Abby
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Loitering with good intent in Aotearoa NZ. I like big books and I cannot lie (actually, any kind is fine). I say very little here. Pics are mine & not AI. Hope you're well.
This is Bonggu. His human took this "embarrassing" pic of him napping. Even shared them with us to humiliate him. Jokes on them though because he's still very handsome. 13/10 (IG: hi_bbomabbong_2)
nahstalgia (n) : fond memories of things you would not do again
Happy publication day to Tony Ballantyne and his major new history, Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire, which is out in bookshops across Aotearoa New Zealand now.
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On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’
In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that ca...
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make a movie out of this poem, christopher nolan
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 7d agoHappy World Tiger Day
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
A man walks into a horse bar. Why the short face, asks the horse bartender. The man begins crying. He is the last human left on horse world.
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When I said "My next book is going to be a collection of short stories" I really did mean - in many cases - SHORT. www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...
. Untitled This book about extinct birds is heavier than any bird: heavier than the dark bird eating my heart, page after page of abandoned wings. I lift it up and sit it on my lap and listen to it purring. .
FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints. 🌾💀🌞 RTs are positively encouraged. Thanks! x matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com
Absolutely amazing collection of 490 antique matchbox graphics (mostly Swedish, it seems) in red, black, and white flickr.com/photos/taffe...
One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️
OK today, of all days (in Aotearoa) I should really stop pottering and go catch up with Natalie...
I 💙 Dogs@dogs100.bsky.social · 4w agoOh Natalie…
Stay safe, whānau. Mānawatia a Matariki. (RNZ is playing Waiata 100 so doing this, but with headphones, is a great option.)
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The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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"Trump gets blamed, but he's an inflatable tube dude at a mafia chop shop. His apathy to governance is mistaken for sway. Governing was never the point. Trump’s casual treason has always made him an ideal vessel for America's going-out-of-business sale." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...
Stop, collaborator, and listen!
On stolen sovereignty and Americans fighting back.
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Yesterday, for Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, 7,000 fans gathered in the main square of Bologna, Italy, to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Mel himself replied with a video message, and then the crowd watched Young Frankenstein together. ❤️ #Filmsky 📽️
You've velveted your last underground.
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛@ninjakitty.bsky.social · last mo.You’ve split your last enz
Another arduous harbourside commute in Ōtepoti, NZ. A photon-tastic time of year here. PSA for locals or visitors: a new indoor climbing place opened today, over the awa from the stadium. Looking forward to being swiftly reminded of my significant limitations there soon.
If you like laughing and/or reading, or even if you don't, particularly, thankyouverymuch, but want to put something good into your life, there's this...
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.My latest novel is published in paperback on July 2nd. If you pre-order from Blackwell's they'll send it with FREE international delivery & that will help the book get into shops. I'll also be signing EVERY ONE of these: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.