A big old scoop: an Ombudsman investigation into a refused OIA request has helped shed light on just how much AI the Ministry of Education is using to create the new school curriculum www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-ministry...
The Ministry of Education is using so much AI it can't tell us how much AI it's using
The Ministry doesn't seem to want the public to know exactly how much AI it's using - or what it's using AI for.
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Half of the posts I see on this app are leftists retweeting bait from RW parties, people and accounts. Please! Stop! Do literally anything else! www.emilywrites.co.nz/national-mps...
National MPs are baiting us and it’s working
Hey, Josh here with a depressing post! I hope that's enticing enough for you to read all the way to the end. Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Sk...
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Urgh infuriating and annoying and depressing, but a must read from @joshdrummond.bsky.social and @emilywrites.co.nz www.emilywrites.co.nz/national-mps...
National MPs are baiting us and it’s working
Hey, Josh here with a depressing post! I hope that's enticing enough for you to read all the way to the end. Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Sk...
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Hi if you're in Pōneke please please please come along to this fundraiser! It raises money for Gazan families in desperate need and though I say it myself the prizes absolutely slap meow.flicket.co.nz/events/8d466...
Pōneke ❤️’s Palestine
ONE NIGHT ONLY fundraiser for the Aotearoa 2 Gaza mutual aid fund. Emily Writes + special surprise secret guests, live music + fun. Spot prizes! Lucky door prize! The Aotearoa 2 Gaza mutual aid fund w...
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I just felt it was important to write this. It's about finding hope and joy amongst... everything else www.emilywrites.co.nz/despite-it-a...
Despite it all...
My son has had a brilliant year. He wouldn't tell you this of course. But my husband and I have spent many evenings catching each other's eye over his angelic little face and smiling. We've come a lo...
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Does Seymour have kids? It seems impossible to me. That is not a man with any parental instincts. He would eat his children like pigs do.
Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: subscribe to @emilywrites.co.nz newsletter and if you can, pay her "kindy tapes" 😂
This is SOLID reporting from Emily and every working NZ journo who's regurgitated this government's propaganda about "low attendance" or "tackling truancy" or framed the issue as Tough-Talking David Seymour vs Lazy Teacher Unions should sit down and take some goddamn notes
Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 2mo agoI hate to use this word but this is a scoop: parents are being fined and chased by schools for having unwell, dying, and disabled children. Some have been fined of threatened for - among other things - keeping kids home when a parent has died. www.emilywrites.co.nz/parents-fine...
I hate to use this word but this is a scoop: parents are being fined and chased by schools for having unwell, dying, and disabled children. Some have been fined of threatened for - among other things - keeping kids home when a parent has died. www.emilywrites.co.nz/parents-fine...
Parents fined $30 a day for having unwell, dying, or disabled kids
Katie's son, 13, was running through school when he slipped over and hit his head. Hard. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a serious concussion and brain injury. For the last ten weeks, his par...
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If you’ve still got the spoons to write subs on horrific nulls, this is a total goldmine of info. #nzpol
Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 2mo agoYes it sucks dealing with a cavalcade of endless fuckery from the Government but you know what's worse? Not dealing with it! www.emilywrites.co.nz/subs/
Yes it sucks dealing with a cavalcade of endless fuckery from the Government but you know what's worse? Not dealing with it! www.emilywrites.co.nz/subs/
A Submissions Guide For The Chaos Coalition's Horrific Legislative Blitzkrieg
Unfortunately, because of this government's ongoing commitment to attacking Aotearoa's most vulnerable people, we all have to spend our Monday making submissions against various awful bills they're pu...
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Thanks to Dr Beth, @emilywrites.co.nz and team for putting together this action list docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Tania Roxborogh@taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm being crushed by the weight of injustice/corruption/cruelty/meanness/selfishness/greed/manipulation/noise/lies...& the inability I have to stem this onslaught. It all feels pointless i.e. speaking up/standing up/calling out the wrong. I can't understand why so many people support this govt.
I've never seen anything like this. The Coalition's attacks on disabled people and the people who care for them are just relentless. We need to get rid of this vicious government, and we must put all our energy into doing it. www.emilywrites.co.nz/breaking-the... #nzpol
Breaking: the Government is attacking disabled people and their carers. Again.
Late last night, the coalition government snuck through another bill attacking disabled adults, children, and their families. The bill, introduced without consultation or warning, paves the way for in...
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This is a Big Deal. Please read and share #NZPol #PayEquity #UN #GovtDiscrimination
Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 3mo agoPlease please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition
Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition
Government's treatment of women in Aotearoa goes to the United Nations
One year after legislation killed existing pay equity claims and basically ended the opportunity to bring new claims, the government is being taken to the United Nations. It's a huge deal. The team ...
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"The Government passed new urgency under legislation last night, hitting floods that occupied business premises without permission with instant fines. Errant waters that were fined multiple times would be jailed." www.emilywrites.co.nz/coalition-go...
Coalition Government announces crackdown on floodwaters
The Coalition Government is finally forcing floods to "move on", by passing new laws of physics.
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Friday Night Chats is out and this one is FREE! I love free speech! www.emilywrites.co.nz/easter-long-...
FNC: Easter long weekend recommendations + chats
Eww what a bad week. But now it's the long weekend yay! And I am heading to Tāmaki Makaurau for the launch of Kiwi Health Heroes by Caitlin Timmer-Arends, So-Young Cho and Rebecca Waddel. It features ...
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I'm really appreciating @emilywrites.co.nz and @tworuru.com's series of brighter future essays - in the midst of constantly worrying about money and energy, today's edition was sorely needed. Let's look ahead to a solar-powered Huntly (and Aotearoa)
A Brighter Future for Huntly
At the beginning of the month, we launched a big campaign here at Emily Writes Weekly. The Brighter Future project is incredibly dear to me. It's kaupapa is simple. We are asking an important question...
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Brooke’s greatest hits on working kiwis that will result in early deaths, disability, & poverty had Seymour describing her political career “as near to perfect as humanly possible” Thanks Emily Writes for laying out that “perfection” for everyone to see. There is nothing to be proud of BvV. #nzpol
Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 4mo agoLet's recap some of Brooke Van Velden's greatest hits (on working Kiwis)
Oh look, @emilywrites.co.nz has written a whole-as post about this, with links and everything. WAAAAAYYY better than my quick angry rant. This is a proper researched angry rant😆 LOVE the ending "C U Next Tuesday, Brooke. We won't miss you." www.emilywrites.co.nz/so-brooke-va...
So, Brooke Van Velden, this is your life...
Growing up I used to love a show called This Is Your Life. Journalist Mike Munro would hold a giant red book and lovingly ambush a well-known Australian. My favourite episode was about Steve Irwin. Fo...
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Let's recap some of Brooke Van Velden's greatest hits (on working Kiwis)
So, Brooke Van Velden, this is your life...
Growing up I used to love a show called This Is Your Life. Journalist Mike Munro would hold a giant red book and lovingly ambush a well-known Australian. My favourite episode was about Steve Irwin. Fo...
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New Friday Night Chats is out for paid subscribers with my new PODCAST! It's been forever coming but @tworuru.com and I finally did it, we're hoping to have a new one of these out every week. www.emilywrites.co.nz/fnc-the-nz-h...
FNC - Crappy journalists and context collapse and a PODCAST?!
Welcome to Friday Night Chats! How are you? It's been A Week. Not helped by a ridiculous beat-up by a newspaper trying to get readers off the back of my writing. So let’s go there…This time we did a p...
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Emily Writes @emilywrites.co.nz and I are starting a new series called The Brighter Future, where writers and artists and poets and so on imagine what a better future might look like, if we actually did some of the needful that's right in front of us: www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-brighter...
The Brighter Future
What would this country look like in a decade or so if we actually did what so desperately needs doing?
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Newsletters I like and religiously read: - @davidfarrier.com’s Webworm - @garbageday.email - @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s doomsday scenario - @stilgherrian.com’s Weekly Cybers - @emilywrites.co.nz - @biblioracle.bsky.social - @404media.co - @gilduran.com’s Nerd Reich
If any of these pieces resonated with you, please share them - sharing my work is by far the best way to support me without taking out a paid subscription. Thanks so much! #nzpol #kikorangi
Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 6mo agoIt’s been Guest Week on Emily Writes and here are the frankly incredible posts: First was this moving meditation on grief and loss and the passage of time by writer Helen Gilby www.emilywrites.co.nz/on-living-lo...
It’s been Guest Week on Emily Writes and here are the frankly incredible posts: First was this moving meditation on grief and loss and the passage of time by writer Helen Gilby www.emilywrites.co.nz/on-living-lo...
On living longer after loss than before it
An extraordinary guest piece by writer Helen Gilby
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