A Two Bedroom House The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.

We could just... fix everything, starting right now.
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A Two Bedroom House The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.

We could just... fix everything, starting right now.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/a-two-bedroo...

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 ...

Friday Night Chats is out and this one is FREE! I love free speech! www.emilywrites.co.nz/easter-long-...

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...

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)

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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

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...

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."

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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...

Let's recap some of Brooke Van Velden's greatest hits (on working Kiwis)

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...

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...

The Brighter Future What would this country look like in a decade or so if we actually did what so desperately needs doing?

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...

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

FNC: the hits don't stop coming Hi! Josh here. Emily is away this week for a family commitment so I am hosting Friday Night Chats. Be gentle, it's my first time. A huge thanks to Emily for trusting me with the keys while she's away....

And tonight we had Friday Night Chats, which is a special weekly thing we do for paid subscribers - this one was hosted by @tworuru.com. www.emilywrites.co.nz/fnc-the-hits...

You need to know about glurge Hi! Josh here – Emily is away this week for a family commitment and so we're running a series of guest posts. We've been writing a bit about AI recently, especially with the horrible news that users o...

On Wednesday we had a piece on the AI scourge you may not have heard of yet: GLURGE

www.emilywrites.co.nz/glurge/

On living longer after loss than before it An extraordinary guest piece by writer Helen Gilby

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...

NZ Police don't know what to do about Grok child sexual abuse images... What should you do if you or your child is a victim of a Grok deepfake? This question is simple, right? Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Skip t...

Super shocked by this scoop - the NZ police won't tell us whether or not the CSAM and non-consensual deepfake content generated on Grok might be illegal, or even provide advice on what to do if you (or your child!) is a target. Story here: www.emilywrites.co.nz/nz-police-do... #nzpol #kikorangi

Reposting with #nzpol #kikorangi because I always forget hashtags

#nzpol
Follow @emilywrites.co.nz to keep up with the Coalition of chaos (& what we must do about it to ensure it's just one nightmare term later this year!).

What the hell is going on between the Coalition Government and the Public Service Commission? It's not normal for public servants and the Government to collude against unions like this.

OIA emails show coordinated campaign between PSC and Ministers. #NzPol
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The other piece is by @tworuru.com for the Bad Newsletter asking how the hell the supposedly neutral Public Service Commission ended up running attack ads supporting the Government against teachers, doctors and nurses unions www.emilywrites.co.nz/what-the-hel...

Keeping up with the Coalition Ok, well - I did think because it's Monday, it would be cruel to send out a newsletter about everything garbage going on. So I started writing about why Heated Rivalry is so important, and then I was ...

Two new posts today: I’m starting a new series called Keeping Up With the Coalition because wow this unruly chaos crew sure need a lot of keeping up with. All the horrible stuff + qs in desperate need of answers!

Please share as that really helps me do this work!

OK FINE WHAT THE F DO I HAVE TO DO?! We talked about how last year was The Year of Revolt - I'm hoping this year will be the Year of Being Horny on Main. But that seems less likely with every new day and we're only on day bloody six. I m...

I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi
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