Maire
@syzygium.bsky.social
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The phrase above is also related to the following exchange, occasionally heard on Costa Rican playgrounds…
¡Me cago en tu padre!
(“I shit on your father!”)
¡No me importa, es lavable!
(“I don’t care, he’s washable!”)
¡Me cago en tu padre!
(“I shit on your father!”)
¡No me importa, es lavable!
(“I don’t care, he’s washable!”)
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The phrase above is also related to the following exchange, occasionally heard on Costa Rican playgrounds…
¡Me cago en tu padre!
(“I shit on your father!”)
¡No me importa, es lavable!
(“I don’t care, he’s washable!”)
¡Me cago en tu padre!
(“I shit on your father!”)
¡No me importa, es lavable!
(“I don’t care, he’s washable!”)
Finally realised what my issue is with your interpretation of the scene with Tacroy’s soul. I’ve always read the soul as feeling pleasant to Christopher because Tacroy cares about the kid. It’s love, not cricket, or empire. (Totally agree on much of your commentary on overall racism though.)
This week, it's Castle in the Air! Welcome back, fan favorite characters; glad to see you still being nightmare people, sorry about the war crimes, and thank you to Christopher Chant for giving us full permission to go all in on Richard Burton
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Castle in the Air by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
‘That djinn has taken liberties with a person's castle,’ Sophie said. 'Unless I'm entirely turned around, this used to be our bathroom.'
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Edward Said's Orientalism,...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Finally realised what my issue is with your interpretation of the scene with Tacroy’s soul. I’ve always read the soul as feeling pleasant to Christopher because Tacroy cares about the kid. It’s love, not cricket, or empire. (Totally agree on much of your commentary on overall racism though.)
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I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.
December 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.
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Greens might have to go easy on the ‘please care about others’ framing and present a wealth tax and free dental etc as fiscally responsible just good business for the country to have better healthcare and a more productive workforce or some shit.
#MiddleClassPakehaPsychology
#MiddleClassPakehaPsychology
NZ is too primed to think that doing without and putting up with awfulness is somehow the most reasonable grown-up stance.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Greens might have to go easy on the ‘please care about others’ framing and present a wealth tax and free dental etc as fiscally responsible just good business for the country to have better healthcare and a more productive workforce or some shit.
#MiddleClassPakehaPsychology
#MiddleClassPakehaPsychology
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Unfortunately, this video has been confirmed to be AI. here's a link to real footage of a crow doing this!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0O...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0O...
Crow Uses Plastic Lid to Sled Down Roof Over and Over Again
YouTube video by Viralno
m.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Unfortunately, this video has been confirmed to be AI. here's a link to real footage of a crow doing this!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0O...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0O...
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Such good news. Massively grateful to those who reassured this māmā.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Such good news. Massively grateful to those who reassured this māmā.
What does adolescence mean in this context? It can’t mean the conversion from child to adult.
I now have a reasonable defense for all the really stupid stuff I did when I was 35.
Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What does adolescence mean in this context? It can’t mean the conversion from child to adult.
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I now have a reasonable defense for all the really stupid stuff I did when I was 35.
Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds
Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds
Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I now have a reasonable defense for all the really stupid stuff I did when I was 35.
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This subreddit is how I learned what a “lash egg“ is, and I will never truly recover.
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This subreddit is how I learned what a “lash egg“ is, and I will never truly recover.
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
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So anyone wanna ask Goldsmith and Collins about their giving police sweeping powers to crush protest and perform previously illegal surveillance in light of *gestures* ?
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
So anyone wanna ask Goldsmith and Collins about their giving police sweeping powers to crush protest and perform previously illegal surveillance in light of *gestures* ?
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I hate how the question of school attendance has been deliberately flattened by the right. YES, OBVIOUSLY breaks in attendance can affect learning, but guess what constant preventable illness and potentially deaths ripping through your community does to it?
"A student was later found to have attended the event, as well as classes and a prize-giving rehearsal, while symptomatic.”
“We have staff who have babies under one, people who have family members who are compromised, health wise."
I’ve been making this argument with my kids’ school for YEARS.
“We have staff who have babies under one, people who have family members who are compromised, health wise."
I’ve been making this argument with my kids’ school for YEARS.
Morning Report live: Christopher Luxon on advice to schools as measles spreads
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I hate how the question of school attendance has been deliberately flattened by the right. YES, OBVIOUSLY breaks in attendance can affect learning, but guess what constant preventable illness and potentially deaths ripping through your community does to it?
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Could Wellington Girls be the watershed moment where people realise that government's willingness to throw people under the bus for political reasons doesn't just apply to "other" people
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Could Wellington Girls be the watershed moment where people realise that government's willingness to throw people under the bus for political reasons doesn't just apply to "other" people
Really good to see Wellington Girls College taking students safety seriously.
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Really good to see Wellington Girls College taking students safety seriously.
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Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
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As a reward for supporting @siouxsiew.bsky.social I've donated 6 signed copies of #TheCovidResponse. And if you want to know how important Siouxsie's case was for academic freedom in Aotearoa, I've written a piece for the NZSR on what I think it means: ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As a reward for supporting @siouxsiew.bsky.social I've donated 6 signed copies of #TheCovidResponse. And if you want to know how important Siouxsie's case was for academic freedom in Aotearoa, I've written a piece for the NZSR on what I think it means: ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...
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"Let kids be kids!" is especially wild when you hear it from people who had their kids listening to Afternoon Delight, the Pina Colada song, Alone Again (naturally), and reading Flowers in the Attic.
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"Let kids be kids!" is especially wild when you hear it from people who had their kids listening to Afternoon Delight, the Pina Colada song, Alone Again (naturally), and reading Flowers in the Attic.
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ME: [walks into a darkened room of people holding hands around a table] what are you guys doing
PSYCHIC: *whispers* seance
ME: ance
PSYCHIC: *whispers* seance
ME: ance
October 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
ME: [walks into a darkened room of people holding hands around a table] what are you guys doing
PSYCHIC: *whispers* seance
ME: ance
PSYCHIC: *whispers* seance
ME: ance
Déor
After a thousand years, Déor remains startlingly human, amusing, sad, and intimate.
mkcs.nz
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands