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Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
@jennykaynz.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialIf you're an older or disabled NZ voter, please consider what ACT Party policies would mean for you.
ACT plans to raise superannuation age by 3 months each year, cut disability benefits by $653M, pause contributions to NZ Super Fund, + cut support for migrants.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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@newsroom.co.nzReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialWellington writer Mikee Donato has won the $15,000 Sargeson Prize for her short story about two soul mates
@ahawkins.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialDrug testing has (by design) captured all the attention, but it's nowhere near the worst bit. For more than 30 years, benefit levels have been kept lower than the cost of staying alive. On purpose. Campaigning on the back of cutting them even further is monstrous. The cruelty is the point.
@pipadam.bsky.socialAlso, just a reminder, you can subscribe to the newsletter that comes out every time i publish a Better off Read podcast. i left S#bstack cause i can't stomach it as a human but you can still get a newsletter if you like that kind of thing.
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@pipadam.bsky.socialIn this episode of the Better off Read podcast i speak with Helen Lehndorf about her beautiful, brutal and wild new collection of poetry The Bruise Palette. Thanks so much Helen and Firestarter Press! better-read.com
@pipadam.bsky.socialExactly this. Heartbreaking and like surely shortsighted. It's hard to argue for public funding for the arts when some people never get to see art and the lie that art is for the elite is reinforced by ... limiting access to arts to the elite.
@pipadam.bsky.socialMy most unpopular take of the week is that it's breaking my heart that City Gallery is opening with one exhibition that costs $25 per person. Free entry to art galleries, museums and libraries kind of saved my life as a teenager and definitely made me believe the arts were for me.
@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
@mountaintui.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialLouise Upston admits people with cancer and mental disabilities will be sanctioned with reduced benefit payments after 2 years, and face random drug tests in #NewZealand under National's new promises.
Winston Peters warns Luxon is moving NZ closer to fascism, ironically #nzpol
@pepperraccoon.comReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialIn this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.
@doctorow.pluralistic.netReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialThese were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs. The difference was that in the browser where Air Canada knew that I was an extremely loyal and prolific customer, they had whacked me with a *44.8% premium* to punish me for my loyalty!
@dillamonster.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialAKL/WGTN/CHCH: BLACK SHEEPS premiere tix on sale now! Or buy a Terror-Fi fest badge and it's included! (Full lineup coming soon, but CRAWLERS, IT ENDS, VICTORIAN PSYCHO and WILD HORSE NINE are already announced.)
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialAlso, this is advertorial for a university application-padding consultancy
@antonhur.comReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialYay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!
@dorothyproject.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialDorothy PUB DAY only comes once a year. And it's here! 🎉 Happy pub day to BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)! We're honored to be publishing these two beautiful and brilliant debut novels.
@dorothyproject.bsky.socialReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialOh look, just in time for our pub day . . .
@queenoliviaiii.comReposted by @pipadam.bsky.socialThe legislation was found to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act and the changes to enrolments could prevent 100,000 or more people from voting.
@pipadam.bsky.socialTHIS!!!! ⬇️
@pipadam.bsky.sociali mean let's hear from REALLY decided voters. Why have you decided that way? Why are you so sure? What am i missing if i disagree with you?
