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I love a Brenda info share!

Tiny silver and colourful cubic zirconia charms

Glittery yellow and pink perspex eye-shaped brooch with a silver rivet as the pupil

things I made last term

I’m finding everything in our garden is running a bit later this year, including the lack of ducklings in the stream over the fence

It’s just her chive walkin’

Same. I need 3-5

Are there any instances of collective worker action to regulate AI in the galleries / archives / libraries / museums sector? Has anyone come up with a charter or a code of ethics yet?

I started making some shapes out of sheets of silver that I will turn into earrings

Government accused of 'fence-sitting' on Palestinian statehood The government will decide next month whether to recognise Palestine as a state.

Utterly ashamed of new Zealand

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Lots of love to you all today

Yeah we’ve been listening to this too!

AND we had to do our usual sixth form certificate alongside it

Mine too! I still remember the weirdness of doing a Unit Standard

This is to say - do it! It’s fee-free! It buoys the spirits, etc!

I’ve been doing Level 1 at NMIT this year and it’s sooo good. Heaps of my School C level te reo is coming back to me 30 years later.

Attended _that_ AGM from my jewellery class with an earbud in one ear, pausing to vote while making wax charms to cast. Dedicated to saying fuck off to the racists!

@johubris.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social hugs to the both of you

Whoa I have that one, they’re local even

Some friends and I have started up a micro-venue. Member paid, volunteer run, and completely independent here in Whakatū Nelson. Called WAA! (Pronounced waaargh!) Waaclub.nz

So you might get a better explanation than I can give from an optometrist or ophthalmologist but that’s my basic understanding :)

I’m not! I used to be a dispensing optician.

It’s been so satisfying to take my ideas and learn how to turn them into something real!

An oxidised sterling silver pendant for my friend Simona’s 50th birthday present

The beginnings of a brass and plastic pin for the jewellery week pin swap

Part way through a brass and plastic pin for the jewellery week pin swap

a brass and plastic pin for the jewellery week pin swap

2 Sterling silver rings, one with jasper set in a bezel and the other with a small copper-coloured blob. Also a sand cast pendant

These were the first things I made. Showing the other side of the pendant

A brooch I made as a present for my friend Gemma’s 40th to represent a musical instrument she made.

A lost wax cast ring in sterling silver with colourful cubic zirconia cast-in-place

I’ve been learning to make jewellery by taking 3 eight-class courses over the past nine months. I’m obsessed so far. Here’s what I’ve been making.

This was a great episode! The guy from Cubitts was right about people aging needing reading glasses, but wrong about which lens is responsible. It’s not the cornea hardening, it’s the changes to the lens inside your eye and the tiny muscles that support it that cause presbyopia.

shoutout to all the people all over helping, caring, sharing, doing what they can; making & creating to bring joy, comfort, to lighten another's load; advocating & protesting, putting themselves on the line, keeping their heart soft while working hard-out for a better world. blessings to ye always 🌹

Oh, ooof, sending love to you

Next time! 🌸

@georgepenney.bsky.social were you at Hot Chips tonight and I didn’t get the chance to say hello, or am I mixing you up with another?

Slogan of the century from the 2019 protests in Chile: “Neoliberalism was born in Chile and here it will die”

In NZ, sharing some of this history of being a laboratory for these policies, we would do well to show more solidarity and work towards putting it to death here in our own terms.