Columns

FUN THINGS… TO DO IN YOUR FLAT

Super Bot   Flat getting boring? Everyone sitting around staring at their phones? It’s time to introduce a game that has existed in parts of the country for a long time: Super Bot.  This game requires equal parts skill, luck, and poor decision-making.  What you need:  How to play:  Step one is simple; everyone finishes their drinks. Once

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Nexus Breaks the News

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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News

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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News

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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Columns

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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Columns

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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Columns

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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News

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

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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Columns

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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What’s the Buzz: The search for a new Queen Bee

What year is it? Because I thought it was 2026, three years after New Zealand’s last election, making it an election year. The behaviour of our political leaders does not seem to line up with this.  There’s no denying that as idyllic as the world would be if we all made educated votes

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Revealing Reviews #2

This educational game is excellent for teaching children about the economic state of the world right now and the oppressive system of capitalism. It starts off with an excellent metaphor in which you arrive on an island, expecting to start a new life, but the island is deserted. This is a specific

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My Sister Brought Home a Scientologist 

My sister has brought home another date. This one seems fine, but after Evan the fascist—anyone would seem fine. I look him up and down, and out of the corner of my eye, I see Mum and Dad giving him the same scanning stare.   Daniel had arrived exactly on time. He wore

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GAME OF PRICKS ONE 

I’m in Raglan now instead of the same couple suburbs of Hamilton and the street I live on in Cambridge which have been my only routine sights out of a sense of complacency for the past whatever.  Alsatia splashes water over herself on the front porch of her cousin’s bach and I’m leaning against the yay-high chainlink fence strangling

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Bring back Radio alarm clocks.

I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life waking up to the dreaded sound of Apple’s radar alarm sound. Dididi-dididi- dididi-dididi DIDIDI-DIDIDI. And I never stopped to think about why. Why was I torturing myself this way every morning, letting this sonic harassment continue. I decided enough was enough. I’d had it. After literally 2 minutes on Facebook

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Bacchanalia: The Human Factor. 

Bacchus is an imported god. Not only was Bacchus (under the name Dionysus) influential in the golden age of Greece and Rome he regained a great deal of popularity during the High Renaissance in Neo-Platonic and humanist artwork as a symbol of pleasure and celebration and holds an important place in modern

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Power, Grief, and the Making of the Taj Mahal

In 1606, a 15-year-old prince named Khurram returned in the city of Lahore. He did not know that this visit would become a major turning point in his life. For amid the colour and festivities of the Meena Bazaar during Nowruz, Khurram crossed paths with a young girl who would change the fate of

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Fun Things to Do at Your Flat #3: Red Cards 

This week’s boredom killer is simple, chaotic, and guaranteed to create stories you’ll be hearing about all year: Red Cards.  Here’s how it works. Every flatmate (or anyone in the group) gets one “red card.” You can play it at any time, for any reason. When you pull your card, everyone has to drop what they’re doing and commit to whatever you’ve called no questions

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Fun things to do at your flat #2 – Library Box

This one isn’t actually at your flat and you don’t need a flat to do it you just need some willing friends and some alcoholic ambition  What you need :  Method:  This is an ideal red card for study week or just whenever you’re bored, it is a good way to be productive, and also get fucked up. The rules are simple: you can’t leave

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Revealing Reviews 

This gripping, action packed show is one that touches the depth of your soul and reminds you of the importance of found family. It starts off with very high stakes, as the main character is exiled from her highly privileged society by its ruler to gain a larger fellowship. As the first episodes unfold

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sonspotter daughter  

do I have to tear my brains out   do I have to break to remember what broke me   do I have to face the broken vase of facts  I cant be a plastic bag, sacrificed for turtle’s fad of suicide  so I just cry  I will be polyethylene, I  ‘ll make you miss me,

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REST, RAJAB

Hind Rajab was five years old when she, after witnessing the killings of six of her family members, was herself murdered by members of the

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THE ALMIGHTY ALGORITHM

Swipe.   Next reel.  Swipe.   Next Tik Tok.  Again. Again. Again. Again. It never ends. The algorithm feeds you more. It gives you what you want.

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Beating Endo

By Maya Trotman Nearly every evening I would be sitting on the couch with a heat pack on my stomach holding painkillers with a glass

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Sterling Point 

Rating: 5/5 Released just last month on Prime Video, Sterling Point is an effortless teen drama that includes comedy, mystery, and one-too-many Camp Rock 2

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Lost Weekend – Phoebe Bridgers

Rating: 4/5 Phoebe Bridgers’ new record, Lost Weekend, continues her evolution as an artist, remaining relatively mainstream, yet her music reflects an uncompromising originality we

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OBITUARIES 

Towards the end of August, we were rocked by a string of high-profile deaths.  On the 25th of the month, the Queen of Country, American

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Horoscopes – Issue 19

Aries: Just an idea… Start that assignment before 11:47pm. Your future self will thank you.  Taurus: Treat yourself, but maybe check your bank account first.

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