Happy International Working Women’s Day to all. Paid or unpaid we all work.
No Jack, tell us how you really feel
This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]
They don't do Facism for Dummies because it's all for dummies
We welcome abstracts that speak to the themes in this call- please circulate @lizbeddoe.bsky.social @carlenefirmin.bsky.social @cynokpokiri.bsky.social @jofinch.bsky.social
The fact the current Govt is full of racist, misogynist climate denying, abusive regressives who attack women they feel threatened by isn’t helping. It’s patriarchial misogny in action, amplified by Govt MPs, & other scared men stuck in adolescence in a society that doesn’t demand they grow up.
Man, Du Bois had some bangers, but for me, it doesn't get much better than his scathing indictment of the "Christianity" of the United States.
Certainly this was all true of the nation in his lifetime. But in my lifetime, his criticisms have never felt so true of the nation right now.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.
We may be an ocean away, but there are many of us in Aotearoa quietly cheering on every one of you Americans who are standing up, speaking out & taking action today against your govt's latest acceleration towards full-on fascism & war. Solidarity & strength from the deep south of the planet. #nzpol
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
I am asking #NewZealand to please check their garden shed, outbuilding or sheds for for a missing Prime Minister, last seen.. uh .. somewhere
Please contact authorities if found, do not spook him, dont worry he isnt a danger unless you are an economy
#nzpol
Oh to be a cat and blissfully unaware of the state of things.
Don't copy paste an Imperial response like other world "leaders" who are abandoning their independent foreign policy to cuddle up to Trump. Have some moral courage Luxon!
Having literally worked as a ministerial press secretary over the holiday shutdown before: there is no excuse for this, whoever's on duty has all the emergency/personal phone numbers they need to get the right people online to issue a prompt response to an international incident of this enormity
a) I'm really not sure these rates are accurate.
b) The reason NZ's rate is so high is so we can as all get on planes and fly over where we are our country used to be. Marvel at the Act of God which moved us off the coast of Perth.
Partner noticed that passenger airbag is inflated.
Yep we were wondering if it was speed or a brakes failure. Hope nobody was in the way.
Very close to us too. How the heck did they manage to get it there?
More AI bullshit. Fake books and weird mash-ups, the trademarks of AI.
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
“From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwined” #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...
Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.
Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
