Tze Ming Mok 莫志明

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🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com Opinions only my own, you can't have them Auckland, City of Fails

The Bullingdon Club, Bojo Era - A group of whiteboy fuckwits in some special matching tuxedos, lording about on some steps
The timing of this highly salient event during ongoing fieldwork for the British Election Study (Fieldhouse et al., 2025) enables us to leverage an ‘unexpected event during survey design’ (UESD) identification strategy (Munoz et al.,2020) to identify the causal effects of exposure to Labour’s rhetorical shift. By exploiting both the as-good-as-random variation in survey timing and a panel data framework, we estimate within-individual changes in immigration attitudes, party perceptions, and vote intentions attributable to treatment. **Our identification strategy thus offers a rare combination of internal and external validity: exogenous assignment to a real-world treatment in a large-N survey.** [yeah baby] Our analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we show that Starmer’s speech caused a sharp increase in the salience of immigration, evidenced by increased media reporting as well as spikes in internet search activity and online political discussion. Second, we demonstrate that exposure to the speech caused voters to update their perceptions of the UK Labour Party, identifying the social democratic party as more anti-immigration and right-leaning. This re-evaluation of the party’s position, however, coincided with more negative assessments of the party’s handling of the issue alongside a spike in the overall assessment of immigration as the most important issue of the day. Rather than neutralising the issue, Labour’s accommodation made it more salient. Finally, we demonstrate that Labour’s shift right-ward on immigration provided zero electoral rewards. Instead, we find robust evidence that treatment induced within-individual declines in Labour support across several measures. On average, treatment decreased voting intentions for Labour by 1.2 percentage-points (p<0.05) and resulted in a 3.9 percentage-point (p<0.05) haemorrhage in support from Labour’s own former voters without attracting any new supporters.
An unlikely consensus This is probably the part of the story where you’re thinking programme providers will righteously defend their own work. That’s what I thought, too, when I rang Merran Lawler, chief executive officer of Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga, the National Network of Family Violence Services. She found The Backbone Collective report “depressing reading, but also completely unsurprising”. There’s a reason she’s not defensive. A room where one of the hundreds of stopping-violence programmes held around New Zealand takes place. A room where one of the hundreds of stopping-violence programmes held around New Zealand takes place. Photo: RICKY WILSON “At one level the report could be read as attacking the credibility and the viability of stopping violence services and programmes,” she says, “but it’s far more nuanced than that.” She cites a key date: 2014, the year Programme Approval Panels were abolished. Made up of victim-survivor advocates, alongside organisations and experts in stopping violence, their job was to approve programme design and content. Their abolition was a philosophical decision, Lawler says, and a financial one. “To get the cheapest possible services from a wider range of providers. “It’s fair to say that it has resulted in the dumbing down of the sector. The safeguards were much better at the turn of the century than they are today."
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey, the vintage green cover with the crystal forest
Krachai/Gachii/Fingerroot/Chinese Keys plant, a little raggedy due to turn off the season but well-eatablished, from Botany Plant Barn in a box with chinchilla treats from Botany Petstock
'It's anti-Italian discrimination' meme from The Sopranos except 'it's Anti-porcine discrimination', because it totally is.
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social's Global Far Right Power Grab meme, a keeper for all seasons: Four panel "cosmic brain" meme with the following captions: Normal brain: it's a global far right power grab Genius brain: Aligned corrupt entities in each nation-state are collaborating in order to consolidate resources and power Galaxy brain: State and non-state actors are using hybrid warfare techniques on the public at large to leveraging climate crises into gardening borders and demonizing immigrants for their own gain Cosmic brain: It's a global far right power grab
(David Viney) productivity J-curve after new technology introduction 'What stakeholders mistakenly expect' is immediate improvement 'What is possible with sound change management' i.e.focus on systems improvement and training, is still productivity decline before improvement. 'What actually happens most of the time' is a v dramatic drop-off in productivity before improvement at some point in the future, who knows when. Research shows that this is especially so when the focus is cost-cutting and getting rid of workers.
Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face in the midst of a violent altercation with a pair of boomer sleepers for the Weatherish Underground, responding to their insult that she is a 'fucking Millennial'. Outraged, haggard, she speaks for us all when she declares "I'M A CUSPER YOU FUCKING PSYCHOS"
Pho tai with fresh red chilli slices next to plate of accompanying garnishes - laksa leaf aka Vietnamese mint aka rau ram, mint, basil mint, lime wedges, spring onion
Cover of Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa, ed Grace Gassin 林素真
Double-page section title spread, grey-black caps on green background '6. ASIANS AND WORKERS' RIGHTS IN AOTEAROA' yeeeeeah boiiiiii
A close-up detail of the embroidery. The top shows North Vietnamese soldiers beating rural people, and part of a detention centre where people are labouring. Below is the water, featuring people on small boats evading a police boat, with giant sharks in the water and people who have fallen overboard. at the bottom is part of the UNHCR detention centre with barbed wire, but no beatings and normal activities for children going on.
Me and Keith Ng circa 2005/2006 realising we'd accidentally dressed as the angel and devil on your shoulders. Holy shit it was 20 years ago but honestly we look kind of the same, except Keith has hair. I am wearing a long white coat and a slightly unhinged grin, Keith is giving a very serious look to camera with an arched brow and wearing a long black coat. We are in my living room where I still live after spending a decade abroad shortly after this. Behind on the wall are a Tiger Balm poster, a Gordon Walters koru poster I got for free at Artspace, and a small print of Magritte's 'Hegel's Holiday', and also behind me is a CATHODE RAY TELEVISION.
Except from 'A Call from the Farthest Trumpet' by @keithng.bsky.social in 'Between Dreams: Resistance and representation in Asian Aotearoa' (released next week by Te Papa Press, ed. Grace Gassin). It wasn't always a smooth journey, but it was a journey towards finding our place here. Hong Kong continued to exist in our lives and our identity, but it was just our place of origin. It was our past. New Zealand was our present and our future. As I grew up and drifted into journalism and writing in the early 2000s, I found myself fighting for our place. Behind every claim that 'Asians were doing all the crimes' or 'Asians were buying all the houses' was an unspoken belief that white Pākeha New Zealanders doing crimes or buying all the houses was normal and accepted - a sort of customary right - but Asian New Zealanders doing the same things violated the conditions of our citizenship. As if our citizenship was probationary and had to be earned continuously. In many ways, those of us in that cohort (including fellow author in this book Tze Ming Mok) were in a generational sweet spot. We were old enough to be taken seriously, but young enough to be reckles. Our families had been here long enough for us to be culturally fluent, but not so long as to have the baggage that came with having to survive and prosper in a more racist past.
Large glass bottle of Squid brand fish sauce, about five dollars
Keith’s contributor copy of Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa on a table, on top of the delivery packaging and letter from Te Papa. The cover is a multicolored post-it note ‘Lennon Wall’ mosaic from the Auckland Hong Konger 2019 Anti-Extradition protests that sparked off a wider uprising and authoritarian crackdown that effectively ended HK’s One Country Two Systems limited democracy era.
Fully grown galangal node with luscious long leaves reaching higher than the kitchen benchtop it leans against, its fragrant root wrapped in a dumpling-skin packet.
Baby mini purple daikon radish nestled in my palm, just a funny lil guy with a ton of personality and a wee green hat
Mark Chadbourn ‪@chadbourn.bsky.social‬ The US has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets, Reuters reports. 9:25 PM · Apr 11, 2026 79 reposts 27 quotes 378 likes 7 saves [NEXT POST IN THREAD IS] Mark Chadbourn ‪@chadbourn.bsky.social‬ A senior US official has denied there is yet any agreement to release frozen Iranian assets, CBS News reports. 10:26 PM · Apr 11, 2026 16 reposts 1 quote 96 likes 1 save
View from above of a second floor terraced apartment balcony with a beautifully clear ledge for cyclone safety but down on the tiles a shit-ton of veg, herbs and seedlings in plant pots & planters, water buckets, loads of stacked pots, little spinning compost bins, oh also a BBQ, watering cans, is that a jerry can of petrol lol, it’s a lot crammed into about a 3 to 4 square metre strip, am I a maniac from a distance? Further below the downstairs neighbours’ little back yards are visible.
Penguin Classics version: Stunning full-colour classic composition of a giant squid in an epic aerial-style battle with a submarine above an erupting underwater volcano, amid Atlantean ruins, the background ablaze with red and blue, while a figure in an aquanaut suit watches on a cliff in the foreground like 'The New Zealander' observing the ruins of London by Gustave Dore
New World Chocolate mud cake fragments with tip top vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with crushed dehydrated raspberry and a cool tuile shard that is actually the icing of the cake that fell off, it looks cool and deconstructed and like I paid $12 for it at a nice Mt Eden cafe frequented by boomers
Meme of the cartoon borderline-stick figures, both competing in gymnastic floor exercise. Bottom, US: Is doing a lot. Kidnap Maduro, spend 8 trillion on the war on terror, kill soccor moms, ignore international law, threaten Canada, Destroy the middle East, threaten Greenland, Orchestrate copus, Destroy NATO, etc etc Use Nazi Slogans (we didn't even get onto Iran by this point for real), anwyay, the end is a literal flameout inot "lose" China is the girl at the top who walks onto the mat. Does Nothing. Wins.
Bowl of purple Māori potatoes and two stubby white daikons (F1 seol chun) in a Rebekah Jaung bowl, in front of a bunch of daikon tops that i had with chicken soup.
Water-worn green plastic fragment of I think the spout cuff on a Sistema drink bottle of the kind a very little primary school kid would use, my child is 14
Young Mel Gibson looking soulfully blue-eyed in one of those real Australian-looking cowboy-type WW1 army digger hats with the side brim pinned up, I dunno what those hats are called but it's extremely Australian, in 1981's 'Gallipoli', dir. Peter Weir
Lay's chips: "India's Magic Masala". Blue background, images of chopped chilli, chilli flakes, black pepper, coriander leaf
The Spinoff official guide to buying chips in NZ 2026 A two-way table, here is the data in csv format (no recommendation = 0, recommended=1, highly recommended=2): ,Ready Salted,"Salt & Vinegar, Cheese, Herbs, Spices",BBQ/Chicken,Cheese,Herbs,Spices Thin cut,1,0,0,0,0,1 Classic Wavy,2,1,1,0,1,0 Thick Cut,0,2,0,0,1,0 Kettle Cut,1,1,2,0,2,0 Corn,0,0,0,2,0,2 Reconstituted,0,0,1,1,0,1
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once, mid-wushu-flurry at the IRS, covered in the stains of battle and clad in floral and velour Chinese Auntywear, with a googly-eye about one chun above yintang. Receipts hang in the air under fluorescent-lit ceiling panels.
Graph of StatsNZ pop projections for Asians, Indians and Chinese. Line go up. More up for Asians and Indians than Chinese. Title of graph is 'Chinese being crushed by other Asians by 2043, everyone cheers (except the Chinese, but then again maybe it's a relief??)'
Jar of simple acar - Malay pickle featuring cucumber, carrot, beans, chilli, cabbage, turmeric, garlic, shallot
Jeff Yang: ‘Freid onions’
Shit-ton of chicken in large steel bowl nearly invisible under pile of multicolored spices and herbs
Giant bowl of sliced onions next to wok full of deep-frying onions next to big bowl of fried onions
Hamo @hamo.bsky.social 10/2/2023 nzpol Winston Peters 2017: Capitalism has failed our society Winston Peters 2023: The UN is hiding in my toilet
Hetero-beige (this is a real classification) chinchilla with freckly ears, poking its face out from under its curtain-blankey and looking sleepy-cute
Carlos Cheung outside Roskill New World My supermarket burned down so I returned to the Homeland I cried through the tunnel that runs back through all one’s failures and at the end was only you, Carlos. Cold-shouldered by the carpark wind, nervously fingering your thin pamphlet-stack like not enough cash lor— hoping for friends you can’t afford. I had to decide quickly how mean I would be to a National Party MP, I was walking too fast, my momentum carried me past with only time for an icy ‘hello’, as in ‘I know you— I know the hope that warmed you at the sight of my face, for you have the need that marks us: The need for the unyielding to learn to give; for the survivors to be forgiven. You want me to be proud of you but I am not.’ Was this too mean? Our curse blew across him, on the rag-and-bone Nor’westerly. When I came out a man was complaining to him about a tree.
'It's an honor just to be Asian' - Sandra Oh
Hipkins: On balance, NZ's Covid response one of the world's best
Sandwich bread (long-keeper) No-knead overnight (or over a working day) half-Shokupan, adapted from https://www.emmafontanella.com/no-knead-sandwich-bread 420g (3 cups) white bread flour ½ tsp yeast 2 tbsp caster sugar 1 tsp salt 4 tbsp milk powder 1 cup + 3 tbsp (300ml) warm water 2 tbsp oil Part 1: Mix the dry ingredients in a big tupperware or bowl (at least 3 or 4 litres). Make a well, pour in the oil, then the water. Stir together until well hydrated. It will be fairly wet and sticky. Cover and leave for a bit, and with wet hands do maybe 2 x stretch & folds within the first hour or two, meaning you make a short series of as-long-as-possible pulls from the centre outwards then fold back into the centre, until it forms a tight ball. If you only have time to do this once, that’s fine. Leave in warm place covered for 8-9 hrs. (Much longer that this and it may overproof and start collapsing. If you need to leave it 10-12 hrs, leave it in a less warm place, or reduce to 1/3 tsp yeast). Dough should triple in size. Part 2: With floured hands, pull out onto floury bench and roll out with rolling pin into a flat oblong. Roll into one big tight loaf-sausage, or for more assurance of even sizing, cut and roll into 3 fat little sausages, shokupan/Hokkaido milk bread style. Place in lined and/or buttered loaf tin, cover with teatowel and leave for second rise in warm place for ~2hrs or until loaf rises above the edge by 1 ½ cm or more. Bake at 180 degrees C for 25 minutes. Leave to cool for at least one hour before slicing. You can time it so you do Part 1 in the morning before work, and Part 2 after work, so you have bread for lunch sandwiches the next morning. ¬ Note: Make sure you use milk powder, not fresh milk for this adaptation, otherwise you do not get a good rise with this low level of yeast.
China, a stick figure girl standing on a gym mat doing nothing: Do Nothing; Win US doing a whole lot of flameout gymnastics including: Spend 8trillion on the War on Terror, Kidnap Maduro, Kill Soccer Moms, Destroy the Middl eEast, Orchestrate Coups, Destroy NATO, Use Nazi Slogans, not even getting to cause global oil crisis - lose
Paper bag of feijoas from an Eastern Suburbs aunty via Roskill distribution hub
Screenshot of the right-hand side of the Magritte painting 'Decalcomania', with the empty silhouette of a Business Daddy cut out of a red curtain, through which you see a pleasant vacant view of the sea and sky with floofy white cumulus.
A black and white photograph from WWII of a young Cantonese woman with her hand on her hip, wearing a KMT-supplied uniform with a CCP-supplied gun in her belt. Photo likely taken in the borderland jungles between Kelantan and Thailand.
Quote tweet: Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 ‪@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social‬ Marama turns up, immediately starts shitposting. This is the way. Marama Davidson ‪@maramadavidson.bsky.social‬ It was RIP to National Party's Meme account. #Neva4Get Screenshot of more quote tweet exchanges, OP is Marama with her legendary "Who is WAP? Asking for all us nanas" National Party's Meme Working Group @NZNationalMemes "Well-thought Actual Policies. Something you have none of." [yeah, really] Marama: "You will never make anyone WAP with such weetbix replies. slay better."
Zack Polanksi liking my skeet about the UK Labour Party shooting itself in the dick with its own gun
Iraq's Minister of Information during the 2003 Iraq War, nicknamed 'Comical Ali' due to his relentless shitposting via the medium of press conference
@musicalchairs.bsky.social chart showing NZ's Consumer Price Index is almost entirely predicted by the annual change in diesel retail price https://bsky.app/profile/musicalchairs.bsky.social/post/3m2bdqqcuik26
Captain Christopher Pike in Strange New Worlds, declaring intensely: "this is my moment", while in a planetary-radiation-induced dementia-loop.
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters have released a joint statement condemning "in the strongest terms" Iran's "indiscriminate" retaliatory attacks on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, but not condemning the illegal 'pre-emptive' strikes on Iran that occurred in the midst of peace negotiations and which have been CONDEMNED BY THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL "We cannot risk further regional escalation, and civilian life must be protected." "New Zealand has consistently condemned Iran's nuclear programme, its destabilising activities in the region and elsewhere, and its repression of its own people," the statement read. "Iran has, for decades, defied the will and expectations of the international community. The legitimacy of a government rests on the support of its people. The Iranian regime has long since lost that support. "In this context, we acknowledge that the actions taken overnight by the US and Israel were designed to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security," the statement said. The pair called for negotiations to continue and expressed hope the military escalation in the Mideast, described as a "crisis", "ends as quickly as possible".
Big bowl of pho tai
Big pot of beef bones, gravy beef, charred/cleaned onions&ginger and a bag of toasted spices simmering in a lot of water and fish sauce
Roll safe guy tapping his head that I copy-pasted from browser search
1970s/80s Malaysian brand rice cooker with an instant pot steamer lid cos I researched so hard to get a lid in the right size and this was the only option
Jarvis Cocker, vamping and flourishing his fingers
Person with short dark hair and floppy fringe with large black spectacles, in a 1970s London immigrant’s electrician uniform jacket
Triple boobed loaf of no-knead overnight semi-Shokupan (milk bread)
Sandra Oh at the Academy Awards: It's an honor just to be Asian.