I know they came in summer. 😑

Tai Timu Tai Pari Compassionate Communities Hui   - Cranford Hospice Compassionate Communities AOTEAROA HUI 2026 Date: 18–20 June 2026 Thursday: 9:00am–5:30pm (registration from 8:15am) Friday: 9:00am–5:30 pm Saturday: 9:00am–12:30pm Toitoi: Hawke’s Bay Arts & Events C...

Cranford Hospice in Hastings is hosting the Compassionate Communities hui in June this year. The fabulous Tess Moeke Maxwell and I are both speaking among lots of others! cranfordhospice.org.nz/compassionat...

Join the club lol 😅🤝🏼

Goldsmith makes maggots go "ew".

Wing Chun - an animated short film Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

Wing Chun - an animated short film by Ant Sang.

100% funded with three days to go by 144 awesome people... If you can, give this project a little more!

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Amamelia has released her new album The Joy Of Living!

“I’m really proud of this album. I think it's weird, messy, overwhelming and all over the place. I don't know if I could make an album like this again but I'm glad I made it this time.” @amamelia.bsky.social

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A woman holds up an LP which also has a picture of her on it. It's Amamelia and her new album The Joy of Living

My new album "The Joy of Living" is out today 🪴🖼️📚

For fans of: Stereolab, Saint Etienne, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Wendy Carlos, Os Mutantes, The Free Design, Katamari Damacy

Thank you to all my friends who helped me to put it together

Amamelia.bandcamp.com

Got any SM platforms that aren't cooked.

In a sermon delivered just a day ago, Brian Tamaki viciously, and violently targets Indians, Sikhs, Islam, and Muslims. Since the NZ-India Free Trade Agreement, this has been a dominant, hate-mongering leitmotif in Tamaki's weekly 'sermons', & social media excretions. bsky.app/profile/sanj...

Those Papatoetoe kids are going to remember this for the rest of their lives, and tell their children and grandchildren about it, and what it says about the country they grew up in.

‘We refused to be weaponised’: The rise of Asians backing tino rangatiratanga A decade after a single Waitangi banner, Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga has become a national movement – and a challenge to how te Tiriti is framed in Aotearoa.

Matua Jackson: “Te Tiriti ... welcomed people from somewhere else onto our marae. You are welcome. You can live your lives as who you are. ... you will respect the rights of others, ... respect the land, and ... work together to make this a better place.”🙏

thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-04-2...

from Te Ao Māori News on Insta, 10 April 2026. black and white portrait photo of an amazing Māori woman. "Sharon Hawke. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. 1962-2026."

Moe mai rā 💔 Sharon Hawke, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei rangatira

Paying my respects to NZTA’s greatest achievement.

A replica of Thomas the Tank Engine being transported on a large flatbed truck. It’s strapped down in multiple places and the face portion is covered by a large black bag

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

I do arts journalism now. buy.stripe.com/bJe4gz4nRgTB...

Same 😅

Here is my new gorge record 'Pahū'

hasji.bandcamp.com/album/pah

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#gorge

Thanq for the inclusion on this fab list @martynpepperell.bsky.social ~! ⛰️🔊✨

I'm not in shape for this Lord Humungus fit. 😔

Grandpappy Rock tbh.

Kid Rock is such a tool lol.

*blocked and reported*

Them: “You better not be a cunty prehistoric hominid when I get home”

Me:

Thread.

Israel passed a law allowing the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. It was written by the fascist Ben Gvir.

Israel is institutionalising genocide.

Isreal should've died with apartheid South Africa.

Does your head in aye ktk. 😭 Also, record that shit, transcribe it, and then give that mf a 20 page blast the next time you see them. 😅

Not this one to be clear lol. Hope you and your whaanau are keeping well e mara!

Think I'm just about to 'Marie Kondo' a platform I've wasted too much time on lol, we'll see. I'll annoy youse for a bit first. 😁

OK, Chief of War lfg.

There are some deeply confronting things in this that are still resonating.