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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Bic Runga’s new song gave me immediate Charlotte Gainsbourg style chills. Nice. Looking forward to the rest of the album. youtu.be/EFFwuLre0Gg?...

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Bic Runga - Red Sunset (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Bic Runga

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

For the last year or so I’ve been on a real buzz of Japanese and Irish contemporary writing and just realised maybe the common thread between those places (and NZ) are that we are small, isolated (by choice and/or not by choice) island nations. The literature of isolation! #nz-literature

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just signed up to a magazine subscription for the first time in many many years. It’s The Listener - The Listener is good again!!

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is such a thoughtful and meaningful (and well written) piece on kotahitanga in light of recent more salaciously reported events. This is what good opinion pieces look like in my er, opinion. New Yorker level stuff. thespinoff.co.nz/atea/17-10-2... thespinoff.co.nz/atea/17-10-2...

thespinoff.co.nz

Unity isn’t the destination – it’s the journey

Kotahitanga was never meant to silence dissent, but to serve a greater purpose.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

These may or may not be good books but either way turning my life around, back toward 1979, is not a reason to read them.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I don’t think I’ve seen a topic divide people as much as AI does. War, climate change, art, identity politics… none of that comes close. www.hec.edu/en/knowledge...

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The AI Divide Is Human, Not Technological

HEC Paris research reveals that the technology’s biggest limitation isn’t technical, but human: who benefits, and who gets left behind.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Rachel O’Neill’s bizarre and hilarious musical instruments in Symphony of Queer Errands are fantastic! Everyone should read this slowly and with your chuckle shoes on. She’s like a mushed up version of Italo Calvino, Russell Edson and Anne Carson. So good.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Scientific Method Hypothesis: Afghans are the most consistently delicious biscuit. Experiment: Ate one. Result: Very delicious. Conclusion: More study needed.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A NZ poetics manifesto from James Brown.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One day I hope to a government department meeting room named after me.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Was just about to learn the Twin Peaks theme on our piano (has the exact same sound). Will be doing that tonight in memorial.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This piece is titled: Pretentious window dressing photography with fire and emergency superimposed.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Local slumlord handiwork. Keeping NZers in housing since the dark ages.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

‘Needle’ might be one of my favourite words in the English language. #needle #greatwords

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,912,954! Not quite the first person wandering around peering into empty rooms, but close enough.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,912,954, Bill Nelson ‪@softmagnificence.bsky.social‬, joined on Jan 7, 2024"

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Made a submission, even though it seem futile at the moment.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Is advertising allergy a thing? Is it okay if I tell people I will throw up and possibly paas out if they bring their marketing BS into the same room as me.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I am talking with Mikaela Nyman and a bunch of other interesting people about (non)fiction in 2 minutes! www.youtube.com/@flashfronti...

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Flash Frontier

Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.

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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

crowd in the thousands gathering in and around train station in te whanganui a tara

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Thanks @paulajoygreen.bsky.social for the lovely write up. Poetry salutes you!

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Spent last night sleeping in the ED waiting room (purgatory) because the part of the hospital I was being admitted to (heaven when those doors opened) had only one doctor on and no beds. I don’t think we need clearer targets Mr Luxon (hell is a KPI) we need more doctors, more beds, more something.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Morning dog walk: some kind of fissure in space and time.

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

RLFF is on the Ockham Book Award long list. Go little book, go!

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Just got asked to leave Goldings pub (with a bunch of other well known Wellington writers I’ll add) for two, statistically improbable but technically possible, spilled pints of beer. Excited about social media again though. Whoop!

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Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

This is my favourite of RLFF review so far. Such an interesting style. A bunch of quotes moulded into a review and then a tiny little bit of opinion at the end. Ace. www.odt.co.nz/entertainmen...

odt.co.nz

Root Leaf Flower Fruit

From Wellington writer Bill Nelson comes a meditative work on the cyclical nature of birth and death, through the eyes of someone post-concussion.

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