Nexus Breaks the News – 23/3/26

Trump buys all of his staff the same shoes, guesses shoe sizes:   There are so many layers to this that I could make a joke about this with, but the fact he said “everyone’s afraid not to wear them” says enough I think.  A drone looking for a missing man finds a bear waking

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SAVE THE PLANET? LET’S FUCK UP SPACE INSTEAD!

Ok, technically not the view of anyone not wearing a Maga hat or owning Twitter but it isn’t far off, at least according to Dr Anna Marie Brennan, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law.   In an interview with the University of Waikato Dr Brenan (pictured) said private companies are rapidly turning asteroid mining into a

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NOT DEAD YET: Nexus CRITICal response to Otago and OUSA.

Toward the end of the 2010s then Nexus Editor Lyam Buchanan and Critic Editor Joel McManus before people recognised his actual talents in journalism, hatched a scheme to buy Wellington’s Salient Magazine. Now, Salient was never actually for sale, but issues with Victoria University and VuWsa had created a significant risk that

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10 WORST ATHLETES/TEAMS OF 2025

10. THE WARRIORS Don’t listen to anyone who said this year was our year. Next year is definitely our year. 9. HARRISON BUTKER Last year, the Kansas place kicker spewed awful right-wing role of the woman shit, at a graduation speech. But if anything, he keeps doubling down on it.

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Culture Vs Costume

By Aya Birt “Goth” is the term for a political and music-based subculture, born out of the existentialism of the 1970s. Much like many of the other emerging genres at the time it concerned itself with personal anguish, autonomy and often very dark themes that commented on the human experience.

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Aesthetic Of The Macabre

Written by Aya Dead bodies are a favourite topic of conversation across the humanities. It seems that there’s just something fascinating about the dark, decaying and macabre. Every culture has practices and beliefs that it lends to death; their own funeral rites they grant to those who pass. One of

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Warding us from the bad path: A crash-course in Māori wards

Written by Te Paea Parengaio Maurirere A quick history:  Let’s back up to 2001. Māori wards were introduced under the Local Electoral Act to give Māori a voice in local government. For many years, councils rarely created them because the law made it easy for a small number of people

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Editorial – 22/58

Tattooing is one of the raddest, welcoming, quirkiest, creative, and friendly cultures I’ve ever encountered. I have twenty tats, nothing compared to Ruby or Lans or folks who’ve had the money or connections and time to really get inked. I’ve enjoyed every one. Nearly half of them I’ve done, about

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Nexus Knows

Anonymous: How to survive a 9 am lecture?   Nexus: The first step is to determine whether your routine needs to/ can change. Do you need to change your sleep schedule and are you capable of doing so? If so, this is a good place to start to get more energy

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