Peach Sometimes
@ehjc.bsky.social
Aro Valley. Powerlifting. Feelings. Pākehā. Fatty. Queer + non-binary + femme. They/them. Non-monogamous. C-PTSD. Knows one good joke. Wedding celebrant. Muscle Pisces. https://famous-knots-of-history.ghost.io
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Peach Sometimes
@ehjc.bsky.social
· Jun 20
In very exciting news my next book is coming out in September! You can preorder here: aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/if-we-knew-h...
My partner @simoncarryer.bsky.social wrote an essay about it if you don’t mind graphic details. medium.com/@simoncarrye...
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
My partner @simoncarryer.bsky.social wrote an essay about it if you don’t mind graphic details. medium.com/@simoncarrye...
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Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
Ngāi Tahu takes Crown to High Court over proposed changes to Conservation Act
Ngāi Tahu takes Crown to High Court over proposed changes to Conservation Act
Proposed changes include streamlining and centralising conservation land management, and a review of Section 4 of the Conservation Act.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
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Excited for it just to mean Magic the Gathering again. A return to basics
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Excited for it just to mean Magic the Gathering again. A return to basics
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Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth
Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...
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We need to listen to experts and I'm sorry everyone, but if I understand the collected works of the menswear guy correctly this means all the gents in parliament gotta be buck naked like how the good Lord in his ineffeble wisdom made them
Brownlee has banned "clothing conveying a political message" from the House.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
We need to listen to experts and I'm sorry everyone, but if I understand the collected works of the menswear guy correctly this means all the gents in parliament gotta be buck naked like how the good Lord in his ineffeble wisdom made them
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Very proud to have been able to contribute to this response from the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses to the puberty blocker ban. I'm glad our union and college have our back and are willing to stand up to this transphobic government.
www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...
www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...
Puberty blocker ban will hurt young people: Child and Youth nurses
The decision to ban new prescriptions for puberty blockers will hurt young people, the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses (CCYN) Tapuhitia Ngā Mokopuna Mō Apōpō says. Minister of Health Simeon Br...
www.nzno.org.nz
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Very proud to have been able to contribute to this response from the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses to the puberty blocker ban. I'm glad our union and college have our back and are willing to stand up to this transphobic government.
www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...
www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...
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the problem is that nz media have enabled and *amplified* this from Winston for *decades*
they could have buried him in obscurity by now but he has actual allies in the press beyond just the 'controversy sells' claim, which is just fascist enablement at this stage as far as media outcomes
they could have buried him in obscurity by now but he has actual allies in the press beyond just the 'controversy sells' claim, which is just fascist enablement at this stage as far as media outcomes
#NZpol
Winston fell into the trap of thinking that reacting against everything when convenient isn't utterly transparent to people AND that we somehow can't trawl *his actual voting record*. JFC, it's amateur.
There's a reason "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you DO" is on my bio.
Winston fell into the trap of thinking that reacting against everything when convenient isn't utterly transparent to people AND that we somehow can't trawl *his actual voting record*. JFC, it's amateur.
There's a reason "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you DO" is on my bio.
Winston pretending he is not part of this government again. Or maybe another example of his senile dementia progressing #nzpol
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
the problem is that nz media have enabled and *amplified* this from Winston for *decades*
they could have buried him in obscurity by now but he has actual allies in the press beyond just the 'controversy sells' claim, which is just fascist enablement at this stage as far as media outcomes
they could have buried him in obscurity by now but he has actual allies in the press beyond just the 'controversy sells' claim, which is just fascist enablement at this stage as far as media outcomes
In 2014 one of my poems got set for a Level 2 NCEA exam and the comment section on the blog it was published on still gives me so much joy. Young people have many opinions.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
In 2014 one of my poems got set for a Level 2 NCEA exam and the comment section on the blog it was published on still gives me so much joy. Young people have many opinions.
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There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%)
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%)
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
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I am tired of the news. These people.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I am tired of the news. These people.
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i love my trans whaanau they are everything / we will fight this
a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
i love my trans whaanau they are everything / we will fight this
a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
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the way that nz media feels comfortable stalking and reporting on prominent women in this country is actually fucking disgusting
its both a reason AND a symptom of the way powerful people in NZ routinely escape consequences for abuse and misogyny. NZ media need a clean out
its both a reason AND a symptom of the way powerful people in NZ routinely escape consequences for abuse and misogyny. NZ media need a clean out
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the way that nz media feels comfortable stalking and reporting on prominent women in this country is actually fucking disgusting
its both a reason AND a symptom of the way powerful people in NZ routinely escape consequences for abuse and misogyny. NZ media need a clean out
its both a reason AND a symptom of the way powerful people in NZ routinely escape consequences for abuse and misogyny. NZ media need a clean out
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“New Zealand runs the risk of becoming a dumping ground for all of those risky goods that can't get into other markets where there are tighter regulations."
Why?
Because this government dropped legislation to prohibit goods produced using modern slavery.
Why?
Because this government dropped legislation to prohibit goods produced using modern slavery.
Cheap fruit and vegetable imports put pressure on New Zealand production
Cheap fruit and vegetable imports put pressure on New Zealand production
The hunt for the cheapest fruit and vegetables by both supermarkets and shoppers is putting pressure on locally produced crops in New Zealand.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“New Zealand runs the risk of becoming a dumping ground for all of those risky goods that can't get into other markets where there are tighter regulations."
Why?
Because this government dropped legislation to prohibit goods produced using modern slavery.
Why?
Because this government dropped legislation to prohibit goods produced using modern slavery.