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Startling Lady of Gore

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She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library. Gam zu l'tova.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · Jun 26

TRANKET COMPLETED

A knitted blanket in the trans pride colours. Don’t look too closely at where I bound off!

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 18h

Doing Vancouver citation as the world burns, etc

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 22h

"Basketmaking, Whanganui River"
Photo by James McDonald, 1921
Ref MU000523/005/0380, Te Papa.

A Māori woman in Pākehā clothes is preparing flax. Black and white photo.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 22h

Grinding an adze, Whanganui River.
Photo by James McDonald, 1921
Ref MU000523/005/0338, Te Papa.

Shirtless Māori man sits by the Whanganui River and grinds a stone dze. Black and white.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 1d

I have a group project due in tomorrow and everyone’s done their part except for Ethan, who has three blank powerpoint slides in the middle

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 1d

"Women and children, Pipiriki"
Photo by James McDonald, 1921
Ref MU000523/005/0160, Te Papa.

Black and white picture of collection of Māori women and children, standing in front of a farmhouse.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 1d

Prause, N., & Binnie, J. (2023). Iatrogenic effects of Reboot/NoFap on public health: A preregistered survey study. Sexualities, 27(8), 1608-1640.
Wank! It's better than obsessing about not doing it!

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“Reboot,” especially NoFap, promotes abstinence from masturbation and/or pornography to treat “pornography addiction,” an unrecognized diagnosis. While the intention of Reboot/NoFap is to decrease distress, qualitative studies have consistently suggested that “Reboots” paradoxically cause more distress. The distress appears to occur in response to (1) the abstinence goal, which recasts common sexual behaviors as personal “failures,” and (2) problematic and inaccurate Reboot/NoFap forum messaging regarding sexuality and addiction. This preregistered survey asked men about their experience with perceived “relapse” and NoFap forums. Participants reported that their most recent relapse was followed by feeling shameful, worthless, sad, a desire to commit suicide, and other negative emotions. A novel predictor of identifying as a pornography addict in this lower religiosity sample was higher narcissism. Participants reported that NoFap forums contained posts that were misogynist (73.7% of participants), bullying (49.1%), anti-LGBT (42.9%), antisemitic (32.0%), instructing followers to harm or kill themselves (23.5%), or threats to hurt someone else (21.1%). More engagement in NoFap online forums was associated with worse symptoms of erectile dysfunction, depression, anxiety, and more sex negativity. Results support and expand previously documented harms and problems with Reboot/NoFap claims of treating pornography addiction from qualitative research.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Sukkot in the displaced persons camp, Amberg, Germany, October 1947.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

France’s latest government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

FRENCH PM LECORNU RESIGNS

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 2d

Girl 1: “You’ll do fine! You’re a smart cookie!”
Girl 2, sobbing: “I’m not! I’m a dumb cookie!”

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I have great news- you’re not gonna believe what these babies are made of

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 4d

This is the end of a long road, but I actually kind of think Israel has given up on being supported by the bulk of diaspora American Jews (outside Orthodox Jews). It's evangelicals or bust; Jews are, at best, annoying gadflies to be a swatted away.

Israel to spend up to $4.1M to bolster support among Christians in western US, filings show - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

San Diego firm contracted to geofence churches, recruit pastors and tour an “October 7th Experience” exhibit as part of Israel's expanded global outreach efforts.

www.jta.org

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm, I don’t have sukkah decorations but I do have 50-odd blanket squares… consider…

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beckydubs @beckydubs.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking hell. This wasn’t on my radar. #nzpol thank you Emily Writes

‼️Submissions close at 2pm TODAY Oct 6th! ‼️

This amendment makes it an offense to protest *near residential areas.

This is fascist suppression of free speech 101.

www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

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www3.parliament.nz

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 3d

"Girl, Rotorua"
Photograph by James McDonald, 1920
Ref MU000523/002/0118, Te Papa,

Black and white picture of a wee Māori girl standing in front of a carved pou.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 3d

This creates frankly bonkers outcomes. If one parent works an hour less a week, their child gets $13,942. In fact, one parent can work 11 hours less a week and the household is still better off. Secondary benefits (like Accommodation Supplement) are likely to stretch that gap even further

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 3d

New Zealand soldiers brush their teeth before visiting a Defence Force dental surgery, France, November 1917. Kiwi dentists treated outbreaks of 'trench mouth' (a painful gum infection) as well as doing fillings & extractions, sometimes under fire.
Ref 1/2-012972-G, Archives New Zealand.

four dudes in NZ uniform brushing their teeth at the prophylactic bench.

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🎱 Kelly Pringle 🎱 @kellypringle.com · 7d

🐄🐄 ONE OF US 🐄🐄

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 3d

pixelated out the Venus of Willendorf's norks, Jack Chick and Bluesky's automod have a lot in common

"Global warming experts pray to Ixchel and Gaia for guidance! Not your Jesus! Understand? This is OUR planet!" somehow all the scientists look like antisemitic caricatures

Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 3d

is that Gene Wilder

A page from a Chick Tract about how global warming is fake. Text reads: "Brilliant scientists graciously counsel us 'little people' on climate change and the coming dangers of global warming. Are they right? Is Mother Earth doomed because of us? They must be right, because they're 'scientists!" One of the scientists is an Igor, one is Gene Wilder, one looks a bit like Carrie from the 70s movie.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 4d

Ahh you’re a sweetheart!!

Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 4d

Tentatively beginning to sew this together? In hindsight I should’ve made the patches the same size, eh.

Nightmare hell scrap blanket, in reds and oranges and browns

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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 5d

More photos from today.
Credit: @giligetz.bsky.social 🤍
@abbystein.bsky.social 💜
@bradlander.bsky.social 💙

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 5d

The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies.
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?

Annabel Reid
Unemployed school leavers need to “get off the couch, stop playing PlayStation and go find a job”, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has told Rotorua business leaders.

The audience applauded his “tough-love” message yesterday, linking the city’s high unemployment rate to poor school attendance.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 5d

"Ideas will help - Beat the promise". The Radio Corporation of America urges workers to come forward if they have any clever ideas on beating the Nazis. USA, 1942.
Ref E.850-2004, V & A Museum.

Colour lithograph poster for the Radio Corporation of America depicting an illustration of a man in blue dungarees and a flat cap, scratching his head with several captions of the word: "Idea?" around him. He lifts the top off of a large concrete head to reveal machinery in place of a brain. The poster urges workers to come forward if they have any clever engineering ideas to maximise efficiency in a time of war.

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