"Basketmaking, Whanganui River" Photo by James McDonald, 1921 Ref MU000523/005/0380, Te Papa.

Grinding an adze, Whanganui River. Photo by James McDonald, 1921 Ref MU000523/005/0338, Te Papa.

I have a group project due in tomorrow and everyone’s done their part except for Ethan, who has three blank powerpoint slides in the middle

"Women and children, Pipiriki" Photo by James McDonald, 1921 Ref MU000523/005/0160, Te Papa.

Prause, N., & Binnie, J. (2023). Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study. Sexualities, 27(8), 1608-1640. Wank! It's better than obsessing about not doing it!

Sukkot in the displaced persons camp, Amberg, Germany, October 1947.

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

Girl 1: “You’ll do fine! You’re a smart cookie!” Girl 2, sobbing: “I’m not! I’m a dumb cookie!”

This is the end of a long road, but I actually kind of think Israel has given up on being supported by the bulk of diaspora American Jews (outside Orthodox Jews). It's evangelicals or bust; Jews are, at best, annoying gadflies to be a swatted away.

Hmmm, I don’t have sukkah decorations but I do have 50-odd blanket squares… consider…

Fucking hell. This wasn’t on my radar. #nzpol thank you Emily Writes ‼️Submissions close at 2pm TODAY Oct 6th! ‼️ This amendment makes it an offense to protest *near residential areas. This is fascist suppression of free speech 101. www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

"Girl, Rotorua" Photograph by James McDonald, 1920 Ref MU000523/002/0118, Te Papa,

This creates frankly bonkers outcomes. If one parent works an hour less a week, their child gets $13,942. In fact, one parent can work 11 hours less a week and the household is still better off. Secondary benefits (like Accommodation Supplement) are likely to stretch that gap even further

New Zealand soldiers brush their teeth before visiting a Defence Force dental surgery, France, November 1917. Kiwi dentists treated outbreaks of 'trench mouth' (a painful gum infection) as well as doing fillings & extractions, sometimes under fire. Ref 1/2-012972-G, Archives New Zealand.

🐄🐄 ONE OF US 🐄🐄

pixelated out the Venus of Willendorf's norks, Jack Chick and Bluesky's automod have a lot in common

is that Gene Wilder

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

Tentatively beginning to sew this together? In hindsight I should’ve made the patches the same size, eh.

More photos from today. Credit: @giligetz.bsky.social 🤍 @abbystein.bsky.social 💜 @bradlander.bsky.social 💙

The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies. He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?

"Ideas will help - Beat the promise". The Radio Corporation of America urges workers to come forward if they have any clever ideas on beating the Nazis. USA, 1942. Ref E.850-2004, V & A Museum.

"Going to see the South African 'Whites Only' Cricket team? (it's not Cricket)" Poster issued by the Anti-Apartheid Movement. London, England, 1965. Ref E.608-1981, V & A Museum.

"UNUSUAL PET ON VISITING VESSEL" A snapshot of the three-years old daughter of the captain of the Norwegian tanker Osthav, which had visited New Zealand, playing with her pet honey bear, Labbus. Auckland Weekly News, 3rd May 1933.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I promise, random posters, you can just say that the Yom Kippur murders at a British synagogue were wrong without spouting off conspiracy theories that the attack was an Israeli false flag operation to distract the media from covering the IDF intercepting the humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza.

On performing Shakespeare for working-class Jews in the 1860s (from Joel Berkowitz’s ‘Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage’):

From Bessie Thomashefsky’s memoirs; on performing Shakespeare in Yiddish in 19th-century New York

I don’t care that they got the Yiddish wrong I think it’s very funny to imagine Katie Miller getting shlepped around as an act of infidelity

Explaining Yom Kippur to my girlfriend and she suggests I start posting about American politics to truly afflict my soul

Overheard in the library: “Right, so I told him I was flattered by his interest but I think we make better friends-“ 2nd girl: “No, that’s a total cliché! He’ll think you don’t mean it!” 1st girl: “But… I don’t mean it.”

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

"we've just got to wake up and realise the notion that you can save the planet was woke folly" - Shane Jones, Minister for Oceans and Fisheries

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me #Archaeology

Scrap blanket! GAZE UPON IT

This badge belonged to Kay Goodger who was one of the founders of WONAAC (Women's National Abortion Action Campaign), and a member of the Socialist Action League, New Zealand. Ref GH026481, Te Papa.

Diana Adams and friend at the Miss New Zealand Drag Queen Ball, 1975. Photo by Fiona Clark. Ref O.043780, Te Papa.

You can tell there are no Kiwis writing for DC because nobody called this guy ‘Ruatara’.

If “kiwis” are proud we’re not recognising Palestine then I’m not a Kiwi.

Mate, I don't know if you have ever been to New Zealand, but "pride" isn't a national value even on occasions when the government isn't Pontiusly auto-piloting a denial of genocide. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

AITA? I (106F) sired a vampire (46F) in an alley twenty years ago and now she’s tracked me down asking for childe support?

Postcards written to go to Parliament today

'Repent now, and avoid the Yom Kippur rush!' Jewish Museum of London.

Love and Knishes by Sara Kasdan. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1956.

Pamphlet published by the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Antisemitism, Melbourne Australia, 1944

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

This is a National Party poster from a few years earlier (1938)- note the image is virtually the same except the hand is labelled SOCIALISM. Lucky for us all, National stopped providing any state housing, or we'd have been crushed by BIG HAND.