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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/09/2026

I've been watching too many crime procedurals. Slow Horses, Ludwig, Reacher. Everything is always fixed with a quick murder here and there.

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 22/09/2026

Really Dallas, 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs between 210 and 250 pounds??

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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 · 18/09/2026

Exactly! Right now, we have people just "tweaking" their stuff, we still see the benefits as well as when it goes wrong. But we will exponentially start to see the wrong and fewer and fewer examples of it being used right as our kids grow up not learning anything for themselves and we all die.

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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

it was a DATE Sarah!! fiiiiinnneeeeee

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 15/09/2026

that is also hilarious - I wonder if it is because one of the ' is one of those fancier ones that you can't tell with the human eye?

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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

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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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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026

He does karate with me. And i mostly regret not hitting him more when I could still win

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026

Te reo Māori? Or Tagalog? Hehe I swanned around and didn't finish the AUT and Unitec courses, and also didn't quite get thru wānanga o Aotearoa. But have completed 2 lots of Wānanga o Raukawa and am currently enrolled in num 3

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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...

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'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

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026

That was my point. Gaming definitely started with gen x , or even arguably xennial/elder millennial... pfft boomers

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026

I paid for drops instead. Because 1. It actually has te reo Māori and 2. It was a one-off lifetime charge. I even forgot about it for almost a year and went back. Its great.

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 04/09/2026

Naaaa not in any serious fashion. He has a few friends so I think he just learnt some common phrases and of course the swear words. He likes being able to answer back when someone assumes.

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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

my eldest chindian has in fact started learning tagalog, so that checks out

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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...

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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-...

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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

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 31/08/2026

There was definitely a seething in the crowd that was physically palpable

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 31/08/2026

OTOH these two wāhine toa have done so much for this sector and this country, i'm definitely #fangirling @maramadavidson.bsky.social Jan Logie

Photo of me, Marama Davidson and Jan Logie

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 30/08/2026

And lauding the "strength" of people who speak out against violence. Like the people in your own Party who covered the harassment and assault... those people?

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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

Yea I've started just copying books on there a while ago, instead of using their system. And I also hate how even tho its their device they took the sound bit away (1st gen had headphones capaility)

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 27/08/2026

Think unfortunately Amazon does do this? But with EBook and Audio Book. Which I like, cos then I can follow along while someone else reads it. But yes, I would also like your version

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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

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

oh don't get me wrong, I knew exactly who you were referring to, I just hate that its a phrase that exists AND is widely understood

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Kendra, spooky 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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