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Jennifer Alice

@jenniferalice.bsky.social
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Full time mama, part time theatre & improv she/her/cis/bi/pākehā

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chloe Swarbrick says she wants Finance. The reaction from the right has been very emotional. I feel for them. “Do you really want her steering the economy?” they say... Very little explanation of what, specifically, she would get wrong. Luckily Lacan has a theory about that. #nzpol
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hey Pōneke - do you like shows and/or improv and/or weird animal facts? You should go to @fauxpar.se's show The Natural History Boy. It's on tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at BATS Theatre, 8pm. bats.co.nz/whats-on/the...
Cartoon style picture of Matt Powell, pākehā man with dark hair and a beard wearing a white shirt and black tie, dark pants and sneakers. He is sitting on a box looking off thoughtfully. The background is heaps of different animals - some drawn in full and some just their face. Elephant, dodo, anglefish, racoon, dinosaur, fox etc etc
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pitch: someone makes a new music video of 500 miles reframing it as the story of a trans man and the lengths he'll go to in his quest to be who he is... 'when I wake up, I know I'm gonna be the MAN who wakes up next to you'
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/10/2025
me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis 

my brain: not u though 

me: not me though
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New blog: How NZ media launders right-wing extremism. Following the trail from a light-hearted story about knitting to its origins in a gutter of hate. morgue.isprettyawesome.com?p=8142
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How NZ media launders right-wing extremism - From The Morgue
I continue to despair at the state of local media, a longstanding concern as the venerable mediawatch category on this blog shows. As the information environment has eroded into its present miserable ...
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I played a bard called Jolene in a live DnD show and of course she was really Dolly <3
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So I'm watching Stargate SG1 from the beginning and holy moly there's A Lot Going On
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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz · 24/08/2026
Everyone is either sick or knows someone who's sick and you know what? It's the Government's fault. Please share this article as widely as you can. This amount of mass illness isn't a coincidence, it's a choice they're making for you #nzpol www.emilywrites.co.nz/this-governm...
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This government is making you sick
So many of us are sick. And there's a reason for it.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance.” - Zellie Imani
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Act releases ‘equal rights’ policy evolving from failed Treaty Principles Bill
Act wants Parliament to address how tikanga can be used in the courts.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At some point someone has to stand up and go "Ok everyone shut the fuck up. You all didn't want Three Waters, so you've got this now. This is what you voted for. It's going to be expensive because Things Cost Money, and you've all underpaid for decades because of political cowardice".
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tiffany Aching and/or a wider Discworld episodic kind of thing
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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Attempting to market improv in a time where the arts are in a crisis and audiences don't book ahead and I feel (whether founded or not) disconnected from my improv community thanks to often going to shows alone and not getting to group workshops often WELL let's just say it is difficult
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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We shared some of our reasoning for keeping generative AI out of our creative process with @aftermath.site. Respecting our players' time and attention is at the core of everything we do. If something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to engage with it.
“We don't use generative AI for art, audio, code, or anything else. We've been pretty outspoken about our stance, like with the 200 pins we gave away at GDC this year or our studio Christmas cards where we paid artists to draw what they thought AI-generated cards from us would have looked like.

We have spent time evaluating/experimenting with tools so we feel informed and understand what they can do, but that just gives us more confidence about not using them in any part of our production or preproduction processes for any of our projects. Among our reasons:

We care a ton about respecting our players' time and attention, so if something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to look at.

It's pretty important to have friction with iteration in creative processes. When ideas are cheap to try, they're challenged and vetted less before the implementation. That's going to lead to a lot of games fully realizing some half-baked ideas. We don't want to be the studio that tries to figure out that process.

Even the cases where gen AI quality might be good enough, it is not worth the toxic association. Our players are very clear that they don't want it.

We worked in VR for a decade. We've seen what happens when people make plans and change all their processes based on potential instead of focusing on the present. It usually doesn't work out.”
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pixelframe.design @pixelframe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NOW has been compiling the most irritating songs for decades, but now you can use the logo style to "call" anything! The NOW THAT"S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! Font & Logo Generator is live now!
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NOW That’s What I Call Music Logo Font Cover Generator
Type a headline, banner line, and bottom text to build a bold, layered graphic modeled on the NOW That's What I Call Music series, complete with a gradient face, automatic sizing to mimic the original logo stack, and simulated depth.
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MMP but votes are cast by improv clapometer
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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@ladyhorrors.bsky.social on the Southern absence in national arts funding
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If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding
Erin Harrington on the lack of South Island investment in Creative New Zealand’s Arts Organisations and Groups (AOG) funding round, including the news that South Island organisations collecti…
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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
‘Across multiple interviews, industry representatives for theatre companies, dance studios, writers festivals and more expressed dismay about the impact of the latest funding decisions. Some were restructuring their companies, figuring out how to move forward. Others were considering giving up.’
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Has the arts sector ever done it this hard?
We asked arts industry representatives what funding cuts and political indifference is doing to the arts. The answer? 'This is really fucked.'
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Has the arts sector ever done it this hard?
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Has the arts sector ever done it this hard? 
We asked arts industry representatives what funding cuts and political indifference is doing to the arts. The answer? 'This is really fucked.'...
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Farmer (jersey cattle breeder), primary teacher who became a farmer's wife, farmer who travelled (can't remember specific job), seamstress who became a farmer's wife. FARMING.
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Looking for recommendations for Facilitation training in Wellington or online. Yes I've duck duck go'd but thought some skeeps* on here might have experience? *Sky Peeps? I might hate this
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/07/2026
🇬🇧 🎤 Hundreds of Kate Bushes form sea of red on English coast People gather on the Folkestone Harbour Arm in southeast England to recreate musician Kate Bush's iconic choreography in the video for her song "Wuthering Heights" as part of the global 'The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever 2026' event
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm tempted by one of these things - anyone made use of one and found it good? www.kmart.co.nz/product/15.6...
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18? (Wrong answers only)
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Krull Krullzii
Alt: The main guy from the movie Krull holds up a five point star knife thing, springs out the blades, and throws it
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Ciara 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Unless Labour rolls out an amazing disability policy, as a disabled person, I’m begging you all to vote for the Greens. So far they are the only party who would massively, materially change my life, and the lives of disabled & chronically ill Kiwis, for the better. @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Help I got angry and made a spreadsheet, I don't know what to do with this data now. Covers 2010-2025 and based on Creative NZ's annual reports on their website.
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Creative NZ Funding & Spending History
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you are in the arts in anyway, this is your sign to get vocal about how terrible this govt is because this will only get worse. I know some think being openly political is bad for your career. But if we do not use the skills we have to make a change now, there wont be an industry to go back to.
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Help I got angry and made a spreadsheet, I don't know what to do with this data now. Covers 2010-2025 and based on Creative NZ's annual reports on their website.
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Creative NZ Funding & Spending History
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hey Wellington, if you were having a staycation, where would you stay?
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 08/07/2026
A child's drawing of a cat saying "I am grateful" underneath some text saying "thankyou for carefully removing my cat's testicles".
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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The number of times I have wanted to write “this has been talked about extensively you’re just 21” on a student’s paper cannot be calculated in human numerals.
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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Why is no one talking about…” They are, sweetheart, you just lack the basic research skills needed to find the conversations, which is why we make you take this class in the first place.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Sage Anastasi @sageanastasi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My friends and I are still covering renewals for people who need it! DMs are open :)
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Patrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"I want to ride Te Ara Tupua but am unsure how to get there from Wellington. I don't want to mix with cars." Here's a traffic-free guide on cycling from the Wellington waterfront, along the wharves, over the stadium concourse, along Thorndon Quay and Hutt Rd path. Enjoy! youtu.be/j110Q7qbha0
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How to cycle to Te Ara Tupua from Wellington
YouTube video by Patrick Morgan
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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Eagles, Dire Straits, Bette Midler, Carole King
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Aunty Donna @kebabette.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy news for forearm fans! The Other Bennet Sister is doing a 3 episode Christmas special. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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The Other Bennet Sister returns for three-part Christmas special
Sarah Quintrell returns to pen scripts based on storylines by Janice Hadlow
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I have been sick for ten days and this means being in my house with a toddler and sometimes a 5 year old all day every day and I can't even just NAP when I want to and I just miss reasonable adult human contact but also feel like 24 hours completely alone would fix me?
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Jennifer Alice @jenniferalice.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The music! The vox pops! The hats!
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Wellington in March: Wow, this ($217m) library upgrade is truly transformational for city! We believe in civic investment again! Wellington City Council in June: the enormous festering dead zone in our city is worth, um, $20m.
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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: subscribe to @emilywrites.co.nz newsletter and if you can, pay her "kindy tapes" 😂
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 15/06/2026
A handy set of visualisations for anyone who cares.
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