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I went to Gramercy in Berhampore as usual this Saturday morning, and it was ded compared to normal due to a chill southerly and rain. C’mon people do your bit to support local business by buying boogie baked goods! I recommend a quick bike pick up then eat in bed 🥐🛌

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Literally made my bed, and I laid in it 🔨🪚🛏️

A wooden bed on a deck. It has three boxes on casters underneath. It’s in a state of partial construction.

The same bed now indoors and made up. It’s plywood with a striped duvet on top

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m here for the idea that councils might get some teeth in this space. It stings that the old Pōneke Laundry Bar site is still empty because the landlord wanted to hike rent, and failing that landbanking is more desirable (for him. Ethically indefensible and highly undesirable for urban life, imho)

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

if everyone alive today had the same ecological footprint as we in New Zealand, the planet would use more than it could replenish (aka: resource overshoot day) in mid-April of a figurative year based on data from 2026. more data, methodology, etc: overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...

A diagram illustrating resource overshoot days in 2026. The country with the highest ecological footprint is Qatar in a figurative early February. Middling countries include Romania and Hungary. The lowest footprint is Cambodia & Honduras in November.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*Delighted* that Mr Ward’s Map—a book I had the pleasure of designing for (and with) @bayheritage.bsky.social—has been shortlisted for *three* PANZ Book Design Awards, for best illustrated book, typography and cover 🎉📕 🎈😻 www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/mr-wards-map...

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Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street— Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 FINALIST

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 Finalist Designer: Jo Bailey Title: Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street Publisher: Massey University Press For…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I ordered from #ModiBodi having read good reviews. BUT they’ve subsequently emailed me repeatedly with no unsubscribe option and their customer service email is handled by an AI bot (you can tell by the way it did the ChatGPT sycophantic ‘you’re right, that email should by law have had an opt out’)…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wayne Rooney’s forehead is made of the same stuff as Barbie Ken’s crotch #realworldcupcommentary

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Beaky looks shifty, but quite trim. If they really were a ‘greedy duck’ would they not be nudging 'absolute unit’ size? @themerl.bsky.social pick from the Ladybird Gallery

A cover of a ladybird book entitled Beaky the Greedy Duck. It’s got an illustrated duck that is whote with a blue and white checked dress or apron, and a bunch of yellow chicks

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Renationalising British railways is so needed. The ticketing is incomprehensible, and rn on a GWR where the reserved seating system is borked so there are people sardined in on a baking hot day looking at standing for hours (luckily I’m only on for one stop and didn’t have a reservation anyway)

static.klipy.com

Eatshit

Alt: Sardine can full of the word shit

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Screeching emergency test alert! Even though I knew it was coming, still made me jump out my skin!

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Interested to know who got the screeching alert five mins ago. I did on the Melrose side of Island Bay, friend in Oku street nearer the sea didn’t…

An emergency alert for sea level
Island bay, Houghton bay and owhiro bay due to large swells from 9am tomorrow

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

that's 160 years' worth of wellington cycle funding btw

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“Now is the time for intergenerational thinking… Now is the time for us to continue protecting nature over short-term gains. The costs of doing so today are far lower than the cost of repairing the damage later.” — Dr Danielle Shanahan, CEO Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/m...

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Mining to the left, landfill to the right – Zealandia stuck in the middle

Opinion: Wellington has become a global model for urban ecological restoration, but it’s under threat, writes Danielle Shanahan

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I got a jury duty summons for July. I’ll be away. There’s no way to respond other than post. They want proof of my travel so I have to print a digital e-ticket and mail it?!

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Enjoy this page-by-page flickthrough of the epic Mr Ward’s Map book, a street-by-street look at Victorian Wellington, now the @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social Bookhub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction winner! Huge congrats @bayheritage.bsky.social #MasseyUniversityPress (designed by me!) #TheOckhams

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Congratulations @bayheritage.bsky.social! What a huge privilege to design this book, and be generously acknowledged from the stage 📕😻 amazing work from the Massey University Press team #theockhams

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Cycle Wellington @cyclewgtn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A great biking network delivers benefits to everyone in our community. In the middle of a fuel crisis, a climate crisis, and an affordability crisis; WCC is proposing to slam on the brakes on cycling projects. Have your say. Submissions close tmrw! www.cyclewellington.org.nz/annual_plan_...

A mum with a child cycling behind her older son at in intersection in Wellington.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I find the OneNews weather report incomprehensible—graphic overlays and words are quite a mush

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

here's an image of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa from the last 20 minutes. Aotearoa is in the lower left of Earth’s disc in this image (under cloud : ) Cyclone Vaianu is clearly visible to the north…

A photo of the Pacific Ocean from a geostationary weather satellite operated by NOAA. Aotearoa is in the lower left of Earth’s disc. Cyclone Vaianu is clearly visible to the north…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

OMG SWYD ASAP, 2day I found this GR8 guide to communicating circa the millennium. HAND all, I hope U been LTWT, LOL

A list I found in a very old folder of files (not mine!). It’s a list probably from 2000s of text speak terms. It reads:

Words in full
Abbreviations or SMS language
As far as I know
AFAIK
Love
LUV
Thanks
THNX or THX
Today
2day
Before
B4
Have a nice day
HAND
See you
CU
So what's your problem?
SWYP
At
@
Tears in my eyes
TIME
Sealed with a kiss
SWAK
Chicks
CHX
Great
GR8
Keep it simple, stupid
KISS
Such a laugh
SAL
At the moment
ATM
What Are You Doing
WYD
Where Are You At
WYA
Stop What Your Doing
SWYD
By The Way
BTW
You're on your own
YOYO
As soon as possible
ASAP
Oh My God
OMG
Hugs and Kisses
HAK or XOXO
Laughing out Loud
LOL
Rolling On The Floor
ROTF
Loving the weather today LTWT or LWT or LW

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Is this a temporary error of have eligibility criteria been changed? Just tried booking a vaccine but Health NZ site says nope. I’m 49…

Screen from health nz saving I (49 year old) am not eligible for vaccines

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“New Zealand hopeful it’s not surrounded by ocean.” Good luck Port Waikato. We’re in this together. Or at least we would be, if the current government demonstrated any leadership. #nzpol

front page of the waikato herald. lede story headline: “residents hopeful sea wall will protect homes”

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ugh, gotta be British again. Haven’t had one of these since the maroon EU ones got the boot 😕

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

New ebike battery and mounts $1600 😬😬😬

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Have you voted for your favourite 3 critters for Bug of the Year? If not, show some love for noke waiū, an enormously long hairy noodle that can glow in the dark! Head to bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz to vote by Feb 16th. @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social @siouxsiew.bsky.social

A drawing of a green wheelie bin with a worm laid alongside to show how long it is

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Weather’s good for a tv binge and I *highly* recommend The Newsreader—I absolutely hoovered it up and did all three seasons in a week or so. Some magical 80s set dressing and cracker acting www.imdb.com/title/tt1392... its showing on Netflix here

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Laundry, Cuba Street, Wellington. Consistently great bar food including the best fries, cooked in the caravan out back. And many pints of Supercharger (pre-sale of Panhead to Lion). It hasn’t been five years yet but it left a big hole 😟 screw greedy landlords everywhere!

Laundry bar on Cuba Street, pōneke wellington. Probably during Cuba Dupa 2019. The street is crowded with happy people and the big green frontage says dry cleaners and pressers.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Someone told me the other day that Gen-Z don’t use apostrophes. Not sure if that’s true, but if so it’s to cosmically balance this kind of excess…

A caravan that is a take-away venue in Petone. It’s white and blue and says Crispy Catch in blue sans serif capital letters. Around that are the words calamari, chowder, burger’s, taco’s, chip’s and fish and chip’s (all apostrophes included)

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Love me a brooch! interaction designer @tristam.bsky.social gets the button press one, non-huggy me gets the don’t touch one (though irl I’ll be wearing both all the time! 😂) fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/f...

Brooches by Fran Allison. One is a small silver don’t touch sign (a hand with a line through) and the other a small press here sign (finger pushing a round button)

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Bryce Edwards @bryceedwards.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...

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Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster

Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is offering scholarships to help you start (or continue) your explorations in art, design, music or screen arts… Apply today! … Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola... #redesignnz

massey.ac.nz

Creative Kickstarter Scholarship

Make your Move - This is your chance to kickstart your creative journey at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts — with a $1,000 fees scholarship to help you get here.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Damnit the power cut is over which means the water is back on which means the dishes need doing 😃

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

West Coast’s gonna West Coast

Very rainy view with grey skies in the distance and flax bushes in the foreground. View on the west coast of South Island Aotearoa NZ north of Westport

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

#duvetknowitschristmas is an annual joy! Sadly, not really qualifying here what with an *actual bed and actual room* to sleep in (though peachy-beige walls are on-message)

A small double bed in a room with a small desk light and rather oppresive peachy beige walls

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“GenAI as simulated intelligence is incapable of meaning-making” (so trying to use it for thematic analysis is 💩👎 ) 💯 — recommend reading!

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

When I moved to Aotearoa about two decades ago, reckons were IKEA was coming ‘next year’ (and every year since!) I even went to Sydney and shipped a kitchen as the quality here for the same money was really poor. It’s going to shake things up, I reckon

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Roaring Marmot @roaringmarmot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh

c.org

Sign the Petition

Urgent Action Required on Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Incursion.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

@thecidershedpod.bsky.social I might be the mystery invisible reviewer… Apple show me only reviews posted here in NZ (all five 🔥) so maybe it's the same your end? 😂 NZ and kiwis got a mention this week, so perhaps there'll be a bump in listeners to the Archers + TCS? Anyway, love your work! 🦡🧀🥚

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/11/2025

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🚨📕 Need a gift for the Pōneke peeps/map geeks/history buffs /archive nerds/book fans in your life? Have I got the tome for you! Mr Ward's Map (by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP, designed by me) 🚨📕 My design notes: makinggood.design/thoughts/map... + buy here! www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/all/mr...

Me (Jo) holding a very large red hard back book. The book has black lettering saying Mr Ward's Map in large capitals across the middle. Across the top it saus Victorian Wellington Street by Street, and down the side it says Elizabeth Cox (who it the author). I'm in my office room. I have red lipstick and glasses and there's a stack of red Oxo Cube boxes on the desk behind me (it's not staged! I really am just a sucker for red things!)

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

used ChatGPT this week to proof comments and to convert to html (moodle screws uo spacing/italics when pasting text). I am spending more time proofing its changes than I was my own text, tbh. Despite expressly saying ‘do not add additional italics’ it keeps making te reo Māori term italic 😖

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

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Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe

Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Capital gains tax as a ‘tax on the corner dairy’ is a massive stretch, surely that’s clear to all? I guess ‘this is a tax on the corner dairy assuming the dairy owner owns the building and decides to sell it, paying tax on a % of profit made on that sale’ doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue does it

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social good to see your name on the list of councillors likely elected for Wharangi/Onslow-Western. So sorry you’ll have such cooked colleagues 🤨 keep on fighting the good fight! 💚

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