Nyika
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social
PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of ‘normal’ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿
Here is 20 seconds from our bedroom window of very loud crickets and a katydid (and a ruru/morepork if you listen carefully)
February 2, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Here is 20 seconds from our bedroom window of very loud crickets and a katydid (and a ruru/morepork if you listen carefully)
You’re telling me a chicken fried this rice?
No, I did, the chicken cannot take the credit.
No, I did, the chicken cannot take the credit.
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
You’re telling me a chicken fried this rice?
No, I did, the chicken cannot take the credit.
No, I did, the chicken cannot take the credit.
Phone pictures so not great, but we caught a pukeko having a bath with their baby today.
February 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Phone pictures so not great, but we caught a pukeko having a bath with their baby today.
You can take my cross-body bag from my… wait, no, you can’t take it, that’s why I wear a cross-body bag.
January 28, 2026 at 10:57 PM
You can take my cross-body bag from my… wait, no, you can’t take it, that’s why I wear a cross-body bag.
Well the Black Lace Wikipedia article is a wild ride of indiscretions.
Big fan of the writing on the second excerpt there.
Big fan of the writing on the second excerpt there.
![In 1995, Barton died as a result of a coach crash in Germany while touring with Smokie. '4]
Black Lace played one-off shows in 1996 at DJ conventions in Canada and Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. They also released the Action Party and Best of albums that year. Gibb was presented with a special Agadoo guitar to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, but he was also made bankrupt by the Inland Revenue. 5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ybjzobgtjxdagrdnqsj2sqn/bafkreibenig4ijx6kphdxovplyvo4jger5ias7mtrkfkrlvfne4nto4d64@jpeg)
![In 2016, Dene Michael Betteridge 26. was jailed for six months for benefit fraud after falsely claiming almost £25,000 for his sciatica, with his wife and "carer", Karen, getting a 12-month community order for her role in the scam, with the judge sentencing her to 100 hours of unpaid work. 27]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ybjzobgtjxdagrdnqsj2sqn/bafkreihpf6atcqd2q55etgvhphs5hs7aimd7gyyzpqs6dnukwa347dxjqe@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Well the Black Lace Wikipedia article is a wild ride of indiscretions.
Big fan of the writing on the second excerpt there.
Big fan of the writing on the second excerpt there.
We’ve done something… inadvisable on a holiday Saturday.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 AM
We’ve done something… inadvisable on a holiday Saturday.
Does anyone know what the last word I wrote here says? I can read "Being can only know itself through the other and thereby through..." and then I literally cannot decipher that last word. Being dyspraxic is pish.
January 20, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Does anyone know what the last word I wrote here says? I can read "Being can only know itself through the other and thereby through..." and then I literally cannot decipher that last word. Being dyspraxic is pish.
I am writing up notes on an Autism in AoNZ book I read ages ago. Oh BOY I did not like this book, did I?
January 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I am writing up notes on an Autism in AoNZ book I read ages ago. Oh BOY I did not like this book, did I?
If it’s ok with everybody, I’d actually rather we didn’t bring back the moa. Look at it. Terrifying.
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 AM
If it’s ok with everybody, I’d actually rather we didn’t bring back the moa. Look at it. Terrifying.
You know, 2016 was the year I got into the Bad Relationship, so whilst I had the loveliest summer that year (I was single, had a friend group, did lots of cycling and sewing), I don’t feel too misty-eyed about it really. But anyway. Me in 2016, I guess.
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
You know, 2016 was the year I got into the Bad Relationship, so whilst I had the loveliest summer that year (I was single, had a friend group, did lots of cycling and sewing), I don’t feel too misty-eyed about it really. But anyway. Me in 2016, I guess.
Not sure if this is interesting to anybody, but I seem to have hit on a pretty solid way of organising notes from the books I've read. Basically, I use a Notion database and tag each quote/note, and also log any further reading in a linked database.
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Not sure if this is interesting to anybody, but I seem to have hit on a pretty solid way of organising notes from the books I've read. Basically, I use a Notion database and tag each quote/note, and also log any further reading in a linked database.
Inspired by this, I did mine. I am extremely a Type of Guy and I’m ok with that.
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Inspired by this, I did mine. I am extremely a Type of Guy and I’m ok with that.
Some interesting clouds this evening.
January 14, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Some interesting clouds this evening.
Here are the cats. Fin, orange, is quite blind, and very bumbling. Astrid, black, is at all times extremely insistent.
January 11, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Here are the cats. Fin, orange, is quite blind, and very bumbling. Astrid, black, is at all times extremely insistent.
Had the best day today. Went up to Goat Island and swam out to the island. Didn’t snorkel as saving all our money currently, but saw lots of fish and hermit crabs anyway.
January 11, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Had the best day today. Went up to Goat Island and swam out to the island. Didn’t snorkel as saving all our money currently, but saw lots of fish and hermit crabs anyway.
I can’t think of anything I’d like to go to less than this.
January 7, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I can’t think of anything I’d like to go to less than this.
Blessed with both Fin and Astrid bleps over the past couple of days.
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Blessed with both Fin and Astrid bleps over the past couple of days.
Best haircuts of the past decade were definitely the undercut and the shag.
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Best haircuts of the past decade were definitely the undercut and the shag.
People: very predictable. Funny tho.
January 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM
People: very predictable. Funny tho.