Laurie Winkless

My latest for Spectrum!

Final reminder: You have until midnight to enrol to vote

I was horrified to see in @bernardchickey.bsky.social's newsletter this morning that there are 107,000 voters missing from the #NZ electoral roll with three days left before enrolment closes 🤯 Please ask everyone you know / meet over the weekend if they've enrolled yet! #nzpol

As predicted no UK mainstream media has mentioned the overturning of the New Zealand puberty-blocker ban, despite it being covered by Reuters.

Pals in-and-around the Wellington region! I am running some festive #needlefelting classes at Village Beads Petone in Nov/Dec. Suitable for beginners❤️ Baubles ($70) Sun 29th Nov, 9:30am - 12pm Wed 9th Dec, 5pm - 7:30pm Mini wreaths ($60) Sun 6th Dec, 5pm - 7pm www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/classes

Incredible news!!! Congrats @pipadam.bsky.social - so well deserved 👏🥳🎉

Make sure you’re enrolled to vote before the sun sets on Sunday! vote.nz

My NZ PLR count - a record of the number of copies of my books held in #NZ libraries - just arrived. Turns out that there are more copies of Sticky in libraries now than there were when it was published (2022). This only happens because of people requesting it. So, if you did that, thank you ❤️

2023: An undercover sting operation reveals a Saudi project to manufacture demand for fossil fuel exports, using stuff like Bitcoin mining, supersonic jets and floating heavy oil power stations Fossil fuel companies want to be needed, and when they're not, they gotta fake the need ->

Installed 😅

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Barbarism. Pure and undiluted. Europe cannot remain silence and pretend this falls within the “shared values”. If any other country did this, the EU would issue a public condemnation.

Resharing this because I think its one of the coolest opportunities I've had in ages! 🧪⚛️👩‍🔬

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

And the Nobel prize in chemistry goes to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis! nobelprize.org/prizes/about/prize-announcement-dates/ #ChemNobel

the tech industry is about to invent books

The Nobel Committee lauded Halzen for a “scientific vision [that] provides the basis for new research in the future of his field.” Read about the award: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

The ghostly particles shed light on the distant universe

Working on three big articles at once - one on cryogenics, one on glass fibres, and the other focused on geothermal energy - is really testing my brain (& I fear she's failing 😭😂)

Yasssssss! #nzpol Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities | RNZ share.google/UG2gnABxcoiZ...

Bouncy doggo joy 🥰

We’re grateful for any and all donations - our bottom line is the Tika service remains free for all survivors. givealittle.co.nz/org/tika

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

This is vitally important mahi from @alisonmau.bsky.social and Zoë Lawton - a way to keep sexual assault victims safe while also seeking justice. H/T @davidfarrier.com for highlighting this. I've just made a donation. If you can afford to, please consider it too www.webworm.co/tika/?ref=we...

Farrar vs. Farrier: how to tell the difference. By @xtotl.bsky.social Toby Morris.

Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.

“It is ironic, to say the least, that if Jordan Williams had not publicised the non-existent book, these inside sources would most likely never have contacted me and the book we are here to launch today would not have been written.”

Rāhui placed on Te Whiti Riser track www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

I have been a subscriber @bernardchickey.bsky.social's excellent newsletter, The Kākā, for years now, and have recommended it to friends, colleagues and whānau. So imagine my delight to see that he included my H2 trains piece in today's roundup! Thanks Bernard 😊 thekaka.substack.com/p/mondays-ea...

Wowwww 😍 via @thisiscolossal.com www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/larg...

wahooo i vote for this lil one every year 😭❤️ www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Resharing my latest piece for @forbes.com - it's all about rail and the various low-emission options for powering it 🧪👩‍🔬⚛️ www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

My latest for @forbes.com has just gone live: www.forbes.com/sites/laurie... 🧪👩‍🔬⚛️

So desperately needed! Yay!