OK this latest press release from the ICC has seriously pissed me off. The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women. Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂) www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...

1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in! raukawa moana looking almost cosy from archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...

Shame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol

Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...

“As for so-called "civility"-this is 1 more way wealthy white women silence dissent. I refuse to be "civil" in the face of incivil policies & legislation that target working class women. This is class war & deserves to be treated as such. Civility has no place in this attack on the working classes.”

This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu! #toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori #NZPol

Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent". iwpr.org/wp-content/u...

"White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers” @rtraister.bsky.social

the stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far so tropical/shades ✨️ www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...

Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin

Gathering in Ōtepoti Dunedin to support trans rights - a colourful crowd under grey skies

Oh hey Erica Stanford lied to us again, the "replacement" relationship and sexuality guidelines have removed all mention of gender diversity, don't include menstruation until year 7, and erase Māori / Pasifika perspectives, so get your submission typing fingers ready insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...

The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read: "sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience" (Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)

Always in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa. thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...

The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights. Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women. The end.

If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol

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Brewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954 📷 K V Bigwood From archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...

#nzpol This seems a little bit important. "On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation." Submissions due 30 April www.health.govt.nz/publications...

Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912 📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035) www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...

The loss of so many highly-skilled staff from Archives NZ and the National Library will inevitably have a detrimental impact for researchers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Learning stuff here everyday. ✨ Did you know that the Great Exhibition here in Ōtepoti Dunedin got more than 3 million visitors? With the last exhibition in 1925 - exactly 100 years ago. Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱

This beautiful album turns 9 today 🌻 malesmalesmales.bandcamp.com/album/none-t...

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

& brothers island lighthouse was the last manned in aotearoa - till 1990 watercolour by j frost, 1877 natlib.govt.nz/records/2307...

Pencarrow Lighthouse - aotearoa's first permanent lighthouse (1858) & also the only ever to have had a woman as keeper This Pic from 1981 📷: unknown Archives NZ ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...

Today, I highlight some very real shortcomings in Deloitte's Health NZ review - from my perspective. Given the report was released by Simeon Brown as justification for Nationa's accelerated privatisation of Health, how seriously should we even take its contents? #nzpol #healthnz #kiwi #deloitte

Here’s the thing, you don’t actually have to report what Brian Tamaki says. You could just describe his and his followers actions as what they are, homophobia and transphobia.

My critique of TERF appropriations of Broadsheet (NZ) magazine - couldn't organise open access so please dm for link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

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