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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I went to hear Dr Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social talk about how to watch a horror film. Here's what I learned, plus a big ole list of movies mentioned (some of which we have on Kanopy or DVD). my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/h... ^DR

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Bodies, Sounds, and Scary Feelings: How to watch a horror film with Dr Erin Harrington

Dr Erin Harrington guides a Tūranga crowd in how to watch a horror film - exploring body genre, recreational fear, and all the scary…

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New podcast ep! I talked to @ladyhorrors.bsky.social about the ur-cult classic - Russ Meyer's pervy-yet-weirdly-empowering "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" from 1965. Listen to us chat about (among other things) whether this movie is "garbage wuxia" or "lady kaiju" at the link: bit.ly/res_rec-90-f...

A still image from "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" showing Varla (Tura Satana) in the process of murdering the shit out of a guy. Superimposed over the image is text that reads "Reserved Recommendations #90 'Faster pussycat, Kill! Kill!' with Erin Harrington"

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/01/2026

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

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Judith Collins resigns after a near quarter century in politics

She has been in Parliament for more than 20 years, as the MP for Clevedon, and then Papakura.

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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#nzpol Data released by Stats NZ today shows that the cost of living rose at its fastest rate for 18 months. Prices rose for 80% of items in the CPI basket, meaning growth in prices was broad-based. Minimum wage workers are now facing a 3rd year of real terms cuts in wages. A thread

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If anyone has been following along with the ManageMyHealth breach, this 2024 inquiry into its security (including integration into Te Whatu Ora's health identity portal) may be interesting. Disappointing that the request was only partially satisfied, and late. fyi.org.nz/request/2638...

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Information about ManageMyhealth and Medtech - a Official Information Act request to Shane Reti

Kia ora, Medtech and ManageMyHealth are widely utilised by numerous public health entities in NZ. I am requesting: 1) Any audit findings, documents, and emails pertaining to the security of Medtech...

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Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️‍🌈 @markd.nz · 02/01/2026

Aw thanks @ladyhorrors.bsky.social: “There was a lot of admiration for Canterbury Repertory Theatre’s The Hound of The Baskervilles – strong leads, good design and direction, zesty script” And thanks for reporting whispers from quiet corners. May decision-makers take note! #Ōtautahi #theatre

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Review / preview: 2025 highlights, and a 2026 wishlist

Erin Harrington cobbles together a bunch of end of / start of year material. Did the performing arts in Ōtautahi survive or thrive in 2025? A little of both perhaps, but either way it was a very bi…

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My punishment in Tartarus will be reformatting an enormous works cited list of annoying non-conventional references only to have the editors change the style guide just as I'm finishing #academicsky

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

My nephew is dyslexic and his high school offers an alternative learning track for students like him. My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱 #nzpol

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Another plug for Ōtautahi 4 Palestine's big fundraising event at A Rolling Stone Dec 13 - speakers from 5, musicians from 9, an art auction, raffles, solidarity --- & lots of promo work being 'mysteriously' filtered out by anti-Palestinian algorithms. Pls share www.instagram.com/otautahi4pal...

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Desperate for ads on Instagram to stop calling me babe

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barkman1.bsky.social @barkman1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Any New Zealanders out there?! safe.org.nz/take-action/...

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End unlawful cruelty against mother pigs

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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Fantastic win for Uber drivers and Workers First Union. This has been a long time coming (way too long - in the courts since 2022), but common sense has prevailed. Let's hope Van Velden doesn't pull the rug out underneath them with new contractor legislation... www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/s....

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Supreme Court dismisses Uber appeal – says drivers are employees

The Supreme Court delivered its ruling on Uber's contract practices today, leaving the door open for contract workers to claim they are employees.

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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Our heartfelt congratulations to all of our Uber members and the four drivers - Nureddin, Julian, Bill and Mea’ole. It is not easy to stand up and speak out about a multibillion dollar multinational corporation that controls almost every aspect of your livelihood. You have done it. And won! #uber

text reading "Uber drivers win.
Multibillion dollar rideshare company Uber has lost their final anti-worker appeal in the Supreme Court."

text reading "Now we will:
Pursue the 1,000s of claims of owed backpay that have already been lodged
Pursue worker entitlements like annual leave and holiday pay for Uber drivers
Pursue a collective bagreement, allowing Uber drivers to formally join a union.
Workers' rights for Uber drivers! As in many other countries, such as the UK."

text reading "Brooke van Velden's ERA* bill would be a stab in the back of this court decision.
She must now stop the ERA Bill, or deliberately undermine Aotearoa's law and justice system in a Trumpian-dictator move - for her friends at Uber."
There is a graphic of Brooke holding a stabby stabber with money swirling around her.
Small text reading "*Employment Relations Amendment"

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 17/11/2025

Colourful wildflowers have sprung up in more than 30 locations across Christchurch, thanks to the sowing of 62kg of seeds.

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100 million seeds later Christchurch is in full bloom

Colourful wildflowers have sprung up in more than 30 locations across Christchurch, thanks to the sowing of 62kg of seeds.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I spoke with Ihab today, it's winter in Gaza, his tent leaks and his children lack clothing suitable for the weather, if you can spare some money to help I know it will be very much appreciated gofund.me/f3c9b468

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Fundraiser by C N : Save me and my family from the genocide taking place in Gaza

Hello, I am Ihab and I urgently need your help to raise funds for my … C N needs your support for Save me and my family from the genocide taking place in Gaza

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I talked with Sam Brooks about reviewing and he edited it down in a way that made me sound very concise. It's paywalled but that's because this is work and it's how creatives eat so if you like Sam's work in arts journalism please consider supporting. dramatic-pause.ghost.io/how-i-review...

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How I Review: Erin Harrington

In the first edition of How I Review, an interview with academic and arts critic Erin Harrington, founder of the criticism hub Flat City Field Notes. Erin Harrington is an academic and arts critic ba...

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I really want to be a YIMBY but it's hard when the ppl who've knocked down an old house across from us presumably to put in townhouses have also ripped out all the garden's mature trees including 5 v large established fruit trees, which they will no doubt 'replace' 'like for like' with lancewoods.

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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Honestly, the IPCA report into the police (mis)handling of the McSkimming case makes for jaw-dropping reading. But it’s 135 pages long so I’ve read it for you. Here’s my report on one of the most serious failures of integrity in modern policing history⬇️⬇️

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The inside story of how police protected a senior cop, and prosecuted his accuser instead

For years, police leadership ignored warnings about Jevon McSkimming. The IPCA has set out the chain of failures.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Celebrity Traitors UK final! The graceful storylining! The impeccable editing!

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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The pledge me campaign is already close to $81k and still 28 days to go. Well done folks www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Wow 'vegetarian and pescatarian' Dux Dine wasn't kidding when they said they added meat to the menu - 21 items on the lunch menu not counting pizza, only 3 are vegetarian and one of those is a trusty flat bread

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The latest HealthNZ news update outlines the bigger picture of what is being done: - launched nationally coordinated response - increased contact tracing workforce - expanded immunisation access - measles immunisation week (3-7 November) - Auckland locations to be added to locations page soon - etc

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Measles outbreak update - Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Today we’re confirming an additional two cases of measles. This brings the total number of measles cases in this response to 13.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

life is full of small pleasures, including answering every email I get from northern hemisphere academics and phd applicants referring to the fall with WHOSE FALL

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Another day, another cold call email PhD supervision request outling how influential unpublished or inaccessible work of mine has been on the applicant's studies so far

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a woman in a polka dot shirt is smiling and holding her hands to her chest .

ALT: a woman in a polka dot shirt is smiling and holding her hands to her chest .

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Meeping wainscot @ohnoiratebrian.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I can safely assume NONE OF YOU are interested in a female firefighter photoshoot/calendar because that would make you SICK AND PERVERTED. Also HERE'S A LINK DON'T CLICK IT. ESPECIALLY NOT YOU LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

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First female professional firefighters’ calendar ‘honours profession and femininity’

Thirteen of the country’s frontline women have teamed up for a powerful new fundraiser.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

How come when I leave work I have a lot of emails, and when I come back there are way more emails, and even though I spend all day answering emails when I leave again there are STILL more emails than the previous day, is this something I need to ask a physicist about

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ALT: a bottle of water is being poured into a container

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Wait til this fuckwit hears about Mary Shelley

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I'm not sure that students today will even be able to conceive of anything other than a corporate academic environment which has been captured by a neoliberal management class and is chronically, deliberately underfunded and resourced.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

yeah good luck with that. Conservative edgelord 'debate me' 'fire my woke professor' culture has never gained a foothold here bc the things TPUSA sees as a threat to a particular vision of a fundy USA are just widespread attitudes and norms to everday NZers, who have little tolerance for this.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

If you want to see how much student culture has shifted, when I was a UC student in the 2000s lesser fees increases by the uni and govt sparked big protests, and in 2025 the same student union has gone 'ok then' www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...

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UC students hit with 6% tuition increase as costs soar

Some students at Canterbury face an extra $1000 a year fee for their degree as the university hikes tuition fees to the maximum legal limit.

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

That show about NZ through data is pretty bloody good!

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Chiselled on my tombstone,as the thing I've said most in life: PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE MLA

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Poll finds 65% of voters back 'mega-strike'; Public Service Commission pays Facebook to run attack ads on strikers; Willis considered removing Governor from RBNZ board; Labour lukewarm on completing new RONS and the tolls they need to pay for them. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays...

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Wednesday's Early Bird: 65% of voters support mega-strike

Poll finds 65% of voters back 'mega-strike'; Public Service Commission pays Facebook to run attack ads on strikers; Willis considered removing Governor from RBNZ board; Labour lukewarm on tolls

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Rachel Prozac @rachelprozac.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Dear [Name],

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I'm not sure what advice prospective PhDs are getting from agencies paid to help prep applications but any time I get a half AI generated email that tells me how moved they were by [my work that has little do with theirs], no matter the project, it's going in the bin. Just email like a real person 🤖

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