Eddie Clark

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Senior Lecturer at VUW Faculty of Law. Administrative law and public law theory.

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Publicwrongs on the bird site.

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Watching The Boyfriend on Netflix and think it's quietly quite important. Less posturing than most reality TV, lots of sweet but complicated guys, and a very useful insight into what's the same and what's different about being a gay man in Japan.

Important nz news: the current pineapple lump special edition - choc orange lumps - are the extremely good. Dead ringer in flavour profile for a Terry's chocolate orange, but chewy. Yum.

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[Inland Empire - Formidable]

A cursed vision: a number of GOP convention delegates doing some kind of bloody-ear makeup on themselves in Milwaukee next week.

An absolute classic. Pick it up if you've not read it.

Jonathan Carroll's THE LAND OF LAUGHS is out now in a new eBook edition! zenoagency.com/news/jonatha... Published by @awfulagent.bsky.social, it's the first in a series of re-issues coming out this summer.

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THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE is the very first SFF I've ever read to accurately describe what's it like to go to a gay circuit party. And even more accurately describes what it's like to be a gay man going to one for the first time. It's the small things where rep really hits hard I think.

The LeGuin Award continues to have excellent taste in its shortlist! 2024 list just announced. www.ursulakleguin.com/prize24 Congratulations, @vajra.me, @emilytesh.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com and the others on the list! A mix of stuff I've read & liked & new to me stuff to add to the TBR.

Ursula K. Le Guin — 2024 Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)www.ursulakleguin.com

Technology ???? Emission reductions. www.stuff.co.nz/business/350...

Think there's something to this. Certainly, my "block early, block often" policy doesn't apply to people I'm close enough to that the relationship is social rather than para.

I am working on a theory that the outsized emotional reaction to blocking is because it is a violation (/illumination) of the parasocial relationship. In an actual relationship, a sudden and one-sided severance is generally understood to be a Really Big Deal, only used in egregious cases.

How wonderful. I love the pure sincerity that comes with through almost universally in these things.

Anyone who has done a PhD, or loved anyone who has done a PhD, will be familiar with the obligatory Acknowledgments section. This beautiful multimedia essay delves into the art of PhD Acknowledgments. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgementsscience.anu.edu.au After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

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"Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house..." Assuming there's no follow on treatment required and over time, repeated visits will quickly get into 5 figures of taxpayers money... This will cost ordinary NZers in so many ways...

1.3 million homes in NZ were built before 2000. Living areas and bedrooms in winter are 6°C below WHO healthy minimum indoor temp of 18°C. 70% of all NZ homes have no underfloor and insufficient ceiling insulation. Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house

Unhealthy livingarchitecturenow.co.nz We spend 70% of our time in our homes, yet many New Zealand homes are up to 6 degrees below the WHO's minimum of 18 degrees.

The first couple of Appleton Park holding court.

A thing it took me way longer to understand than it should have is that a person being subject to oppression and trauma can often explain shitty behaviour from people but it doesn't really excuse it. And certainly doesn't create an obligation to sit there and be harangued.

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It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

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This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

Tiki fuckin takka, eh?

That was a hell of a goal out of absolute nowhere.

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Just learned that Chloe Anne King, who has founded Raise the Bar Hospitality Union, and has been a tireless activist for working people recently suffered a seizure caused by a brain aneurysm. A Givealittle has been set up to support her recovery givealittle.co.nz/cause/recove...

Recovery for Chloegivealittle.co.nz Support Chloe's recovery from a brain aneurysm

Really cute small space in this wine bar in Kelburn and really, really good food too.

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“We would love Mr. Trump to join us in condemning political violence once and for all after the terrible incident on Saturday. This is a moment for him to help us unite the American people behind our true principle: We always solve problems through ballots, not bullets.”

If you're in the time zone for it I highly recommend a walk.

Hey y'all, if you are feeling panic right now I hope you can find a way to disengage. Nothing you can post on bluesky in the next hour is going to change November. Watch some TV! It doesn't even have to be Tudor horse man show! 💖

Back in town, back on my Sunday Zealandia bullshit. And I really don't think there's anything else I can productively post about.

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In case you missed it: A Meal of Thorns is a new podcast from the @ancillaryreview.bsky.social - a speculative bookclub where we dig into complex, interesting, thorny books with critics, scholars, and writers!

Feel like I have a bunch of followers who might like this: Starcom: Unknown Space is well done low budget star control meets low budget mass effect. About to exit early access & is having a final sale to celebrate. Well worth a 20 if this sort of space exploration is your thing.

Save 15% on Starcom: Unknown Space on Steamstore.steampowered.com Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted wor...

Think I'm of a age where I'm simply not on here or anywhere to hear assholes be assholes. If I know you, sure, I owe you a hearing. But random being a dick to me? Don't know you, don't care why, instablock. See people being a dick in a friend's mentions? Blooock. Maybe an overreaction? Who cares?

Weird that this place has a reputation as a place with insufficient critical debate. The critics who claim this must have missed the pervasive self righteous picks who seem determined to take their (often entirely legitimate) frustrations out on people not remotely responsible for them.

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I think a lot of people get into a bad space here because the people with power they actually want to yell at would never in a million years be on Bluesky so we end up yelling at people who aren’t that bad and it makes everyone pissy and weird

Absurdly good bundle. Thing about it is it's full of authors who basically don't put out *anything* bad so well worth taking a punt. Tidhar! Tchaikovsky! MacLeod! Robson! And way more people should read the hugely ambitious, beautiful mindfucks Aliya Whiteley always writes.

Delighted to launch the Best of British SF/F Bundle today! 10 books for $20! storybundle.com/bestof With @aptshadow.bsky.social and lots of people I can't find on Bluesky! But hey at least me and Adrian are here! Anyway, it's a steal! +raising money for @locusmag.bsky.social! Re-posts appreciated!

This book has been a bit of a sleeper but really is very good.

An evocative fantasy adventure through a singular landscape, INTO THE BROKEN LANDS follows a band of heroes on a quest through a magical and perilous swampland by SFF great @tanyahuff.bsky.social. Learn more: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/into...

At the risk of the wrath of lefty folks: These are in fact *actually different things*. Criminal is a subset of unlawful. There are lots of unlawful things (negligence, breach of contract, breaching regulatory requirements) which are illegal/unlawful but not criminal.

So its ok to do crime now? #nzpol #newZealand

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today the Spinoff published an article featuring gen AI redesigning the streets of Pōneke and uhh... it's not great anyway i wrote a response skyuni123.medium.com/my-future-p%...

My future Pōneke doesn’t feature generative AI.skyuni123.medium.com When we imagine our future, it shouldn’t look like this.