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Flightless Fairy

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Done a bit of research, doing a bit more music. Would rather talk than post. tauiwi Pākehā, sliochd nan Gàidheal, they/them (dad sa Ghàidhlig) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Jun 1

Dunno how some of you continually churn out online content these days, what follows took me four years of postgraduate study and 87,705 words to whittle down to something remotely shareable.

Co-dhiù: here's my entire PhD thesis condensed to ten slides! (inspired by @chercywong.bsky.social)

My thesis in ten slides!

Settlers against colonialism? Education and organising in the Tiriti workers' movement

Dani Pickering (they/them, Pākehā-Gàidheal)

Research #inspo

For my thesis I studied non-Māori Tiriti work, which I define broadly as any efforts by non-Māori to bring effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

I was inspired in part by own activist experiences in which Pākehā settlers (myself included) wring our hands over how we can do our bit for Tiriti justice. Often, these conversations arrive at a consensus that we simply "need to listen to Māori". While true, taken by itself this sentiment can also absolve us of the responsibility to make our own intellectual contributions at the T iriti table, where there is much work to be done.

I was (and am) concerned by the epistemic exploitation of Māori this dynamic implies.

Movement-relevant theory

I was really determined with this research to make sure it was actually *useful* to Tiriti workers them/ourselves. Much "activist" scholarship I'd engaged with before had certainly had a critical veneer, but little by way of usability to somebody actually doing that movement's work on the ground.

To avoid a similar outcome, my research was co-designed alongside Māori and non-Māori Tiriti workers alike, who helped ensure that my work could balance the academic requirements of the PhD with the strategic needs of the movement.

What I/we did

- Interviewed 25 Tiriti workers across a range of ages, genders, sexualities, ethnicities and locations across Aotearoa. Many--not all--of these considered themselves "Tiriti educators"
- Conducted a thematic analysis on transcripts of these interviews
- Invited participant input between iterations of this analysis to help steer it in a movement-relevant direction
- Wrote an 87,705-word thesis about it

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greg (scary) @gregdotexe.sufficientlyinteresting.com · 1d

can't beat wellington on a good day? well, not with that attitude you can't. don't give up, I believe in you

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I distrust the “screen free parents” groups. Not because I don’t think social media and phones can be issues. I do. But because they are weirdly well funded and refuse to discuss social issues, digital rights and how schools catalyse harm. Brianna was killed by another child not a phone

Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.”

Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 7d

Most of us have pathologically useless parents who don't care to learn about protecting us properly, but this dogshit really takes the cake.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 3d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 7d

tis the season!!!

Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10d

may a swift end come to your hope labour friend <3

Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10d

so shitty somebody died getting struck by a fallen branch, o mo chreach

Man dies after being hit by falling branch in Wellington

An orange strong wind warning is in place for Wellington until this evening.

www.stuff.co.nz

Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10d

this must be the shittiest shitsville we've had in a while in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. how long have these storm winds been going for now?

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 13d

Duolingo Ad: “where’d you go?” 🥺

You laid off some of the few remaining native speakers of my ancestors’ critically endangered language in favor of genAI you uaine gòrach comhachag

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 21d

ooooh, is this an updated edition of the 2012 one then? Been wondering why that one's so hard to find

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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 21d

Your right to protest is under threat.
Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 23d

I wonder what David Seymour is quietly getting up to atm now that the media spotlight has shifted to Winston for the last few days

Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 24d

Still over here waiting for the genAI bubble to burst

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 29d

Those flotilla people are so brave

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Sep 25

I love how I learned everything I needed to about Cid through MtG card mechanics, looked him up later and already had it all figured out largely through game design

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Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · Sep 15

It's not a coincidence that our bus patronage numbers are hitting all time highs. This term we've delivered more bus lanes than the seven previous councils combined

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Sep 15

hello this is maybe a silly thing maybe not but if anyone who hasn't voted for Bird of the Year yet could include a vote for the tītī wainui? My parents and I had a traumabonding experience two years back spending a whole day trying and failing to save one. It was literally a flightless fairy!!😭

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Not saying there's an easy answer *at all*, but the question feels to me a crucial one around figuring out what constraints are needed in the now for productive tangata whenua/Tiriti organising, and what those might look like in the future

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Seeing this play out is reminding me of multiple occasions in the last decade or so when tauiwi support of noho whenua at Ihumātao and Shelly Bay were frowned upon because there were Māori on both sides at a given point in those struggles, so many tauiwi decided it was easier to stay back.

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pearce @pearced.bsky.social · Sep 5

The media sells us the lie that the Greens are dangerous radicals (the only party that provides fully costed evidence-driven shadow budgets) and Act are normal (repeated jokes in speeches about killing people, boasts about dangerous driving).

Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · Sep 5

These two headlines side by side make me ill.

Imagine it had been a Green MP in the car. If you think the top headline would be anything other than “Green MP filmed speeding” I have a shiny bridge to sell you.

Two adjacent headlines from Stuff.co.nz

Watch: Seymour slams driver who filmed him overtaking in left-hand lane on SH1

Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns, citing safety concerns

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · Sep 4

niche poneke meme

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Aug 29

😭

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Aug 29

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

bugs bunny in the bit where she does gossamer's nails in a super gay way

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · Aug 26

“As the illogic of capitalism and colonialism fails everyone but the elite, we must learn from Indigenous ways of seeing, being, knowing, and doing.”
www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #indigenouspeoplesmonth

Indigenous Peoples Month: A Time to Recognise & Align with the True Stewards of the Environment - Greenpeace International

Messages of solidarity, defiance, and hope from the world’s great tropical forests

www.greenpeace.org

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · Aug 19

"What came first / the chicken or the dickhead" living in my head rent-free today thank you Arctic Monkeys

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Aug 17

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.

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