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Sage Anastasi

@sageanastasi.bsky.social

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Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @[email protected]

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · Jul 28

Bringing this back for today. What an honour to have Tom Lehrer rock up to our little country, ask what civil rights issues were going on (the All Blacks' upcoming tour of Apartheid South Africa), and then immediately write a song about it.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · Oct 28

Auckland Star 16 April 1960, page 1

Oh Mr Nash by Tom Lehrer

When the early missionaries first brought Rugby to New Zealand,
It became the state religion right away,
And to the ten commandments has been added an eleventh,
And it says: No matter what -- thou shalt play!

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Song against the All Black Tour of South Africa

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15m

The best part of explaining who established actors are to a kid is explaining shit like they know an Oscar winner because he once played a concussed mouse in Ratatouille 8.

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 8m

My boyfriend is writing a "solve the Lich's maze and you get a wish, if you die he gets your soul" oneshot that includes a cheerful little goblin who resets all the traps, sells them stuff, etc

The twist is that the cheerful little gobin IS the Lich

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 43m

no MOM, I’m not going to go to your LAME PROTEST, I’m going to post about shining lasers at manned aircraft on public social media

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 44m

But what we really have to consider is that not caring about causing a plane crash in a residential area would be based but showing up to a rally with your parents would be cringe

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 18h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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paul @paulcope.land · 1h

I walked from Uptown through Edgewater up to Devon this afternoon and there was someone with a whistle every few blocks. Cyclists with whistles were patrolling alleys.

Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 3h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 1h

No worries! Feel free to drop me a line if you have trouble getting a copy :)

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 5h

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 1h

There's a little discussion of it at the end of the book "What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research?" They have some of the citations for how the research on these kinds of "addictions" can't separate out "good" and "bad" dopamine sources.

What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research?

This book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers. For policy makers and the...

www.routledge.com

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 2h

after willis blamed voters for the gdp contraction, luxon now blaming voters for being disinterested in local politics.

i am once again asking to have a government that doesn't despise and belittle us.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 8h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 4h

-80 freezer at -20

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 3h

I have never, ever heard a reader say their problem is too few books on the market.

I’ve heard MANY say there are so many that it’s hard to find *quality* reads, which is why they’re loyal to certain authors + publishers.

This “business” is solving a problem that doesn’t exist, using stolen work

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 3h

If you are stupid enough to do this, the ACLU is not riding to your defense, you are an embarrassment to your friends and family and you will be very sorry you ever had this idea

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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james @james.claims · 7h

An article that exists due to Farage erasing or ridiculing the existence of trans men around tampons that were put there specifically *for* men like me and we get mentioned once as an “aside from the fact” and then are the “women and girls” who have periods or the “mainly men” disgusted by them

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

Farage kicking off about vegan tampons shows just how much period stigma still exists

The fact that Farage is married to a woman astounds @wordsbyhg.bsky.social - because he has clearly never listened to one.

If he had, he wouldn't speak in the way he does.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Farage kicking off about vegan tampons shows just how much period stigma still exists

The fact that Farage is married to a woman astounds Canary writer HG - because he has clearly never listened to one

www.thecanary.co

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

fun sports history: at the 1952 Olympics Dana Zátopková won the javelin right after her husband won the 5k. he joked at the press conference that he inspired her win, and she replied: "“Alright – go and inspire some other girl and see if she can throw fifty metres!”

www.olympics.com/en/news/zato...

Zátopková inspired by feats of husband to win javelin gold - Olympic News

Born on exactly the same day as her husband, Zátopková had excelled at a range of sports as a youngster, notably handball.

www.olympics.com

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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 16h

Can confirm, it took about a month for me to start feeling like I could do things other than rest

Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 16h

5% of the time it took to do it! I'm currently on a 72 day holiday after handing in my 4 year thesis

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 1d

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Have I got this right? We can't afford to fund the health system but we can build a Death Star.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NZ defence strategy explores space weapons export potential

Defence Minister Judith Collins insists NZ-produced technology could compete internationally.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 20h

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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