FNC - Clocking in at the opinions factory 😔

You are going to pay either way

As you will have seen online, rapper Macklemore has been removed from Ed Sheeran's tour as a support act due to his support for Palestinians and his vocal demands that the genocide should end. Macklemore released a statement that is one of the best I've read

Yes it’s time to give up Harry Potter (it was time 10 years ago)

Swap your books for a backbone. 🚨Content warning: Transphobia. Please take care while reading this. Trans people have always existed and will always exist. You are loved and valued and I’m sorry you have to face any of this sh*t. Also, everything in this article is my honest

FNC - Joy, joy joy

Do you want to hurt people?

Whenever I see a new policy announced by ACT, NZ First, or National, I genuinely wonder who they're targeting. Call me a drooling woke snowflake, but I can't figure out how people go through life excited by policies that amount to 'we get to hit

A Brighter Future for community care

Better things are possible

FNC - Sunshine is gonna fix it

Everything is f**ked, everybody sucks

Five ways to cope with climate anxiety. Many of us have seen, and are still seeing, horrifying footage from Nepal of the deadly floodwaters. Thousands are missing; the economic cost is more than $5 billion; the human cost will likely never be fully known. This is climate change. It'

Emily's sick :(

Hi! Josh here. Emily is sick this week; there's a lot of it going around. If you feel like wishing her well in the comments, I'm sure that would be appreciated! Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email!

FNC - More divorce!

Welcome to Friday Night Chats! I'm so happy you're here. How has your week been? What are your weekend plans? Let's chat! Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Skip to comments What a week! We

Why Medical Supplies, Not Potato Chips, Are the Real Test of Humanity

Dr Jehad Malaka is our reporter in Gaza. Your subscription and koha allow me to pay him to share stories from the genocide in Palestine. Thank you for your generosity and thank you Dr Malaka. This piece has a call to action for us and I hope you'll

How to vote strategically in November

Every election cycle, you start to see it. Experts (well, actually, people who are absolutely not experts at anything) and commentators claim everyone must vote strategically. At the same time, others (also not experts) claim voting strategically isn’t possible or even moral. It’s enough to confuse anyone. And

This government is making you sick

So many of us are sick. And there's a reason for it.

FNC - Big wins!

Please, I need to go to the white lady sanctuary

As soon as it was published, I had dozens of messages directing me to it. How do the tiny people in my phone know my specific brand of psychosis so well? I am so into Millennial Beige Culture. There's literally never a time I don't want

Lindsay Clancy and the future that could have been

In another world there is healing. This post is about Lindsay Clancy. You don’t have to read it. It’s OK to just choose not to read about this topic because it’s too close to home, or it’s too hard, or it just hurts too much. It’

FNC - Well that was a week

Will Luxon roll over?

Which muppet will run the show?

Three minutes: It’s dangerously easy to get weight loss drugs

Please take care reading this piece: It talks about weight, weight-loss and fatphobia. I use the term ‘fat’ throughout because I view the term as a descriptor. You might disagree; that’s OK. When a friend told me you can get the weight-loss jab online within minutes, delivered

FNC - '...saying thank you faster and faster'

Welcome to Friday Night Chats! I'm so excited! My trip with my girls is tomorrow! It's going to be so fun. And my boy had a great week at school. He talked to one of the kids! I hope you had a great week too. Let&

Thank you Wētā for making a f*ckable basket

🚨WARNING: This post contains THIRST. For a BASKET MAN. It's possible this makes me a BASKET CASE. Which is to say this is a classic Emily Writes THIRST POST that is deeply SILLY and if you're not into that consider yourself TOLD and STOP READING IMMEDIATELY

The Ministry of Education is using so much AI it can't tell us how much AI it's using

The Ministry doesn't seem to want the public to know exactly how much AI it's using - or what it's using AI for.

FNC - My bestie's back

Kia ora, welcome to Friday Night Chats! It's so nice to have you here. It's been a real week of high highs and very low lows, so it's nice to be together here. I am feeling very happy today though. The sun is out

Your children are unpredictable

This week my son spoke to his class. This might not seem like a big deal, but it really, I mean really, is a big deal. My son has not spoken to another child his age for a long time. Almost two years. This year, he started at a new