Shambolika

Shambolika

@shambolika.bsky.social

Poetic aroreretini. Outreach librarian. Wife guy. Dad. Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Baritone ukulele is a silly name for the instrument I play, doesn't sound anything like a ukulele; I play the kitāiti, little guitar.

1,212 Followers 1,269 Following 7,692 Posts Joined Sep 2023
7 hours ago

"Our trans siblings deserve our support and encouragement, endorsement and vindication now more than ever as the rising tide of transphobia threatens to engulf not just trans people but everybody who associates with them."

Stephen Fry in a video message for Transmission

I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

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4 minutes ago

National second term

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23 minutes ago

There was a whole thing about how unbelievably terrible the movie was and how unbelievable it was that they released it at all

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56 minutes ago

Don't forget spitlickle

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3 hours ago

I was so happy when, recently, I learned we had our own version of schadenfreude

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7 hours ago

The Free Speech Union exists to import similar speakers aligned with the ideology of the white supremacists they were founded to defend the speech of, target academics who outline their bad faith existence, inject deeply flawed polls into the media, and drag everything together rightwards.

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4 hours ago

The Germans aren't the only twisted weirdos: also the English

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6 hours ago
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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

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5 hours ago

*Coronation st
Dammit

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6 hours ago

remember how david seymour gratefully accepted money from a neo-nazi who had been in contact with the christchurch mosque terrorist?

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1 day ago

Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

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6 hours ago
Laurence said the country was at risk of becoming "AI illiterate", and statistics showed New Zealanders were not being trained at the rate or the capability that most developed nations around the world were in terms of being able to use Al tools, which meant the country was falling behind in its ability to keep pace with the international market.

"We're still a nation that's using Al to change the tone of an email and summarise long documents, while the rest of the world is pulling ahead in terms of redesigning whole workflows and injecting agentic Al at the full edge of its capability.

Our “slowness” in using spicy autocomplete to destroy accountability and deliberately insert malware into work processes might actually turn out well in hindsight, I think

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8 hours ago
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Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.

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6 hours ago

I've been waiting for a chance to use that word and Luxo delivers a king hit

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6 hours ago

My epicaricacy levels are gleeful

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6 hours ago

I love this so much

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21 hours ago

Blimmen B for kerBlooey

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21 hours ago

OMFG baby Jebus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster let this be true r'Amen

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22 hours ago

Exactly, there was some Trumpian deal here

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22 hours ago

He's building a bunker there, surely

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22 hours ago

Yeah I wondered about that too. How responsible is he

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23 hours ago

He's building a bunker there

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1 day ago
a Volvo xc 40 with the bumper sticker "I bought this before Elon killed himself"

June and I had an idea for a bumper sticker and now it exists in real life

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23 hours ago

It's a goodn

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23 hours ago

Oh yeah I do remember hearing about it, being sad i couldn't go, then deleting the memory of it from my head

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1 day ago

Fukn Z for Zachariah

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1 day ago

Why poetry

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1 day ago
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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

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1 day ago

I guess when you have more than 30 kids it's hard to keep count

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1 day ago

You're not the first to call me that

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