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Ash Hickey آشلي
@ordinaryash.bsky.social
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She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.
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The cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.
Promotional shot from the BBC sitcom quacks. Four men and one woman stand around a crude wooden operating table atired in Victorian period dress.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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I should have posted this yesterday for World AIDS Day but better late than never. This is Gary McGrath, I did my honours history thesis on the work he did to set up the world's first national needle exchange in NZ in the late 80s. Gary had been living in Melbourne prior to his diagnosis in 1984.
Newspaper photo of a young man smiling. Caption reads: Gary McGrath, chariman of the IV League.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Dolphins! Today at Whāngaimoana in South Wairarapa 🐬
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Omg another one 💀
Screenshot of an online article thumbnail on the Stuff website. Image shows a cricket player celebrating on the field in front a a large audience. Headline reads: Qantas makes England cricket great Stuart Broad take a walk. The article is under the category "Travel Troubles."
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I'm thinking Stuff is using AI at least for their news categories huh?
Screenshot of an online article thumbnail on the Stuff website. Image shows cans of Campbell's soup. Headline reads: Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people'. The article has been categorised as "fire department" news.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Disintegrating collosal squid floating in preservative liquid at museum.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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This week's flowers from the garden 😍
A hand holds a colourful vase with foliage, white sage flowers, olive flowers, cream coloured roses, and purple aquilegias.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Caught him in the act sneaking out of the chicken coop with egg in mouth. He's very ashamed 😂
An ashamed looking dog looks pensively at an egg held by a human hand in front of him
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I needed some more respectable summer footwear for the office than my white rubber slides. Mission accomplished 🫡
Very pale legs and feet inside black platform sandals with pink fluffy top straps.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Hi Secret Santa. I'm a big history nerd who loves flowers and living things and being surrounded colours (except red). I love doing my own nails and collect rocks and fun second hand ceramics, especially Petra/Christine Harris.
#SecretSantaAoNZ
A woman holds a vase with rustic arrangement of flowers.
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Absolutely shameless moon tonight. Wish the camera could properly capture her, she's staring right at me 🌝
Blurry photo of a bright moon through cloud and tree tops
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Flower arrangement of the week ☺️
A hand holds a bouquet of peach-coloured roses, pink sweetpeas, mānuka flowers, white sage flower spikes, balm of gilead flowers, elderflower buds, and kōwhai foliage in a colourful vase.
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I have these light shades and they're still one of my favourite puchases I've ever made. (Not my photo)
3 illimnated Kowhai light shades
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I found a young chicken at the train station and picked it up because it was trying to take shelter under a bus and brought it home to keep it safe. Won't be too upset if I can't find it's home tbh. It's very very cute.
Small grey chicken sitting on a piece of cardboard inside a cage
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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I can't go down this rabbithole right now but seemingly there was a moral panic in 1887 about the youth *checks notes* flying kites 😒
Screenshot of an old newspaper. Text reads: Three lads, named John Baggest, Joseph Baggest, and Thomas Wadsworth, were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, with unlawfully flying kites m George street. His Worship, tho Resident Magistrate, severely cautioned the lads and discharged them. Other small boys who are m the habit of indulging m tbe sport named should take warning, as flying all kinds of kites is a dangerous game.
October 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Found this in a 1916 newspaper duringmy perusings recently...oof.
Screen shot from a newspaper. The imageon the left shows a nurse standing next to a seated man breathing from a tube. The image on the right shows a seated man and two standing men in uniforms looking at a rolled out map. Caption reads: A wounded New Zealander undergoing the wonderful gas treatment at Batb, England. The gaspes and vapours arise from the bowels of the earth. They are radio-active, and effect wonderful cures. French officers of the Intelligence Department interrogating a captured German on the position of the enemy forces. With the map before them the captured German is explaining the position, though one of his questioners looks rather dubious as to the answers given. —Newspaper 111. Ltd., photos.
September 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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New fidgets. It just occurred to me they look a bit sex-toy-esque but they're not 😂😂. SFW I promise. These are so fun! They're magnets with the softest silicon covers.
A hand holding 3 bumpy pink silicon balls
September 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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My eclipse viewing plans have been thwarted 😒
A country roadside under heavy cloud
September 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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My package arrived in the knick of time (no weekend delivery for rural addresses) 🌒
4 pairs of eclipse viewing cardboard sunglasses and an information sheet on top of a white piece of paper
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The fucking state of it on the other site. Instant regret. I covered the faces, they're actually a very good likeness based on the photos in the press for the past few years. The idea that anyone fed them into an AI, today while they were missing, & entered a prompt asking for this picture. Ugh 🤢
Screenshot of a tweet. Text reads: RIP Tom Phillips. He tried to protect his kids from a sick society. Image shows a bald man at a table in a fine dining restaurant with three children whose faces have been obscured by smiley face emoijis.
September 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Very relieved the kids have been found but wtf Stuff. This is a terrible way to format this sentence. My heart skipped a beat 😳
Screenshot. Text reads: What we know Tom Phillips, who disappeared into remote Waikato bush in 2021 with his three children - Jayda, now 12, Maverick, 10, and Ember, 9 - has been killed in a major incident in Waitomo, in western Waikato. Police have now found his three children. They are unharmed. We'll bring you more on this as
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Things are hard but if you need a small happy, even the tiniest morsel of happy, allow me to present to you this jumping spider who is resting inside a daffodil I picked to adorn my toilet cistern.
A small jumping spider sits inside the corona of a yellow daffodil flower inside a teal pottery vase in front of a teal wall.
September 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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From the archive today (1916). Dear lord.
Screen shot from a newspaper. The imageon the left shows a nurse standing next to a seated man breathing from a tube. The image on the right shows a seated man and two standing men in uniforms looking at a rolled out map. Caption reads: A wounded New Zealander undergoing the wonderful gas treatment at Batb, England. The gaspes and vapours arise from the bowels of the earth. They are radio-active, and effect wonderful cures. French officers of the Intelligence Department interrogating a captured German on the position of the enemy forces. With the map before them the captured German is explaining the position, though one of his questioners looks rather dubious as to the answers given. —Newspaper 111. Ltd., photos.
August 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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That caption is the type of pure expression of human oddity that ChatGPT has all but stolen from us. Why is this a photo anyone thought would help sell a home though?
Real estate photo showing a bed next to a door. Through the door is a toilet.
August 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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From the archive today. Not related to my research but I love this shot. Possibly taken sometime during the 1950s in the Wellington region. The back label simply reads: mirror making. Jobs that don't exist anymore *sigh*
A photo of a black and white photo showing a man wearing rubber gloves and drawing a cloth over a mirror laid on a bench. The man's reflected face is visible in the mirror.
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM