds to read primary sources, and think/write with primary+secondary sources.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 01/09/2026
"[AI] made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software."
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
A: Where should we eat? B: I’m happy to go anywhere! A: Me too. I don’t care where we go. B: Same. Any restaurant you have in mind? A: No, I’ll go to literally any restaurant. Any area more convenient for you? B: No, every location in existence is convenient for me. buff.ly/wrtqwo0
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With God as My Witness, I Will Not Pick the Restaurant
Our 13th most-read piece of the year. 7/25/23 7/28/24 8/3/25 8/29/26 CALENDAR 2027
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is going to happen a lot more everywhere and unless a major political party clearly points out the hypocrisy and failure - the right will get away with screwing up the water reform they demanded replace three waters.
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seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
playing 9 to 5 for your staff when you make them start work at 8am is kind of a perfect synecdoche for this whole government though.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And doesn't this say every fucking thing about him. A song about how hard it is to be a working stiff and a woman in a system where rich guys have all the power, played obliviously by exactly the sort of guy it was describing, who also oversaw the biggest govt fuck-over of working women in decades
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you received an orange man letter in the mail yet, confirming your enrolment details? If you didn't, you may not be correctly enrolled to vote! Check and update your details NOW at: vote.nz #nzpol
text reading "If you didn't get an enrolment letter in the mail yet:
You may not be correctly enrolled to vote.
Update your details now: vote.nz"
There is a photo in the background of an enrollment letter from the electoral commission.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think it's very complicated. Ever since Kogan took over, things slowly got worse, then got MUCH worse with a terrible new website & transformation into an aliexpress/temu junk reseller rather than a store. Hard to find what you want & unclear who you're buying it from. Dreadful.
thepost.co.nz
How Mighty Ape lost nearly $93m in annual revenue — and its Christchurch warehouse
When Mighty Ape opened a 5500sq m distribution centre near Christchurch Airport in November 2023, the move looked like an expansion story.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The irony here is that the law holds local authorities to much more rigorous standards than apply to central government. If councils acted like this, there would actually be consequences.
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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
National broke our Auckland Deal agreement just four months after signing it. I was in the room when the Prime Minister committed to work with us on a bed night levy policy in 2027 and to create stable events and destination funding for our city. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
rnz.co.nz
Auckland Councillor Richard Hills on National’s ‘no’ to bed levy
The National Party is to run on a platform of No New Taxes - ruling out a plan for a bed tax articulated only weeks ago. Guyon spoke with Auckland Councillor Richard Hills.
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