Byron C Clark

Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists'

Examples of extremist content will typically have content warnings, but vanilla politics posts will typically not

My Website: https://byron.geek.nz

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2026-03-25 23:18:05 UTC

I see 'touch grass' mostly directed towards young, very online left wing activists, but I think the person who most needs to get outside is the 50+ year old man who commented on an article about the Steven Colbert Lord of the Rings movie asking if the hobbits would have "purple hair and nose rings"

2026-03-25 08:02:53 UTC

If you joined InternetNZ last year to stop the hostile takeover by the FSU, here's a reminder to renew your membership before the end of the month.
Rumour has it the FSU may be attempting another takeover attempt
http://Internetnz.nz

2026-03-24 19:43:40 UTC

"genie, I want there to be passenger rail in Greater Christchurch"
"As you wish"
*Trains are full of rugby fans*
https://ebx.sh/BLQD3w

2026-03-09 06:30:23 UTC

I passed a cemetery today and saw a duck perched on a headstone 🦆 🪦
It got me thinking there's a spectrum of silly to spooky when it comes to birds in cemeteries

2026-02-23 17:48:33 UTC

I have little time to do any reading that's not thesis-writing related so I've started listening to audiobooks on my commute.
Currently listening to 'Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy' by Quinn Slobodian

2026-01-29 04:09:43 UTC

The workplace relations minister refusing to back a bill to address the issue of modern day slavery doesn't bode well for workplace relations

2026-01-18 03:00:08 UTC

It seems that three decades later this is still what the Internet is for, but today that nerd wants the average person to know they think that the new Star Trek series is excessively 'woke'*
*I'm aware Star Trek has been 'woke' since 1966
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/913/864/439/032/396/original/8718f850ef4f778f.jpg

2026-01-17 19:58:55 UTC

Watching The Listening Post on Al Jazeera, great piece on AI with @npub1fdr…lvhs
Before that they showed a brief clip of the US government's AI generated spokeswoman they're using for govt communications, anyone have any more info about that?

2025-12-28 23:11:09 UTC

1.6 million people in Gaza are facing acute food insecurity,. This includes over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women projected to suffer acute malnutrition through to April 2026
https://www.wfp.org/countries/palestine

2025-12-11 22:55:18 UTC

Still $5 an hour less than the Living Wage (likely an even bigger when the 2026 Living Wage rate is calculated)
If we're going to keep wages this low we need to somehow reduce the cost of housing, groceries and utility bills
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/minimum-wage-to-increase-from-april-next-year-govt-commits-to-bigger-rise-than-last-year/JMX5I5G6CBA5TITWZXHPIKXOBI/

2025-12-06 22:18:08 UTC

Ihab, who I've known for over a year now, messaged me this morning. Displaced multiple times, he's currently trying to raise $250 for winter clothes and blankets for his children
https://gofund.me/f3c9b468

2025-12-06 07:07:16 UTC

Pumpkin patch looking lush. This is all from seed, scattered directory on the ground
if you have a patch of dirt where you live I highly recommend buying a pumpkin at the end of winter and just spreading it's inards on it, grows like a weed
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/671/356/903/630/046/original/4bc840b0b9e62fe7.jpg

2025-11-28 23:19:34 UTC

Could Michigan send a furry to Congress?
I always thought if anything they'd elect a Juggalo first
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-furries/

2025-11-19 20:46:44 UTC

There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%)
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/578/319/818/231/457/original/30edbb3fb0f1b4fe.jpg

2025-11-04 20:54:16 UTC

Fellow Millennials and Gen Xers in Aotearoa; you have may seen comms from Heath NZ that we probably only had one MMR shot as children, I'm off to get a second one now. Talk to your GP or their nurse to see if you need one

2025-10-23 05:35:09 UTC

Hyper local post - pleased to see this, that site is close to Ara Institute and Christchurch Hospital, two of the city's biggest workplaces, and it's near the bus station. 120 homes will likely reduce traffic and the need for parking in the central city
https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/old-smiths-city-site-be-turned-housing

2025-10-15 06:59:09 UTC

It's fair to be asking, "who radicialised him?"
People with big online audiences spread hate targeting Doyle, making it more likely someone would act this way
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/gisborne-herald/news/gisborne-teen-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-mp-appears-in-court/ZBTWDBB7HNCEHC6JP5MNYHLJV4/

2025-09-27 06:03:26 UTC

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
- Desmond Tutu

2025-09-26 23:28:43 UTC

New Zealand will not recognise Palestine, putting us in a shrinking minority of countries, and demonstrating that the government is out of step with the voting population, and allowing foreign policy to be dictated by it's minor coalition partners
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574305/foreign-affairs-minister-winston-peters-speaks-at-un

2025-09-17 06:03:25 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/218/121/001/326/122/original/e7e42aec3c4e7cb0.jpg

2025-09-16 18:33:55 UTC

Stuff like this makes me think I picked the right time to study media and communications
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/215/409/780/040/460/original/297bbe9852441e1b.jpg

2025-09-07 00:03:09 UTC

I feel like historians and others spent a lot of time warning people that any new iteration of fascism isn't going to look like the fascisms of the past, but then you see propaganda posters like this and think, maybe it will after all
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/160/081/304/067/846/original/4d3f730b74290e85.jpg

2025-06-18 06:31:34 UTC

I haven't read the article (which is probably some click bait nonsense) but I'm getting a lot of mileage in the group chat from just the blurb alone
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/702/961/472/197/198/original/ef88f7cacfe20c57.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/702/961/467/789/091/original/6173d13fb207c8a7.jpg

2025-06-14 07:19:56 UTC

When you go to the drag show to support the community but also you're an introvert
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/680/502/336/360/711/original/b7b0023a7bde6481.jpg

2025-06-12 03:14:52 UTC

I find it weird that in the US you have to do P.E at university (something that stops being compulsory here when you're like, 15) but at least at MIT you can choose electives that give you a Pirate Certificate in addition to your degree
https://physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu/about/pirate-certificate/

2025-06-09 11:42:11 UTC

"This could be turned off immediately if people put enough pressure on the right governments, the right leaders.
I think, if we don’t turn it off soon, there won’t be a Gaza and there certainly won’t be Palestinians in Gaza."
https://aje.io/lyyd2t

2025-05-30 23:56:56 UTC

If you're in Auckland you can go buy the equipment used to make Newshub at this auction
https://www.thorntons.net.nz/auctions/detail/bw132721

2025-05-20 22:01:55 UTC

Unless aid is let in, 14,000 more babies could die in Gaza over the next 48 hours
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/un-says-no-aid-has-been-distributed-in-gaza-warns-14-000-babies-could-die-within-days/l9qzo180r

2025-04-22 08:18:05 UTC

😲
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/380/628/569/550/753/original/b31fcc401998f963.jpg

2025-03-31 20:34:06 UTC

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

2025-02-15 07:57:12 UTC

Two pride events in one day disrupted by Destiny Church
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-rainbow-parade-destiny-church-members-disrupt-procession-storm-ponsonby-rd/GAYYCR3YSRHLLEYLZ55Y4DWTIA/

2025-02-11 07:14:18 UTC

I still get asked sometimes "aren't you concerned about disinformation from the far-left?" The answer is always, yes, I am, there's just comparatively much less of it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study

2025-02-07 08:45:48 UTC

For a country thats spent the past 8 decades preducing novels and screenplays about the soul crushing nature of suburbia you'd think America would be less adverse to building walkable neighborhoods

2025-02-02 09:17:38 UTC

For my followers in Gaza (or from Gaza and recently left) I have funds available to pay people for writing their stories, which would then be published on two websites. Please message me if you're interested

2025-01-30 00:33:57 UTC

One of the few priests to be excommunicated twice by two different Popes. A traditionalist priest who quoted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion during sermons has died
https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/richard-williamson-traditionalist

2025-01-09 02:42:16 UTC

"the fascism we thought we had left behind is now the third political force in Europe"
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking at an event commemorating the death of fascist dictator Francisco Frank
https://aje.io/zbsvfq

2025-01-07 08:28:38 UTC

Cleaning out a cupboard and found I still have 10 copies of the oral history I did of the Occupy protest in Christchurch
If you pay $12 on ko-fi and dm me your address I'll send you one (only followers in New Zealand)
Ko-fi.com/byroncclark
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/786/127/466/170/698/original/c25f3e7cc0640b5e.jpg

2025-01-07 06:13:53 UTC

By age 40 in tech you should have:
An ESD strap you forget you own when its time to use it
Files stored on some kind of disk your computer can't read
A Raspberry Pi that you made into a retro video game console
A hole in the wall from when you did your own data cabling

2025-01-07 05:55:50 UTC

You can still submit on the Treaty Principles Bill up until 11:59pm
It's better to submit something, even just a few sentences, than nothing
https://www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCJUST_SCF_227E6D0B-E632-42EB-CFFE-08DCFEB826C6/CreateSubmission
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/785/526/642/472/715/original/e187ddb18a685f94.jpg

2025-01-07 04:49:06 UTC

Richard Sivell, the sovcit who threatened to kill Jacinda Ardern while she was prime minister, has once again failed to appear in court
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/richard-sivell-a-no-show-in-tauranga-court-over-threats-to-kill-dame-jacinda-ardern/Y2KQUBCBSNFANDOULXJYX4W6UA/

2025-01-03 08:12:28 UTC

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-says-elon-musk-seeking-to-sway-february-election/a-71186866

2025-01-03 00:28:26 UTC

Don't suppose anyone knows of an (English language) podcast I could subscribe to to follow the German election over the next 7 weeks?

2024-12-29 02:54:43 UTC

For a 2025 new years resolution you could get around to reading the copy of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists' that you purchased in 2023

2024-12-28 00:29:05 UTC

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(to be clear I personally support the right of people to live anc work wherever they want in the world, so in the absence of open borders the H1B visa scheme is a positive in that it allows more of that, but that isn't why the rich are supporting it)

2024-12-28 00:26:22 UTC

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The likes of Musk are not simply pro or anti immigration, they support an immigration system that suits their economic interests, that this would become a dividing line in the cross-class reactionary movement that Musk has aligned himself with isn't a surprise

2024-12-28 00:24:31 UTC

The furore over H1B visas on the US right is a also reminder that silicon valley would rather have a means to hire the highly educated workers of other countries than pay the taxes required for the US education system to produce those workers

2024-12-25 06:55:27 UTC

My 10 year old nephew is shaping the plasticine he got in his Christmas cracker into a statuette of Krampus while singing Wham's 'Last Christmas'
The children yearn for a yuletide demon

2024-12-25 03:09:14 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/711/261/543/438/730/original/b0a751e69735562d.jpg

2024-12-24 08:05:19 UTC

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Definitely the best character

2024-12-24 07:55:28 UTC

Say what you will about 'Love Actually' Bill Nighys line read on "fuck wank bugger shitting arsehole" during the opening credits is acting at it's finest

2024-12-23 07:34:57 UTC

Watching 'The Bibi Files' (2024) about the investigation into Benjamin Netanyahu for corruption that began in 2016. Having the country at war is helping him avoid justice, without the genocide in Gaza he may not remain in power
You can find this one on DocPlay

2024-12-23 04:41:46 UTC

Watching Garfield and Friends on Tubi and spotted the origin of the "I wonder who that's for" meme
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/700/300/764/971/501/original/9375a2f04d22d014.jpg

2024-12-19 02:54:53 UTC

Booktopia currently has my book on sale for 60% off
This is an Australian retailer but even with the shipping to New Zealand added that makes it the best deal at the moment
https://www.booktopia.com.au/fear-byron-clark/book/9781775542308.html

2024-12-16 10:07:47 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/661/946/562/796/508/original/3eed48baa9fc9095.jpg

2024-12-16 10:03:35 UTC

A friend posted a Garfield meme in our group chat so I renamed it "Garfield meme repository", made the theme orange, and gave everyone Garfield related nicknames. Why am I like this.

2024-12-11 10:07:12 UTC

Bloodywood released a track with Babymetal this week, letting you all know in case Bollywood J-Pop Heavy Metal fusion was missing from your life (it was missing from mine and I didn't even realise it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXlKxjlUoo

2024-12-11 06:55:11 UTC

There's a line in my book 'Fear' where I call the Canterbury Socialist Society a club for people with English lit degrees who enjoy craft beer. I'm at the society's Christmas quiz and the last round was "Craft beer or politician nickname?"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/632/877/646/779/640/original/c0284d5664e43127.jpg

2024-12-11 00:25:41 UTC

I've taken this article (and another) out from behind the paywall because I think it's important for people to understand who the "pro-Israel" protesters outside parliament today are and what motivates them
https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/christian-zionism-or-why-brian-tamaki

2024-12-09 08:53:06 UTC

If you're considering giving the gift of antifascist literature this holiday season, Mighty Ape currently has my book on sale for $22 plus shipping
https://www.mightyape.co.nz/mn/buy/mighty-ape-fear-35911030

2024-12-04 04:00:44 UTC

Judith Collins making me tap the sign
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/marsden-fund-refocused-science-purpose
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/592/555/501/864/502/original/55119f8338cc0319.jpg

2024-12-01 19:27:24 UTC

While this abuse was happening Destiny Church were holding protests against "groomers" outside libraries and medical clinics
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/destiny-church-predator-kiwa-hamiora-te-hira-admits-to-hundreds-of-sexual-assaults-on-boys-in-youth-group/WXK2JLGFVJCKBDHYUCYZUJZCX4/

2024-11-29 07:43:49 UTC

People love Tubi but are sleeping on Brollie, who each week of December will be releasing a different cut of Caligula

2024-11-25 20:42:58 UTC

quick coffee before court. If all goes well I'll leave with a restraining order against New Zealand's most notorious white supremacist
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/545/535/643/751/552/original/9b49ffc1038eb91b.jpg

2024-11-24 11:25:33 UTC

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"First Buddy" sounds like the title of a 1994 movie where Macaulay Culkin gets a cabinet position because he's really good at Nintendo

2024-11-24 11:23:10 UTC

Amazing how someone can become the richest man in the world, and have an influencial relationship with the president-elect of the most powerful nation on Earth, and still exude such loser energy
https://english.elpais.com/usa/elections/2024-11-18/elon-musk-the-presidents-first-buddy.html

2024-11-23 20:18:48 UTC

the one person arrested at the hīkoi mō the tiriti was a counterprotester, he's interviewed on the latest Counterspin Media episode.
(I haven't listened yet but I I think I can confidently say New Zealand is not on the brink of a globalist creates civil war)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/534/116/022/158/806/original/c37c9b2d62726e44.jpg

2024-11-19 19:36:07 UTC

More international attention on the hīkoi
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/511/298/905/295/689/original/6af83a8c4e6fb0a9.jpg

2024-11-19 05:59:15 UTC

The Hīkoi is 14 times the size of the 2022 anti-mandate protest, yet there has been only one arrest.
Additionally, no one has bought a noose with them, and no one is calling for "Nuremberg trials" of politicians, or comparing David Seymour to Stalin

2024-11-18 03:44:14 UTC

Closing in on 200k signatures
ACT got 246,473 votes last year so that's a goal to surpassed
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=f46849a9-a79a-475e-8977-d209958c0d06

2024-11-14 20:14:26 UTC

The Onion had the opportunity to do the funniest thing, and they actually did it
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones

2024-11-14 07:49:26 UTC

This all sounds like good advice but I don't see how it's going to stop people getting into Bitcoin and whatnot
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/480/208/622/507/217/original/e2caa0db6edda7e3.jpg

2024-11-14 00:50:36 UTC

First post from Open Vibe
If this works correctly, both Mastodon and Bluesky users should see it

2024-11-07 05:09:34 UTC

"numerous experts are raising the alarm that this is now a genocide. Still, much of the mainstream media seems to be blithely ignoring these warning bells, continuing the pretence that what is happening is a normal war rather than a systematic extermination" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/we-are-witnessing-the-final-stage-of-genocide-in-gaza

2024-11-05 05:01:17 UTC

It's now election day on the east coast

2024-10-30 05:12:59 UTC

We're so close to the scariest day of the year
Also, tomorrow is Halloween
🗳️

2024-10-30 01:45:03 UTC

"why don't you start a podcast?"
Many reasons, but for one all of these exist already
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/393/837/579/891/490/original/8a8cd0799b5538c9.jpg

2024-10-27 10:13:18 UTC

Big things happening in NZs alt-right media space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/378/851/469/304/902/original/e6c83d5c7ead2c76.png

2024-10-23 18:59:12 UTC

"Palestine campaigners in New Zealand are celebrating after Christchurch became the first city in the country to sanction firms doing business within illegal Israeli settlements"
https://open.substack.com/pub/mickhall/p/first-nz-city-votes-to-sanction-firms

2024-10-22 18:17:04 UTC

"so I accidentally deployed to production"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/352/440/149/159/116/original/5048a76d4cca94c4.png

2024-10-20 21:28:29 UTC

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I find myself thinking about the etymology of the word 'decimate' from Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare "the removal or destruction of one-tenth," Gaza's prewar population was 2.3 million. Soon it will be very literal to say Gaza's population has been decimated

2024-10-20 21:28:05 UTC

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The estimate published in the Lancet in July was 186,000. That will be out of date. What will be be now? Over 200,000 is likely

2024-10-20 21:18:14 UTC

To be counted in the official Gaza death toll, you need to die in a hospital or have your body taken to a morgue and identified. Bodies buried under rubble or in makeshift graves are not counted, neither are indirect deaths from disease and starvation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-19/gaza-death-toll-numbers-killed-israel-strikes-buried-body-parts/104259532

2024-10-07 05:16:13 UTC

R.I.P to the 1,200 people killed a terrorist attack one year ago today, and R.I.P to the estimated 41,000-186,000 (or more) people who have been killed in the genocidal response to that attack

2024-10-01 04:15:20 UTC

Found a USB C cable in my cable box, it pops out of my phone the moment I take my finger off it
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/230/221/686/451/378/original/d5c5946cb53d91ef.png

2024-09-12 20:51:46 UTC

Reading about terrorist groups in the cold war era Croatian diaspora for an upcoming article. Imagine going out for pizza in 1980s Toronto and finding the pizza place has Croatian fascist literature for sale
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/126/557/630/352/720/original/6ed469a676c43fed.jpg

2024-09-08 21:56:24 UTC

Two Islamic schools in Auckland are on lockdown after a suspicious phone call and threatening emails. No students are on site at either school and they will remain closed for the day
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/school-lockdown-al-madinah-school-and-zayed-college-for-girls-in-lockdown/VLRSNP5WSNGYVAZ53N4HA2NTBM/

2024-09-02 10:01:29 UTC

I spoke with Ihab Salah who is raising money so he and his family can cross the border from Gaza into Egypt
https://open.substack.com/pub/feijoa/p/escaping-the-genocide-in-gaza

2024-08-19 00:12:02 UTC

Paywall now removed
https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/lee-williams-and-the-problem-of-stochastic
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