Nyika
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social
PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of ‘normal’ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿
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Nyika
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social
· Jun 15
Hello, I’m Nyika. I’m a neurodivergent 30-something newly living in Auckland, Aotearoa NZ. I am in the first year of studying studying for a PhD in neurodiversity, the transition to adulthood, the neoliberal idea of ‘normal’, and critical pedagogy.
What did the horse say when it was invited to an Irish folk evening?
No, neigh, never.
No, neigh, never.
January 25, 2026 at 10:05 AM
What did the horse say when it was invited to an Irish folk evening?
No, neigh, never.
No, neigh, never.
What’s happening in the US is utterly terrifying. It should feel like hyperbole to say “this feels like the gestapo” and yet it does not. And I am so scared by that.
January 25, 2026 at 9:44 AM
What’s happening in the US is utterly terrifying. It should feel like hyperbole to say “this feels like the gestapo” and yet it does not. And I am so scared by that.
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Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
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Thursday we went to Barnsley spent all the time in Asda.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Thursday we went to Barnsley spent all the time in Asda.
Decided to just delete the X app. I feel better already.
January 25, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Decided to just delete the X app. I feel better already.
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Horrifying realisation that as of this year, the correct lyrics to Football’s Coming Home are now “60 years of hurt”
January 25, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Horrifying realisation that as of this year, the correct lyrics to Football’s Coming Home are now “60 years of hurt”
Have been in pretty much every shop which sells basic hair accessories trying to find the open sort of hair pins (not Bobby pins) and nowhere sells them! I didn’t think they were that niche or old fashioned?
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Have been in pretty much every shop which sells basic hair accessories trying to find the open sort of hair pins (not Bobby pins) and nowhere sells them! I didn’t think they were that niche or old fashioned?
Horrifying realisation that as of this year, the correct lyrics to Football’s Coming Home are now “60 years of hurt”
January 25, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Horrifying realisation that as of this year, the correct lyrics to Football’s Coming Home are now “60 years of hurt”
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Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
January 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
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Ten minutes later, police escorted Barry from the fruit and veg aisle in Asda.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Ten minutes later, police escorted Barry from the fruit and veg aisle in Asda.
I got a game called Dredge quite cheaply on Steam and it’s bloody amazing. You’re a fisherperson in these islands that get really weird at night. You have to sail around the map using a compass. It’s also quite hard. I love it.
January 24, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I got a game called Dredge quite cheaply on Steam and it’s bloody amazing. You’re a fisherperson in these islands that get really weird at night. You have to sail around the map using a compass. It’s also quite hard. I love it.
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I think as there will be a nuclear war, they will use Europe, even when we haven't got rockets, because Europe is an ideal strategical point.
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I think as there will be a nuclear war, they will use Europe, even when we haven't got rockets, because Europe is an ideal strategical point.
Got hit by the most awful wave of homesickness today. I’ve felt a bit grumpy about Aotearoa, but not properly homesick. Just wish that missing something didn’t make me feel like a failure.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Got hit by the most awful wave of homesickness today. I’ve felt a bit grumpy about Aotearoa, but not properly homesick. Just wish that missing something didn’t make me feel like a failure.
We’ve done something… inadvisable on a holiday Saturday.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 AM
We’ve done something… inadvisable on a holiday Saturday.
The other day I was scanning through radio stations in the car and got my university’s student radio (which is, by all accounts, very good).
The fact that what was playing was a speech about Netanyahu over a kind of urgent techno beat was so hilariously student-coded, though.
The fact that what was playing was a speech about Netanyahu over a kind of urgent techno beat was so hilariously student-coded, though.
January 23, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The other day I was scanning through radio stations in the car and got my university’s student radio (which is, by all accounts, very good).
The fact that what was playing was a speech about Netanyahu over a kind of urgent techno beat was so hilariously student-coded, though.
The fact that what was playing was a speech about Netanyahu over a kind of urgent techno beat was so hilariously student-coded, though.
Wow the weather is dire. Glad to see “it’s a public holiday so the weather is shite” rule is the same 13000 miles from home.
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Wow the weather is dire. Glad to see “it’s a public holiday so the weather is shite” rule is the same 13000 miles from home.
This is very funny to me for some reason. Not to kink shame, but had a pal who frequented this place and the description of it as “decorated like a granny’s bedroom” was really something www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bristol kink club temporarily closes over safety concerns
Officials shut down Dare To as the venue's boss promised to make rapid improvements.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:57 PM
This is very funny to me for some reason. Not to kink shame, but had a pal who frequented this place and the description of it as “decorated like a granny’s bedroom” was really something www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Did Phoebe Bridgers write this?
NO WORDS in the English language can describe the beauty.
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Did Phoebe Bridgers write this?
We’ve both got such significant “thinking of something to eat for dinner” fatigue that we simply ordered a pizza.
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
We’ve both got such significant “thinking of something to eat for dinner” fatigue that we simply ordered a pizza.
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The "re-open Bristol Zoo" campaign is one of the most ridiculous bits of NIMBYism I've ever come across. The enclosures in that zoo were far, far too small, and the zoo has already moved! They don't want a zoo there, they just don't want houses built there.
January 23, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The "re-open Bristol Zoo" campaign is one of the most ridiculous bits of NIMBYism I've ever come across. The enclosures in that zoo were far, far too small, and the zoo has already moved! They don't want a zoo there, they just don't want houses built there.
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Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus
January 22, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus
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incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
forward.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
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The ‘new shoes’ that Paolo Nutini sang about in his 2006 hit ‘new shoes’ are now 20 years old. They would be old shoes now.
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The ‘new shoes’ that Paolo Nutini sang about in his 2006 hit ‘new shoes’ are now 20 years old. They would be old shoes now.