Sage Anastasi
@sageanastasi.bsky.social
Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @[email protected]
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Sage Anastasi
@sageanastasi.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Auckland Star 16 April 1960, page 1
Oh Mr Nash by Tom Lehrer
When the early missionaries first brought Rugby to New Zealand,
It became the state religion right away,
And to the ten commandments has been added an eleventh,
And it says: No matter what -- thou shalt play!
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Bringing this back for today. What an honour to have Tom Lehrer rock up to our little country, ask what civil rights issues were going on (the All Blacks' upcoming tour of Apartheid South Africa), and then immediately write a song about it.
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This is genuinely a very sad thing to learn
Hey so apparently Vincent Price really wanted to marry Anna May Wong but couldn’t because of miscegenation laws
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is genuinely a very sad thing to learn
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yes - here's the full photo (I think)
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
yes - here's the full photo (I think)
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I love the revisited version too, for this bit talking about the Nixon tapes
‘And there, there was one particular famous gap in one of those tapes that I was thinking about one night, when I said to myself "Arlo, how many things in the world are eighteen minutes and twenty seconds long?"’
‘And there, there was one particular famous gap in one of those tapes that I was thinking about one night, when I said to myself "Arlo, how many things in the world are eighteen minutes and twenty seconds long?"’
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I love the revisited version too, for this bit talking about the Nixon tapes
‘And there, there was one particular famous gap in one of those tapes that I was thinking about one night, when I said to myself "Arlo, how many things in the world are eighteen minutes and twenty seconds long?"’
‘And there, there was one particular famous gap in one of those tapes that I was thinking about one night, when I said to myself "Arlo, how many things in the world are eighteen minutes and twenty seconds long?"’
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The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
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Thousands of non young people also read Bish. Expert advice and guidance on 'sex, love, and you' from someone doing this work since 1999. Free, ad free, and AI free. It all relies on your support www.bishuk.com/support/
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Thousands of non young people also read Bish. Expert advice and guidance on 'sex, love, and you' from someone doing this work since 1999. Free, ad free, and AI free. It all relies on your support www.bishuk.com/support/
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Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.
This terracotta die comes from the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, one of the first urban centres in human history 🎲⠀
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Gaming with dice has been a popular pastime in India for millennia, with this object dating back to 2500–1900 BCE.
🎲 Terracotta Die, 2500–1900 BCE. 2 x 2 x 2 cm. EAMd.25
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Gaming with dice has been a popular pastime in India for millennia, with this object dating back to 2500–1900 BCE.
🎲 Terracotta Die, 2500–1900 BCE. 2 x 2 x 2 cm. EAMd.25
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.
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Ellie Mulligan, 35, reportedly sentenced herself 15 years ago to life without parole, doing hard emotional labour for the crime of spontaneously choking on her own spit in front of a university crush whose name she now doesn’t remember.
Brutal! Autistic woman’s self-punishment does not fit the crime
An autistic woman who has reportedly been punishing herself for a decade and a half only committed a minor social faux-pas in the first place, it has been reported. Ellie Mulligan, 35, reportedly…
thedailytism.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Ellie Mulligan, 35, reportedly sentenced herself 15 years ago to life without parole, doing hard emotional labour for the crime of spontaneously choking on her own spit in front of a university crush whose name she now doesn’t remember.
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Another impossible beauty standard
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another impossible beauty standard
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Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
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I've been watching a lot of this little slice of life anime called "the simpsons" lately and i think it's got a lot of promise!
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I've been watching a lot of this little slice of life anime called "the simpsons" lately and i think it's got a lot of promise!
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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it is very strange to me that Americans just cannot do packaged, relatively cheap sandwiches. they're fucking awful here. (handmade sandwiches are often great, but, like, the £2.75 Tesco's 'good but not great' sandwich is a missing piece)
It is a huge problem to me that sandwiches in the US are both delicious and stupidly expensive.
There are days I miss a prawn mayo or tuna sandwich meal deal from Boots or WH Smith.
There are days I miss a prawn mayo or tuna sandwich meal deal from Boots or WH Smith.
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
it is very strange to me that Americans just cannot do packaged, relatively cheap sandwiches. they're fucking awful here. (handmade sandwiches are often great, but, like, the £2.75 Tesco's 'good but not great' sandwich is a missing piece)
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[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
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I just finished this lovely book. Recommended.
"A whimsical novel about a trans man in New York who moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self."
"A whimsical novel about a trans man in New York who moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self."
The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill
The poignant story of a man who finds he can reach out to his younger, troubled self through a very familiar bookshop in his hometown. ‘Underhill’s tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on thi...
bookhero.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I just finished this lovely book. Recommended.
"A whimsical novel about a trans man in New York who moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self."
"A whimsical novel about a trans man in New York who moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his pre-transition, teenage self."
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Gene therapy may offer hope to diabetes sufferers, NZ study shows
- tested in mice and human cardiac tissues (cardiac organoids), not clinical tests on people (yet!)
Media story at Newsroom ⬇️
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/g...
- tested in mice and human cardiac tissues (cardiac organoids), not clinical tests on people (yet!)
Media story at Newsroom ⬇️
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/g...
Gene therapy may offer hope to diabetes sufferers, NZ study shows
Comment from the University of Auckland: Maintaining heart health is particularly important for diabetics, who should be seen for at least two check-ups each year, writes Dr Kim Mellow
newsroom.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Gene therapy may offer hope to diabetes sufferers, NZ study shows
- tested in mice and human cardiac tissues (cardiac organoids), not clinical tests on people (yet!)
Media story at Newsroom ⬇️
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/g...
- tested in mice and human cardiac tissues (cardiac organoids), not clinical tests on people (yet!)
Media story at Newsroom ⬇️
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/g...
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Researchers can read the study, below ⬇️
Targeted glycophagy ATG8 therapy reverses
diabetic heart disease in mice and in human
engineered cardiac tissues
- This is the work of researchers based in NZ, Australia, and elsewhere. NZ funding incls. Health Research Council & Marsden Fund.
Targeted glycophagy ATG8 therapy reverses
diabetic heart disease in mice and in human
engineered cardiac tissues
- This is the work of researchers based in NZ, Australia, and elsewhere. NZ funding incls. Health Research Council & Marsden Fund.
Targeted glycophagy ATG8 therapy reverses diabetic heart disease in mice and in human engineered cardiac tissues
Nature Cardiovascular Research - Mellor et al. report that deficiency of GABARAPL1, an ATG8-specific linking protein, impairs diastolic function in diabetic mice. This effect can be reversed by...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Researchers can read the study, below ⬇️
Targeted glycophagy ATG8 therapy reverses
diabetic heart disease in mice and in human
engineered cardiac tissues
- This is the work of researchers based in NZ, Australia, and elsewhere. NZ funding incls. Health Research Council & Marsden Fund.
Targeted glycophagy ATG8 therapy reverses
diabetic heart disease in mice and in human
engineered cardiac tissues
- This is the work of researchers based in NZ, Australia, and elsewhere. NZ funding incls. Health Research Council & Marsden Fund.
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An amazing NZ story of a consumer taking a int'l jeweler to a dispute tribunal after they claimed the "lifetime" guarantee on a wedding ring ought to be for 12 years, since the average NZ marriage lasts 14yrs with 2yrs of separation.
(This is not the wildest detail.)
www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
(This is not the wildest detail.)
www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
From the newzealand community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the newzealand community
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November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
An amazing NZ story of a consumer taking a int'l jeweler to a dispute tribunal after they claimed the "lifetime" guarantee on a wedding ring ought to be for 12 years, since the average NZ marriage lasts 14yrs with 2yrs of separation.
(This is not the wildest detail.)
www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
(This is not the wildest detail.)
www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
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Stolen off @darienfenton.bsky.social FB
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Stolen off @darienfenton.bsky.social FB
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol