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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hey peeps! Do you like Indian food? Who doesn't?! Then come along and help support my daughter Carys Chacko with her fundraising efforts to get to London AND eat some yummy kai. A selection of breads, rice, and mains. Drinks can be purchased from the bar for extra 🙂 Thursday May 8th ay 6pm

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The positioning of preventing thousands of deaths as doing nothing is…. Quite something.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

So fun fact - people on the left *are* working with young men. Like I got a whole ass partner who spends all his time doing that. People just sorta ignore that because it doesn't make for good headlines, and also people like saying we need to bring back the subjugation of women.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The irony on international women’s day. The mansplainer mansplaining mansplaining!

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Every day all day but especially on International Women’s Day.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Handy resources for today… On International Women’s Day.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The universe is having a laugh at my expense. I’m on strike today from 10.30-2.30 I’m also sick. Which means no sick pay either. Rude. Also, honestly UoA - right now you suck, bargain with good faith instead of whatever you have been doing.

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a group of crabs are standing on a wooden deck and they are chanting in unison " pay up "

ALT: a group of crabs are standing on a wooden deck and they are chanting in unison " pay up "

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I have funds now to travel to international conferences to support my research. I’ve not really had access to that before. I saw an excellent conference advertised yesterday. One I’d usually want to go to. It’s in the US. Not now. Nope. Academic freedom there is dying. Quickly.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Apropos of nothing… I actually prefer Vegemite sandwiches. With a mandarin.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I do love the support governments around the world are showing for Ukraine right now. But I hate the relative silence re Palestine. Where were they when Trump posted that horrific AI video this week? Why can’t we have both and?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: “CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO." From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...

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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Call out to non US based social science peeps! Are you reconsidering where your work can be published given recent developments in the US? Has this caused you to rethink which journals to submit to? Super curious to hear people’s thoughts.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We repealed it because, despite opposition, most people realised that “reasonable force” was a flimsy concept and allowing people to use force against another human like that was fundamentally wrong. And now here we are. Allowing citizens to tie others up with ropes is “reasonable force” 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Apparently you’re allowed to use “reasonable force” when making the arrest and even tie people up. Because last time we had a law like that it worked so well… It allowed parents to physically abuse their children. It was called the defence of “reasonable force” We repealed that.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Anyway able to reconcile the proposed new Cit arrest powers - physical restraint - with employer health and safety legal obligations around minimising risk? Because on the face of it…

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a white cat is sitting on a box with the words `` make it make sense '' written above it .

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If anyone ever complains to you about Treaty settlements, tell them the total cost at January 2023 was $2.6 billion, but in 2024 Luxon gave $2.9 billion to landlords, and rents still increased. #NZpol

As of January 2023, 86 settlements had been passed into law. The total value of all finalised settlements is $2.6 billion. This may seem like a lot of money, but in the next 12 months, the Government will spend $19 billion on national superannuation alone. The entire value of Treaty settlements over the past quarter of a century would cover superannuation payments for two months.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-tai/about-treaty-settlements

NZ Herald article by Thomas Coughlan dated 11 March 2024 confirming $2.9 billion cost of landlord tax break.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Wondering what the time lag will be between these changes to citizens arrests being made law (physical restraint allowed to be used) and the first death by citizens arrest (arrestor or arrestee). 🤔 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Watch: ‘Not necessarily a headlock’ – Goldsmith details new citizens' arrest powers

The announcement comes amid a rise in retail crime.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Opposed to gender affirming care? Viagra? HRT for perimenopause? Testosterone supplements? Hair thinning treatments? Waxing? Breast reconstructions? Testicular implants? Jaw recontouring? Gynocomastia surgery? Ohhh, so it’s only when it’s for trans people 🤔

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The International Olympic Committee needs to act. They need to remove the games from Los Angeles in 2028. Countries must also boycott US sporting events. Now.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Who else is out here at the Rotunda giving the fingers to Destiny bigots! 💜🏳️‍🌈🦄🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Give them a follow, they're a phenomenal group providing care and support for people who get abused/harassed etc while they are doing the good mahi.

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’ll be there. Come say hi.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 21/02/2025

I don't *think* Tamaki's bullies will do it again, but FYI Hugo's Rainbow Show is happening again today. It's at Te Tuhi in Howick at 1pm. In case anyone local wants to go and show support if they turn up with their pathetic little protest again.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Exactly. We cannot let the tiny minded (and in size) bigots get away with this.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I get why people aren’t attending the market. They’re scared. So, all you allies? Where TF are you? I want to see that straight dollar go queer. Make your dollars show us you support us. Allyship is a damn verb not a noun. Do the damn mahi.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There’s a Pride market in Te Atatu today, near the library. There are cops at every entrance and it’s quiet. I’m enraged. This is what the bigots of DC want. Meanwhile Ms17 is there trying to sell her pride related crochet and it’s quiet. Will I be protesting DC tomorrow? F**K yes.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It is in Judith Collins' best interest if people can't think critically.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Another absolutely brilliant read. Cannot wait for his next book. A particularly alarming read in light of recent events in the US. All about digital capitalism, how insidious it is, and how to resist it.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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. Ursula K. Le Guin 2014

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We are truly blessed in Aotearoa. Back from the Kepler today and trying to stay with that zen for a moment longer.

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A phenomenal read. I knew the US was a steaming pile of crap when it came to interference in other countries but I had no clue how extensive that was (is) or how rabidly and obsessively anti communist it was (is).

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Mōrena koutou! What a beautiful day 🤩

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Well that’s a ray of sunshine wrapped in a skeet… 😬🙃

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🤣🤣🤣 I know right! Otherwise I’d been hacked!

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