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Sallymander 🦎

@narwhallibrarian.bsky.social
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Co-founder of Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Pottery at tilburyavenue.felt.co.nz Counter disinfo 🗣 Critical tech 📵 Climate 🌀 Community education 📚 Words 🖋 Art 🎨

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 8h
Tossed a pair of leggings with a hole AND a pair of socks with a giant hole. Making good progress.
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Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social · 9h
"Smart glasses are entering a world where women and girls already experience voyeurism, sexual harassment and image-based abuse. We're calling for a pause on selling smart glasses until safeguards are in place." Sign the petition!
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 11h
Sign the petition! We're calling for a pause on selling smart glasses until safeguards are in place. Read more and sign here: #nzpol our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
our.actionstation.org.nz
Stop the sale of smart glasses until privacy and safety safeguards are in place
Women and girls are already being secretly filmed, including in Aotearoa Smart glasses are entering a world where women and girls already experience voyeurism, sexual harassment and image-based abuse....
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 11h
Let's get it done folks . . . please sign and share!
our.actionstation.org.nz
Stop the sale of smart glasses until privacy and safety safeguards are in place
Women and girls are already being secretly filmed, including in Aotearoa Smart glasses are entering a world where women and girls already experience voyeurism, sexual harassment and image-based abuse....
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 11h
What? What on earth?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12h
I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."
statnews.com
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 21h
👀 it begins
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Character.AI files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million
Chatbot platform Character.AI said on Monday it has filed for bankruptcy in the US and has agreed to ​sell some assets for $20 million to Walt Disney .
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m going to need to get some stuff fired soon because my shelves are getting full.
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Ellen @ellenstrickland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Research out today on youth, digital inclusion and the AI future: rangatahi in Aotearoa want a better, safer, fairer digital future and, seriously, we need to listen to them media.one.nz/new-research... (was an absolute privilege to be a lead researcher on this project 💖)
media.one.nz
New research: Rangatahi say digital connection is essential, but AI is making trust harder
Young people call for a stronger voice in shaping Aotearoa’s digital future
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh that sounds really cool! Working with local clay is so much fun.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh that would be so cool! We have a potter here who has done some good work around developing glazes from our local geology, so you could explore the differences between our local glaze possibilities and those of your area!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*Scutt, sorry autocorrect.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, come on down and you can throw pots on my porch. I understand that treadle wheels are much less common in the US, so there's even a good reason to do it. You can explore other tools and methods. And then fire in our Olympic and Scott kilns 😂 Or splash out to join a wood or soda firing.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I feel for folks who have care responsibilities to family, but tourism, education, and work trips should be off the table right now.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For real! We're having some spill over issues here, but are a long way from "arresting members of the opposition party." It's a great place for a potter to come visit! You should!
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Salutary lesson in keeping your equipment and its firmware up to date. Danfoss "fridge regulator systems were notably affected, with a version of the former using "outdated firmware". It added that it had long advised supermarkets to update from those models." #Cybercrime
rnz.co.nz
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Major French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising...
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fair
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yeah I really don't think anyone should be going over there right now, except for those of us who have the passport and have family obligations. I think companies are risking serious Employment Court cases if they send staff over for work.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is extremely bad. Deeper and deeper down a hole that doesn't have an easy way out.
stuff.co.nz
Federal agents search Representative Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation
More details about the investigation were not immediately clear, though Vice President JD Vance has in the past accused Omar of committing immigration fraud, an allegation she has denied.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The kitchen is working at maximum efficiency lol
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
6, and everyone is 17 or over. So lots of own cooking happening.
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Postcode Apparatchik @maoiststden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tonight's segment of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featuring Kiwibank's Buck the Sheep:
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My household goes through THREE dishwasher loads of dishes EVERY DAY! It's madness, complete and utter madness.
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Funny Cat Loading the Dishwasher
Alt: Funny Cat Loading the Dishwasher
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes please!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I got a spreadsheet up and running that will allow me to do some complex money math for work! Yay for spreadsheets and functions!
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*
John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thinking of setting up a side business called "Talk to a Manager" where people can call and complain about whatever. "Managers" will listen and note down the concerns. Then we'll issue a "Complaint Number" while promising to keep the complaint on file for 7 years.
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Karen: Can I Speak to the Manager?
Alt: Karen: Can I Speak to the Manager?
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I've done this and I think the best way to conceptualise it is to realise that each person is living their own story and has constructed their own character arc and their own setting. So you never know when you door knock if you're going to Narnia or a Slow Horses novel, or something else entirely.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It really important that we all recognise and remember that the far right movement is inorganic and being led by enemies of liberal democracies and the rules based order.
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would LOVE just one year when I don’t have to email the school about data protection and now AI harms. Truly, schools are part of the tech harm ecosystem.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There’s no limit to the number of teapots a household needs! /she said, with a clear financial interest!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is! But it does mean I do have to sell pots. Which is much easier than selling paintings for example!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Feel like I would be a lot richer if I made Crime Bots instead of teapots . . .
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is a good skill! And I make more money at it than I really expected. Which is good, since I work part-time . . . but mostly so I can do a job I really love. And have time for art.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The media, your own party leaders, and the most powerful court in the land are not on your side. The President has a masked Gestapo that has literally gotten away murdering people in the street on camera. These are all true things. Sooner you come to grips with that shit, the better.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank you--I'm pretty surprised at how diligently I've kept at this. It was a Hail Mary unemployment project and we're all employed here now but I keep making pots! And hopefully selling pots because otherwise I'm going to have a hoarder situation happening.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Absolutely nothing to worry about guys you're all such dooooomers
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well, don't count your teapots until after the second firing is the rule. But they look pretty good so far!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes! Someday—today I am working on just getting a functional and attractive teapot. Which is going pretty well! So soon time to grow!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh that would be amazing! 🤩
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seriously. We need that kind of tea party energy. Also I feel like he breaks a lot pots, which as a potter I fully support.
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yay! Keep an eye on my page. They aren’t going to be soon, but in the next month or so!
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Alas no, just regular ordinary teapots. Octopuses are a bit above my skill level still 🐙
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