Anna Pendergrast
@annapendergrast.bsky.social
Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific
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in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific
More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...
September 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific
More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...
in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific
More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...
Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)
More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...
9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)
More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...
May 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.
9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)
More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...
9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)
More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...
Come shoot the shit with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week?? It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. The Feb call was sooo fun.
10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific)
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10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific)
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March 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Come shoot the shit with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week?? It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. The Feb call was sooo fun.
10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific)
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific)
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Can’t even go on a morning walk without encountering AI.
December 18, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Can’t even go on a morning walk without encountering AI.
Can't differentiate between O and 0? Good luck trying to prove your humanity. (This is an actual captcha I was just served up).
December 11, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Can't differentiate between O and 0? Good luck trying to prove your humanity. (This is an actual captcha I was just served up).
Seems as good a time as any to reshare this video from my (terrifying) ride in a Cruise robotaxi last year with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Seems as good a time as any to reshare this video from my (terrifying) ride in a Cruise robotaxi last year with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
This is how big you can send standard mail in NZ with a $4.90 stamp (A4 paper for scale) and it can be 1kg, and 2cm high. From what I can tell, materials other than paper are allowed. There’s a lot of stuff I thought I had to send as a parcel that I reckon could just go in the postbox.
December 9, 2024 at 2:52 AM
This is how big you can send standard mail in NZ with a $4.90 stamp (A4 paper for scale) and it can be 1kg, and 2cm high. From what I can tell, materials other than paper are allowed. There’s a lot of stuff I thought I had to send as a parcel that I reckon could just go in the postbox.
Just posted about 50 bits of mail and now I’m back home writing a submission on proposals to reduce NZPost’s minimum service requirements. I sense a theme for today.
December 8, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Just posted about 50 bits of mail and now I’m back home writing a submission on proposals to reduce NZPost’s minimum service requirements. I sense a theme for today.
As a New Zealander with an inexplicable non-NZ accent this advice for Christmas party small talk is my worst nightmare. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
November 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
As a New Zealander with an inexplicable non-NZ accent this advice for Christmas party small talk is my worst nightmare. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Guess it’s good this is behind a paywall, I am already livid enough from the headline
October 10, 2024 at 4:55 AM
Guess it’s good this is behind a paywall, I am already livid enough from the headline
Do you want some mail? It's that time of year: @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 6th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up and we'll send you some (free) fun mail. As usual it’s an zine + extra thing-we're really excited about this one! Sign up--> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 3, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Do you want some mail? It's that time of year: @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 6th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up and we'll send you some (free) fun mail. As usual it’s an zine + extra thing-we're really excited about this one! Sign up--> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Woke up to a kārearea (NZ falcon) in my backyard with a dead pigeon - it just sat there for a bit before flying off
September 24, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Woke up to a kārearea (NZ falcon) in my backyard with a dead pigeon - it just sat there for a bit before flying off
I went to the factory they’re made in the other week (in Palmy) and they had this poster of what (I can only assume) was the original packaging/branding.
September 5, 2024 at 1:08 AM
I went to the factory they’re made in the other week (in Palmy) and they had this poster of what (I can only assume) was the original packaging/branding.
You’re welcome! This morning I have dug out the very niche manuals that are in my household (synthesiser user guides) and have been quizzing my husband about how knowledge of their use and repair circulates… a real (enjoyable) rabbit hole!
March 12, 2024 at 10:45 PM
You’re welcome! This morning I have dug out the very niche manuals that are in my household (synthesiser user guides) and have been quizzing my husband about how knowledge of their use and repair circulates… a real (enjoyable) rabbit hole!
I found this piece quite reassuring - especially the interview with artists at the end. Not to say we shouldn't be worried - but there is precedent to an extent with thinking about images and their complex relationship to the truth. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/o...
February 6, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I found this piece quite reassuring - especially the interview with artists at the end. Not to say we shouldn't be worried - but there is precedent to an extent with thinking about images and their complex relationship to the truth. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/o...
I think I need to log off for the day — I just read this as "Billie Eilish on the "twists and turns" of the Treaty relationship".
February 1, 2024 at 5:24 AM
I think I need to log off for the day — I just read this as "Billie Eilish on the "twists and turns" of the Treaty relationship".
Reduced to Clear is the only retail store I welcome weekly email updates from - unfortunately I don’t have room in my freezer for 16 Trumpets at this time…
October 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Reduced to Clear is the only retail store I welcome weekly email updates from - unfortunately I don’t have room in my freezer for 16 Trumpets at this time…
Apple Music’s algorithm almost had me thinking I had misheard/misremembered this lyric for decades.
October 25, 2023 at 3:47 AM
Apple Music’s algorithm almost had me thinking I had misheard/misremembered this lyric for decades.
One of my fave parts of the work year is making and sending mail to friends and colleagues. @kellypendergrast.bsky.social are making our 5th Print Object now- this year without computers! If you’d like one you can get info and sign up (for free) here: us18.campaign-archive.com?u=c57770b9c1...
October 24, 2023 at 10:26 PM
One of my fave parts of the work year is making and sending mail to friends and colleagues. @kellypendergrast.bsky.social are making our 5th Print Object now- this year without computers! If you’d like one you can get info and sign up (for free) here: us18.campaign-archive.com?u=c57770b9c1...
Got Rick Rubin’s book on creativity from the library and really appreciate this (correct) message left by a previous reader.
October 20, 2023 at 4:54 AM
Got Rick Rubin’s book on creativity from the library and really appreciate this (correct) message left by a previous reader.
I got my hopes up when I saw this card at the op shop in the section with $5 vinyl EPs, but alas, none of these records were to be found.
October 11, 2023 at 11:23 PM
I got my hopes up when I saw this card at the op shop in the section with $5 vinyl EPs, but alas, none of these records were to be found.
Do you want some mail? @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 5th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up and we'll send you a (free) fun thing in the mail. 2022 it was a zine + bingo, this year?? something else! More info and sign up here--> us18.campaign-archive.com?u=c57770b9c1...
October 11, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Do you want some mail? @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 5th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up and we'll send you a (free) fun thing in the mail. 2022 it was a zine + bingo, this year?? something else! More info and sign up here--> us18.campaign-archive.com?u=c57770b9c1...
Revisiting some of @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and my previous writing, and thinking about this image by Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho, the first artwork we've ever had commissioned to go with an essay published last year. It was such a privilege to have an image like this to go with our words.
October 11, 2023 at 4:53 AM
Revisiting some of @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and my previous writing, and thinking about this image by Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho, the first artwork we've ever had commissioned to go with an essay published last year. It was such a privilege to have an image like this to go with our words.