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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 2h

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 6h

Ōtepoti: a heads up, Luxon is visiting

tomorrow 16th October

11am

Dunedin Art Gallery

meet in octagon 10:30am

image has same info, illustrated with a cartoon megaphone on bright orange and yellow background

Attention!
Luxon protest

tomorrow 16th October
11am
Dunedin Art Gallery
meet in octagon 10:30am

illustrated with a cartoon megaphone on bright orange and yellow background

Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 6h

Ōtepoti: a heads up, Luxon is visiting

tomorrow 16th October

11am

Dunedin Art Gallery

meet in octagon 10:30am

image has same info, illustrated with a cartoon megaphone on bright orange and yellow background

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 16h

Is online abuse driving women out of running for office??? Read my latest opinion piece on misogyny, online violence, and the law. (Spoiler: the answer is yes! And also, that's the point!) #nzpol #onlineabuse

theconversation.com/polls-and-tr...

Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?

Online abuse designed to humiliate, coerce or silence women and minority politicians is taking its toll. With a general election next year, the rules have to change.

theconversation.com

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 16h

It’s GOOD ACTUALLY for future doctors to know that their future roles allow them to engage in industrial actions. For them to know that their future working conditions can be better due to collective efforts. To see that their senior colleagues give a fuck abt working condition

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 16h

The memo to the medical students ahead of the 23-24 October senior doctor strikes really leans into reassuring them that they aren’t obligated to fill the senior doctors roles, and has zero mention of idk maybe SOLIDARITY?

It is GOOD ACTUALLY for medical students to see senior doctors striking.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 16h

If you can't afford a subscription, you can pay for single paywall drops! That's $2 dollars per article. Each piece we run is edited and copy edited, and our freelancers are paid. Most importantly, we are not beholden to corporate censorship.

Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived

Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.

the-flytrap.ghost.io

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 2d

Dear friends,
Please continue reading, feeling, and sharing @itsmeio.bsky.social 's writing.
Today I bring you four more poems that speak so clearly and so beautifully.
Stay tuned for more!

ko-fi.com/post/One-poe...

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 17h

During this ADHD awareness month you can be an good ally by helping me amplify Fidaa’s raffle because oh boy do I struggle 🫠

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 1d

You can win this flag! 🇵🇸

Rules are simple:
1. Follow @fidaaumar.bsky.social
2. Donate: chuffed.org/project/fidaa-umar
$5 for a ticket, $10 for two, and so, or
$20 bundle for 5 tickets.
3. Take a screenshot and submit to the Google form.
4. Last day is Oct 30.
5. Stay tuned in Nov for the winner!

A collage art making the flag of Palestine using little circles with different textures of red, black, white, and green.

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Oppose the Amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area Act

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.

our.actionstation.org.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 2d

This talk is tomorrow. It would be good to see you all there. bsky.app/profile/te-a...

Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 7d

We'd love to have a huge turn out for Nic's talk. Please help spread the word. There are downloadable pdf adverts in the link below. They can be emailed or printed. If you work in a public space (e.g. Library) you could help by printing and posting one of the flyers. Ngā mihi nui!

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

13 year old girl changes schools due to misogynistic bullying in class | RNZ News

The teen says the behaviour of some of the boys at school was racist, homophobic and sometimes explicitly sexual.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

ucl.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

If you are interested in the intersections of gender and tech harms - you can sign up to this amazing newsletter which is always informative and links out to further research and reading.

Gender and Tech

Gender and Tech Email Forms

ucl.us21.list-manage.com

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 3d

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling
We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us!
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social · 3d

If you are fuming about the derailment of climate ambition in AoNZ, how about helping fund an investigation into where this came from 👇

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 4d

The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 3d

This is a bird thread, I want to give a special mention to our feathered friend, the kestrel, who carries an important meaning for Palestine.

The Gaza Giving Circle is also a great initiative to amplify and contribute to. Six families with urgent needs being helped.

bsky.app/profile/divy...

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jul 29

Our kestrel represents resistance (the support front of mutual aid) & the martyrs (whom we seek to honor always)—of all of Palestine. We fight not just for these six families, but Palestinian life.

Give to anyone, act for all of Gaza, today today today. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 3d

We need your help to support two musicians Jade and Hon, who are seriously injured after an incident over the weekend.

givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

Support Seriously Injured Auckland Musicians Jade and Hon

We need your help to support two well known Auckland musicians Jade and Hon, who are seriously injured after an incident over the weekend.

givealittle.co.nz

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Eli Proppie 🍄 @theoddprop.bsky.social · 3d

No advice on the internet is guaranteed tailor-made for you.

You are making huge assumptions about a person just sharing something that worked for them. Why?

If it doesn't apply to you then you disregard, mute or block and move on.

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 7d

RNZ Article - Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My old image from last year still rings true. Even more so.

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 4d

Ōtepoti: vigil happening now

Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 6d

Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity

There are a couple of events this Saturday 11th October

Car rally/convoy
3pm
meet at John Wilson Drive to raise flags at Signal Hill

Vigil for Palestine
6:30pm
upper octagon

images are event posters for each, summary info above (full in alt text)

CAR RALLY FOR A FREE PALESTINE
Saturday 11 October

Meet at 3pm at John Wilson Drive to Raise Flags at Signal Hill

organised by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

illustrated with Handala holding a Palestine flag, red, green and black cars, background is white with a light grey kuffiyeh pattern

Vigil for Palestine

an evening of solidarity & remembering the loss of thousands of innocent Palestinians

October 11
6:30pm

upper Octagon

Pray for Palestine

illustrated with a Palestine flag that includes an outline of Al Aqsa mosque in the middle of it

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 15

If it pops up when you hover your mouse cursor over it, that's not alt text. That's title text or a popover or hover text. (Depends on the technique used.)

None of those things are alt text and some of them aren't even available to screen reader users.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 15

Part of the idea that alt text needs to be entertaining/funny comes from people confusing alt text with title text which is a completely different thing but is sometimes called alt text by people who are misusing the term.

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 4d

Spinoff is doing live coverage

Local elections live results: Wayne Brown and Phil Mauger romp home in Auckland and Christchurch

Rolling updates from across the motu at the local elections marathon reaches its final leg.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 4d

The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 17d

I have been busy saving my mental health with collage

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