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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿

@jameslittlewood.bsky.social

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Arty man. I ♥️ & follow educators, artists, librarians & indigenous & environmental activists. Not into arguments. Doing this as me in west Auckland 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 he/him/they/yours 🟰

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 18d

Shameless plug

Mono Watt
Album release: words + noise
Sat 8 Nov
Flying Out basement
80 Pitt St nr. K Rd
7.30 doors
8.00 band

Me: words
Ross Cunningham: guitar noise
John Pain: electronic noise

Scan of an album release invitation, manually typewritten on unbleached cardboard with a large MW hand stamped on the right and the following text on the left

Mono Watt
words + noise
record release
Saturday 8 Nov 2025
Flying Out basement
80 Pitt St Auckland
7.30 doors
8.00 band

ALL WELCOME

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 12h

I guess if my comp takes over a minute to calculate the size of the image folder then it's prolly to big to stick on my thumb drive

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 13h

Hint: because it will cause more accidents

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 13h

Why not everyone's sold on longer WoFs

The government's proposed changes would mean the first Warrant of Fitness for new light vehicles would last 4 years.

www.rnz.co.nz

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 17h

File under 3 way handshakes

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly can't tell if the idea of pretty ideas is a good one or not

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 1d

Still true

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

Normalise the use of “Capitalist” as a slur, an insult, something to fear, like a public menace that stinks and gouges your flesh then reproduces inside you, annihilates all civilisation and completely destabilises Earth’s entire ecosystem causing mass extinction

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t make it much past 6th form but resumed it after a gap at university stage 1

Just the biggest bubble bath of ideas and how to technique them, and a bit about how to business them too

Dunno about now but patronage was a significant part of the syllabus- who pays for the art?

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

Most poignant moment: the kid who won the art history prize. I literally cried at the thought they could be in the last cohort in that subject, ever. I'm crying again now just writing this. It was literally the only subject to keep me coming back to high school. Art and history, WTF else is there?

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

Sub plot: I reckon girl prizewinners outnumbered boy prizewinners by – at a conservative guess – about 80%

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

The tragedy is that I'm not stupid, nor was I unwelcome. But all my schools always made me feel like I was, all the time

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

I hate whingeing about school because I adore teachers and I know the crap they have to deal with, but I also hated school as a kid and going back there for stuff like this always reminds me of everything that made me feel unwelcome and stupid as a ween

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

Also made a lot of noise when my kid led the assembly in the national anthem and later when they sang a jazz number with their BF on guitar and their buddy on drums

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

I was overjoyed when the Pasifika fanau ignored the rules, yelped and hollered their girl, and ran down to the stage to adorn her in lei

I joined in the hooting and hi fived the young dude who'd delivered the lei as he ran back to his seat.

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

"Pls hold your applause until the end of each section" always immediately puts me on edge. The whole thing was conducted with the stiff formality that sickened me as a kid, and still gives me the creeps now

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d

The school prize giving was emotionally and politically complex for me.

Educational politics: a 🧵
n = 8

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 3d

Southern hemisphere here 🤷🏻‍♂️

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 3d

Nah just regular. *Are* there fancy ones? Gift from a friend. Must have cost all of $2. Never thought about it before, use it heaps and my flavours have never been the same since

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 4d

Lemon zester

Zzzzinggg!

Reposted by James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿

Mana Serving Diva @misswhanau.bsky.social · 5d

This. I quit my monthly slot with ZB because I got tired of being treated like garbage whereas Ray Chung was treated like a reputable source. ZB is utter trash.

nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/10/news...

NEWSTALK ZB: COMFORTING THE COMFORTABLE

In a healthy democracy, media outlets should challenge those in power, scrutinise policy, and provide space for a diversity of perspective...

nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com

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James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 4d

A close relative of mine - a lawyer - once faced Peters as an opponent in court. I asked, how’d it go? “He did not represent his client very effectively” intoned my relative.

From the first few paragraphs of that article, clearly, nothings changed.

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 6d

Hang on what? Why? Why was the application for recount dismissed? And by whom?

Please @rnzrss.bsky.social stop this passive voice with unattributed actions

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 6d

Runner-up in tight mayoral race refused recount

Iwi leader Snow Tane lost by just 21 votes.

www.rnz.co.nz

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 6d

Cancel your streaming platforms.

Cancel your streaming platforms.

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 6d

Oh look, they have a top tax rate over 40%, and changing that is super unpopular

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s the best of my Samba Strike! minis

I love the conductor. I love everything

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 7d

This is noisiest, bubbliest, chattiest train ever, full of nice, bright, smiling and highly communicative service workers.

Unlike our greedy, petulant political leaders

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿 @jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 7d

I mean I’ve seen fuller trains but not at 2pm on a sunny Thursday afternoon. The strike is moving!