At my uni there is exactly one floor with these and it is where they hide all the books on religion and seances. It always feels like I could be tempting fate and making a wrong decision when picking up a book from a particular denomination 👻

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Jfc this is grim. Mind you, the previous history curriculum was only brought in in 2023. This is all entirely unnecessary and driven by people who are butthurt about the idea of NZ kids learning NZ history 😒

Emily@emilywrites.co.nz · 3d ago

A big old scoop: an Ombudsman investigation into a refused OIA request has helped shed light on just how much AI the Ministry of Education is using to create the new school curriculum www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-ministry...

Who tf is making ebooks for an academic audience without page numbers!!?? And why is it always ProQuest? Straight to the guillotine...the digital guillotine that is, to chop a clear dividing line between pages.

A long-ish thread on PM Luxon's foot-in-mouth speech in Rotorua this week, and a theory on why it happened. 1/

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

We are at 'New Zealand stereotypes of Australia' levels of acceptable public racism.

Honestly this needs multiple extra agains. There have been Chinese people in NZ since 1842–not that it matters, nau mai, but they've been here as long as most Pākehā ancestors. We keep doing this shit, and it's not just a right wing thing either. #nzpol rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/l...

Labour’s racist roots

by Philip Ferguson The racist, anti-Chinese ‘dog whistle’ statement by Labour’s housing spokesperson Phil Twyford in relation to people with “Chinese-sounding surnames” buying hou…

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Ash Hickey آشلي@ordinaryash.bsky.social · 7d ago

Istfg this govt is just flicking through Papers Past ca. 1880-1925 (which happens to be my research period) for ideas. What do you mean we're doing anti-Chinese hysteria again? Well, again again I guess. What's next? Vagrancy laws...oh wait. #nzpol

Istfg this govt is just flicking through Papers Past ca. 1880-1925 (which happens to be my research period) for ideas. What do you mean we're doing anti-Chinese hysteria again? Well, again again I guess. What's next? Vagrancy laws...oh wait. #nzpol

I was searching for a public domain clip of the wildfires in France for a livestream earlier today, and this is what AI autocorrect on a Google Video search defaulted to. I was actually unable get Google to un-default to "aerial views of french fries" after several attempts:

Uncannily similar to my adventures with seroquel 🥲

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

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Just listened to an interview with the developer of this incredible new website. Definitely worth a boost to anyone in your lives with accessibility needs. And please consider adding places to the map even if you don't have any accessibility needs yourself. goable.co.nz

If I hear someone say that liquorice and anise taste the same, I know that they cannot be trusted as they have given false testimony

The Odyssey culture war discourse is very cringe, however, I feel like there's something to be analysed here around oral/popular storytelling and adapatition as propaganda. Because the 'Odyssey is woke' crowd have, ironically, constructed their own version of the Odyssey for their own purposes. 1/3

Now I'm curious what flavour/s 'The Non-Binary Shake' soup or 'The Unladylike Woman Shake' soup would come in? 🤔

Ash Hickey آشلي@ordinaryash.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a soft spot for cup a soups as an emergency snack in the office and was wondering if I should branch out from my usual cream of mushroom. Came across this and umm... Firstly $4.50 a serve for cup a soup is mad. Secondly, these are whole separate websites and the flavours are gender exclusive.

I have a soft spot for cup a soups as an emergency snack in the office and was wondering if I should branch out from my usual cream of mushroom. Came across this and umm... Firstly $4.50 a serve for cup a soup is mad. Secondly, these are whole separate websites and the flavours are gender exclusive.

My breast reduction surgery got approved by Southern Cross!! So excited. I'm going to have small boobies in a little over a month 🥹.

Booked tickets for Odyssey in Imax next weekend. $140 for my wee family of four...ouch. If anyone sees it before then, let me know any particularly non-child friendly parts that I might want to give my 11yo son a heads up about. He's generally OK with violence that isn't super gory and mild horror.

13yo daughter casually dropped "I wonder if I could pay (friend's older sister) to do my second ear piercings..." yesterday. HARD nope. I took her to a piercer and got it done straight away and gave her several talking tos about body mod safety.

Took my 13yo daughter to uni to show her my office and the tuataras before her haircut today. I still find it amazing that I can pop down and see creatures that have been around since the Triassic period just chilling out.

I had things I wanted to do this evening, but my 11yo son just laid a pillow over my lap and lay down so now I'm stuck on the couch watching Iron Man for the foreseeable future because these snuggles are getting few and far between 🥹

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant of up to $20,000 available to scholars whose research involves use of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The closing date for 2027 applications is Friday 2 October 2026. turnbullfriends.org.nz/research-gra...

I have mixed feelings about this. It's poetic af on the one hand, but on t'other, Lorde knows any money poured into (genuine) autoimmune research is a good thing. Currently awake suffering through my second indescribably painful, potentially autoimmune induced, gastritis flare in as many months 😭

Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · last mo.

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

So. Much. More. velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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It's a very dangerous Trump-era instinct to take a celebrity you and your peer group feel a lot of goodwill towards and project both good personal politics and presidential ambitions onto them. That's why I think a more realistic ceiling for johnny knoxville is ambassador to the UN