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Tara

@taracomics.bsky.social
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Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/them: tangata Tiriti) Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477

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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
taracomics.substack.com/p/next-year?... well done karure!
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Next Year?
Hope you enjoyed this Bird of the Year series
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Aquila1nz @aquila1nz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I do hope everyone from overseas who has been participating in Bird of the Year appreciates just where the winners, Karure, live. There was a whole lot of logistics involved in bringing them back from one breeding pair. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
Screenshot of a map with a marker on Mangere Island in Rekohu/the Chatham Islands, 800km out in the ocean east of the rest of Aotearoa.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
taracomics.substack.com/p/friends?ut... More of a situationship. #birdoftheyear
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Friends?
Last day for Bird of the Year voting
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
taracomics.substack.com/p/hog?utm_so... Takahē says no!
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Hog
Bye kererū
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leaflemming.bsky.social @leaflemming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today our prime minister was told a major cost of living crisis is harming the people he governs, and he responded, “Cry me a river”. Aotearoa, please show this man that trying to sound like America’s all-time worst president isn’t how you win elections here. #nzpol
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nearly at the end of our #birdoftheyear campaign taracomics.substack.com/p/ride?utm_s...
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Ride
Uh-oh
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
taracomics.substack.com/p/thwump?utm... Rmember to vote takahē.
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Thwump
Enter the kererū
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More mammal questions for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/mammal?r=2...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think that's enough, but I will add three more things. First, we are creating ever larger piles of privately owned financial assets - overwhelmingly held by the richest few. The people holding those assets expect a return - and that return comes from the real economy. We all pay for it. [11/n]
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Takahē is holding strong in fifth place for #birdoftheyear
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Titipounamu and takahē encounter a pair of meanies while on campaign for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/bullies?r=...
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have a new free to read Substack post up where I get on my soapbox about the National Party using AI to generate graphics and cartoons: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/orange-vot...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Vote takahē for Bird of the Year: www.birdoftheyear.org.nz#voting
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No manu wants to be endangered. Vote takahē for #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/endangered...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Takahē for #birdoftheyear (humans are odd). taracomics.substack.com/p/watching?r...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our interlude with the hoiho concludes. Remember to vote takahē! #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/a-third-ti...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Apologies to all hoiho named Hamish. Have you voted for the takahē for #birdoftheyear yet? taracomics.substack.com/p/hamish?r=2...
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
89 cheers for takahē!! 🎉 Of more than 4000 literary magazines worldwide, takahē is proud to have been awarded 89th place on the 2026 Fish List!
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Voting for Bird of the Year has opened. Please vote takahē and share the adventures of takahē far and wide! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz#voting #birdoftheyear2026 #boty26.
Titipounamu cheerleading for takahē: Go takahē, go takahē, go!Takahē: What's all this?
Titipounamu: Have you ever considered running for Bird of the Year?Takahē: I'd rather not. But thank you.
Titipounamu: Oh.Takahē: If it makes you feel better, I think everyone gets entered automatically. You could campaign for yourself.
Titipounamu: Joint ticket it is!
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Which Invasive bird has your vote for Bird of the Year 2026? You can read up on their policies here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/bird-of-th...
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Sam Orchard @samorchard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Join @taracomics.bsky.social’s comic about Takahē’s quest for bird of the year. In the latest installment Titipounamu meets Hoiho taracomics.substack.com/p/you-got-this
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You got this
Titipounamu is the bravest bird
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The quest for answers continues. #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/you-got-th...
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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m sitting at a coffee shop patio in Berkeley answering a bunch of work emails, and gotta shout out the random old man in a wizard cloak who just ambled past me down the sidewalk, looked me over, and went “ohhhh…a NON BI NARY. Awwwwlriiiiiiighhhhtttttttt”
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Darkest timeline.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The hoiho has won twice. #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/hoiho?r=2n...
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Politicians say the darndest things My #cartoon today #NZpol #CycleLanes #ClimateEmergency
Cartoon. Title: “Well, I declare” Three panels. 1st panel: Text says, “Chris Penk declares himself a mutiny of one…” and image shows Penk as a buccaneer, a skull and crossbones on his chest and wearing a mask, saying, “It was I!” 2nd panel the text says, “Christopher Luxon declares the cycle lane in Molesworth St too difficult to cross, and the image shows Luxon anxiously waiting to cross a clear cycle lane. 3rd panel the text says, “The Act party declares the climate emergency over” with ACT’s Simon Court saying, “Done Kaput Finito”
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wonderful launch speech by the editor of @pipadam.bsky.social’s kluge, Jasmine Sargent: “As an editor, I was transformed over the course of this book” teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/a...
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'A million tiny questions refracted through the text and back onto the
Part of the lovely crowd at the launch of kluge On Friday 14 August, we gathered at Aro Valley Community Centre with pip adam, Book Haven, the Freedom Shop and a big crowd of people who love pip. We a...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Why does titipounamu want takahē to win? #birdoftheyear taracomics.substack.com/p/choice?r=2...
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Members of the National Party caucus assume the position after the failed coup attempt. My #cartoon today. #NZpol
Cartoon. Title: “Heads down, bums up” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon standing in a semi-circle of people who are on their knees, with foreheads to the floor. They are each saying, “100%” “100%” “100%” “100%” “100%” and the last one is going, “Parp!”
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 15/08/2026
Feet up, cuppa tea, chocolate and kluge! I’m loving it @pipadam.bsky.social (every reference I become the Captain America “I understand…” meme 😅)
Photo of the cover of pip adam’s new novel kluge — the book already has little flags of annotations. On top of the book is a pencil that has the words “and I can not lie” printed on it.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy book launch @pipadam.bsky.social
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kluge by pip adam
Drawings from a book launch at Aro Valley Community Centre
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How did the kārearea win #boty twice? Vote takahē (when voting opens) taracomics.substack.com/p/attitude?r...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Support for the takahē enbiggens. #boty
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Could the Takahē be Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau 2026? — LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA
Voting opens on 4 September! Voting for Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year competition that is, and there’s still time to find a manu that doesn’t yet have a campaign manager. Inspired by comic arti...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Takahē is not just a bird that needs your vote on the upcoming Bird of the Year competition, it's a magazine in which I have a non-takahē themed comic.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Did you know that kārearea do, in fact, eat takahē? #birdoftheyear open.substack.com/pub/taracomi...
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The incomparable Caoimhe McKeogh is Guest Fiction for our August issue! 🔥 We're counting down the days to publication of her latest story, 'Dry'.
A photograph of Caoimhe McKeogh leaning against an exterior wall. She wears a black dress and glasses. She has long blonde hair and is smiling. 
Caoimhe McKeogh is of Irish and Cornish descent and lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University and is publicist at Te Herenga Waka University Press. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals including Landfall, Overland and The Masters Review.
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're so happy to welcome back Tara Black, whose brilliant comic 'Vintage Tara,' featuring wine, non-binary cheese, and rats will brighten up the August issue!
Tara stands on steps surrounded by trees and plants. They’re smiling up at the camera, wearing a long black coat, red shoes and a mustard coloured top. Their short hair is swept to the side and they wear a couple of pins on their lapel. Tara Black is a cartoonist and the author of graphic novel, This Is Not a Pipe. They have been known to post comics and graphic recordings at substack.taracomics.com
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In need of no introduction, it's Rebecca Hawkes!! Get excited for her Guest Poetry in the August issue of takahē 🖤
Rebecca Hawkes sits outdoors with the sun on her face. She’s wearing a red ruffled shirt over a black top and a bolo tie. Rebecca Hawkes is a painter-poet from a farm near Methven, now living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She is the author of the poetry collection Meat Lovers (Auckland University Press) and the chapbooks Softcore Coldsores (AUP New Poets 5) and Hardcore Pastorals (Cordite). She edits Sweet Mammalian, and holds an MFA in yearning from the University of Michigan and an MA in half-truths from the IIML. Her new chapbook HIDE, an illuminated manuscript of narrative verse, is arriving soon with ngā pukapuka pekapeka in Aotearoa, and her next full-length collection Fool’s Spring (from which these poems are drawn) is forthcoming from Yes Yes Books and AUP in 2027.
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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
An honour, you see. #boty open.substack.com/pub/taracomi...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
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Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Someone told me that takahē don't like tussock that much. More takahē for Bird of the Year open.substack.com/pub/taracomi...
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What is strategy, anyway? My unofficial campaign for the takahē to win Bird of the Year continues. open.substack.com/pub/taracomi...
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Glad to see my Ai statement in use in various places & all the thought behind this from @magistracohen.bsky.social
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Tara @taracomics.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Starting a new series on my substack. taracomics.substack.com/p/go-takahe-...
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Do your part, make a choice, turn yours off, send a signal. #AI #climate #nzpol
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Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat
Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 02/07/2026
Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand's submission in opposition to the Definition of Woman and Man Bill. #NZPOL
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Definition of Woman and Man Bill - GFANZ Recommends Binning It - Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand
Our view has the benefit of being built on a strong foundation of research beyond basic biology. In suggesting that the bill is basic biology, they are taking the position of a student in their early ...
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 02/07/2026
Without reading any others, I can guarantee that this is the only Opportunity explainer that includes the phrase "Hegelian dialectic" and that you should read it for that reason alone
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