Dr Linda McIver
@lindamciver.adsei.org
Author of Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the world. Founder adsei.org
Troublemaker. Make Me Data Literate podcaster. Teacher. She/her. Australian, living on stolen Wurundjeri/Bunurong land
Troublemaker. Make Me Data Literate podcaster. Teacher. She/her. Australian, living on stolen Wurundjeri/Bunurong land
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Dr Linda McIver
@lindamciver.adsei.org
· Oct 13
I am so thrilled to be shortlisted among such a fascinating set of pieces!
A very noble guardian
December 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A very noble guardian
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If anyone needs a social scientist and UX researcher who specializes in AI, trust, and complex systems, I’m very available and ready to jump in. Currently looking for my next role. DM here or email drjuliecarpenter@gmail.
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If anyone needs a social scientist and UX researcher who specializes in AI, trust, and complex systems, I’m very available and ready to jump in. Currently looking for my next role. DM here or email drjuliecarpenter@gmail.
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Sorry about the screaming, it turns out there was a guy under my desk and he reached out to pat my ankle as I went past
I thought he was in the living room
I thought he was in the living room
December 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sorry about the screaming, it turns out there was a guy under my desk and he reached out to pat my ankle as I went past
I thought he was in the living room
I thought he was in the living room
cheers!
My dedication to 2025. Hoping 2026 has a very different vibe. youtu.be/KR4qArdHhls?...
Fuck You
YouTube video by Lily Allen - Topic
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
cheers!
I am feeling petty, and my petty beef of the day is recipes with "only 3 ingredients!!" where one of the ingredients is a three course meal complete with a romantic violinist, or, worse, a packet mix with 74 ingredients. Just stop it, alright? You're being ridiculous.
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I am feeling petty, and my petty beef of the day is recipes with "only 3 ingredients!!" where one of the ingredients is a three course meal complete with a romantic violinist, or, worse, a packet mix with 74 ingredients. Just stop it, alright? You're being ridiculous.
I cannot grow basil to save my life! I swear we must live in some kind of basil based black hole!
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I cannot grow basil to save my life! I swear we must live in some kind of basil based black hole!
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
Bought @scalzi.com's Lock In for my beloved. 28 pages in and my stoic engineer is already belly laughing. Can't wait for my turn to read it! a lucky find at Perth's excellent Stefen's Books. Why does Perth have so many amazing book shops???
December 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Bought @scalzi.com's Lock In for my beloved. 28 pages in and my stoic engineer is already belly laughing. Can't wait for my turn to read it! a lucky find at Perth's excellent Stefen's Books. Why does Perth have so many amazing book shops???
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🧵Spotted on the Market Day Before Christmas in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human.
Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming.
If only science could harness this power for good! (1)
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human.
Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming.
If only science could harness this power for good! (1)
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
🧵Spotted on the Market Day Before Christmas in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human.
Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming.
If only science could harness this power for good! (1)
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human.
Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming.
If only science could harness this power for good! (1)
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No literary agent who is going to get you a deal is going to charge you upfront. They make a percentage. That is how it works.
If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.
If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.
Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days:
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
December 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
No literary agent who is going to get you a deal is going to charge you upfront. They make a percentage. That is how it works.
If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.
If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
I call my cat. She comes running. And now you understand why correlation is not causation.
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I call my cat. She comes running. And now you understand why correlation is not causation.
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I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
Holding complexity amidst catastrophe
I didn't want to write this.
I don't want to write this.
I feel like I need to write something.
I am writing this.
I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.
I am still writing this, ei...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
the determination on this face!!
HI there isn't really enough lap here for you to sit on, kitten
I am not in the CORRECT CHAIR to have a lap
My LEGGIES are not at the correct angle
You are adhered on here like a GECKO
I am not in the CORRECT CHAIR to have a lap
My LEGGIES are not at the correct angle
You are adhered on here like a GECKO
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
the determination on this face!!
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We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
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So particularly if you are new to this and seeing frequent “if you don’t like making [art] don’t be an [artist!]” and thinking “But sometimes I DON’T like it…” and Imposter Syndrome is gathering you close and whispering you’re-nothings in your ear, please push it away.
December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So particularly if you are new to this and seeing frequent “if you don’t like making [art] don’t be an [artist!]” and thinking “But sometimes I DON’T like it…” and Imposter Syndrome is gathering you close and whispering you’re-nothings in your ear, please push it away.
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Making art is not all joy and fungus reanimated bunnies! That’s okay. That’s normal. That’s part of why art is important and also why artists and writers need to be paid for their work. If you keep dragging yourself back even when it’s hard, you’re doing fine.
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Making art is not all joy and fungus reanimated bunnies! That’s okay. That’s normal. That’s part of why art is important and also why artists and writers need to be paid for their work. If you keep dragging yourself back even when it’s hard, you’re doing fine.
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If you have ME/CFS (even without a formal diagnosis) & live in California, I would love if you could fill out & share this survey with your friends. I am trying to prepare for a few legislative meetings I have in January w/ some old colleagues.
Responses are anonymous!
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Responses are anonymous!
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Encrypted Form
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
cryptpad.fr
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you have ME/CFS (even without a formal diagnosis) & live in California, I would love if you could fill out & share this survey with your friends. I am trying to prepare for a few legislative meetings I have in January w/ some old colleagues.
Responses are anonymous!
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Responses are anonymous!
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
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Jim Chalmers has done a good job of managing the small stuff but Australians need a treasurer thinking much bigger than “what would Sussan Ley say about that?” Our preoccupation with the size of the deficit has blinded us to the huge opportunities we face www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
The fight Chalmers has to have
ANALYSIS: Having finally persuaded most voters that it is the better economic manager, Labor is well placed to pursue an obvious solution to the problems to come.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Jim Chalmers has done a good job of managing the small stuff but Australians need a treasurer thinking much bigger than “what would Sussan Ley say about that?” Our preoccupation with the size of the deficit has blinded us to the huge opportunities we face www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Here’s an idea: we build a society where people aren’t rich and can’t buy private islands and have private planes
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Here’s an idea: we build a society where people aren’t rich and can’t buy private islands and have private planes
Brilliant. "Be angry at the right things. " A masterclass in making sense of the incomprehensible.
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Brilliant. "Be angry at the right things. " A masterclass in making sense of the incomprehensible.
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🧵Spotted While Christmas Shopping in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (3?) is marching ahead of Mum in a fruit and vege shop.
Mum is taking AGES and Small Human is waving a banana towards the door like a mighty scepter.
But she isn't getting the hint!
Hmm...
Maybe a leek would work better! (1)
A small human (3?) is marching ahead of Mum in a fruit and vege shop.
Mum is taking AGES and Small Human is waving a banana towards the door like a mighty scepter.
But she isn't getting the hint!
Hmm...
Maybe a leek would work better! (1)
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
🧵Spotted While Christmas Shopping in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (3?) is marching ahead of Mum in a fruit and vege shop.
Mum is taking AGES and Small Human is waving a banana towards the door like a mighty scepter.
But she isn't getting the hint!
Hmm...
Maybe a leek would work better! (1)
A small human (3?) is marching ahead of Mum in a fruit and vege shop.
Mum is taking AGES and Small Human is waving a banana towards the door like a mighty scepter.
But she isn't getting the hint!
Hmm...
Maybe a leek would work better! (1)
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🧵It's almost my 2 year anniversary of posting spotted observations of life in Aotearoa New Zealand, so I thought it would be fun for today's post to be the one that kicked it all off. It might explain why we immediately fell in love with this awesome little city that we now call home.❤️🌺
Here we go:
Here we go:
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🧵It's almost my 2 year anniversary of posting spotted observations of life in Aotearoa New Zealand, so I thought it would be fun for today's post to be the one that kicked it all off. It might explain why we immediately fell in love with this awesome little city that we now call home.❤️🌺
Here we go:
Here we go: