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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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/...

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We are about to get a crash course in whether it’s really wanton household spending driving up inflation. Cause ya know unemployment is high, there’s barely any govt assistance to weather this storm and somehow… well somehow inflation will still be our fault.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yes. The birds are the problem.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

A white van door in the foreground with parkrun flags in the background

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/05/2025

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.

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America’s Pro-Disease Movement

How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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”

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Reminder you have until midnight tonight (Monday the 31st) to join Internet New Zealand to be able to vote at the AGM in July, and help stop the Free Speech Union and Hobson's Pledge taking over the organisation www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...

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Free Speech Union plans hostile takeover of InternetNZ

And it could just be one part of a wider strategy to shape the public conversation

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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.

Guardian headline reading "British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles says new trustee". Headline is superimposed on photo of tourists viewing Elgin marbles

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/12/2023

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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.

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Sheigh @sheigh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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.

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

A parkrun token "113" in a person's hand

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So. The conclusion simply is this. On the basis of the documents provided the Minister didn't like humanities research, personally, and decided to defund it on that basis. That's it. Nothing in the record suggests any advice taken on impact or importance. Pure ideology with no evidential backing.

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"He has 4 billion dollars, he's not going to steal your money" is an argument someone either makes in complete bad faith or in total ignorance of how the rich have conducted themselves throughout the entirety of modern civilization.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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.

Headline "as DOGE gets data, Elon Musk sees more fraud and waste in government spending"

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Well I feel personally called out.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

None of us voted for Elon Musk to do shit.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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

A blonde middle aged woman taking a selfie on a street in front of a red car. She is wearing a 250 parkruns tee

A large group of runners going past a parkrun volunteer

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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CallieV @calliev.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We understand that Americans broadly celebrated a pre-meditated murder in NYC recently precisely because private healthcare is so bad that people don't see other options? Yes?

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