The Reading Ruru/Kerry
@devildauta.bsky.social
Avid Book reader in Aotearoa. Judge for Fantasy Faction in #SPFBO & Space Girls in #SPSFC. Outspoken socialist. Peer/ally to sex worker, addiction and LGBTQI community. Racists, homo/transphobes & bigots can just FUCK OFF!
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 6 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe final finalist is Generations by @noamj.bsky.social, an epic about a colony ship that carries the last hope of humanity and a centuries-old conspiracy. www.amazon.com/Generations-...
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 5 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe fifth finalist is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social, a quantum thriller of romance, recreated realities and who we're truly meant to be. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCVK8RP7
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 4 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe fourth finalist is FrostByte by N.S. Chaudhury, a South Asian cyberpunk novel about illegal resurrection and solving your own murder. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5N4VHYR
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 3 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe third finalist is Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles, a post-apocalyptic mystery full of awkward questions and hope. www.amazon.com/Artificial-S...
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 2 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe second finalist is ab initio by Jacob Terracina, an artificial intelligence courtroom thriller about what it means to be human. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM6H956S
#SPSFC @spsfc.bsky.social Finalist 1 #self-published #sci-fi #booksky💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@spsfc.bsky.social · 2d agoThe first finalist is Time Traitors by @elidonovanwriter.bsky.social, a tale of dinosaurs, poachers and a broken time machine. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSL63L7S
Six books have advanced to the finals of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC). We'll announce them in random order in the next six posts.
It's not liberating. It's dehumanising and devaluing of the particular nature of certain relationships which should not simply be seen as transactional.
'Patient' at least implies a relationship in which there should be a duty of care. It's depressing that, in our neoliberal age, we seem to be redefining every relationship in such terms of customers/consumers etc.
Slightly horrified to see the select committee has sought to expunge the word 'patient' from the Mental Health Bill, replacing it with various other terms including 'consumer'. I understand why people want to challenge things that seem paternalistic, but this seems misguided.
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#Fantasy-Faction has its 2nd semifinalist for #SPFBO #SPFBOXI Of Mages and Makers by Rel Carroll is a mix of Gaslamps, Airships and Magic in a Regency setting. Enjoyable and a load of fun. #Booksky💙 ##pukapuka🇳🇿📚 #Self-publishedFantasy
Of Mages and Makers by Rel Carroll – SPFBO #11 Semi-Finals Review
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#Fantasy-Faction has its 1st semifinalist for #SPFBO #SPFBOXI City of Stone by K. T. Holder. Epic fantasy has to be compelling to keep me reading past the 20% mark. City of Stone passed the test; I read this in one night and then downloaded and read book 2. #Booksky💙 #pukapuka🇳🇿📚 #Self-published
City of Stone by K. T. Holder – SPFBO #11 Semi-Finals Review
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Screenshot that outlines just how complex #biology is when it comes to gender - and how unscientific & wrong (& fascist) it is to attack non-binary & #trans people #nzpol #Zionists #AtlasNetwork #antiWoke #Christofascists
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
#SPSFC5 has got it’s 10 semi finalists. Each team will now read 4 of the semis (excluding their own) and the top 5 scoring books will go into the finals to be read by all teams. #SPSFC #Self-publishedSci-fi #Self-publishedbooks #pukapuka📚🇳🇿 #booksky💙🪐
Oh and there is this … www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
Budget 2026: No money committed to meeting Paris Agreement pledges
That's despite Treasury warning that the "substantial purchases" of offshore carbon credits are likely to be needed if the government chooses to honour New Zealand's 2030 target.
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This book is METALicious!! Support #Self-Published #AotearoaAuthors
Kenneth Feller@authorkfeller.bsky.social · 3mo agoWTF is a gronk? Unique world-building, names, nicknames, and the slang conventions of antipodean English; I've now included a Character List and Glossary to help shove The Outsiders of Orkland into your eyeballs. BookFunnel changes are live, other platforms will follow.
As a committee, we've written to every MP in Welly about the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill, and we encourage you to do the same. Plenty of organisations like InsideOUT or Qtopia have more info you can use, and letters to Parliament are free qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...
I suspect a lot of potential Labour voters are looking at Hipkins' middle of the road stance and are choosing to not vote for Labour or just not to vote at all Given the attack on our social structure I don't want appeasement
Why is it important to criticise MPs for accepting an accommodation allowance for living in a property they own? Because accepting that allowance betrays a lack of sense of shame, which in turn betrays a lack of empathy, which should disqualify you from holding power of any kind.
National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol
Fucking 18th-century ass country where it's the landed gentry vs everyone else
Tania Waikato just out here nailing her Q & A interview, like the masterful wahine she is. 😎💚 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
These same people, who will not believe centuries of evidence about the destructive nature of capitalism, will believe a 5 minute read in the Reader's Digest about how pickled Tuscan artichoke hearts can cure cancer.
'The democratic question raised by the BSA's destruction is not, in the end, about broadcasting law. It is about whether Aotearoa retains the institutional capacity to constrain, even modestly, the merger of disinformation and political power.' @mohanjdutt.bsky.social #NzPol
How a Far-Right Network Took Down New Zealand's Broadcasting Watchdog
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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