te kootahekore ranapiri
@ired0mi.bsky.social
essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehe / Clan Gunn / kōtuku mā / author of ransack & ECHIDNA / currently working on a verse novel lolol
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all micro blog posts are tweets to me cos I have a little blue bird in my heart that still wants to sing
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Let’s be real: probably 80% of the people who support an under 16 social media ban will immediately hate it the first time Facebook asks for their id
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Let’s be real: probably 80% of the people who support an under 16 social media ban will immediately hate it the first time Facebook asks for their id
like foregoing any real analysis of what ai can and can't do, could our govt at least read anything about the economic risk of investing in AI. it's going to pop and the less our infrastructure leans on it the better.
Stats NZ is “seeking a forward-thinking AI Privacy Advisor to lead the development and enforcement of privacy frameworks across our AI systems and data-driven operations. This role is critical in ensuring ethical AI deployment,”
jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
Senior Privacy Advisor | Kaitohutohu Matua Tūmataiti | Wellington | NZ Government Jobs
Senior Privacy Advisor | Kaitohutohu Matua Tūmataiti | Wellington | NZ Government Jobs
jobs.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
like foregoing any real analysis of what ai can and can't do, could our govt at least read anything about the economic risk of investing in AI. it's going to pop and the less our infrastructure leans on it the better.
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For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
Future of Te Huia
The Te Huia passenger rail service has been operating between Waikato and Auckland since 2021. Whether you have travelled on Te Huia or not, we want to hear your thoughts about the service and what it...
yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
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While we know what this government is like, don't forget the biggest land grab ever on our history was by Helen Clark in 2004.
Just 21 years ago the government, knowing everything they know, knowing disparity, knowing the intergenerational effects of actions made this decision.
Let that sit.
Just 21 years ago the government, knowing everything they know, knowing disparity, knowing the intergenerational effects of actions made this decision.
Let that sit.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
While we know what this government is like, don't forget the biggest land grab ever on our history was by Helen Clark in 2004.
Just 21 years ago the government, knowing everything they know, knowing disparity, knowing the intergenerational effects of actions made this decision.
Let that sit.
Just 21 years ago the government, knowing everything they know, knowing disparity, knowing the intergenerational effects of actions made this decision.
Let that sit.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.
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No one reads followup posts but in vain hope; 1 more bit of context: I'm thinking specifically in my work context, which is the pressure to allow uncontrolled use of AI in education. My key point is that it's a category error to think that teaching someone to use Uber Eats = teaching them to cook.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
No one reads followup posts but in vain hope; 1 more bit of context: I'm thinking specifically in my work context, which is the pressure to allow uncontrolled use of AI in education. My key point is that it's a category error to think that teaching someone to use Uber Eats = teaching them to cook.
like if we be caring about behaving in traditional ways, honouring someone who has abused his partner by letting him speak on behalf of his iwi is uh not it. once upon a time he would have been left to starve. but I guess our standards for how we treat waahine have slipped ay.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
like if we be caring about behaving in traditional ways, honouring someone who has abused his partner by letting him speak on behalf of his iwi is uh not it. once upon a time he would have been left to starve. but I guess our standards for how we treat waahine have slipped ay.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life.
—Annie Dillard
Well, every day is all there is.
—Joan Didion
—Annie Dillard
Well, every day is all there is.
—Joan Didion
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life.
—Annie Dillard
Well, every day is all there is.
—Joan Didion
—Annie Dillard
Well, every day is all there is.
—Joan Didion
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Long shot but if anyone can think of Indigenous transmasculine people over the age of 40 who have written stuff or recorded interviews, pls lmk? Mainly looking for canada ppl but if you know someone from US lmk too. I know of Max Wolf Valerio, Percy Lezard, and Carrie House so far…
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Long shot but if anyone can think of Indigenous transmasculine people over the age of 40 who have written stuff or recorded interviews, pls lmk? Mainly looking for canada ppl but if you know someone from US lmk too. I know of Max Wolf Valerio, Percy Lezard, and Carrie House so far…
don't mind me just writing poetry about girl dicks again
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
don't mind me just writing poetry about girl dicks again
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One must imagine Charlie Brown happy
Forever Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One must imagine Charlie Brown happy
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🧵
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🧵
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year!
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year!
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
it feels so bad that a few pricks ruined so many ecosystems of discussion cos ego or line goes up or whatever the fuck. planned on being so online with the journal and the Elon bought twitter and it's just like cool. I guess not then. I feel like I let down the work in the journal by not posting
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
it feels so bad that a few pricks ruined so many ecosystems of discussion cos ego or line goes up or whatever the fuck. planned on being so online with the journal and the Elon bought twitter and it's just like cool. I guess not then. I feel like I let down the work in the journal by not posting
finally one of these that feels close enough. I often use "object" but "thing" is more accommodating in its broadness
I think this is a pretty good description of what a poem is (from Eliot Weinberger, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei):
‘It is a thing, forever itself, inseparable from its language.’
‘It is a thing, forever itself, inseparable from its language.’
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
finally one of these that feels close enough. I often use "object" but "thing" is more accommodating in its broadness
so sad to see unis in the west shrinking and all the amazing people having to find other places 😡 but also so touched to have had my work be in conversation with Diaz's beautiful book
I didn't know when I chose them that these treasures by Natalie Diaz & @ired0mi.bsky.social would be the last books I taught as an English prof (taking a last minute buyout in grim conditions). These books, individually, are terrific. Together, in conversation? Holy smokes. Revelation & balm, both.
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
so sad to see unis in the west shrinking and all the amazing people having to find other places 😡 but also so touched to have had my work be in conversation with Diaz's beautiful book
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Nothing really to say tonight. Feeling tender for some reason.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Nothing really to say tonight. Feeling tender for some reason.
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Microscopic:
Microscopic cross-section photo of a Pine Needle (Xmas Tree)
Microscopic cross-section photo of a Pine Needle (Xmas Tree)
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Microscopic:
Microscopic cross-section photo of a Pine Needle (Xmas Tree)
Microscopic cross-section photo of a Pine Needle (Xmas Tree)
Luxon fumbling through his words and being like that's not how i see it while Seymour is tonguing the air and flipping the bird behind him
love how one part of the govt is like this racist move isn't as bad as u think it is / and then Act just post the most deranged "hell yeah we did some more racism woooohooo fuck yeahhh" status
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Luxon fumbling through his words and being like that's not how i see it while Seymour is tonguing the air and flipping the bird behind him
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Except it is relevant, even down in New Zealand. The far right have been pushing hard, and other parties continue to move right to keep the middle voters. When people like Mamdani win a major election like this, it shows the Dem/Labour/etc parties that you can win without pandering to fascists.
Obvs the mayoral race for NYC is irrelevant to us but don't let that stop you enjoying plenty of the world's worst individuals being mad as hell about it if Mamdani wins
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Except it is relevant, even down in New Zealand. The far right have been pushing hard, and other parties continue to move right to keep the middle voters. When people like Mamdani win a major election like this, it shows the Dem/Labour/etc parties that you can win without pandering to fascists.
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A little example, I think, of how our political media generally struggles to zoom out and look at systemic issues, not just react to the news of the day.
There is a story here; it's not about fireworks. It's about NZ First's abuse of the members' Bill ballot to generate headlines.
There is a story here; it's not about fireworks. It's about NZ First's abuse of the members' Bill ballot to generate headlines.
Peters says ‘enough is enough’ as fireworks ban gets new parliamentary push
The latest effort to ban sales comes as MPs prepare to consider three petitions on the issue, including one backed by 90,000 signatures – and thousands of pawprints.<br />
thespinoff.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A little example, I think, of how our political media generally struggles to zoom out and look at systemic issues, not just react to the news of the day.
There is a story here; it's not about fireworks. It's about NZ First's abuse of the members' Bill ballot to generate headlines.
There is a story here; it's not about fireworks. It's about NZ First's abuse of the members' Bill ballot to generate headlines.
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I raised this with City of Ottawa staff last year. This kind of triple-use infrastructure (power generation + shade structure + heat island mitigation) is the kind of innovation that various levels of government should collaborate on to make it feasible.
“Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones.”
South Korea (click the globe)
www.asiae.co.kr/article/2025...
South Korea (click the globe)
www.asiae.co.kr/article/2025...
공공주차장에 태양광 의무 설치해야…기존 주차장도 소급적용 - 아시아경제
올해 11월 말부턴 80면 이상 규모의 공공주차장에는 태양광 발전설비를 의무적으로 설치해야 한다. 신규로 조성되는 주차장은 물론 기존 주차장도 의무설치 대상...
www.asiae.co.kr
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I raised this with City of Ottawa staff last year. This kind of triple-use infrastructure (power generation + shade structure + heat island mitigation) is the kind of innovation that various levels of government should collaborate on to make it feasible.
love how one part of the govt is like this racist move isn't as bad as u think it is / and then Act just post the most deranged "hell yeah we did some more racism woooohooo fuck yeahhh" status
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
love how one part of the govt is like this racist move isn't as bad as u think it is / and then Act just post the most deranged "hell yeah we did some more racism woooohooo fuck yeahhh" status