Okay, here's my reminder to self that doomscrolling myself into panic or despair is not at all helpful, to me, or to those I wish to help.
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Author of novels: THE EMPRESS OF TIMBRA, WHEN WE WAKE, WHILE WE RUN, GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD, THE SHATTERING. Teacher. Nerd. She/her.
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I loved this spec-fic session yesterday with , and . You know it's a good one when someone says "We've got 40 minutes left. How can we decolonise speculative fiction?"
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/wor #WORDchch ^MT
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As I ???hope??? I said in-panel I can't take credit for that quote, that wisdom's from
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“All indigenous fiction is post-apocalyptic because the world has already ended.” So how to decolonise speculative fiction? A sentient planet, embracing fluff & cringe, re-imagining literary form, readers as participants… With
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On my way to my first panel of the day @WORDChCh with @CassieHartNZ @understatesmen and @kehealey
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You know you're in for an excellent audience experience with and when you're in line with a lot of femme presenting people in ASTOUNDINGLY joyful outfits.
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For my Holocaust Film class day one I asked students to come in with a list of Holocaust-related movies and TV shows they've seen and why (assignment/personal choice).
High school teachers, I am straight up begging you to stop assigning "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."
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If we do nothing, at some point, CO2 production begins to drop off because enough people will die.
The question is how many billions of people will die because we don’t want the discomfort of rearranging our lives.
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I am getting (INCREASINGLY) excited about the FREE panel "Remembering the future, reimagining the past", which I am lucky enough to facilitate for , and on SATURDAY 10:30AM at the Piano!
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Roman marble gravestone for a small lapdog named Aminnaracus. From Rome, 1st-2nd century AD.
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This is a really unfortunate, untrue, and deliberately misaligning tweet.
I earnestly wish that people would stop appropriating my father in support of actions and actors that he clearly would not endorse.
He was assassinated for working for justice and for a better humanity.
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The FBI’s political targeting of President Trump is the same type of thing they did to MLK.
They always abuse their power to take down their political enemies.
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Tauranga woman Jemma Webb became homeless after an emergency. She was told to look for her own accomodation by WINZ, while going into labour at their office. She is now living in a motel unit with her newborn baby and six other children.
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I turn 41 on Sunday and my back has decided to celebrate early with some fun spasms.
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The idea that you can’t hold trump accountable because his supporters might be mad at you is one of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard
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Sorry to ruin everyone’s cool conspiracy fun I know it’s exciting to think there’s like, a mega plan and everyone is Machiavellian but there’s just me alone in my office with my dog (pictured for proof) forgetting to have lunch until 2pm most days
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When you turn 35, you should win an itemized list of all the people you didn't realize were flirting with you in your 20s.
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My favorite historical "discoveries" are ones male anthropologists/historians just *can't* figure out for YEARS that are swiftly answered by a woman when one is finally given access.
"But what could this ancient tablet of instructions even MEAN!"
Woman: "it's a recipe".
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"Fetch me my ax, that I may kill a man."
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Randomly thinking about how many mythological stories their are about angry women shredding people apart for making their lives harder. I wonder why.
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Congratulations Refuse by for winning Best Use of Theme in Cultivation Jam! chloe-sutherland.itch.io/refuse-cultiva #dogpitjam
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Congratulations Wide Awake in the Garden by for winning Best Gameplay in Cultivation Jam! impinasweater.itch.io/wide-awake-in- #dogpitjam
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and I collaborated on a little 2-player ttrpg about temptation in a medieval abbey for the #illuminatedttrpgjam and you can now get it here!!
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I can't believe today is the day. This has been 3 years in the making and I'm so proud of what it has become, so lucky to work with and learn from the incredible and and so honoured to include all these writers. Come celebrate with us tonight.
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GO CEN GO!!!
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Local LEGO Master Centuri Chan will be familiar to any of you who go every year. This year he's made a model of the Dux de Lux - including a cut away so you can see a band performing inside. stuff.co.nz/the-press/news ^DR
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wrote a small article about invisible game mechanics and how they change how we play even when they dont show up in the game!!
possumcreek.medium.com/the-game-left-
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As a former librarian, a grad student, a sometimes author, & an editor currently working in the publishing industry, I would like to say that there is no way to justify participating in 's massive copyright infringement in any way, & I absolutely love this lawsuit
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Everybody in society deserves and needs access to the world's collection of art, literature, music, and media, but those things will stop being created if nobody pays for them, because we all have to fucking eat. Open, global piracy of intellectual property isn't justice.
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If you're cremated after you die, you can be put into an hourglass and continue to participate in family game night.
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"Average novelist writes one novel a year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average novelist writes 0 novels per year. Adrian Spiders Tchaikovsky, who lives in cave and writes over 10,000 novels each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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Still very funny to me that one time NZ once tried to Activate The Queen but everybody was too hungover to get the ball rolling, and by Monday afternoon the situation had resolved itself
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Also because it's really damn good, y'all
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if you enjoyed season 4 of stranger things - and okay, not to be that author (but yes, to be that author) - you should read Sorrowland for, like, way better execution of similar themes lol.
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I don't understand why Kavanaugh couldn't just go to another state to eat? Why did he allow himself to get hungry in the first place? 🤔
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Yes, you can wear an N95 and still get COVID, especially with BA.5. But that doesn't mean masks don't work. You can also die in a car crash wearing a seat belt, but that doesn't mean seat belts don't work. Masks reduce the odds of infection. Be probabilistic, not fatalistic.
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In the largest repatriation of kōimi t’chakat Moriori, the ancestral remains if 111 Moriori, together with two Māori koiwi, returned home today to be brought to their wahi tapu
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This would have legitimately changed my life path a decade ago. (I'm happy where I am! But this option was not available to me, and I wish it had been.)
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Both leaders have agreed to develop a "pathway to citizenship" for Kiwis living in Australia, with a deadline of Anzac Day 2023. On the flip side, Australians living in New Zealand who have been residents for one year will get voting rights @rnz_news
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This is maybe the coolest game bundle I have EVER SEEN: itch.io/b/1472/indie-b
If you were donating to abortion funds anyway, why not throw $10 to this fundraiser and get some positive reinforcement for your excellent decision?
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I wrote this almost two years ago, about the history of the "Georgia Peach" and my advocacy of eating ripe stone fruit in the shower. Now it is stone fruit season again, and I am still alive, so I am reposting it.
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which doesn't mean that art is meaningless or that some arguments re: context, content & impact are more salient or better-reasoned than others; it just means *you actually have to think about each work, each time, instead of outsourcing judgement to the imagined Moral Rules*
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I made a game for the Cultivation #dogpitjam! It's pretty chill, if you were looking for something calming right now.
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