Dr Linda McIver
@lindamciver.adsei.org
Author of Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the world. Founder adsei.org
Troublemaker. Make Me Data Literate podcaster. Teacher. She/her. Australian, living on stolen Wurundjeri/Bunurong land
Troublemaker. Make Me Data Literate podcaster. Teacher. She/her. Australian, living on stolen Wurundjeri/Bunurong land
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Dr Linda McIver
@lindamciver.adsei.org
· Oct 13
I am so thrilled to be shortlisted among such a fascinating set of pieces!
It always amuses me when the term "radical" is used as an epithet, an excuse for not listening to someone. Radicals are the ones who fix the hard problems.You have to be radical to create positive change! It's not a descriptor, it's a quantifier. I am a radical. But a radical what is the question...
January 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM
It always amuses me when the term "radical" is used as an epithet, an excuse for not listening to someone. Radicals are the ones who fix the hard problems.You have to be radical to create positive change! It's not a descriptor, it's a quantifier. I am a radical. But a radical what is the question...
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
A strange man in the bed! Appalling!
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
A strange man in the bed! Appalling!
as usual, a thought provoking and fundamentally important read from Tim. check it out!
Rrrrroll up roll up!
Come see an act where I juggle Mark Carney, Hannah Arendt, Nick Cave, Naomi Klein, and the concept of sovereignty!
in-between-days.ghost.io/no-one-saw-t...
Come see an act where I juggle Mark Carney, Hannah Arendt, Nick Cave, Naomi Klein, and the concept of sovereignty!
in-between-days.ghost.io/no-one-saw-t...
No one saw the Carney go
On the gothic absurdity of the geopolitical circus and the sovereignty salsa
Far be it from me, who at primary school was forever "Tim Hollow Head", to make jokes about people's names...
But Nick Ca...
in-between-days.ghost.io
January 25, 2026 at 2:18 AM
as usual, a thought provoking and fundamentally important read from Tim. check it out!
needed a pick-me-up so I ordered some @premeemohamed.com, @tkingfisher.com, and @jessiemihalik.com books in real and tangible form. Future me will have a wonderful time, current me gets something to look forward to!
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 AM
needed a pick-me-up so I ordered some @premeemohamed.com, @tkingfisher.com, and @jessiemihalik.com books in real and tangible form. Future me will have a wonderful time, current me gets something to look forward to!
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
Co-fucking-signed.
Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.
Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.
Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.
January 24, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Co-fucking-signed.
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
The baby has been playing with some crinkly paper bits from a package I got today for like... an hour solid
But also: kitten peets
But also: kitten peets
January 23, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The baby has been playing with some crinkly paper bits from a package I got today for like... an hour solid
But also: kitten peets
But also: kitten peets
this timeline really is not winning any friends.
January 22, 2026 at 11:22 PM
this timeline really is not winning any friends.
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (70s?) wearing head-to-toe leopard print workout gear is walk-dancing down the street. Waving to friends who call out a hello and doing a little twirl on the spot when someone yells: "Look at you go!" (1)
A woman (70s?) wearing head-to-toe leopard print workout gear is walk-dancing down the street. Waving to friends who call out a hello and doing a little twirl on the spot when someone yells: "Look at you go!" (1)
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 AM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (70s?) wearing head-to-toe leopard print workout gear is walk-dancing down the street. Waving to friends who call out a hello and doing a little twirl on the spot when someone yells: "Look at you go!" (1)
A woman (70s?) wearing head-to-toe leopard print workout gear is walk-dancing down the street. Waving to friends who call out a hello and doing a little twirl on the spot when someone yells: "Look at you go!" (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted at the Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (20s?) are snuggled up together on their tummies, side-by-side. A big fluffy blanket wrapped around them as they gaze out the open back of their camper van at a wind-churned sea. (1)
A couple (20s?) are snuggled up together on their tummies, side-by-side. A big fluffy blanket wrapped around them as they gaze out the open back of their camper van at a wind-churned sea. (1)
January 18, 2026 at 10:16 PM
🧵Spotted at the Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (20s?) are snuggled up together on their tummies, side-by-side. A big fluffy blanket wrapped around them as they gaze out the open back of their camper van at a wind-churned sea. (1)
A couple (20s?) are snuggled up together on their tummies, side-by-side. A big fluffy blanket wrapped around them as they gaze out the open back of their camper van at a wind-churned sea. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (20s?) in a sunny yellow gingham dress is standing in a sunbeam outside a cafe. Holding a tiny new human to her chest and gently rocking side to side. Looking down at Tiny New Human with a soft smile. This is love. (1)
A woman (20s?) in a sunny yellow gingham dress is standing in a sunbeam outside a cafe. Holding a tiny new human to her chest and gently rocking side to side. Looking down at Tiny New Human with a soft smile. This is love. (1)
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (20s?) in a sunny yellow gingham dress is standing in a sunbeam outside a cafe. Holding a tiny new human to her chest and gently rocking side to side. Looking down at Tiny New Human with a soft smile. This is love. (1)
A woman (20s?) in a sunny yellow gingham dress is standing in a sunbeam outside a cafe. Holding a tiny new human to her chest and gently rocking side to side. Looking down at Tiny New Human with a soft smile. This is love. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 PM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
well <something> is hurting society... he's so close!
I’m so sorry for this poor little CEO 😢
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 AM
well <something> is hurting society... he's so close!
get yourself a bestie who, when you message her at 6am saying you're going to have to kill someone, responds with "oh. ok. I can't be there straight away. What time?"
January 22, 2026 at 6:37 AM
get yourself a bestie who, when you message her at 6am saying you're going to have to kill someone, responds with "oh. ok. I can't be there straight away. What time?"
Exactly: "The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Exactly: "The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
Newsflash: you can't change people's identity, however viciously you try to wield the law. You can only change how dangerous it is for people to live authentically. Which is a hell of a thing to want to do.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Newsflash: you can't change people's identity, however viciously you try to wield the law. You can only change how dangerous it is for people to live authentically. Which is a hell of a thing to want to do.
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
I really like that this place is not overrun by engagement-farming the way the other sites are and I like that things only go viral when there's genuine sustained interest in them. I think those are good properties in a social media site, even if they dissatisfy people looking for something else.
January 19, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I really like that this place is not overrun by engagement-farming the way the other sites are and I like that things only go viral when there's genuine sustained interest in them. I think those are good properties in a social media site, even if they dissatisfy people looking for something else.
this is your periodic reminder that the existence of billionaires is an abject failure of government and public policy.
This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 AM
this is your periodic reminder that the existence of billionaires is an abject failure of government and public policy.
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two young humans (7 & 9?) wearing damp clothes and hair from a river swim walk out of a dairy* triumphantly holding ice creams.
They're having a very serious pony conversation, one declaring that she WILL have a pony this year OR ELSE! (1)
Two young humans (7 & 9?) wearing damp clothes and hair from a river swim walk out of a dairy* triumphantly holding ice creams.
They're having a very serious pony conversation, one declaring that she WILL have a pony this year OR ELSE! (1)
January 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two young humans (7 & 9?) wearing damp clothes and hair from a river swim walk out of a dairy* triumphantly holding ice creams.
They're having a very serious pony conversation, one declaring that she WILL have a pony this year OR ELSE! (1)
Two young humans (7 & 9?) wearing damp clothes and hair from a river swim walk out of a dairy* triumphantly holding ice creams.
They're having a very serious pony conversation, one declaring that she WILL have a pony this year OR ELSE! (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted at the beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A very content looking man (40s?) is reclining in an orange inflatable dingy on the sand. Reading a paperback novel. Sailing on a sea of chill. (1)
A very content looking man (40s?) is reclining in an orange inflatable dingy on the sand. Reading a paperback novel. Sailing on a sea of chill. (1)
January 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
🧵Spotted at the beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A very content looking man (40s?) is reclining in an orange inflatable dingy on the sand. Reading a paperback novel. Sailing on a sea of chill. (1)
A very content looking man (40s?) is reclining in an orange inflatable dingy on the sand. Reading a paperback novel. Sailing on a sea of chill. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted Recently at the Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two teens (13 & 16?) and Nan are roaring "One! Two! Three! GO!" before all doing handstands. Legs flailing to stay straight in the air, heads underwater.
Teens come up first.
Nan wins!
A triumphant grin as she splashes them playfully. (1)
Two teens (13 & 16?) and Nan are roaring "One! Two! Three! GO!" before all doing handstands. Legs flailing to stay straight in the air, heads underwater.
Teens come up first.
Nan wins!
A triumphant grin as she splashes them playfully. (1)
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
🧵Spotted Recently at the Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two teens (13 & 16?) and Nan are roaring "One! Two! Three! GO!" before all doing handstands. Legs flailing to stay straight in the air, heads underwater.
Teens come up first.
Nan wins!
A triumphant grin as she splashes them playfully. (1)
Two teens (13 & 16?) and Nan are roaring "One! Two! Three! GO!" before all doing handstands. Legs flailing to stay straight in the air, heads underwater.
Teens come up first.
Nan wins!
A triumphant grin as she splashes them playfully. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) is roaring: "WRONG WAY MUM! WRONG WAY!" as Mum pushes his pram away from the waffle truck.
Mum is insisting that he's just had some ice cream but Tiny Human has spotted waffles and the struggle (to get delicious food) is real! (1)
A tiny human (2?) is roaring: "WRONG WAY MUM! WRONG WAY!" as Mum pushes his pram away from the waffle truck.
Mum is insisting that he's just had some ice cream but Tiny Human has spotted waffles and the struggle (to get delicious food) is real! (1)
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) is roaring: "WRONG WAY MUM! WRONG WAY!" as Mum pushes his pram away from the waffle truck.
Mum is insisting that he's just had some ice cream but Tiny Human has spotted waffles and the struggle (to get delicious food) is real! (1)
A tiny human (2?) is roaring: "WRONG WAY MUM! WRONG WAY!" as Mum pushes his pram away from the waffle truck.
Mum is insisting that he's just had some ice cream but Tiny Human has spotted waffles and the struggle (to get delicious food) is real! (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted at a Sunday Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A big burly man wearing a lavalava* is ambling through the markets, vibe totally chill. A cardboard tray of satay in his hand, a frangipani flower behind his ear. Face turned up to the sun with a smile. (1)
A big burly man wearing a lavalava* is ambling through the markets, vibe totally chill. A cardboard tray of satay in his hand, a frangipani flower behind his ear. Face turned up to the sun with a smile. (1)
January 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
🧵Spotted at a Sunday Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A big burly man wearing a lavalava* is ambling through the markets, vibe totally chill. A cardboard tray of satay in his hand, a frangipani flower behind his ear. Face turned up to the sun with a smile. (1)
A big burly man wearing a lavalava* is ambling through the markets, vibe totally chill. A cardboard tray of satay in his hand, a frangipani flower behind his ear. Face turned up to the sun with a smile. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted Recently at a Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (5?) is striding along with a notepad and coloured pens in hand. Looking around, appraising the situation. If there's gonna be an art moment, he's prepared! He's equipped with the vital tools and raring to go. (1)
A small human (5?) is striding along with a notepad and coloured pens in hand. Looking around, appraising the situation. If there's gonna be an art moment, he's prepared! He's equipped with the vital tools and raring to go. (1)
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
🧵Spotted Recently at a Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (5?) is striding along with a notepad and coloured pens in hand. Looking around, appraising the situation. If there's gonna be an art moment, he's prepared! He's equipped with the vital tools and raring to go. (1)
A small human (5?) is striding along with a notepad and coloured pens in hand. Looking around, appraising the situation. If there's gonna be an art moment, he's prepared! He's equipped with the vital tools and raring to go. (1)
Reposted by Dr Linda McIver
🧵Spotted in Golden Bay in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A grey pony and a jersey cow are standing in the middle of a field covered in flowers, each giving the other a good groom. Tails swishing. Vibe mellow. Sun shining overhead, bees buzzing industriously about and the whir of cicadas in the air. (1)
A grey pony and a jersey cow are standing in the middle of a field covered in flowers, each giving the other a good groom. Tails swishing. Vibe mellow. Sun shining overhead, bees buzzing industriously about and the whir of cicadas in the air. (1)
January 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM
🧵Spotted in Golden Bay in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A grey pony and a jersey cow are standing in the middle of a field covered in flowers, each giving the other a good groom. Tails swishing. Vibe mellow. Sun shining overhead, bees buzzing industriously about and the whir of cicadas in the air. (1)
A grey pony and a jersey cow are standing in the middle of a field covered in flowers, each giving the other a good groom. Tails swishing. Vibe mellow. Sun shining overhead, bees buzzing industriously about and the whir of cicadas in the air. (1)