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Jo Bailey

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Designer, (was) @jo_bailey on Twitter. She/they. Scicomm PhD. Curious about architecture, typography, urban space, cats, visual culture, graphic design, renovation + making…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13h

I found it totally perplexing when I grasped that ‘voice in my head’ was actually a literal experience for some people. I guess if I wanted to ‘practice’ a conversation it might, at a push, get close to ‘reading’ in my mind, but it’s generally quite quiet in there!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13h

It’s interesting eh. Pretty sure I *don’t* have an internal monologue how it’s understood by some —no ‘voice in my head’ or any kind of narrator but I can obvs still mull things and weigh arguments and I might say ‘I thought to myself’—it’s just that thinking is nothing like talking or listening…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 6d

Less time to forget what you did! (Or is that a me problem? 🙃)

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 10d

we need to change the history of Aotearoa again… i found a 2,500 year-old Terracotta Warrior from Xi’an, China near Maupuia yesterday.

jk!

do you recognise this as a souvenir or something more interesting… ? full story…
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 11d

Here's a couple of images of it, I think…

The Te Aro railway station, 1900s, with a waiting horse and cart.
Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-104811-F. This image is reproduced on page 245 of the forthcoming book Mr Ward's Map, by Elizabeth Cox, published by Massey University Press

Caption from Mr Ward's Map, Massey University Press, page 185: The elaborate, newly built free public library sits at the centre
of this image from the late 1890s, with the School of Design
behind it. To the left of the library is Mercer Street and the new Working Men’s Club. The tall striped chimney on the left is that of the coal-powered electric power station on Harris Street (Sheet 30). At the harbour’s edge are the boat sheds for the Naval Volunteers, Star Boating Club
and Wellington Rowing Club, and,
further around the curve of the
harbour, the Te Aro railway station.
Victoria Street curves in front of
the library. Running through the
middle of the photograph is a line
of shops on Willis Street (on the
left) and the heavy industrial area
on Old Custom House Street (on
the right). The spire of St Mary
of the Angels Catholic Church
on Boulcott Street is in the
foreground. Alexander Turnbull
Library, 10x8-1022-G

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 11d

I saw this recently! It's shown in a book I've just designed, 'Mr Ward's Map', out in Nov! It's written by historian Elizabeth Cox and uses Thomas Ward's 1891 map (all ~88 giant sheets, with every building shown) as the basis for telling amazing stories: www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/mr-war...

Dr William Chapple’s map of the inner-city Te Aro Flat area,
showing dots for each of the typhoid cases during the typhoid
epidemic of 1891 and 1892. His area of study was bounded by
the Basin Reserve in the south and the sea to the north, and Mount Victoria to the east and Cuba Street to the west. Wellington City Council Archives, 00233-1892/740

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13d

What the heck?!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 14d

grateful she did and for the bullet it allowed us to dodge; pretty galled how the following government is systematically trashing all the other good things: from smoke free to school school meals

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

We should just adopt their recommendations—all the complaints are the same here!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

Hmm karamu was also offered by the seek app—honestly though it was all over the show so I’m not sure I trust it!

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

More for context

Boot and small plant of unknown identity

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

Gardeners of #nz #kikorangi: what’s this? I was cutting down a cottoneaster and this was growing below (self seeded). Not the same as what I cut down. Seek has offered up privet, Myrtle rust (?!), Chilean guava, rata… oh and insect and bird lol!