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Nicky Andrews

@poidivision.bsky.social
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I write poems and work in a library. Full-length debut OVERSEAS EXPERIRENCE available now: www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/overs…

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Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
So that's at least two of the top programs for archivists & librarians being subsumed into a new unit for computing and AI, and I'm guessing many more to follow.
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Steller's Jay
A commission of a painterly style Steller's Jay. It is perched on a rock and looking over its shoulder.
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claudia ✨ @claudiiiii.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
they should give seattle their basketball team back now
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Please consider donating towards the funerary and hospital costs for Fobazi Ettarh; and showing support for her partner Elena.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026.

Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy.

We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you are someone who edits wikipedia and you insist on publishing highly sensitive and personal information before it is publicly announced by those it most severely impacts, I implore you to consider that not everything is meant to be known, and not all information is yours to publish. Cheers.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
mr bean
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is very good
Sandra @SandraH3llo on x posts image of Kombucha girl meme: bad face—weird AI music. Maybe face (with curly wig and accordion)—Weird Al music
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
‘Crying out for advocacy’: impressions from NZ’s big library meet-up
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‘Crying out for advocacy’: impressions from NZ’s big library meet-up
Insights about AI, school libraries and a robot called Romi....
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The kids have sold their PlayStations to Cash Coverters so they can buy food for their families.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/09/2025
“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”
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America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I spy @tinamakereti.bsky.social in this lineup from Ms Magazine! <3
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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I can
I can
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Kia ora for the review takahē + Melissa Oliver! 😍
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We can't wait to share takahē 114 tomorrow! Including book reviews of these incredible titles 🤩
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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol
Front of Te MatapihiCorner of Te MatapihiFront of Te Matapihi
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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We have a new Poet Laureate for Poetry Day! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Robert Sullivan confirmed as new Poet Laureate
The National Library - Te Puna Maa-tauranga O Aotearoa - has just announced Robert Sullivan will take over as Poet Laureate.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thank you for the invite to jot down some whakaaro...
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.
A mock-up of an open book- on one side there is light mint/robin's egg blue background and the text "The House Archives Built, Revisited" with smaller text in a typerwriterish font. On the other side there is a sepia photo from the 1870's of a Black man standing on a porch with his hands on a chair and his legs crossed in a jaunt manner.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
‘We need to support New Zealand authors’: Kirsten Le Harivel’s books confessional
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‘We need to support New Zealand authors’: Kirsten Le Harivel’s books confessional
'It may sound clichéd, but if we want a literary landscape we need to buy the books. There are so many local writers out there doing awesome stuff."...
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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
One like = One children's book recommendation.
A rainbow-haired librarian surrounded by books.
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A wee order is coming my way (to the States)! So much for my recently weeded bookshelf 😅
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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
slurpee machine with one crashed screen
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NZ joins countries planning to recognise Palestinian state
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New Zealand joins countries in latest Gaza statement
It comes after Britian recently announced it will recognise the state of Palestine.
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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/07/2025
'I wrote this book for diasporatanga (or as I sometimes say, tangata kuaka), and their whānau; and I hope it makes its way to anyone who needs a little validation in their journey.' @poidivision.bsky.social on their new book 'Overseas Experience'. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/interview...
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'I wrote this book for diasporatanga': Nicola Andrews
In this interview plus poem extract, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa; Pākehā) talks to Kete about the publication of OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE, and shares a poem from the collection. ...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Carnegie Corp now has an interactive map of all their libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org In Meridian MS Carnegie funded two separate and unequal libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org/map/?lib=cul... The primary source materials are a journey dlc.library.columbia.edu/carnegie/cul...
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Carnegie Libraries Across America
Use this tool to learn about the nearly 1,700 Carnegie Libraries that were built in the United States.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"everything we claim as a discovery is someone’s dear, once beloved" - Nicola Andrews, I Didn’t Come Here to Make F.R.I.E.N.D.S @poidivision.bsky.social
Hinting at Decolonization
Nicola Andrews

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a defaced portrait of Captain Cook. his eyes are crossed out and a frown superimposes his mouth. brushing the entire image are the words LAND BACK in large transparent letters 

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Nicola Andrews starkly outlines what Indigenous people have to reckon with now. In direct, brilliant strokes, Andrews cuts through gaslit narratives of polite society, recasting the world in terms of what our actions mean to the earth, and all the things standing in the way of our languages, land, and the way we stand to protect them. Read this book to meditate on what respect really is, and what it might mean to care.

Chelsea T. Hicks,
author of A Calm and Normal Heart
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Overseas Experience is also available at Unity Auckland - go get it, Tāmaki Makaurau friends!
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Have been following some of this directly from kiwi Fulbrighters doing the program this year. It has been insanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Did you see this floating around the interwebs today? Gave me a much needed laugh, especially the facials they chose
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟
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bad apple @badappledotgay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Submissions are open until midnight (wherever you live) on April 30th. For details on how to submit, head to badapple.gay/world-tour!
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World Tour Submissions – bad apple
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Kia ora e hoas - Āporo Press is publishing my debut full-length poetry collection, "Overseas Experience"! We have support from a CLNZ Grant but Damien is running a Boosted campaign to publish three new books by takatāpui Māori writers this year! Donate if you can: www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
A Māori person is sitting in an office cubicle. They have a blue jumper on and a collared shirt and glasses.
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Asian Pacific American Librarians Association @apalaweb.org · 20/01/2025
APALA's LibLearnX Meet Up will be on Saturday, January 25 at 5:00 PM @ Da Vang Restaurant. 4538 North 19th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85015. Please RSVP by emailing Stacey.akahoshi@gmail.com. RSVP by January 22. Da Vang closes at 7 PM, so please come early!
APALA @ALA 2025 LibLearnX - 
APALA LibLearnX Meet Up.

Saturday, January 25 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Da Vàng Restaurant Phoenix, Arizona.

RSVP by JANUARY 22.

APALA logo. Text beneath:
asian pacific american librarians association.
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is _a story about Auckland_." We interrupt our summer break to bring you this important piece by Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape.
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Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape - Overland literary journal
The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name...
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New collection of short essays: "Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration," edited by Alison Clemens & Jessica Farrell www.clir.org/pubs/reports...
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Archivist Actions Abolitionist Futures • CLIR
Alison Clemens and Jessica Farrell, editors January 2025. 47 pp. (electronic only)CLIR pub 193 PDF download >> Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarcerat...
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I love the outpouring of love for David Lynch. I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public. If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home. I don't know what to do with that anger.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :) fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...
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New Year, New Problems
The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t e…
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Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Has @thespinoff.bsky.social done a series yet about climbing every maunga in Tāmaki? I am generally encouraging people to do so (one a weekend for a year!) because I won't have time before I leave and it would also be a fun article to read from afar!
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DamNative News @damnnative.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Red Easter Rabbit @therabbitkyle.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I love Mad Magazine
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