I saw a disclaimer in an ebook the other day that said, 'This book is 100% human generated. I'd rather write a story that might have lumpy bits than generate a soulless, passionless, piece of crap." I'm thinking of adding something like that to my next book if I ever get around to writing it.

Reading Carved in Blood by Michael Bennett

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

Finished In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden which was a lovely read

Finished St Mary’s Chronicles #5 - No Time Like The Past

Wellington folk: Tiaki Wai are consulting on their setup, priorities, and policies.

You can have your say here: ://haveyoursay.tiakiwai.co.nz - takes 2 mins to register and the short survey takes 3-5mins to complete.

Don't let the grey brigade or the cookers set water policy for the next 40 years

Currently reading The Beginning Comes After The End by Rebecca Solnit

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

I cannot stress this enough

I finished Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

This

Saturday strolls

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.

They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.

They can’t imagine having everything ripped away from them.

They think they’re the exception.

They’re not.

Finished off Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson

Currently reading “It’s Probably Nothing” by Naga Munchetty

Finished Flashlight by Susan Choi - a family story across generations and countries

It hurts to watch this beautiful country of ours lose its ngakau.

I want everything to be better.

I will be voting to change this government.

Please make the next coalition - one that cares about more social good than capitalism.

#nzpol #voting #KiaMāori #kikorangi

I hope everyone’s learned their lesson about “let’s run our government like a business” bullshit

Businesses can be run into the ground

Not really supposed to do that with governments

After a while you learn a thing or two about living: that evil rarely arrives with horns or thunder. It arrives politely, with folded arms and a soft voice saying that couldn’t have happened. It arrives in the shrug, the careful doubt, the way someone studies the floor instead of your face. You learn that empathy is not a gentle virtue. It is a blade. It cuts through denial, through the easy lie that people are mostly harmless and monsters are rare. Empathy demands we look directly at what people do to one another. Many refuse. Because if they believed you, they would have to admit the world is capable of terrible things. And that is heavier than your suffering.

A Thing or Two About Living.

After a while
you learn a thing or two about living:
that evil rarely arrives
with horns or thunder.
It arrives politely,
with folded arms
and a soft voice saying
that couldn’t have happened.
#poetry

In Korean, the word for cowboys, 속기 쉬운, translates literally to “American horse pirates”

* read on for more of my all-time favourite translations from around the world (a thread)…

None tonight (quiz night!) but finished More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - a beautifully translated Japanese read - just as heart warming as the first book 📕

Very cheering 🥰

Finished The Shock of the Light

Reading The Nights are Quiet in Tehran

Shocked and surprised that the government who has made things worse for school children, women, Māori, people on benefits, disabled people, public servants, people on the minimum wage, teachers, homeless people, are also gonna make things worse for people who are gonna suffer due to this crisis.

nzgreenparty Instagram post: BREAKING The Green Party releases plan to combat rising petrol prices: 1) Free public transport 2) A fuel crisis cash top-up for rural and low income adults 3) A corporate tax to stop price-gouging for our communities who need it most. Authorised by Marama Davidson and Chile Swarbrick, Green Party Co-leaders. Pariament Buildings, Wgtn. Funded by Parliamentary Services.

Good to see someone has a plan, thanks NZ Greens.

Finished my two weeks of antibiotics and am feeling spritely again

Am reading Dream Dealer by Greg Newbold

Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.