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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉

@me.vivianchandra.com
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Sesquipedalian feminist tech strategist. Follow me for hot takes on #tech #feminism #equity #humanRights

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/09/2026
Please tell me that Hager has the money to protect himself, i'm imagining nothing less than the integrity and muscle of the (fictional) Reacher please.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/09/2026
This... this is
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Chefs Kiss French Chef
Alt: Gif of a cartoon chef with an amazing moustache doing the "Chef's kiss" motion
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/09/2026
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 17/09/2026
Some of you may have seen the slightly amusing article in Stuff this morning about the AKL store owner that put up a website using Base44 and then attracted the trolls. I've taken a poignant look at it, maybe you have a few minutes to think about it with me: vivianchandra.com/2026/09/17/h...
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How does it even work? – VIVIAN CHANDRA
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 15/09/2026
stolen from LinkedIn because it literally actually made me laugh out loud
screenshot of a Grammarly popup trying to make a correction. The original sentence was "I've tried to be aplatable.", an obvious typo for "palatable" - however Grammarly has suggested "I've tried to be a table"
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 11/09/2026
Lol zero factor authentication
Screenshot of some social media site. The latest reply says "zero factor authentication" the original post said "we have just sent the code 435841 to your phone number xxxx-xxxx6521
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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The manager at our local IKEA is retiring, so I sent him a 🎂 cake. 🍰
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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“They’re barely people” is how the Confederacy saw slaves, by amazing coincidence. What an absolute piece of work Henry clearly is. What next? A speech in front of a swastika? www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
nzherald.co.nz
'They're barely people': Paul Henry takes pot shot at Greens during country pub visit
Henry spoke to 60 supporters beneath Confederate flag in a pub that burned Ardern's book.
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Look at the Greens’ list people. Seriously, look, they’re barely people.” First, dehumanise your opponant. Then plan for their extermination. It worked well for Nazis in the 30s and 40s. If Paul Henry is the best Act can offer the country, they've got nothing of value.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An immediate block folks. #nzpol
The profile thetribute.bsky.social on this platform, which is run by, and promotes anti-vaxx ideology, and is adjacent to the far-right fuckwits Voices for Freedom.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026
The smol one (who is no longer smol, he is 15 and taller than me) is playing his VR something or rather, and he said, "hold up, I can't stop right away, I am playing a boomer shooter game - you know, like Doom" I have now crumpled into dust
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026
ok, helping my nearly 80-year-old dad with stuff, and the medical person suggested I buy him a sock aid ilsnz.org/products/soc... and OMG I WANT ONE... you mean I don't have to bend down to put my socks on...
ilsnz.org
Sock Aid Slider
It is ideal for users who are pregnant, suffer from injuries, or have mobility limitations. The Sock Aid is compact which allows for easy storage and travel. It comes with a handle which can be used a...
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026
sheeeeeesh @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social, nearly 2500 words (2283 to be exact) and not one mention of the elusive yet ever growing population of chindians?! thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-09-...
thespinoff.co.nz
What even is an ‘Asian’? And why are we bundled together?
A new book presents fresh perspectives on what it means to be Asian in Aotearoa.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 03/09/2026
Hilarious. This PhD student explains that while 'lookmaxxing' originally comes from incel communities, the bulk of them are angry about it because they like to externalise the blame, and looksmaxxing inherently means you are personally responsible for fixing yourself.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 31/08/2026
MP panel is kicking off! L to R, Russell Smith from TOAH-NNEST, @maramadavidson.bsky.social from NZ Greens, Harete Hipango-Brownlie from NZ First, Jessica Hammond from TOP, Sophie Handford from Labour and then Maggy Tai Rākena from TOAH-NNEST
MPs panel at TOAH-NNEST
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 30/08/2026
At #toahnnest, Hon Karen Chhour stands on the stage saying one of the important preventative mahi for sexual violence is to teach good relationships. And yet, she is part of the coalition that CUT the relationships curriculum in schools. #makeItMakeSense
Photo of Karen Chhour on stage at TOAH-NNEST 2026
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 30/08/2026
Its amazing to be sitting in Tākina for TOAH-NNEST but its also depressing that a s🥚sual violence organisation is "celebrating" 20 years!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/08/2026
As someone said a while ago — media will post stories celebrating orphans who slow down an orphan eating machine but never ask why the goddam orphan eating machine exists in the first place. 2/2
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/08/2026
I’m sorry but this isn’t a feel good story. It’s dystopian. Babies with disabilities should not be bearing the burden of raising money so other babies with disabilities can have access to something as basic as hearing. We need universal healthcare. It’s half the cost and full coverage. 1/2
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 28/08/2026
Whenever anyone says "don't be political", it's ALWAYS someone that has vast amounts of unearned privilege. The rest of us live in politics, our entire lives are dictated by politics.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
ohhhhhhh I just worked it out, it's an every 10 year thing... 2016, and now 2026...
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
My usual timeline cleanse of checking Sesame St on instagram had me chuckling that Brett Goldstein appears to live there now. He was there with the cast of Shrinking, then again with Ted Lasso
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
Poor Miss Piggy
Screenshot of someone's post. It says "think about miss piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in a matter of 24 hours"

The two photos are of miss piggy with dolly Parton and with tim curry
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
I feel attacked (yes this is me - and especially as te reo Māori's pronouns aren't gendered, it really is just me.
screenshot from a language lesson - the english says "Just as well he was found, he's not an outdoors person" and the te reo Māori translation is "Waimarie i kitea ia, ehara ia i te tangata taiao"
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
I know he is a super well-known US celeb and could probably land on his feet doing whatever, but somehow it makes me happy deep in my geek heart that he gets to work on something he is obsessed about (in a fun way)
screenshot from Welilngton Alive Facebook page. it features a photo of Stephen Colbert on a laptop with Wellington coastline in the background. The caption says "Stephen Colbert has made it to Middle Earth, where he is beaming out to the entire English-speaking world from the end of the world. Stephen, welcome to the 04. Monsieur Colbert is co-writing the new Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past with his son Peter McGee, alongside LOTR luminaries, screenwriter Philippa Boyens and producer Peter Jackson. LOTR: Shadow of the Past will follow on from Andy Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum, keeping Wellywood humming for the foreseeable future."
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
Never, in the history of *gestures to everything* has banning someone from something worked.
ecpat.org.nz
A social media ban won’t stop harm. We need to get this right
ECPAT NZ speaks out on the impact of the proposed Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill in Aotearoa, which would prevent under-16s from holding accounts on a range of socia...
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026
I like to think of Dolly being in the room and just calmly walking over to the sound system switching it off and just be like "no daaaarling, this song isn't for you"
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/08/2026
I dont think this cashier knows that they have opened the calculator 4 times
Photo of POS at Farmers. The calculator screen is covering the list of sale items
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 20/08/2026
Best scene yet tbh
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 20/08/2026
There’s enough food in Aotearoa to feed everyone. Let’s start by making sure every child has a nutritious lunch at school.
Graphic announcing the Green Party's plan to provide free and nutritious school lunches for tamariki. Below the headline, a school cafeteria counter displays healthy lunch options including fruit, wraps, baked items, and drinks. Two children hold trays at the serving counter. The text reads: “#BREAKING The Green Party will provide free and nutritious school lunches for tamariki.”Campaign graphic showing a child looking into an open refrigerator containing a small selection of food and household items. Text reads: “At a time when more whānau are struggling to afford the basics and 1 in 5 children live in households that run out of food, every child should have access to nutritious food.” Decorative strawberry, arrow, and broken-heart illustrations appear around the text.Campaign graphic showing two children sitting on the floor reading a book together in a classroom or library setting. Text reads: “Our tamariki learn better when they are well-fed. Every child across Aotearoa deserves healthy, delicious, locally prepared kai that helps them thrive.”Campaign graphic showing children seated at a table with trays of school food, including sandwiches, fruit, vegetables, and glasses of juice. Large text reads: “The Green Party will restore, expand and protect funding to feed our kids in schools. No child should come to school uncertain about their next meal, and the Green Party will fix that.”
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 20/08/2026
TIL that I can't take off a jumper while walking on a treadmill
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“The Greens will protect women and girls from harm at home, at work, in the community, and online, and strive for gender equity in all areas and at all times.” Would love to see a government that focuses on this vs. reducing service levels in all of these spheres and introducing misogyny as policy.
greens.org.nz
Women's Policy
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Gosh I hope @haydendonnell.bsky.social is working up a piece about Cycleway Derangement Syndrome… Just so bizarre to act all publicly miffed about a bike lane that *didn’t even exist* at the time one is claiming to have been inconvenienced by it?! Most peculiar indeed. 🚲👻🥴 bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 20/08/2026
Violent and organized online attacks are growing. Love Only is building a community of Kindness Ninjas and Kindness Fairies who respond with messages of kindness and support. Become a Kindness Ninja or Kindness Fairy: app.sosha.ai/s/qzjSdfwM
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Become a Kindness Fairy!
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 19/08/2026
After reading this thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-07-2... can someone who understands explain why instead of MMP or FPP, we don't JUST have electorate seats? (and maybe one electorate called 'overseas voters'?) if each electorate seat is who the people want in parliament, then that should be the govt?
thespinoff.co.nz
How the Māori seats could hold the key to this election
Always intriguing, the electorates may prove decisive in 2026 in more ways than one.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 15/08/2026
Not everyone will agree, but the reason we have humans like Mamdani and El-Sayed and even Ardern being amazing is because the non cis white dudes consistently have to prove themselves and so are just better when they get there. Exhibit D? Luxon
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 13/08/2026
You can't even create satire better than real life right now. The Korean leadership praised our bravery and aid in the war, and our muppet-in-charge talked about Kpop wtaf #nzpol
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 09/08/2026
Hey folks... just a PSA, I will be INSUFFERABLE after tomorrow, I just bought tickets to watch Odysseus, in Imax, in ATHENS
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 08/08/2026
Just landed in Greece. BRB. Off to have unprotected s🥚 with three men, so that 18 years from now I will have to sing a musical number to figure out which one is the dad
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/07/2026
Hahaha and on that previous note, this is amazing
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/07/2026
The awesome @emilywrites.co.nz allowed me and @legallyfeminist.bsky.social to collab on a post. I am really scared of this new technology, and normally i'm the first in line to try new kit www.emilywrites.co.nz/pervert-glas... #metaGlasses #wearableTech
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Pervert glasses are here - and we're not ready
In October 2024, Hannah Grundy, a teacher from Australia, found sexually explicit videos and images of her online. Some of them appeared to be created from photos and videos that were only available o...
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Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
All of National's policies for this election are: 1. Things that should have been done already 2. Things they're just saying to win votes 3. Things that would never fly with ACT/NZ First 4. Any combination of the above #nzpol
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National promises to extend paid parental leave from 26 weeks to 30, if re-elected
National has pledged to extend paid parental leave from 26 weeks to 30, if re-elected.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 26/07/2026
TPU getting this reaction on their FB post is lol... do you support a Wealth tax? www.facebook.com/share/p/18xW... At time of posting there is 6.7K for Yes and 5K for no. On their own page
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In the end, it wasn't even close. The pīwakawaka is the best "ordinary" bird in the world! Undefeated in 8 matches, this little guy was the class of the tournament by some distance. #WorldCupOfBirds
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 20/07/2026
Urgh infuriating and annoying and depressing, but a must read from @joshdrummond.bsky.social and @emilywrites.co.nz www.emilywrites.co.nz/national-mps...
emilywrites.co.nz
National MPs are baiting us and it’s working
Hey, Josh here with a depressing post! I hope that's enticing enough for you to read all the way to the end. Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Sk...
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 20/07/2026
In the 2 most recent elections I have been Returning Officer & thus was not allowed to have public Reckons™️. This year I will be on holiday in Europe and thus remoting in to do my voting from there. @jpdanner.com's reckons have always been good enough for me, and I thoroughly agree with his top 3.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 07/07/2026
Notepad should not have anything to do with #generativeAI. There is no need. It is meant to a lightweight software program, just there to perhaps help you check some code or paste your copy to strip it of formatting. This is a classic case of just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
Screenshot of an empty Notepad document. I have circled an option in the context menu that says "Write", it is a prompt to use generative AI
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 29/06/2026
See queerphobes? The Gay agenda is much smaller than you think (pen for scale) Hint, it is also much simpler than you think, it mostly involves cups of tea and minding our own business.
Rainbow coloured sticker with the words "The Gay Agenda" on it. There is a blue Biro pen next to it. The pen is longer than the sticker.
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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 13/06/2026
Does anyone know what this pin represents. It came with a op shop blazer from Germany
Photo of an unknown pin
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