For those wondering who the Massey professor is pushing this 'too much holiday' narrative on 1 news, I point you to the NZ Initiative website. This is just blatant atlas neolib propoganda being enabled by Jason Walls' softball journalism. #nzpol #atlasnetwork www.nzinitiative.org.nz/about-us/our...

One last pimp of my calendar for the year. The two I put in the courier yesterday have been delivered in time for 2026 (love the overnight service around NZ). Only a handful left in stock. paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...

Are there any articles about food served in hospitals on Christmas day (not on special diet due to health problems). What was served to people who eat meat, who don't eat meat. Lamb, turkey or chicken will be the meat of choice. any article or pic? Menu vs actual? #aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ

Kia ora e te whānau, can we give this a massive push for the the rest of the year. His wife lost her life due to unnecessary health cuts & this is a chance to give her memory meaning www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin... petitions.parliament.nz/cc316e5b-e05...

Speaking of housing, if anyone in Dunedin knows of a self-contained unit that's: -close to public transit -under $500pw -ideally pet-friendly (no current pet, but I'd like to get a dog) -quiet, warm and fairly low maintenance I'm looking, and would love something that works long-term.

I can't help but think that if @kawaiicon.bsky.social could make this happen, then #39C3, it should be possible for other conferences to do as well. Particularly those who's organisers have some money to begin with or which charge a lot to attend.

Eek. There‘s been quite the spike in the wastewater surveillance. And anecdata also suggests an increase in Covid cases in the Wellington region. My neighbours have just all had it, and one of the leads in my daughter’s ballet show had to pull out because she got sick.

I was impressed that a NZ hospital is 1) testing and 2) reporting. Until I read that Gore is not part of Te Whatu Ora. Gore Hospital Covid-19 outbreak halts new patient admissions and visitors - NZ Herald share.google/gs9fGiaJzPJY...

Superb.

@pbtechnz.bsky.social if one identical twin has three arms, shouldn’t the other? (Maybe don’t use AI for your ads, it looks shit)

Ok but we should make sure we have a wealth tax too *just in case*

Three books that stayed with you this year? Mine are The Defiance of Frances Dickinson, by Wendy Parkins, a fictionalised retelling of a true story of a 19thC woman trying to get away from a brutal husband, resulting in public scandal. Then Kate Moore’s The Woman They Could Not Silence, which I

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, grew up to become a single man in possession of a good fortune, and in want of a wife.

Huh. Did not realise there were more films in the Love Actually franchise

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

The World Literacy Foundation sent out a press release promoting kids books, half of which don’t exist (and it’s pretty obvious when you look at the original press release). The state of it.

Rankle #345 1/4 “My true love gave to me” 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 www.rankle.app

Omg

Almost midnight on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone! #WikiAdvent #Day24

I neglected my #WikiADvent #Day23 post yesterday because I realised that after radishes...it finished with Nesselrode pudding, which I drafted a page for and then left sitting in limbo all year! I finally published it today...so you can now read about them. :)

The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?

It's Christmas Quiz time. 20 festive questions which are probably too hard - sorry. Please share so others can suffer forms.gle/MK5tb1SkK2LS...

#WikiAdvent #Day12 Christmas lights….there are only 12 free to use images of Christmas lights in NZ on Wikimedia Commons! 😢

I misread that as “cheese, happiness and joy”.

"Landfill cheese", new entry in the austerity lexicon

In relation to this original post bsky.app/profile/cfie... and this paper rsisinternational.org/journals/ijr...

Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed. Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose. (Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...

Beautiful song: Lullaby, by Together for Palestine ✊❤️🖤🤍💚✊

#WikiAdvent #Day21 just sneaking in before midnight….tucked up in bed thinking about Yule logs because just like last year it’s wet and cold again!

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation: www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...

33 years ago today we buried my sister’s husband He died when a car rounding a corner on SH1 lost control & hit him head-on It was their eldest’s 15th birthday The crash left 5 children without a father My sister never recovered from the trauma of losing him this way PLEASE take care out there

“It’s good for image analysis! Useful in medicine!” we get told. Yeah maybe if you’re a white man. For everyone else AI just replicates or worsens existing bias and because it’s a black box you can just ignore that!

#nzpol #aonz #mcskimming

#WikiAdvent #Day20 haha it was 3C today and I got caught right in a blast of freezing rain so it’s good to know it’s just like last year! A thread about snowmen (includes “adult content” apparently)

#nzpol I'm really uncomfortable about this news. I think it's time for our media and opppsition politicians to be asking very blunt questions (that don't go away) about AoNZ based companies and AoNZ govt involvement in the wars and genocide machinery being used by others abroad. 🤬

PSA - dual NZ/UK citizen? NZers (and others) with dual UK NZ citizenship will need to travel to the UK with a British passport (or certificate of entitlement) after 24 Feb. You can no longer get an ETA on an NZ passport - you’ll need to get/renew a British passport. Check here … #NZ

This is hilarious (gift link is used up, archive link lower down thread)

#WikiAdvent #Day19 A Christmas Carol….and some other Carols

That's a BILLION DOLLARS this government is underspending in health. A BILLION DOLLARS taken out of healthcare! They have the money, they just don't want to spend it. Not on on hospitals or doctors or nurses or admin staff or regional health care, or anyone of a myriad of needed items. #nzpol

Was feeling sad about a Wiki setback and then magically life improved

This could have funded Flu Tracking for years.

#WikiAdvent #Day18 All the Christmas things as a list….including the worst plane ever built.

#WikiAdvent #Day17 is just a lot of pictures of Christmas stamps. Aren’t they lovely?

Bonus #SecretSantaAoNZ opening. The dolls were so pleased to open my gift that I pointed out they had their own to open too. Much excitement!

Such is the power of #SecretSantaAoNZ that even having to sit next to someone in a waiting room who is constantly texting and who has got keyboard clicks turned on is not enough to stifle my joy and delight.

Oops yesterday I was so excited about today being opening day for #SecretSantaAoNZ that I forgot to post the #WikiAdvent for #Day16! It was all about stockings.

Alright. Carols have been sung, tea has been drunk, it’s opening time! The dolls and I are excited! Let’s go….

I came downstairs on #SecretSantaAoNZ opening day to find the dolls performing some sort of ritual around the tree*. (*Carol singing). 🎶 🎵 I’ll let them finish before we open!

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪