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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited about our Antistatic research project about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline. We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate: www.everyobject.org

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Every Object an Archive

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Went to Project Hail Mary last night (I enjoyed it) but today’s discussion in my household is mostly about the unrealistic choices of drum machines in the early classroom scenes

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Just got to chase a golden retriever down our very busy road in Wellington after it walked out a fence that blew down in the wind. It had no collar but with the help of two other sets of neighbours the dog is safe and its owners are being contacted.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I don't want my music streaming to have live lyric replay. I spent the mid-2000s listening primarily to bands with warbly vocal delivery and incomprensible lyrics. Learning the words at this stage of the game is just disconcerting.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It’s one of my fave times of year: when new students and their parents amble around town laden with laundry racks, duvets and other stuff for setting up flats.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Did anyone ever have success with chain letters? Did something ever actually arrive in the post?

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It feels silly but I just bought enough stamps to send out my business’ mail for ~4 years since they hold their value. 10 years ago it was 80c to send a standard letter in NZ, now it’s $2.90.

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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New project alert -- me and @annapendergrast.bsky.social having fun and learning things in 2026 www.everyobject.org

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Every Object an Archive

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Do you want some mail? It's that time of year: @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are about to send out our 7th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up & we'll send you a zine + extra object in the post (gratis). We love to send gifts to our friends!! Sign up>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Image of a spread of Antistatic Print Object zines and paper ephemera in different colours spread on top of a wooden table.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...

A screenshot of a zoom call where all 6 attendees have homemade backgrounds. The people are blanked out in bright green so just their outlines are visible.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm calling into this AGM from Canada and really hoping I can get to bed before 2am...

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Officially on holiday as of 20mins ago, although I’m yet to find the off button to stop me from thinking about work stuff when I’m off the clock.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

@kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are excited to be part of the research team for this project. We helped write this backgrounder about internet infrastructure and climate resilience in the context of Aotearoa. To find out more, and learn to get involved, head to internetresilience.nz

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 20/05/2025

Grounded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s latest book, The Serviceverry, writers @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and @annapendergrast.bsky.social look at the power of reciprocity and gift-giving in various digital spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

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🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online

Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Writing a report? Please, I am begging you, PUT A DATE ON IT! Not just on the website page you can download it from, or in the title, but somewhere obvious in the actual report itself.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The latest @newpublic.org newsletter is written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. In it, we explore how concepts in Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2024 book The Serviceberry might manifest in digital projects and online spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

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🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online

Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. 9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific) More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...

A screenshot of 6 people in a zoom call, all with different hand-drawn backgrounds. The people themselves have been removed and replaced by bright green shapes.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I learned from @kellypendergrast.bsky.social + @annapendergrast.bsky.social about this Decomputing class at Dark Times Academy — refusal, Ludditism, analog alternatives, etc. I really need this, so I signed up.

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Decomputing: A Community Exploration – Dark Times Academy

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New Scope of Work newsletter written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social is out today. It's about moving house – from packing your life into boxes to physically moving a home from one place to another. We also snuck in a bit about Shihad, because why not. www.scopeofwork.net/moving-house...

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Moving House.

A moment of personal intersection with global shipping infrastructures.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My pals at @darktimesacademy.bsky.social have announced their latest classes and they look fab (ft. some awesome guest speakers)!

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

For the second time in a week I've realised stories I love (and have never previously interrogated) about Dunedin and its streets/buildings are in fact folklore... “Dunedin has steep streets, not because of some attempt to impose another town’s plans but, because Dunedin has steep hills”.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm trying to find info about the history of the Otago Uni Commerce building, can you help? In particular, is the story I learned as a student in the 00's that its leaking issues were due to it being designed for the Hawai'i climate true or an urban legend...

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We still have a couple of spaces for our Antistatic Group meeting this week - details and how to sign up below:

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Come shoot the shit with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week?? It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. The Feb call was sooo fun. 10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific) Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Screenshot from a Zoom call with Kelly and Anna. Kelly, left, has shoulder length brown hair, and wears a nordic-inspired polar fleece. Behind her is a colorful cut-paper zoom background. Anna, right, has bleach blond short hair, circular plastic glasses, and wears a black sweater. Behind her is a watercolor painted zoom background.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How did I never know that it's Sting singing the second vocal part on Dire Straits' Money for Nothing?

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One of my highlights for 2024 was doing interviews for our annual Print Object zine. If you missed out, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I have reformatted the zine and made it available as the first object in our new SHOP (lol) antistaticobjects.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If you missed out on getting Antistatic Print Object in 2024, @annapendergrast.bsky.social and I have reformatted the zine and made it available as the first object in our new SHOP (lol) - buy one to read 6 interviews with some of the best 2 ever do it antistaticobjects.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

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Antistatic Interview Object

Antistatic Interview Object contains interviews with six people we know or admire from the internet. The content was first created for our 2024...

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Can’t even go on a morning walk without encountering AI.

A wet pavement with chalk drawings, including the letters “AI” in red. The writer may have meant to write “al” as the second letter is less bold.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Every year @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I make a Print Object (usually a zine) and send it as a gift to friends/colleagues/internet strangers. It’s always so fun to see when they start to arrive!

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Digging into this year’s Antistatic Print Object - thank you @kellypendergrast.bsky.social for blessing my postbox

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

When he won in French someone observed that this was the best way to understand AI language models, and that really stuck with me -- knowing all the words doesn't mean you know what any of them mean or how to use them www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

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This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A man who can’t speak Spanish.

Nigel Richards, arguably the best Scrabble player ever, previously won French tournaments without speaking the language.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

When you think Gattaca is aspirational viewing

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Can't differentiate between O and 0? Good luck trying to prove your humanity. (This is an actual captcha I was just served up).

A captcha image with a pink and yellow background. There are a range of numbers in different fonts, including a zero. There is also one capital letter O, which looks very similar. The prompt is: please click on the character that is used to form words or names.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

No this is 100% correct AI tools are automated content production technologies and are entirely distinct from the act of writing

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Seems as good a time as any to reshare this video from my (terrifying) ride in a Cruise robotaxi last year with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social

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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Kind of feel about generative AI the same way I do about eating meat. Like... there's a world in which I'd be interested in it, but given the current conditions it's WAY too much work to use/eat responsibly, and it's easier for me to abstain vs feeling morally and spiritually degraded

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is how big you can send standard mail in NZ with a $4.90 stamp (A4 paper for scale) and it can be 1kg, and 2cm high. From what I can tell, materials other than paper are allowed. There’s a lot of stuff I thought I had to send as a parcel that I reckon could just go in the postbox.

A rectangle 26x38.5cm is made with green masking tape on a wooden table. A white piece of A4 paper takes up roughly 2/3 of the space of the green rectangle.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just posted about 50 bits of mail and now I’m back home writing a submission on proposals to reduce NZPost’s minimum service requirements. I sense a theme for today.

A green reusable bag filled with a stack of A5 envelopes. In the background is the corner of a red postbox.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It’s cool to see Print Object starting to get out in the world! It’s one of my fave projects to do each year. (If there are any NZ folks who have got one before but missed out this year let me know as I have a couple of copies left.)

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Based entirely on the album art I’ve spent 20 years assuming Spiritualized was dance/house music and that I would have zero interest in it.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As a New Zealander with an inexplicable non-NZ accent this advice for Christmas party small talk is my worst nightmare. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"If someone has an accent, I will often be like 'oh, do you have an accent?' and that will mean they can tell me about which country they're from."

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you’re around Pōneke on 2 Dec, Jathan Sadowski will be in town for his Ruthless criticism of AI and capitalism book tour and as an added bonus you can catch me on a panel at the event. jathansadowskitour.lilregie.com/booking/atte...

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A Ruthless Criticism of AI and Capitalism

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Both the Herald and Stuff chose to publish prominent online ads this morning from ACT pushing the Treaty Principles Bill.

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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I wrote up a v abbreviated version of my thoughts on the current (bad) "we need third spaces" discourse, which you can read near the bottom of our new Antistatic newsletter. Might as well subscribe while you're at it — unlike y'alls substacks, we only send ours quarterly!! mailchi.mp/f7e98215eacc...

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hi! Thanks for giving me a follow and to @eryk.bsky.social for including me in his Critical AI starter pack. I'm a writer and strategist in Aotearoa New Zealand, working with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social at Antistatic, where we do a combo of client work and creative projects.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Another starter pack of researchers, artists, journalists and writers tackling issues relevant to critical thinking around AI: go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Note to self: next time you halve a recipe make sure you halve all the ingredients.

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Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Guess it’s good this is behind a paywall, I am already livid enough from the headline

A NZ Herald headline that reads “man who owns 44 homes on why he isn’t lowering rents as interest rates drop”

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