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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Apr 6

Hey peeps! Do you like Indian food? Who doesn't?!
Then come along and help support my daughter Carys Chacko with her fundraising efforts to get to London AND eat some yummy kai. A selection of breads, rice, and mains. Drinks can be purchased from the bar for extra 🙂
Thursday May 8th ay 6pm

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 8

Oh boy, looks like the manosphere is going to hit the jackpot. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections

The decision came after resistance from career staff at the agency.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 8

The positioning of preventing thousands of deaths as doing nothing is…. Quite something.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · Mar 8

So fun fact - people on the left *are* working with young men. Like I got a whole ass partner who spends all his time doing that. People just sorta ignore that because it doesn't make for good headlines, and also people like saying we need to bring back the subjugation of women.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 7

The irony on international women’s day.

The mansplainer mansplaining mansplaining!

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 7

Every day all day but especially on International Women’s Day.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 7

Handy resources for today…

On International Women’s Day.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 5

The universe is having a laugh at my expense.

I’m on strike today from 10.30-2.30

I’m also sick.

Which means no sick pay either.

Rude.

Also, honestly UoA - right now you suck, bargain with good faith instead of whatever you have been doing.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

I have funds now to travel to international conferences to support my research. I’ve not really had access to that before.

I saw an excellent conference advertised yesterday.

One I’d usually want to go to.

It’s in the US.

Not now. Nope.

Academic freedom there is dying. Quickly.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

Bottom left - 'well actually'

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

If the PM is taking political pointers from Marie Antoinette should we then be inspired by what the French people then went on to do?

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

Let them eat vegemite sandwiches

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 4

Apropos of nothing…

I actually prefer Vegemite sandwiches.

With a mandarin.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Mar 1

I am here for this energy 🔥😍

Mona Christie @monachristie.bsky.social · Mar 1

🔥

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 28

I do love the support governments around the world are showing for Ukraine right now.

But I hate the relative silence re Palestine.

Where were they when Trump posted that horrific AI video this week?

Why can’t we have both and?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Feb 28

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Feb 28

NEW:
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."

From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

www.huffpost.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Feb 28

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yup it’s pretty scary

Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 27

Call out to non US based social science peeps! Are you reconsidering where your work can be published given recent developments in the US? Has this caused you to rethink which journals to submit to? Super curious to hear people’s thoughts.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 26

We repealed it because, despite opposition, most people realised that “reasonable force” was a flimsy concept and allowing people to use force against another human like that was fundamentally wrong.

And now here we are.

Allowing citizens to tie others up with ropes is “reasonable force” 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Apparently you’re allowed to use “reasonable force” when making the arrest and even tie people up.

Because last time we had a law like that it worked so well…

It allowed parents to physically abuse their children. It was called the defence of “reasonable force”

We repealed that.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Dammit, *anyone*

Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Anyway able to reconcile the proposed new Cit arrest powers - physical restraint - with employer health and safety legal obligations around minimising risk?

Because on the face of it…

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · Feb 26

If anyone ever complains to you about Treaty settlements, tell them the total cost at January 2023 was $2.6 billion, but in 2024 Luxon gave $2.9 billion to landlords, and rents still increased. #NZpol

As of January 2023, 86 settlements had been passed into law. The total value of all finalised settlements is $2.6 billion. This may seem like a lot of money, but in the next 12 months, the Government will spend $19 billion on national superannuation alone. The entire value of Treaty settlements over the past quarter of a century would cover superannuation payments for two months.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-tai/about-treaty-settlements

NZ Herald article by Thomas Coughlan dated 11 March 2024 confirming $2.9 billion cost of landlord tax break.

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