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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OK I've pre-ordered GTA6. By the release date I'll have finished all study for the year, praise Zeus

Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Family did vote compass after dinner. Fortunately our teens are not right wing assholes but I did come out as the most woke, my daughter reckons.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incredible to me that David Seymour removed these national education learning priorities (NELPs). Like, what here is bad? No doubt he wants to allow racism and a one-size-fits-all approach because he holds dipshit racist bigot asshole ideals.

Six NELP priorities for early learning services
Priority 1: Ensure places of learning are safe, inclusive, and free from racism, discrimination, and bullying.
Priority 2: Have high aspirations for every ākonga (learner), and support these by partnering with their whānau and communities to design and deliver education that responds to their needs and sustains their identities.
Priority 3: Reduce barriers to education for all, including for Māori and Pacific ākonga (learners), disabled learners, and those with learning support needs.
Priority 4: Ensure every ākonga (learner) gains sound foundation skills, including languages, literacy, and numeracy.
Priority 5: Meaningfully incorporate te reo Māori into the everyday life of the place of learning.
Priority 6: Develop staff to strengthen teaching, leadership, and learner support capability across the education workforce.

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Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We talked to farmers in a South Island community and found: (1) mistrust in climate science and scientists, (2) mistrust in government, (3) mistrust of the mainstream media and (4) a sense of responsibility and care for their farms. #ClimateChange rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

New Zealand Farmers’ Trust in Climate Change Expertise and Policy: A Case Study

Responding to recent discord between Aotearoa New Zealand's agricultural sector and the government over environmental policies, this paper examines farmers’ trust in climate change science and policy...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jordan Williams’ nefarious network #nzpol

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I need a rogue AI to finish this bloody assignment for me

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like all two dimensional villains whose own arrogance is invisible to them, Minister Stanford's single minded vision for a white-washed curriculum is starting to come undone as her harmful ignorance is revealed

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LOL the iPhone due in NZ starts at $4,200 and tops out at 6,600 wtf this is all bullshit

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shared various URL resources today around te wiki o te reo Māori at work to about 35 colleges, only one replied with thanks

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

30,000+ have signed. It closes on the 14th September. Sign it if you haven’t already and share as widely as you can. #nzpol Petition of Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated: Do not remove or amend Te Tiriti principles or references in legislation petitions.parliament.nz/ddbe7598-59d...

petitions.parliament.nz

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just replaced the pump in my Breville Barista Express so I'm basically an electrician now AND get to have fresh coffee in the morning 💪💪💪

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh no Outlook isn't working, time to go home

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just picked up my first pair of progressive glasses and jesus they're awful. There's a 10cm wide tunnel of sharpness which rapidly falls off to blur and I have to turn my head constantly to see clearly wtf

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Which political party is going to extend the RTLB service beyond year 10 to include years 12, 12 and 13? Learning support needs don't magically fix themselves end of year 10.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Skin nurse to me: you'll need a foreskin check Me: I don't have one Skin nurse: what? Me: wait, did you say foreskin? Skin nurse: you'll need a full skin check Me: 😑

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Downloading a simple app to tune a guitar is impossible, they all want you to make an account, watch videos, find your playing skills, choose a subscription plan ffs

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That GTA6 trailer on Netflix is phenomenal, oh mitosis 👀

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Automated letter from the school, your son has reached a "worrying" level of attendance (5 days absent this year). That's what happens when you have flu one week, break your finger the next and attend a scholarship interview one afternoon, all justified absences. *deletes email*

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

National and Labour and the roots they came from are becoming less and less relevant in a world split between endless capitalist growth and competitive extraction versus healthy sustainable environments and equitable access to health and education.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What's with this tax phobia among the two big parties? Are they actually living in the now? They have no vision to improve NZ in any impactful way

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The govt need to pay teachers more if they have relevant qualifications beyond their teaching qualifications: attract and retain more teachers, value the effort and expense they've put into refining the knowledge of their craft, elevate the importance of ongoing learning in the sector.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this week's episode of Mediocre Things That Excite Adults, the replacement hepa filter for our vacuum cleaner has reignited my passion for carpet cleaning, I make no apologies for this burst of drama and excitement on anyone's bsky feed

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Pro tip: remove ear wax from the mesh in your ear buds by warming a small blob of blutak in your hands then roll it over the mesh a few times. Viola presto, clean mesh

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I built all the Satisfactory stuff! Story finished. Trophy mop up to go. What a fantastic game, like playing a beautiful 3D spreadsheet

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Takiwātanga: some docs use the term interchangeably to mean autism, others preserve the te ao Māori meaning as intended by Keri Opai. IMO they are not direct translations. Thinking about how to make an infographic that explains this for my study.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Summer, autumn and winter have been so dry, our two 30,000 litre tanks are nearly empty. Just had to order a water delivery - 10,000 litres for about $400. We really need regular rain for a long period to recover

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The thing about noise cancelling headphones is that when you fart using the hip thrust machine, as I just did, you know it's happened but you don't know how loud it was and so the only option is to make no eye contact with anyone in the gym for the rest of your workout

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Taupō district desperately needs educational psychologists. MOE work conditions though aren't attractive. We need a govt to incentivise people to study ed psych then do better at keeping them employed here.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The volume of AI slop generated infographics, fliers and brochures flying around in education circles right now is depressing and soulless

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hon Jan Tinetti was a primary teacher and principal for over 27 years and, despite not making an impact on pay and conditions for teachers, understood and was qualified to work in education unlike someone we could name...

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Getting addicted to Satisfactory on PS5 when I have an assignment due is really bad timing

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Can anyone with access to Sage Journals please share me this article for my study? Can't access via my uni. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Cartwright, C. A., & Cartwright, G. P. (1970). Determining the Motivational Systems of Individual Children. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2(3), 143-149.

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Determining the Motivational Systems of Individual Children - Carol A. Cartwright, G. Phillip Cartwright, 1970

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just started playing Satisfactory and now I can only think of efficiencies and outputs, it has me in its grasp

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Deleted a previous skeet. Those school reports were more like approx 7000 characters (not 5000 words) so between 1000 to 1800 words per child, twice a year. That's still far too much.

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This ball for mashing muscles that the physio sold me today is so dense and indestructible it'll probably outlive human society

Small green ball with 66 fit printed on it

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This govt are mostly uneducated, racist fuck wits who think anyone with more expertise than them is a threat

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It beggars belief how the MOE have allowed the SMART assessment tool to be so awful and unhelpful. I realise it's at a trial stage but I'd be embarrassed to be involved in releasing such an unfit for purpose nationwide project, or be happy that the workload it creates for schools is justified

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No idea how connecting to the server makes playing 007 First Light a "richer" experience

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Let's try to stop saying "good boy/girl" to students and instead 1) praise effort/progress and 2) use behavior specific praise so students can connect these verbal rewards with specific actions

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pre-ordered 007 First Light. Yet to finish Saros but hey ho

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Walking past TVs flashing images from around the world: EBOLA, news of various wars, workers losing jobs, billionaires backing rapidly expanding machine technologies and everyone is just trying to get by amidst it all - this is how all horror movies start

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We don't need to legally define woman or, as this shittery really wants to do, target trans people, ffs. So much to hate about this govt

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Stephen Ross 🎮 🏋️ 📸 🎂 @aratiatia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Since te Tiriti is all her responsibility, media should ask the education minister: * how is the Ka Hikitia strategy progressing? * how well are teachers implementing Tātaikao? * how are teachers enacting the 2026 teaching standard 1 "Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership"?

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