Nicole
nicole-thorburn.bsky.social
Nicole
@nicole-thorburn.bsky.social
Library Lady, GLAM enthusiast, history nerd. Monday night pub quiz champ and Friday night DnD ranger.

I used to be @nicole_thorburn on Twitter, and I'm still @glamsonthegram on Meta.
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What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events?

You make him meet your eye.

You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud.

You make him listen to the applause you get.
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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What is Wikisource? By Mike Dickison,
Zine-format handout on Wikisource created for the September 2025 LIANZA conference in Wellington, New Zealand
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_LIANZA_zine_PDF_booklet.pdf
File:Wikisource LIANZA zine PDF booklet.pdf - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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New Zealand joins countries in statement on recognition of Palestine
New Zealand joins countries in statement on recognition of Palestine
It comes after the UK announced it would recognise the state of Palestine unless Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Reading Vincent O'Malley's The Invasion of the Waikato, and struck by how one of the successes of colonisation is the erasure from the Pākehā consciousness that this violence even occurred in the first place. Almost every site is one I have visited or driven through hundreds, thousands of times.
July 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Live updates from the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Live updates from the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Books editor Claire Mabey reports live from the ceremony at the Kiri Te Kanawa theatre....
thespinoff.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Absolutely phenomenal going to work this morning knowing that the decades of underpaid work by NZ women and the decades still to come on the same note is being justified as savings, as opposed to avoiding accountability for an unjust, unacceptable and misogynistic status quo.

When do strikes start?
May 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Congratulations Te Paea Paringatai (Waikato, Ngāti Porou) who will become the first IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) President from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2027.

Te Paea's role as President-elect begins in August 2025.Te Paea's election result was a landslide and is a
IFLA Elections 2025 Results: Governing Board
President-elect (one place) To serve August 2025-August 2027 as President-electTo serve August 2027-August 2029 as President The President-elect is an elected position to the Gove...
www.ifla.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM