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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

OMG, I have really exciting news about the residents of Etheldredastowe, but I'm scared to share in case it all goes wrong. So, here's a brief history of the name.

Scraggly trees are silhouette against creamy coloured sunset.

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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Big news folks… I’ve been selected to stand for Labour in the Taranaki King Country electorate!! Head over to my main campaign page on FB to show your support! Live in the area? Come join us! Facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576502848485

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oh hai! I am actually going to try moving here because you are far nicer to hang out with than ads and AI slop. Also, Etheldredastowe has new residents: meet Harold (front) and Hilda. They were supposed help with the grass in the orchard, but they prefer hanging out with the Beefies.

A white gander with frilly wings stands in front of a grey goose. Green hills and blue sky in the background.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 20/11/2025

"The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

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President Piggy

This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Evening conversation with Beefies. The herd (of two) is now called Simply Red, as they can no longer be labled The Beefie Boys.

A red and white Hereford cross beef beast stands half facing the camera, while a smaller red and white heifer browses the grass below.

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Another great read from @theradr.bsky.social Rabbj Ruttenberg: Deuteronomy’s Liberation Theology - and its lessons for us on creating a vision of wholeness for our own tomorrow www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/11dade2c-6...

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Deuteronomy's Liberation Theology

how it can teach us to expand our vision for tomorrow

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I like filling in marketing surveys. I like giving curmudgeonly feedback on inane ads. I don't like when you get to the "And now about you" bit, and the option for household is "young couple, no kids" or (after all manner of options with kids) "older couple, no kids at home".

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I had the priviledge of watching our local family of paradise ducklings practise a fly-past this morning. Then they landed, and got feedback from their father, who marched up and down in front of the straight line of young'uns.

Golden coloured twigs against a blue sky and blurry green landscape. There are leaves starting to sprout.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This? This is my post! I have dug (am digging) the holes by hand because, well, why not? There's no hurry to get the gate in, I get exercise, and somewhat off-set my neighbour's incessant lawn mowing with his noisy ride-on. I'm thinking of taking up a scythe. #slow_living #slow_farming

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Spring is springing at Etheldredastowe, and I finally remembered I should post here. Expect a lot of garden talk.

Two blowsy pink roses (Damascene) against a green background.

A pearly pink bud against a bright blue sky.

A full rose blossom fading from a yellow centre to pink edges.

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 21/01/2025

Reposting this because it’s consistently a thing that makes resistance feel like something that can be and in fact already is part of my everyday life.

anarchistfederation.net

Don’t Just Do Nothing

🔥 Nov 24, 2024 - From Anarchist News - From It's Going Down Original title:

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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Two of the Works of Mercy (based on Matthew's Gospel): welcoming the stranger and feeding the hungry, as represented in the medieval frescoes of the Baptistery in Parma. Some of the responsibilities of being born and baptized into, you know, a S-O-C-I-E-T-Y

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/01/2025

No government can ever feasibly choose to ignore climate change or pandemics. You can't stop physics or biology by pretending that they don't exist. The only real choice governments make is how badly they and their people will suffer.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states: “'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So, I found @theradr.bsky.social in my early days here (some time late last year). She has been a great source of knowledge and learning, and this post is a calm, considered call to action. We need more than "thoughts and prayers" right now. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/inauguration/

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Feel. Then Do.

our work in this new era

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My letter in today's @theguardian.com on the government's rampant enthusiasm for so-called AI. Many reasons for concern, from embedding our current failed systems to environmental impacts #Discrimination #Inequality #ClimateEmergency

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

Slide by @toderianUW.bsky.social saying “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.“ – Lewis Mumford, 1955

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There's probably some important life lesson about how much easier it is to plant things than to keep weeding and tidying existing plants. Yet the tended plants are the ones which yield fruit. Sponsored by ice tea, a newly-planted flowerbed, a harvest of peaches, and grass cutting.

Close up of a basket with approx 20 peaches.

View over the water tank of my legs, a glass of ice tea, green hills and blye sky.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My hand-spun yarn got thoroughly tested by the Sisters of Chaos today. Picture the laser lights of a high-tech security system - crisscrossed over the living and dining rooms. I was only outside for half an hour!

Two tabby kittens, one light and one dark, climbing a scratching post in seach of a toy mouse being dangled by a mostly off-screen human.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/01/2025

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1

In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This lovely Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago! Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today! British Museum 📷 me #Archaeology

Hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. The glass is composed of sections of star patterned cane in blue, purple (looks black in my photo), and green, which appear as a floral pattern. The bowl has a black and white spiral rim. Made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC. The bowl has been reconstructed and blue glass fragments which do not belong to this vessel have been used to fill missing areas.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I find myself having to use the word "rapscallion" more often than usual these days. Meet Bianca (lighter) and Nyx (tabbier).

A classic Tabby in prime position on a blue chair, facing off a caramel tabby trying to assail her position.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Caspian, a.k.a Mr Helpful-pants, left us for a place with no suffering on Wednesday. He is now sleeping in the Roseary, wrapped in his favourite blanket. The world is an empty place.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wow! This is the most interesting projection of the world which I've seen. Shows just how much land there isn't, compared to the ocean!

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Shutupika @shambolika.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

80s back in fashion

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finally on top of reports, and starting to look ahead to next year's teaching. Also moved the Beefie Boys.

Distant view of green grassy hills, two blobs in the middle foreground which are cows, and fluffy clouds in the sky.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Hīkoi is 14 times the size of the 2022 anti-mandate protest, yet there has been only one arrest. Additionally, no one has bought a noose with them, and no one is calling for "Nuremberg trials" of politicians, or comparing David Seymour to Stalin

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today, I discovered that Gus (the Angus), and Lil' Red (the Jersey cross) really like skritches with the broom. #lifestyleblock #BeefieBoys

A black steer and a brindle steer offer their heads for skritches with a stiff yardbroom.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Still feeling a bit lost, but getting to read about some great archaeology.

Bronze 2-inch tall rabbit sitting on a page of Terry Pratchett.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Tusiata Avia captures the moment in Parliament yesterday: (N.B. "The ACT party's poet laureate" is because ACT hate her.)

tusiata.substack.com

In praise of Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke

(a poem for my daughter)

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Anyone else getting a serious LiveJournal-circa-2003 vibe here? Tell me it's not just me! Though I'm seriously proud of the number of web-friends I've had through multiple iterations of communities.

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Kiwimedievalist @kiwimedievalist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm here! Late as usual. I'm one of Caspian (aka Mr Helpful-pants)'s staff. Seriously, how are you supposed to punctuate that previous sentence?

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