Cassie
@cassiemph.bsky.social
Health researcher interested in public health, trans healthcare, medical education #TransHealth (they/them) tangata tiriti/white immigrant living in Aotearoa New Zealand
😷🥄 was MyMiniRants on Twitter
😷🥄 was MyMiniRants on Twitter
The flip side is also fucked: “The lease starts on the 1st Jan. The space still needs to be cleaned. When will you be moving in?”
Basically 12 month lease cycles are just exploitative of students or whenever else might live in those spaces
Basically 12 month lease cycles are just exploitative of students or whenever else might live in those spaces
FFS Dunedin student landlords are cunts.
Son is paying rent for 2 places he’s not living in because they have 12 month leases.
So glad we have these leeches a $3b tax cut
Son is paying rent for 2 places he’s not living in because they have 12 month leases.
So glad we have these leeches a $3b tax cut
December 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The flip side is also fucked: “The lease starts on the 1st Jan. The space still needs to be cleaned. When will you be moving in?”
Basically 12 month lease cycles are just exploitative of students or whenever else might live in those spaces
Basically 12 month lease cycles are just exploitative of students or whenever else might live in those spaces
Some of y’all didn’t live through the era of Bonsai Kittens and it shows.
We need to improve our media literacy, since apparently some of y’all just didn’t get the memo that shit on the Internet is often just made the fuck up.
We need to improve our media literacy, since apparently some of y’all just didn’t get the memo that shit on the Internet is often just made the fuck up.
If you have ever posted, or liked, anything objecting to AI slop or supporting the idea that misinformation is bad, please don't spread the coat story.
And if you do want to donate to a school for its students, I suggest talking to the school, not abandoning goods of unknown provenance nearby.
And if you do want to donate to a school for its students, I suggest talking to the school, not abandoning goods of unknown provenance nearby.
oldest version I've found so far. This facebook page is NOTHING but AI-written stories with AI images
December 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Some of y’all didn’t live through the era of Bonsai Kittens and it shows.
We need to improve our media literacy, since apparently some of y’all just didn’t get the memo that shit on the Internet is often just made the fuck up.
We need to improve our media literacy, since apparently some of y’all just didn’t get the memo that shit on the Internet is often just made the fuck up.
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When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.
“Why aren’t you in the streets” is a slap in the face to all of those people who been in the streets since Occupy
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.
An apt metaphor
We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
An apt metaphor
This is somehow even stupider than I expected 🫠
Way too many studies have been done on autistic people’s gait/pelvic tilt/toe walking, compared to literally any aspect of our internal experience
Way too many studies have been done on autistic people’s gait/pelvic tilt/toe walking, compared to literally any aspect of our internal experience
I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article
!!!!
And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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How a bigger-looking butt could be a sneaky sign of autism and ADHD
Your backside might reveal a thing or two about your brain.
nypost.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is somehow even stupider than I expected 🫠
Way too many studies have been done on autistic people’s gait/pelvic tilt/toe walking, compared to literally any aspect of our internal experience
Way too many studies have been done on autistic people’s gait/pelvic tilt/toe walking, compared to literally any aspect of our internal experience
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"COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae... changes impair the function of the nervous system, providing important insights for COVID-19-associated sequelae."
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Single-cell alternative polyadenylation analysis reveals mechanistic insights of COVID-19-associated neurological and psychiatric effects
COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is ubiquitous in human genes, resulting in mRNA diversity, and has been validate...
dx.plos.org
December 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae... changes impair the function of the nervous system, providing important insights for COVID-19-associated sequelae."
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre
Wow this site is full of trash today. I guess we survived the holiday long enough to choose violence and bad takes
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Wow this site is full of trash today. I guess we survived the holiday long enough to choose violence and bad takes
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I've been asked a few times about Peter Beinart's book *Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza* so I'm going to say a few things about its existence (I haven't read it/probably won't):
1. Read Palestinian authors
2. The destruction of Gaza isn't over
3. Jews stop centering themselves challenge
1. Read Palestinian authors
2. The destruction of Gaza isn't over
3. Jews stop centering themselves challenge
December 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I've been asked a few times about Peter Beinart's book *Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza* so I'm going to say a few things about its existence (I haven't read it/probably won't):
1. Read Palestinian authors
2. The destruction of Gaza isn't over
3. Jews stop centering themselves challenge
1. Read Palestinian authors
2. The destruction of Gaza isn't over
3. Jews stop centering themselves challenge
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This case is particularly egregious since it’s a car dealership that has parked in the cycle lane. Jerks.
A reminder that it is illegal in Aotearoa New Zealand to park a car in a cycle lane.
A reminder that it is illegal in Aotearoa New Zealand to park a car in a cycle lane.
I tried to go around this car that was parked in the middle of the brand new bike lane on Great Nth Rd, and managed to skid on the road bumpers in the rain or something and went absolutely flying. I’m quite bruised & was in shock, but otherwise ok. I do hope this cunt gets towed, however.
December 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This case is particularly egregious since it’s a car dealership that has parked in the cycle lane. Jerks.
A reminder that it is illegal in Aotearoa New Zealand to park a car in a cycle lane.
A reminder that it is illegal in Aotearoa New Zealand to park a car in a cycle lane.
This is an example of bias being handed down as science.
Where he said “don’t write it down”? That’s part of the hidden curriculum: all the stuff students internalise as part of medical learning, often in clinical spaces that is not in a textbook or lecture, but gets taught just the same.
Where he said “don’t write it down”? That’s part of the hidden curriculum: all the stuff students internalise as part of medical learning, often in clinical spaces that is not in a textbook or lecture, but gets taught just the same.
🧪"WW" = "Whiny Woman"
"WWW" = "Whiny White Woman"
Unfortunately, not listening to women about their symptoms is institutionalized. Menopause was under-researched for so long. We are demanding more.
Medicine is not perfect; it evolves.
via @femalequotient.bsky.social @drmaryclaire.bsky.social on IG
"WWW" = "Whiny White Woman"
Unfortunately, not listening to women about their symptoms is institutionalized. Menopause was under-researched for so long. We are demanding more.
Medicine is not perfect; it evolves.
via @femalequotient.bsky.social @drmaryclaire.bsky.social on IG
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is an example of bias being handed down as science.
Where he said “don’t write it down”? That’s part of the hidden curriculum: all the stuff students internalise as part of medical learning, often in clinical spaces that is not in a textbook or lecture, but gets taught just the same.
Where he said “don’t write it down”? That’s part of the hidden curriculum: all the stuff students internalise as part of medical learning, often in clinical spaces that is not in a textbook or lecture, but gets taught just the same.
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violence is often the last resort after every other avenue has been explored. but not for states. for states violence is their raison d'etre. they exist to do violence against those they deem undesirable to protect the interests of the rich and powerful.
December 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
violence is often the last resort after every other avenue has been explored. but not for states. for states violence is their raison d'etre. they exist to do violence against those they deem undesirable to protect the interests of the rich and powerful.
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rules for strip settlers of catan
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
rules for strip settlers of catan
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Don’t swim if you are in Wellington. Heavy rains means the harbour and beaches are replete with the foul emission of our industrial settlements. Code brown. Poop in the water.
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Don’t swim if you are in Wellington. Heavy rains means the harbour and beaches are replete with the foul emission of our industrial settlements. Code brown. Poop in the water.
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Specific to dementia, our old assumption that the blood/brain barrier keeps viruses out of the brain just isn't holding up in the era of COVID. Still learning how much it's solely COVID and subsequent infections, but it's clear that SOME viruses can get there AND stay there SOME of the time.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Specific to dementia, our old assumption that the blood/brain barrier keeps viruses out of the brain just isn't holding up in the era of COVID. Still learning how much it's solely COVID and subsequent infections, but it's clear that SOME viruses can get there AND stay there SOME of the time.
A whole generation of kids are gonna hate us. And they will be right.
Kids will have very tough questions for the adults in their lives when they grow up and realize they were subjected to repeat Covid infections so we could rush “back to normal”.
These kids will live with chronic illness the rest of their lives because society refused to adapt.
These kids will live with chronic illness the rest of their lives because society refused to adapt.
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A whole generation of kids are gonna hate us. And they will be right.
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Be careful out there in the Yule Void, everyone
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Be careful out there in the Yule Void, everyone
We know about higher rates of dementia in people who have had Covid, we know MS is associated with Epstein-Barr, but apparently it goes much wider than that.
December 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We know about higher rates of dementia in people who have had Covid, we know MS is associated with Epstein-Barr, but apparently it goes much wider than that.
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This is a double whammy story... Multiple entirely fake entries on this list published in multiple papers.
But the list itself is taken whole from a press release.
So it's a warning story about AI slop, but also a warning about unquestioning reproduction of press releases.
But the list itself is taken whole from a press release.
So it's a warning story about AI slop, but also a warning about unquestioning reproduction of press releases.
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is a double whammy story... Multiple entirely fake entries on this list published in multiple papers.
But the list itself is taken whole from a press release.
So it's a warning story about AI slop, but also a warning about unquestioning reproduction of press releases.
But the list itself is taken whole from a press release.
So it's a warning story about AI slop, but also a warning about unquestioning reproduction of press releases.
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This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
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I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
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#nzbirds
One of my pūtangitangi is injured. Looks pretty grievous, dog attack I suspect. Please does anyone have any leads on anything I can do for it? DOC not interested (guess we do hunt them after all) and our local emergency vet were like 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ can't see any open bird rescue options either. ōamaru
One of my pūtangitangi is injured. Looks pretty grievous, dog attack I suspect. Please does anyone have any leads on anything I can do for it? DOC not interested (guess we do hunt them after all) and our local emergency vet were like 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ can't see any open bird rescue options either. ōamaru
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#nzbirds
One of my pūtangitangi is injured. Looks pretty grievous, dog attack I suspect. Please does anyone have any leads on anything I can do for it? DOC not interested (guess we do hunt them after all) and our local emergency vet were like 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ can't see any open bird rescue options either. ōamaru
One of my pūtangitangi is injured. Looks pretty grievous, dog attack I suspect. Please does anyone have any leads on anything I can do for it? DOC not interested (guess we do hunt them after all) and our local emergency vet were like 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ can't see any open bird rescue options either. ōamaru
I am currently reading Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, Elite Capture by Olúfemi O. Táíwò, and just finished The Sunforge by @understatesmen.bsky.social, and about to start re-reading The Disposessed by Ursula K le Guin.
Am i unhinged because I am reading 3 books at once? Lol
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am currently reading Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, Elite Capture by Olúfemi O. Táíwò, and just finished The Sunforge by @understatesmen.bsky.social, and about to start re-reading The Disposessed by Ursula K le Guin.
A worthy cause to put our names to!
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
A Call for Safe Air and Masking in Healthcare Settings
We, the general public, and the undersigned clinicians, scientists, and health professionals, call for the urgent reinstatement of basic airborne-infection-control measures—clean indoor air and approp...
our.actionstation.org.nz
December 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A worthy cause to put our names to!