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Madam Snazzy

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Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat. She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · Nov 15

I want you all to know that I valiantly ignored vacuuming to write this piece about yesterday's haka, haka in general, and why I think it resonates so far. #kikorangi
the-opinionist.ghost.io/tenei-te-tan...

Tēnei te tangata

It's the haka heard around the world but why does it resonate so much with people outside of Aotearoa New Zealand?

the-opinionist.ghost.io

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 8h

I literally said it is not my birthday (o am not a Libra).

Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 1d

Who’s a cute widdle guillotine?

Photo of a poster stuck to a pole in central Christchurch. It features a smiling guillotine styled in the manner of Mickey Mouse. Text on the poster reads THE BILLIONAIRES AREN’T GONNA KILL THEMSELVES!

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 1d

This is fifty.
(It’s not my birthday, I’m just taking advantage of these balloons for photo op purposes)

Moata kneeling next to large foil balloons shaped like the numerals 5 and 0, posed with hands under chin between the two balloons.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 1d

Never not angry about this.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Christopher Columbus!

♡🐸 𝒶𝓈𝒽 🐸♡ @tiredporkchop.bsky.social · 1d

celebrating early, it's Indigenous People's Weekend now idc

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

MICHAEL. I am absolutely wheezing over here.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all this movie is SO GOOD, please see it in theaters if you can!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

reactormag.com

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

(Sexy) justice for anxious overthinkers everywhere.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

The video in this story where Andrew Garfield explains his "sexy" Golden Globes appearance away as essentially a series of nervous tics is absolutely sending me.
www.fxoxo.com/226085/

Andrew Garfield gives a play by play of him presenting at the Golden Globes: “Everyone thinks I’m trying to be sexy, but in truth, neuroses is, I guess, kind of sexy, ultimately”

Andrew Garfield gives a play by play of him presenting at the Golden Globes: “Everyone thinks I’m trying to be sexy, but in truth, neuroses is, I guess, kind of sexy, ultimately”by mcfw31

www.fxoxo.com

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I am 100% going to read "Mike's Minute" in this way now. Thanks for that.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus holy fuck, Mel.
You're made of sterner stuff than I am.

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

doomscroll break

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 3d

City librarian, YA librarian, Cataloguer

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 3d

⚠️BREAKING ⚠️ 25+ arrests have been made violently by police, who are facilitating the business of war and genocide in Te Pae right now.

We, the people, say NO to the aerospace military industrial complex.

We, the people, say NO MORE WAR IN OUR NAME

#nzpol #nz #peaceactivism

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 3d

SAVE OUR STATE HOUSING HIKOI - FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER
💔112,500 people are in over-crowded and/or uninhabitable housing, on couches, in cars.
💔Of these, at least 4,965 are living without shelter.
Meet at 11.30am at the Bridge of Remembrance, let's make some noise.

Public Housing Futures X Save our state housing Ōtautahi
SAVE OUR STATE HOUSING
A Hikoi to reverse the cuts!
When Friday 10th October at 11.30am
Where Bridge of Remembrance Cashel Street, Ōtautahi Central

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 3d

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 3d

Right. It’s a bit grim out there in the world so how about an #ootd?

Middle aged woman in sailor style denim pants standing side on so the row of buttons is visible. She is also wearing red patent leather espadrille wedges and a red balloon sleeve top with a navy knitted vest over the top.

Looking down on the wide denim cuffs of the sailor pants and the peep toe red patent leather espadrille wedges.

Middle aged Māori woman smiling broadly. She wears a tomato red lipstick that matches her top.

Middle aged woman in sailor style denim pants standing front on the the camera. She is also wearing red patent leather espadrille wedges and a red balloon sleeve top with a navy knitted vest over the top.

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 3d

Scores of peace activists have set up a blockade around a convention centre in central Christchurch to protest against an aerospace summit taking place in the city.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3d

I think this needs to be a priority in NZ schools as soon as the current bullshit-filled NACT Government, which relies on unreliable narrators and propaganda, is out of power.
#nzpol

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d

I'll add something... we need media literacy education at levels never seen in the US to help here. With AI tools free and copyright or IP disrespected forever anyway, it's easy to make convincing deepfakes and mislead people.

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