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It's been a little wee while since this piece came out, but with the NZ election two weeks away, it feels relevant. @maxsoar.bsky.social and I take a closer look at some of the mechanisms behind how white women engage in online radicalization doi.org/10.1177/1942...

Very proud of this little piece coming out of some ongoing work in my department. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've almostvraised $1500 for the Burnett Foundation #sweatforpride! Live within driving distance & donate at least $25 to my campaign & you get a crochet rainbow heart All donations to my page go into a raffle for crochet Bernie Doll, shipped anywhere! www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

Heading to the #aasconference in Alice Springs. Hoping to see some familiar faces 😁

All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

Yes. The birds are the problem.

It's his birthday.

Top 25 finish at Southend Reserve #parkrun this morning. What do you mean 21 of 22? shhhhhhhh. Still a perfect morning. @parkrunnewzealand.bsky.social

The novel "Lolita" is a really valuable cultural artefact because within one sentence of anyone talking about it you can tell if their hard drive needs to be impounded

Just maybe Lolita is in fact a shit book and Nabokov was nothing special: just another perv.

Just one more sleep until #parkrun Gotta keep hanging onto the good things.

Very timely piece by my colleague @nihilcurtis.bsky.social

Not a bad free camping spot for a #parkrun morning. Loved Morrinsville Recreation Ground.

In this episode, Alan Bernstein, the director of global health at the University of Oxford, discusses with David Frum how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a deadly resurgence of preventable diseases in the U.S.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

Being an academic as universities seem to be losing our social license is a weird place to be. Universities are absolutely integrated into power networks, but simultaneously those networks are terrified of the potential of critical scholarship and informed free thinkers.

You'd really think that if we have to keep having this conversation it could be more nuanced than "museums are important" But here we are. In 2025.

Old and busted: sugar and spice and everything nice New hotness: Salty, defiant, and extremely noncompliant

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

Fantastic first lecture in my Anth 377 class defining "democratic values" & discussing meaning making as a class. #anthro #socanth Really looking forward to this semester after meeting these students.

Giving people legal permission to attack other people in supermarkets is not a solution to anything.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Thank you @papa.org.nz for today's absolutely soul-filling gathering <3 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

can we please retire the word "ex-pat" for white people? the word you're looking for is immigrant, you just don't think it applies to you

It is unclear to me how Lu*on thinks the economy works. You can't get milk from a cow you're starving. And if you starve it to death, there's not even a lot of meat for your vulture friends to "capitalize" on.

#parkrun makes Saturdays worthwhile. Loved visiting Southern Pathway and running into two parkrun friends from around the motu & pacific

Guess what I'm up to this morning! #parkrun #RD #vollie

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

A headline on a local news site in Portland Oregon this week. People don't see an issue bc this is being presented to them as normal.

I let go of my copy of "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" today For a long time I saw that book reflect the difficult childhood I navigated but what Gman actually captured was the story of the person who broke my family & gave me that childhood A victim who became the abuser

Well I feel personally called out.

None of us voted for Elon Musk to do shit.

Was it DEI or decades of underfunding and under staffing? In this media environment of quoting politicians at face value I guess we'll never know. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

I probably don't even need to say this, BUT. Me not posting about every nightmarish thing is not because I am not internally (or externally!) screaming multiple times per day, i just figure you heard about it from 100 other people posting about each new nightmare. I assure you, my soul is cracking.

OpenAI: China stole our tech!! Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place OpenAI: 😡

I found some cheap cherries and I don't regret my choices.

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

Not mad about 260 people at Owairaka #parkrun and not mad about a sunny walk to coffee after!

Someone decided that ten minutes is how long public toilets in Auckland parks will stay locked and, having married a man, I can say with great confidence the person who thought "ten minutes is long enough to take a shit" was a woman.

In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.