@postnatodepression.bsky.social
She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library. Gam zu l'tova.
The kind of people who like watching pimple popping videos would get a real kick out of purulent appendix dissection, if you’re considering a career change
Trying to write horror but it’s hard because I have Slim Dusty stuck in my head. Is ‘self-conscious Australiana’ a horror genre
What do I get for my mum’s birthday? She likes drawing, conservation, board games, mystery novels and soft sci fi- anything made in Aotearoa is a bonus as far as I’m concerned!
What do I get for my mum’s birthday? She likes drawing, conservation, board games, mystery novels and soft sci fi- anything made in Aotearoa is a bonus as far as I’m concerned!
Magic lantern slide from a set used to teach human physiology. Late 19th-early 20th century?
Ref PHO-2018-22.48, Museum of Transport and Technology.
Mechanical toy monkey, undated.
Ref 2001.20. Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Auckland Slide Co. Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century.
Ref PHO-2018-22.49.14. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
Huge endorsement from Nats MP for Chris Hipkins here 😁 #NZPol
Man this is like when my dad described holding my baby sister for the first time as the best moment of his life, right in front of my big brother and me.
Luxon will definitely go down in history as a PM that we had.
Honestly! Like I was complaining about this to my (male) friend after the lecture and he was going ‘well maybe he was afraid to be too enthusiastic, he wanted to be respectful’ dude you and I were in the same cheerful 9am lecture about wound dehiscence that had mandatory audience participation
My gynae lecturer is so unenthusiastic about the vagina. Mumbling as fast as possible to get through it like a vagina defeated him in honourable combat and now he’s ashamed to look at one directly. As a lesbian I cannot understand the impulse
requiem for vanished birdsong
every leap year they should reverse the direction of the international date line and on whichever side gains the extra day the ladies get to whatever illegalities they want on that day
Farmers Santa Parade. Queen Street, Auckland, 1989.
Photo by Miles Hargest.
Ref 273-HAR102-05, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
Picture by Millard Photographic Studio, undated.
Ref 2020.60.197, Tairawhiti Museum
The Dastardly Dolphin and two sinister accomplices. Marineland, Napier, 1973. Photo by Russell Spiller.
Ref 2407/2425/285211, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank
Last moments of two Napier children, 1973. The Dastardly Dolphin claimed many lives.
Photo by Russell Spiller.
Ref 2407/2425/285139, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.
The Many Woes of Father Christmas, undated.
Ref 876/1234/37275, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.
I like discovering things that my mum likes are actually quite good. Today I found out about cottage cheese.
Alcian Blue histology dye says trans rights!
Travelling back in time to tell Gilbert and Sullivan the concept of Pushing Daisies.
Victorians would be feral for a beautiful woman back from the dead who can never touch her lover or she dies again.
Poll: would you use the fridge Connor found on the side of the road
Overheard in the quad today: “Yeah we got our fridge for free, Connor found it on the side of the road!”
Ok someone’s very proud of that byline aren’t they
One of my favourite midrash on Purim is the claim that everyone stopped taking the emperor’s edicts seriously after the one ordering women to obey their husbands.
There is an alternate universe where I am writing a Reform temple’s newsletter. I have accepted this.
Did you know that crabs also celebrate Purim?
The hairy seaweed crab is NZ’s most common rock pool crab. It decorates its shell with sponges & seaweed every year. Smaller, unrelated crustaceans will sometimes cling to its back to get leftovers.
So far, no underwater graggers have been discovered.
I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.
Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.
Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.
I have a distinct memory of being like six and not knowing where babies came from but knowing about pregnancy and c-sections but how could that work in caveman times? And a then assuming a friendly lion cut the baby out