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Kate

@knhannah.bsky.social

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Feminist/co-captain Team Hannah. Here for hope & justice-building. While it gets better, I'll make dinner. She/her. Personal vibes only.

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · Aug 19

Chilling to get an email from the Covid inquiry team mentioning a post of mine on this platform. That, coupled with the screenshots I’ve seen shared by the Covid deniers, means I’m no longer safe here. I’ll probably lurk, for a bit.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 12h

If you haven’t seen it already – I imagine almost everyone already has, but you can watch it again 😊 – this makes for excellent watching with a beer 🍺 or wine 🍷, or juice 🧃. They are Juice Media, after all! ⬇️

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 18h

Cleaned the outdoor furniture & put up the Halloween wreath & door decorations for this strange mixed season called October in Aotearoa. BBQs & pumpkins, pinecones & sunscreen.

Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 1d

That’s such a NOPE

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 1d

The professor fleeing to Spain got out. Whew

(Jesus Christ the professors are fleeing to Spain)

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 2d

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d

Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections

With two days remaining until polls close, only 21.9 percent of eligible voters had returned their papers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Catherine Robertson @cjrauthor.bsky.social · 1d

“Fat chance, economan. Why acknowledge the wider policy decisions that fed into people’s circumstances when you could just tell them to buck up their ideas and move to Dargaville? Why rethink economic orthodoxy when you could ask people to consider not being poor?”

Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets

thespinoff.co.nz

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 2d

Ms 28 sent thru a video of two fox cubs gallivanting at dusk with a bossy black & white cat who they are very clearly scared of & I just need to lean into that as some good news.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

I decided to be a field archaeologist at 5 after visiting the Coppergate excavations. I started digging at 15 but by early 20s realised digging + a family wouldn’t work, so I segued into an academic role where I could at least still train.

I’m still a digger.

Is it okay that women had to leave?

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

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#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 2d

We got the Ninja 14 in 1 multi cooker www.pbtech.co.nz/product/HOMN... & yes finding bench space was a bit of a mission but perfect for all the things, particularly cooking meals for 1-2, as well as all the regular air fryer stuff.

Buy the Ninja 14-in-1 Multi Cooker With Steam Oven, Combi Cooker + Air fryer,... ( SPF701ANZ ) online

pbtech.co.nz "Ninja 14-in-1 Multi Cooker With Steam Oven, Combi Cooker + Air fryer, Bake, Roast, Slow cook and More, SPF701ANZ

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 2d

Len!!

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 5d

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"

Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

Footnote from Treasury's 2025 He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"See Hughes, (2025a) and Hughes & Crichton (2025). Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications. Student loan holders living overseas commonly cease repayments, and these loans are sometimes written off as a result. Ministry of Education (2023)."

He Tirohanga Mokopuna is Treasury's long-term fiscal statement and it's full of woe about the funding of NZ Super. Not enough about maybe trying a LOT harder to keep people here.

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 3d

That's right search 'Historians' in this Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage document and its returns no results because after 80+ years they're going! Historians matter but not to this government. #HistoryMatters #DontWantToPickYourGhostKumara www.mch.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 3d

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

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Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine

As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 3d

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight

And endless mountain field, filled with flowers.

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🐶⛵️Capt. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 3d

CW: a reminder that for Babyloss Awareness Week (9 - 15 Oct) many buildings around the country will be lighting in pink, blue and purple. Sometimes they don’t use all the colours, or the way their lights work it can look like Blue & White (or other combinations associated with other causes).

A collage of images of buildings light up in pink, blue and purple. Text below the collage says: This year for Baby Loss Awareness Week (9th-15th October) we are again lighting up landmarks across Aotearoa mawhero (pink), kikorangi (blue) and poroporo (purple) to remember our precious babies. This is our 5th year doing this
Below is a list of confirmed landmarks so far for this year (sadly some of our previous landmarks are unable to be lit this year due to being out of order or previously booked).
Thank you so much to the Councils, organisations, and businesses who are raising awareness of pregnancy and baby loss and acknowledging the whanau in their area who have suffered such a heart-breaking loss.

List of buildings:

*Ashburton: Clock Tower
*Auckland: Holy Trinity Cathedral, Mission Bay Fountain (Trevor Moss Memorial), Aotea Square, Eden Park, Civic
Centre
*Blenheim: War Memorial Clock Tower, Seymour Square Fountain
*Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o
Waiwhetu, Botanical Gardens, New Brighton Pier, Fanfare, Scott Park, Vaka 'a Hine, The Bridge of Remembrance
*Cromwell: Welcome Sign
*Dunedin: St Paul's Cathedral, Otago Museum, Toitù Otago Settlers Museum
*Foxton: Clock Tower
*Gisborne: Clock Tower
*Greymouth: Water Fountain
*Invercargill: Queens Park Fountain, Feldwick Gates, Band Rotunda
*Napier: Tom Parker Fountain
*New Plymouth: Clock Tower, Inglewood Trees
*Oamaru: Opera House
*Palmerston North: Clock Tower
*Stratford: Glockenspiel Clock Tower
*Taupõ: Great Lake Centre
*Tauranga: Wharf St Lights
*Te Aroha: Clock Tower
*Wellington: Upper Hutt Fantail Welcome Sculpture, Cable Cars, Michael Fowler Centre, Carter Fountain, Woman of Worlds Sculpture, Kelburn Park Fountain
*Whanganui: Royal Whanganui Opera House, Whanganui
War Memorial
*Whangãrei: Victoria Canopy Bridge

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 4d

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 4d

I listened to the most recent Empire pod as I made dinner tonight: William Dalrymple talking to Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh. The poems read destroyed me, as they should anyone listening to, watching a genocide happen.