Adele
@teleda.bsky.social
Aotearoa 41° South
Bothered by many things.
Writer. Introvert. Polyam. Safe space. 🏳️🌈 Toitū Te Tiriti
Bothered by many things.
Writer. Introvert. Polyam. Safe space. 🏳️🌈 Toitū Te Tiriti
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Adele
@teleda.bsky.social
· Jan 4
After debating for months, I decided to make a fandom alt.
If we're friends, I'll keep you here too, but I'll be switching my fandom follows over to @serenhawk.bsky.social
This main I'll keep for AoNZ & kikorangi.
If we're friends, I'll keep you here too, but I'll be switching my fandom follows over to @serenhawk.bsky.social
This main I'll keep for AoNZ & kikorangi.
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The perfect two sentence story.
When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The perfect two sentence story.
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This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
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We learn from failure. We learn from the work of improvement. And no one is good at everything. Telling people they can pretend to be good at something they're not both stunts their personal growth & creates unrealistic expectations no one can live up to. This is the mission of current corporate AI.
January 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
We learn from failure. We learn from the work of improvement. And no one is good at everything. Telling people they can pretend to be good at something they're not both stunts their personal growth & creates unrealistic expectations no one can live up to. This is the mission of current corporate AI.
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🧵This preliminary research isn't quite as unprecedented as the story suggests – it clearly overlaps with Otago Uni's 2023 drug harms ranking study, which is more comprehensive – but the similarities and differences between the two are interesting and informative. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
‘Groundbreaking’ NZ research shows majority of drug users experience no negative effects
Two Class A drugs sit at the bottom of the scale for causing individual acute harm.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM
🧵This preliminary research isn't quite as unprecedented as the story suggests – it clearly overlaps with Otago Uni's 2023 drug harms ranking study, which is more comprehensive – but the similarities and differences between the two are interesting and informative. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.
January 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.
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i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years
January 1, 2026 at 1:21 AM
i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years
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I really like this joke from @joshgondelman.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I really like this joke from @joshgondelman.bsky.social
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Happy New Year 2026. Rain is considered to be a good omen across many cultures, and there is plenty of it in New Zealand today. May it portend better times - more peace ☮️, justice ⚖️, equity, and sustainability 🌳 for our challenged world.
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy New Year 2026. Rain is considered to be a good omen across many cultures, and there is plenty of it in New Zealand today. May it portend better times - more peace ☮️, justice ⚖️, equity, and sustainability 🌳 for our challenged world.
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The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high
December 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high
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This.
The main point of the essay isn’t about Heated Rivalry, but rather what it means when we as a community recognize each other, the windows and mirrors that such moments afford. Breathtaking.
The main point of the essay isn’t about Heated Rivalry, but rather what it means when we as a community recognize each other, the windows and mirrors that such moments afford. Breathtaking.
An essay by Laura Sackton inspired by Heated Rivalry, reflecting on the complexities of “coming out” as a political/discursive act in a heterosexist world… vs inter-community signaling, recognition, language, intimacy, etc for showing each other who’s family
poetryschool.beehiiv.com/p/volume-5-n...
poetryschool.beehiiv.com/p/volume-5-n...
Volume 5, No. 16: Queer Syntax is Infinite
The 6 minutes of television I cannot stop watching
poetryschool.beehiiv.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This.
The main point of the essay isn’t about Heated Rivalry, but rather what it means when we as a community recognize each other, the windows and mirrors that such moments afford. Breathtaking.
The main point of the essay isn’t about Heated Rivalry, but rather what it means when we as a community recognize each other, the windows and mirrors that such moments afford. Breathtaking.
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Who would have thought you can intellectually cripple an entire society just by writing a program that cheerfully agrees with their dumbest thoughts.
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Who would have thought you can intellectually cripple an entire society just by writing a program that cheerfully agrees with their dumbest thoughts.
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In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
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Yeeeah, this is the cyberpunk dystopia I signed up for.
logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Yeeeah, this is the cyberpunk dystopia I signed up for.
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Our five eyes partner.
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Our five eyes partner.
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A hung jury
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A hung jury
My kids (11 & 14), going thru a family breakup & move, relied on discord and other chat platforms. Cutting them off from their old friendships at the same time would have been devastating.
Blanket bans are blunt instruments. They also don't prepare teens to be discerning, savvy SM users as adults.
Blanket bans are blunt instruments. They also don't prepare teens to be discerning, savvy SM users as adults.
My kid is 14. He uses discord to talk to friends when playing Minecraft and dnd. He has no interest in FB or instagram or TikTok, but a social media hard-cap of age 16 would limit his social life unnecessarily with no benefit. Ffs, direct policy at platforms not users. Or ban boomers as well.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My kids (11 & 14), going thru a family breakup & move, relied on discord and other chat platforms. Cutting them off from their old friendships at the same time would have been devastating.
Blanket bans are blunt instruments. They also don't prepare teens to be discerning, savvy SM users as adults.
Blanket bans are blunt instruments. They also don't prepare teens to be discerning, savvy SM users as adults.
If you aren't familiar with Heavyweight, I can't think of a better accompaniment to lazy holiday days.
Smart, gentle, unhurried, and unexpected storytelling about human connection that is often as funny as it is heart-wrenching and poignant.
Smart, gentle, unhurried, and unexpected storytelling about human connection that is often as funny as it is heart-wrenching and poignant.
And we're back. Today, a new episode of Heavyweight: Etta. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If you aren't familiar with Heavyweight, I can't think of a better accompaniment to lazy holiday days.
Smart, gentle, unhurried, and unexpected storytelling about human connection that is often as funny as it is heart-wrenching and poignant.
Smart, gentle, unhurried, and unexpected storytelling about human connection that is often as funny as it is heart-wrenching and poignant.
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Our highly scientific diagram of the situation:
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our highly scientific diagram of the situation:
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The government is not doing well in the courts this week and I couldn't be happier #nzpol
HELL YEAH!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Supreme Court finds government must consider climate change when offering oil and gas tenders
The country's highest court says climate change is "a pressing concern" that must be considered whether deciding to open up new blocks for exploration and extraction.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The government is not doing well in the courts this week and I couldn't be happier #nzpol
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It honestly doesn't seem that hard to get - investment in public infrastructure and resources empowers private productivity.
People who are more stable can do more and spend more.
It's endlessly frustrating that modern governments are, regardless of party, captured by neocon anti-spending ideas
People who are more stable can do more and spend more.
It's endlessly frustrating that modern governments are, regardless of party, captured by neocon anti-spending ideas
Post-war period fascinates me - we built *loads* of infra and houses but public debt levels fell. There must be things we can take from that era to inform what we do next.
Also fascinates me that the 1980 to 2008 period is considered a success - we maxed out our private debt, and what did we build?
Also fascinates me that the 1980 to 2008 period is considered a success - we maxed out our private debt, and what did we build?
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It honestly doesn't seem that hard to get - investment in public infrastructure and resources empowers private productivity.
People who are more stable can do more and spend more.
It's endlessly frustrating that modern governments are, regardless of party, captured by neocon anti-spending ideas
People who are more stable can do more and spend more.
It's endlessly frustrating that modern governments are, regardless of party, captured by neocon anti-spending ideas
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.