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Jo Bailey

@jobailey.bsky.social
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Designer, (was) @jo_bailey on Twitter. She/they. Scicomm PhD. Curious about architecture, typography, urban space, cats, visual culture, graphic design, renovation + making…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Talking Heads 🎵Puzzlin' Evidence🎵 heard as 🎵Muslim Amethyst🎵
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love love Zotero 📕💻💚
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not gonna post it as it’s trash, but RNZ’s lead story about a dude with a few degrees saying Aotearoa should subsidise students to study abroad (while he runs a company taking cash for placing students at overseas universities) is shoddy arse journalism
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel like this one was more of a 🔥 than it got credit for
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
sigh, thanks for trying!
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
look, what I'll say to you is [bluster bluster]
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remembering the time I told Luxon he should recognise the state of Palestine when I found myself seated in front of him on a plane (ht @drbenomycin.bsky.social for suggesting it). Now I want full credit for his volte face in the #leadersdebate 😜
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Dustin Hoffman: I Want The Credit
Alt: Dustin Hoffman saying 'I Want The Credit' in an animated gif
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pale male contingent gonna stale? Really terrible lack of analysis and responding to viewers views there…
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The analysis is not very analytical (in the studio). Double the audience members felt Hipkins swayed them, but the blokes reckon Luxon did better? Pfff
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also the “obviously Amanda does the shopping up here I. auckland”. Obviously it’s the wife’s job? 🤷‍♀️
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Aww look…”. Just waiting for “what I say to you is…” — #luxonbingo #leadersdebate
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cringe, but watching so far!
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jack Tame had Lego man hair #leadersdebate #nzpol
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Appreciate your tireless mahi in difficult times 💚
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 25/09/2026
I’ve seen five former students on a brief trip up to Auckland in the last 24 hours, all thriving. It’s so nice when they transition to being peers in industry. Very proud of them all 👏
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Powerhouse 😻
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is nuts. Why are the interests of parents different to teachers and principals? No teacher was ever a parent or grandparent? (Not that non-parents don’t have a stake in education, but the whole premise of this way is off)
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Late 60s?! I thought a decade older!
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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
Be good if they had instruments to actually do that! Not sure what tools they have at the moment?
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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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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How long was the warranty? Way shorter that you should expect a washing machine to last, I’m sure… good on you!
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sorry, Rebecca 😢 what a bad call (that you didn’t make!)
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quite!
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
💚💪
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Gotta keep on with ingrained, persistent structural sexism, the market says so? Yeah nah.
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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 · 29/07/2026
🤗 thanks Elizabeth
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thanks Paul 🙂
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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 · 26/07/2026
It’s still called SugarApe just the Suga is reaaaally small *nichenathanbarleyreference
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Haven’t tried Hideout. Basin Noodle House’s hot and spicy beancurd does me two meals for under $20 and they’re all good with me bringing my own containers 🍜👍
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ll give that a whirl though it probably means holding my nose and using a Zuckerberg platform 🤮
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Also maybe their ads could be more diverse, and they could *not* charge way over the odds for returns. Also the sizing was variable too. So, I won’t be buying form #ModiBodi again until they do some thinking about their business model ethics, and I will be slating them online 😉 #notoAI #humansfirst
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
lol so memorable I can’t get their name right #modibodi
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So yeah, they can gtf out. They had me as a customer but I am absolutely not down for being dealt with solely by a chatbot. I’ve asked repeatedly to be removed from their spam list (email every day) and I’ve also asked for a human to get in touch (nothing)…
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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 · 22/07/2026
I was just about to jump online and complain about this too. W the actual F?! Also, they are me with emails that have no unsubscribe link 😬 #AItransparency #ModiBody
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lucky them! Nice one 💚
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It was a great joke! Also I hope other people in the room thought that, when one speaker said to another “when you said you came from Greece, I thought…” that next line should have been “.. you had a thirst for knowledge” #referencesfromabygoneera
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
To be fair I don’t tend to look at Wayne Rooney either 😂
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I mean look at this shiny plastic dome!
Wayne Rooney’s shiny plastic spud head
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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
I wondered about this. A shower cap or a pair pf bloomers (‘greedily' stolen from a milkmaid)? Whatever’s going on on there, it not a great look on you, Beaky
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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)
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Eatshit
Alt: Sardine can full of the word shit
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Seconded. Just you, and amazing.
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It’s not one to debate in snippets, I agree. But I don’t agree that just 'cos I am statistically unlikely to see a building it isn’t worthy of protection. ‘Significance’ should include the humble too, not just the ‘big' stuff (otherwise, it’s just ‘history written by the victors’ for architecture)
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Non-subscriber, so there is maybe nuance here I am missing, but at a general level, the idea that a ‘domestic' building can’t have civic/streetscape/shared community value beyond an individual homeowner sounds pretty, well, individualistic… Are there any ‘good’ heritage rules worth striving for?
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