Wendy Parkins

I actually have really hot polls, but you wouldn't know them, they're from the UK

It's genuinely insane that our own Prime Minister doesn't know that it is literally part of his job to explain.

where does it run, Sarah?

You know what won’t get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

Sunlight and solar panels.

#MakeOilHistory

Hi, if you’re asking AI to write your book you’re not actually writing. You’re poking a Frankenparrot fashioned from rotting flesh on stolen bones covered in the feathers of a million other birds. You’re condoning theft. You’re trashing our planet. You’re robbing yourself of the chance to grow

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

"Clear majority of New Zealanders value the influence of the Treaty on Government decisions or thinking there should be more" is another way to package exactly the same results. A Choice that RNZ picked the way in the QT.

Judith Collins resigns after a near quarter century in politics She has been in Parliament for more than 20 years, as the MP for Clevedon, and then Papakura.

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment

I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

Key, English distance themselves from Collins Prime Minister John Key and deputy Bill English are distancing themselves from Justice Minister Judith Collins' actions in passing a public servant's information to a blogger.

I do remember when Judith Collins leaked the name and details of a public servant to the right wing attack blogger Cameron Slater and then the public servant received personal attacks and death threats. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

November 7 election, so make sure you're enrolled by mid October. #nzpol

100% this.

‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being

'The only way to grow healthy, robust social fibre is through building an independent and confident culture. And the only way to build a confident culture is through encouraging the arts, in all their forms, by creating the conditions to tell our own stories.'

#FundTheArts

Philadelphia in candlelight.
A city paused.
Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

with you all in spirit -- quite a gathering there! ❤️🎂

Living a rich and full life here, too. #amwriting

To which I would add: half-finished knitting projects and bags of 🧶.

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Currently watching TWO TV dramas where the protagonist is a woman writer who is annoying, whiny, and self-absorbed.
I've never felt so seen! #amwriting

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30,000 words in ... just keep digging!

And an extra shout-out to Jessie Mills, for her novel 'Rosalind'.

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