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Applications for the University of Otago College of Education Children’s Writer in Residence (14 weeks plus stipend and accommodation) close on 18 October - have at it!

otago.taleo.net

College of Education Children%27s Writer in Residence for 2027

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 23h

Woman: I’m furious because rape culture is real. And I think other women are furious too. Man: I mean, yeah… BUT I want to make it clear that I’m not one of the bad ones so I will argue that your fury is why men are turning to Andrew Tate and voting for Trump. So actually the problem is you.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gavin Newsom: joining the war on rape, on the side of rape

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn, every sentence in this goes hard.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 30/09/2026

Autowarcrime.

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Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New capoeira class in Wellington, NZ. Starts October 13th at Te Whaea.

Capoeira flyer that states:

Discover the Art of Capoeiran
WEEKLY SESSIONS
Tuesdays @ Te Whaea
6:30PM - 8:00 PM
Te Whaea National Dance Centre, Pöneke
PRICE: $20 Concessions $10
CAPOEIRA CLASSES
OPEN NOW!
Beginners welcome!!
• Build strength
• Improve flexibility
• Learn music & moves
• Join our community
RECISTER TODAY
0291268585
urcapoeiranz@gmail.com
@urbanritualcapoeira
Starting October 13th

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Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help save "Room" (Canada's oldest feminist lit magazine), especially if you'd like to see new fiction from me in their next issue. But mostly do it because they rock, and they're important: roommagazine.com/whats-new/an...

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Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser - ROOM Magazine

SAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing w...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 28/09/2026

🚨SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN🚨 All submissions will be accepted through our Submittable page. The portal will close at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday October 11 or when we reach our cap of 500. buff.ly/Wugh39V

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 27/09/2026

I don’t want an ACT person representing my kids education after seeing the slop they call lunch. #nzpol This smells like the Taxpayers Union in sheep’s clothing. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

rnz.co.nz

The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

A new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ...

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Its great to see RNZ double down on Nicky Hager's point that they're completely incapable of addressing systemic gaming by the right but will also address the perception of these issues from the left. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

rnz.co.nz

The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

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Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching the Proposition 24 episode if the Simpsons. It got so much right about the nature of prejusice

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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The revolving doors of the Dirty Work Alliance continue to spin faster… I guess they’ve found a formula that works really well for the causes they champion.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Journalists are crowing 'what's new?!' because they have forgotten that there is a second draft of history, and don't seem to recognise that a book like this, is it. This govt has literally forced the TPU into the *school curriculum* in its ideological vandalism, well here's the primary reference.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Could Erica Stanford be one of the most nefarious Ministers next to Chris Bishop? Sure as hell sounds like it. Mandated propaganda teachings about NZ Taxpayers Union to kids from 2027 #kiwi #newzealand

Year 8 mandatory curricumum teaches kids about the NZ tapxyaers Union and takes their official propaganda lines into the teachings

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jordan Williams said women would have a "bounty on their heads" if they didn't have "p*s*ies" David Farrar dresses up as Jimmy Saville & talked about getting "dirty" girls to "flip it up" for he & National Party guests This Dirty Politics crew are just credible people, right?? #nzpol #dirtywork

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are said to be bootleg pdf scan copies of Nicky Hager's book #DirtyWork circulating. Apparently, this undermining move is to stop Hager and his publisher from recovering their costs. Please support Nicky's excellent work by buying the books legitimately. Don't let corruption win! #nzpol

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since it was created in 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal has awarded $2.8bn to Iwi. In one year, the govt Peters is part of gave away $3bn to landlords in socially worthless tax breaks. Peterson and this govt should be abolished. #NZpol

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone in Wellington lost their copy of Dirty Work on the number 4 bus yesterday, rest assured it’s gone to a good home. Also get in touch as I’m happy to reimburse you! #nzpol

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Best use of my time so far today. I thoroughly recommend reading #DirtyWork. I certainly feel more than vindicated about despising that fuckhead Jordan Williams for as long as I have #nzpol

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!”

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

nypost.com

Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Omfg I’m fuming 😡 I’ll be lending this book to my Dad to read. He has been taken for an absolute fool by these despicable c*nts, & I hope to dog he will realise it before he casts his ‘hijacked’ vote! Once you’ve read it, PASS IT ON #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs #DirtyWork

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ideological chums might help explain - Catherine Law's doctorate was supervised by Elizabeth Rata who hijacked the curriculum development process with Stanford's collusion. profiles.auckland.ac.nz/e-rata/teach... #NzPol

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'Not happy': Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid 'cannot explain' OIA comments

The head of the Ministry of Education says she is "not happy" with a manager caught on video appearing to suggest staff skirt the law, nor a scathing internal review of the culture in its curriculum d...

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

reading Dirty Work I am completely revising my "will barely move the needle", every second page of this thing is a career-destroying scandal. There are extensive DMs and court records. This thing is UGLY.

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Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finnegans Wake quote of the day: “May the fireplug of filiality reinsure your bunghole!”

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some further thoughts from me, this time about racism, the easy exploitation of older white men, and what we can do about ti all: drbex.substack.com/p/further-re...

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Further reflections after reading Dirty Work

Outsized influence, racism, and what we can do in response

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The money pouring into TU that encouraged ever increasing forms of racism and anti-Māori attacks would never have gotten a foothold if it weren’t for this deeply held anti-Māori sentiment that old white men in particular are desperately clinging onto:” - Dr Bex

drbex.substack.com

Further reflections after reading Dirty Work

Outsized influence, racism, and what we can do in response

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Penny's Bookshop in Chartwell Mall still has copies BTW

Three copies of Nicky Hager's Dirty Work on display.

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is your reminder that the Moth Nature Writing Prize closes on 30 September

themothmagazine.com

The Moth | Directory | ABOUT THE PRIZE

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is 2027 the year to commit to that writing project you’ve been thinking about? Complete your manuscript with the help of the supportive writing community at the IIML - come and write with us! Applications are due by 1 November.

wgtn.ac.nz

Master of Arts in Creative Writing - Te Kohinga Auaha | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Join the Creative Writing programme with a national and international reputation for developing many of New Zealand's best writers.

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spread the word - the IIML’s online journal Turbine | Kapohau is open for submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction until 1 November. We want to read your work! (Please check submission guidelines before sending)

turbinekapohau.org.nz

Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY ada duffyMauatua Fa’ara Reynolds🔈Miriama GemmellRebecca HawkesAnna Hoek-SimsJacksonHebe KearneyErik KennedyTrevor LandersMitch MarksHelena Leon MayerElliot McKenzieRuben MitaH...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder what Michelle de Kretser might have to say about this in the light of her novel Theory and Practice - she’s appearing in the Verb Festival in Wellington on Sunday, so we may find out.

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doing my part by ordering a copy of Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work…

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026

Let’s not forget that one of the main reasons the Taxpayer’s Union has enjoyed such oversized influence is the news media giving them an endless platform, to the extent that Stuff partnered with them on the “Ratepayers Report”, which was a thinly veiled TPU email harvesting operation

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Regular reminder that the 'shrink the state' ghouls (that get it) have a simple goal - to ensure that the few benefit most from the resources that belong to the many. The TPU run 'psy-ops'; plain and simple. They use lies and manipulation to turn the people against public and shared ownership.

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Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Walthamstow writers’ retreat?! Words I never thought I’d see together when I moved there as a small child in 1990

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