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Jennifer Alice
@jenniferalice.bsky.social
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Full time mama, part time theatre & improv
she/her/cis/bi/pākehā
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greggo.bsky.social
My response to anything over the next two weeks
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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tichatnwa.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
jenniferalice.bsky.social
AI Sucks! Fight The Robots!
www.emilywrites.co.nz/ai-stole-my-...
AI stole my books - and I won't get a cent from the lawsuit
FK AI 4Eva honestly Once upon a time, a fantastic woman rang me to say she was from Penguin Random House and she wanted me to write a book. I was at my public sector job, exhausted, with two kids und...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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lyz.bsky.social
It’s the holidays and the end of the year and a lot of people (women) are asking, how does she do it all? Answer: she doesn’t www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
How to do it all | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
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December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
jenniferalice.bsky.social
love to be on brand
except for Andor?? I did not watch that show
A cloud of my most used words this year on bluesky, notable words include: artist children skeet free kids happy against chat improv boss reading projects playcentre and... Andor?? I didn't even watch that show
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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caseyjohnston.bsky.social
I wrote this piece because I only learned about pelvic floors a few years ago, despite having had one all my life. And then it turned out to be where I store all my issues. And then that turned out to be true for a lot of people www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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irritabletauiwi.bsky.social
Hey cis fam have a read about what’s happening. Think how you can support trans folks in your life, in particular young ones and their whānau patha.nz/news
NEWS | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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ajfitzwater.bsky.social
The words FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE laid overtop David Lynch's face, an older white man with white hair and a serious look.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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ired0mi.bsky.social
let these bastards know that this shit is unacceptable
C.Costello@ministers.govt.nz
W.Peters@ministers.govt.nz
S.Brown@ministers.govt.nz
and email ur representatives voicing ur displeasure with this change. Trans rights are human rights. We can't let this shit stay.
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
jenniferalice.bsky.social
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Just a few b a n g e r s
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms Deftones - White Pony PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, stories from the sea Britney Spears - Oops! I did it again
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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vornietom.bsky.social
Just realized that this Pope is the first ever pope who has maybe seen a Harold. very curséd
tomdavidson92.bsky.social Tom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · Nov 16
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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lisam74.bsky.social
12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website.

"Wow, just wow"
Performers in green and black costumes dance through a hall. Lights shine, audience surrounds. A guitarist pays.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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cucumber.bsky.social
azalea (yellow) 🙂
magnificent yellow golden azalea flower - very flowery
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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haakuik.bsky.social
An illustration of Taranaki mounga with the words 'Remember Parihaka Fifth of November'
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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foxharper.bsky.social
Great author, neat urban fantasy concept, extremely reasonable ask. If this appeals, pledge if you can, signal boost if you can't!

I got to hear about the campaign that inspired this while it was ongoing and I was so jealous because it sounded REALLY cool.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/kar...
Magician First Class: Urban Fantasy With Heart
Sparks & Recreation: a new series about magic, community, and doing your best from award-winning author Kate (Karen) Healey
www.kickstarter.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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lauriewinkless.bsky.social
A must-read article for anyone interested in the future of education in NZ... Which should be everyone who lives here.

And I hope after reading this you start supporting @etangata.bsky.social - they're a hugely important outlet for stories and voices like this.

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
“If a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum isn’t grounded in te ao Māori and the very people and things that make Aotearoa unique, who is determining the knowledge and where does it come from?” — Jessie Moss o...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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disasteradio.bsky.social
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
mehr.nz samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Oct 26
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
publicaddress.bsky.social Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · Oct 26
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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seawall.bsky.social
Ok, before I click buy on this discount factory seconds adjustable standing desk...

Does anyone have a similar desk (this kind or one of the cranking ones) in Ōtautahi Christchurch willing to sell for less than $500?

I'll wait til 8pm.
October 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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drbex.bsky.social
You found $$$ for roads, tobacco industry, landlords, cancelling ferries, piddly tax cuts.

You cut a bunch of so-called 'back room' jobs that supported doctors, nurses, & teachers to do their work.

You froze hiring & refused to employ nurses

You outsourced curriculum development to AI and Aus.
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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bornmiserable.bsky.social
[hospital]

SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: are they
S: yes, they’re still an asshole
July 5, 2023 at 4:51 AM
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lyndonhood.bsky.social
Edit of a wartime poster of a slightly cartoonish man in a bowler hat getting a hand shoved over his mouth from out of frame. The arm has a Bluesky logo on its sleeve. Top text "Block, mute, move on!" and bottom text "You timeline can save our vibes."
January 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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okohlaw.bsky.social
It’s the Portland way.
LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM