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Madam Snazzy

@moatatamaira.bsky.social

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Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat. She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · Nov 15

I want you all to know that I valiantly ignored vacuuming to write this piece about yesterday's haka, haka in general, and why I think it resonates so far. #kikorangi
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Tēnei te tangata

It's the haka heard around the world but why does it resonate so much with people outside of Aotearoa New Zealand?

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 9h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus holy fuck, Mel.
You're made of sterner stuff than I am.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

doomscroll break

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 22h

City librarian, YA librarian, Cataloguer

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️BREAKING ⚠️ 25+ arrests have been made violently by police, who are facilitating the business of war and genocide in Te Pae right now.

We, the people, say NO to the aerospace military industrial complex.

We, the people, say NO MORE WAR IN OUR NAME

#nzpol #nz #peaceactivism

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 23h

SAVE OUR STATE HOUSING HIKOI - FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER
💔112,500 people are in over-crowded and/or uninhabitable housing, on couches, in cars.
💔Of these, at least 4,965 are living without shelter.
Meet at 11.30am at the Bridge of Remembrance, let's make some noise.

Public Housing Futures X Save our state housing Ōtautahi
SAVE OUR STATE HOUSING
A Hikoi to reverse the cuts!
When Friday 10th October at 11.30am
Where Bridge of Remembrance Cashel Street, Ōtautahi Central

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 1d

Right. It’s a bit grim out there in the world so how about an #ootd?

Middle aged woman in sailor style denim pants standing side on so the row of buttons is visible. She is also wearing red patent leather espadrille wedges and a red balloon sleeve top with a navy knitted vest over the top.

Looking down on the wide denim cuffs of the sailor pants and the peep toe red patent leather espadrille wedges.

Middle aged Māori woman smiling broadly. She wears a tomato red lipstick that matches her top.

Middle aged woman in sailor style denim pants standing front on the the camera. She is also wearing red patent leather espadrille wedges and a red balloon sleeve top with a navy knitted vest over the top.

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1d

Scores of peace activists have set up a blockade around a convention centre in central Christchurch to protest against an aerospace summit taking place in the city.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

I think this needs to be a priority in NZ schools as soon as the current bullshit-filled NACT Government, which relies on unreliable narrators and propaganda, is out of power.
#nzpol

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

I'll add something... we need media literacy education at levels never seen in the US to help here. With AI tools free and copyright or IP disrespected forever anyway, it's easy to make convincing deepfakes and mislead people.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

8.40am NZ Time

The Conscience, with Will Alexander and Ava Mulla from Ōtautahi onboard, are nearing where previous flotillas have been attacked by Israel

Keep amplifying Gaza
Help keep us safe
Tag media and politicians

@philtwyford.bsky.social

#NZPol

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 1d

If you’d like to hear my final council speech (with some sass), feel free to come to council tomorrow morning. DM for more details.

Final council speech
Image of Tory whanau
Wed 8 Oct
10am

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 1d

If we reject doxxing because it risks violence/vandalism against those we are aligned with, follow, love, are partial to, vote for, believe in, & respect, it must be the same yardstick for everyone. I've studied doxxing in NZ for years, & have always proactively warned folks targeted, & at risk.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 1d

- we don't have to be weird about protesters
- we don't have to become anti-vaxxers
- we don't have to threaten our politicians with violence
- we don't have to be extra racist, we have quite enough of that already
- we don't have to use terminology like "liberals", it doesn't make any sense here

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 2d

A law in the way gravity is:

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Donna @kebabette.bsky.social · 2d

Ōtautahi Christchurch peeps, if you like taking pics make sure and enter the Photo Hunt this month. You could win Riverside vouchers, and your pics will go onto the library's Disco Wall & into Canterbury Stories! my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/photo-hunt/

Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 2d

I've been looking at my photos for this month's Photo Hunt – and my pics include Books, Street Art, Fish and Chips, and Blossoms.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/m...
Share your photos and you could win Riverside Vouchers! my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/photo-hunt/ ^DR

Scenes from around Ōtautahi Christchurch

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a helmet with the words this is the way behind him

Alt: The Mandalorian turns towards the viewer with the words "this is the way".

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

Fair.
I'm kind of allergic to passive aggression though, so I'm not likely to go that route. If I disagree with you I'll just come out and say so.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

With, darling. With.

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh.

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