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Māori academic warns draft curriculum erases children's rights to local histories rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

@templetonf Not.

Thousand of #bluebottles #jellyfish washed up in the Kāpiti Coast. To swim or not to swim?…….

@JohnJCampbell Excellent. Hit many nails on many many (horrifying) heads.

Who are we? Where are we heading? And who will we be when we get there? My year-end politics column. Please read it (🙏🏽), no matter who you voted for, because - where are we heading? John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old? 1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/joh…

@MontyWrites Her quotes fab, but takes time, skill and patience to get someone to trust you with their story w that detail and depth.

@wetapunga21 Thanks. Well she wrote it herself in a way, with her grace and personality.

I meet some people who just blow you away with their attitude and achievements. Dr Waiora Port might well be the best of them. auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/0…

Short hair cuts gonna come back. So cool and styling, Japan!

@DianaWichtel Ditto! Sent copy to friend who was recently attacked by magpie. She loved, and bought last copy in rangiora (for someone else) where it selling like hotcakes.

Late to the party with Catherine Chidgey’s The Axeman’s Carnival, a tale told by a magpie. I squawked aloud racing through the last nerve shattering pages. Also very funny and thoroughly brilliant.

All hail the book of the year newsroom.co.nz/all-hail-the-b…

@alexGspence Heart so goes out to you Alex. Kia Kaha and aroha.

When I was a kid my Dad read the NZ Herald at the kitchen table early every morning before work. Today, the newspaper published his death notice. 🙁

Oho! Good old Noelle wins best first book of nonfiction at the Ockham book awards. Great book! #theockhams

And the winner of the illustrated nonfiction prize at the Ockhams is the very good looking Jumping Sundays by very nice guy Nick Bollinger #theockhams

@CatherineQ I’ve had quite a few 1.5 hour ones. Obvi didn’t wanna make it longer by moving. I’ve found, along w all slow breathing etc. Aligning the clanks and clangs with the sound of laurie Anderson’s ‘o super man’ v calming. Seriously!

@nzjazzhistory @DrDreHistorian Please don’t move to x place! We need you to capture nz jazz history, and you’re darned good at it.

@DrDreHistorian I hear you- so many people tell me I should move to X place, but I'm like it's hard enough researching NZ jazz *in* New Zealand, why would I want to make it harder on myself? (also it's not like it'll be any easier for me to get jobs elsewhere and I'd have no support system)

It is deeply strange to me how some academics put a premium on moving. There is this idea that by moving from institution to institution you are exposed to new intellectual networks—sure, up to a point, but I can safely say my publications would be little different had I never...

@manidunlop You will be greatly missed. Saying as middle aged pākeha woman who values your journalism, your style, and you inspiring and life changing normalisation of the use of te reo.

Masha Glesson on trans rights. Give it a listen: podcast.app/masha-gessen-o…

Give it a listen: podcast.app/masha-gessen-o…

Know someone has probably asked/done already, but couldn’t someone set up a Duelling Banjo challenge with our mayor? Filmed live?

@SteveBraunias Wish you could wind back clock, and be a student again? So many study options these days.

Walked past two classrooms at Auckland University. First whiteboard was headed FORMS OF RACISM and the next NON-SPHERICAL GLASS CONTAINERS PACKAGING

@NTLive Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, at a Drive In, circa 69.

What is the first film you remember seeing at the cinema as a child?🍿

@MontyWrites @BLACKCAPS I heard result pretty much live on motorway home. So dearly wished I was there with you at that moment!

When there’s an epic cricket victory like that by the @BLACKCAPS I really miss being in a newsroom where I wouldn’t be the only one screaming like a maniac or being asked “who’s playing” or “how many balls left?” 🤣 Soz I love you my Uni colleagues. ❤️