The first substantive review of Dirty Work was dropped at 10pm last night www.instagram.com/p/DdlhY9hBiSh/

Ti on Instagram: "Just finished reading “Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest expose on the dodgy and deceitful tactics used by the right in New Zealand politics. There are a lot of things to be concer...

171 likes, 3 comments - commitii on September 22, 2026: "Just finished reading “Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest expose on the dodgy and deceitful tactics used by the right in New Zealand politics. ...

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Only 12 reserves on Dirty Work so far. Books will be heading out this morning. wcl.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spyd...

It would be a perfect book week if U.X.O. sells out too.

Brannavan Gnanalingam@brannavan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Disappointed? Come along to Unity on Friday evening for the launch of my new novel, U.X.O., which won’t sell out

First batch at the local library

The inside story of the campaign to destroy Maiki Sherman's career is told in Dirty Work

Lol

Felix Geiringer@barristernz.bsky.social · 3w ago

“It is ironic, to say the least, that if Jordan Williams had not publicised the non-existent book, these inside sources would most likely never have contacted me and the book we are here to launch today would not have been written.”

A cheer for #DirtyWork

Unity Books already full. Staff are claiming they don't even know the name of the book

I'm betting money on the Nicky Hager book being about shady dealings in Malta. Not everything has to be NZ election related.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

Turning up to the local school with a truckload of books on Windows 95, Aspergers, junk DNA, left-brained neuroscience, 90's travel guides and another truckload of post-50 Shades slop.

Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a travesty. Libraries should not dump books out like trash. Even if they do weeding, they should make an effort to give them to schools or the community.

Clarke, Keys, Luxton, Stamford, Swarbrook

Bring on the snow day

The everyday Kiwi on the street needs to understand that most of the money any beneficiary receives goes immediately to private landlords - the beneficiary is just the middleman, and that is the problem that really needs to be solved, IMO.

Imagine having Luxon as a boss. You could get away with anything.

The UK ‘Labour’ Party’s descent into a puppet of the Israeli state is both shameful and terrifying. 14 years in jail for a journalist who reports information received from a group that the Home Secretary can designate as terrorist without having MPs vote on it. Same for aid agency workers.

Double Down News@doubledown.news · 3mo ago

14 years in prison as a TERRORIST for a quote?!

Roger Waters 1979: in my album The Wall I invented a selfish and disaffected celebrity who becomes a paranoid Nazi as a cautionary tale Roger Waters 2026: At long last I have recreated myself as Nazi Pink from the classic AOR album The Wall

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tucker Carlson tells Roger Waters: "The Building 7 story doesn't make any sense at all. And I don't know why you would attack people who raise questions about something that doesn't make any sense. But they have. That's not a sign of innocence."

NZ must be unusual in that the only organised opposition to hyper-scale data centres here comes from climate change-denying conspiracy theorists.

I'm gonna fight anyone who defends him, makes excuses for him, minimises his actions, or blames the victim(s).

Hamish@haminoon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sick of people making excuses for this creep. Yeah I know, he's a "great guy" with "interpersonal skills" who can philosophise about why he's really the victim using "progressive" language.

Grooming a child with methamphetamine, alcohol and vapes, for statutory rape. Michael McLeod, the former owner of iconic Dunedin pub The Captain Cook Hotel, has been jailed for just 2 years and three months for contracting a vulnerable child for rape. A child. Not sex, rape. #nzpol

Former owner of The Captain Cook Hotel jailed for paying minor for sex

A Dunedin entertainment industry figure who paid a 15-year-old for sex can now be identified.

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I'm sick of people making excuses for this creep. Yeah I know, he's a "great guy" with "interpersonal skills" who can philosophise about why he's really the victim using "progressive" language.

Otago Daily Times Online News [Unofficial]@odt.co.nz.web.brid.gy · 3mo ago

Our committee secretariat staff are overworked, underpaid, and disproportionately young and queer and yet every time a deluge of submissions that clearly cannot be processed immediately is not processed immediately a bunch of people onhere act like they're part of a right wing conspiracy. Come on.

Okay so my partner's submission said "my partner is trans" and got rejected by the select committee because "it considers that your submission shares personal, private, or medical information about a third party.” Turns out they're constrained by law in this, and she can amend the submission... 1/2

Stef Animal@stef-animal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ha ha there’s some crazy stuff going down with the man-woman definition bill submissions.

I've read a lot of the literature on the uses of AI in libraries, and this appears to be the best example.

Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁@djdynamic.ca · 3mo ago

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

The Racism of Anti-Racists: Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted Orientalism firenexttime.net/the-racism-o...

Rewatched Fallen Angels at FilmSoc tonight. Completely different subtitles and story to last time, but same visuals and audio. Story was better this time around.

One of my favourite Jafar Panahi films is Offside, filmed live & under false-script-pretenses at the Iran-Bahrain 2006 World Cup qualifier. The joy and unity documented in that final scene makes me think that fucking with the Iranian football team will unite Iranians in a way the regime could never.

Offside - trailer - IFFR 2007

YouTube video by International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The US has refused to issue visas to a wide array of Iranian Football Federation officials in advance of their first World Cup game on June 15. tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...

Titan Ridge volcano in Papua New Guinea inundates Manus coastlines with pumice stone

'Desert' of floating rock traps islands after undersea volcanic eruption

Residents are concerned about access to food and fresh water as pumice stone makes travel difficult for Papua New Guinea's seafaring communities.

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Interesting article about the narrative the Stuff tech journalists have been pushing over the last week. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

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