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trans people: gender is mostly vibes and chemicals. we're just trynna be happy in our bodies legions of cis people: i will devote the rest of my life to trying to destroy you with fire

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 45m

I biased but Jen is awesome and you should definitely get onto this if you're looking for professional supervision 😎

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 5h

I've got space on my books for supervision clients at the moment. It's a space for personal & professional development, support navigating the challenges in our mahi, and a space to learn from and about how we work. Whakapā mai, kōrero mai! rainbowsupervisionaotearoa.pagexl.com

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One day we will talk about these guys in the past tense. And one day, we won't talk about them at all.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026

Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great to open my registration Board's newsletter and see Tika's launch prominently covered. So relevant to this mahi. @alisonmau.bsky.social

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Me three quarters of the way through my third postgrad cert: Man fuck this I'm never doing this again Me on the same day, realising that to progress in the direction I want my career to go in I have to do another postgrad cert:

static.klipy.com

CJ: Ah Shit, Here We Go Again

Alt: CJ: Ah Shit, Here We Go Again

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know it's a meme but genuinely, listen to @bloodwork.show if you want a deeper understanding of why things are Like This and why they've always been Like This.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This weird diploma fetishist is just the fucking dril tweet about reading ten thousand posts but with worse hair.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Credit to Hayden Donnell for asking Winston directly about his transphobia on two occasions during his little tour of the North Shore and peeling off that veneer of charm to reveal what he is for a few seconds. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-...

“She's a total nobody,” he insists to The Spinoff. “I'm not offending anybody. I'm in a public place, and she's saying that I've got no right to come to a public place, and only you would give her coverage for an extraordinarily arrogant argument like that. What's your next question?”

The Spinoff goes back to Anderson, asking what he’d say to someone like that, who’s worried about her child and the effect his policies are having on him. “Why doesn’t she wait till the child grows up before she starts deciding for a child what the child wants?” he ventures.

For a second, the charisma is gone, replaced by something darker. But then, informed that Anderson’s son isn’t a young child, he gets back to more familiar territory. “You don't know how old? This is a jack up. I'm not wasting my time on such silly questions. Go back to The Spinoff, and you're not going to win the election,” he says. Then he flashes that grin. The eyes twinkle.

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@burnettaotearoa @burnettaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some fantastic news for HIV prevention in Aotearoa. From 1 Dec (World AIDS Day), publicly funded PrEP and PEP will be available to everyone in the country who needs it, regardless of visa status. It's a win for common sense & evidence-based policy. 💊🌈 www.burnettfoundation.org.nz/articles/new...

burnettfoundation.org.nz

Free HIV preventive treatment for all in Aotearoa

As of December 1, publicly funded medication and their associated tests will be available to all on Aotearoa soil. This means that HIV prevention tools are available to all in New Zealand, regardless...

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah I'm not going to hurt myself watching the debate, I'm going to do some pull ups instead.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As someone who has this discussion with people professionally, a lot of the time this question needs to be explored with "what would a full life look like to you?" What area/s of that life feel unfulfilled, specifically?

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh actually I have another one, my dad took me to see The Witches when I was seven. There's a Potemkin homage with a runaway pram with a baby in it and I freaked the fuck out. IDK who decided Nicolas Roeg was the right guy to direct a kids movie but gotta respect his decision

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I caught the final five minutes of an episode of Quantum Leap on TV at my grandma's house when I was about 6 and it showed a couple of guys screaming in terror as a mummified hand reaches out to them before cutting to black. No other context, that shot haunted me for YEARS.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Read a novel in the morning, worked out, now about to go for a bike ride with the whānau 😊

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We used to have bards that would sing songs of heroes such as this 🫡

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spent the day so far reading a novel. 10/10 activity, highly recommend.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children." As a trans adult who can't legally re-enter the country of my birth because of policies enacted by this Labour government, I hope they all burn in hell.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Biblically accurate plumber

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good news: I finally sent the V4 I've been projecting at the bouldering wall this last week. Bad news: that pulley tendon injury that I hoped would go away if I ignored it has not, in fact, gone away.

My traitorous right wrist with some finger tape and a fetching wrist brace. Yes I've taken ibuprofen.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dog is in The Device to stop her licking at a rash, and it makes her ears look superb.

Ā black lab x in an inflatable collar looks beseechingly at the camera for someone, anyone, to save her from this indignity. Her gorgeous soft floppy ears are pushed forward

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's back on his bullshit again (researching the next bit of kit for the garage gym)

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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

me: i am fundementally opposed to mel gibson as employable celebrity/auteur. history is a record of his atrocious views my therapist: that's fair me: but i love it when max rockatansky flips on the blower on his v8 interceptor and vanquishes marauders in glorious battle my therapist: who doesn't

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aside from everything else, it's so fucking embarrassing that democracy in this country is being undermined by the fucking Zuru guy. Other countries get cartoonishly hideous AI and surveillance billionaire freaks, we get the "toys you buy at the checkout because your toddler is yelling at you" Guy

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 02/10/2026

at 77 he is too old too have been around for world war II, most of britain's finest WWII veterans are more like 65

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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After a summer of basically no Bandcamp Fridays there have been a surprise spate of lots of Bandcamp Fridays, which means if you buy music on Bandcamp the artists don't get charged fees. Obviously I have an ulterior motive but in general it's a great time to buy! Link unrelated

secondhomes.bandcamp.com

Find a Way to Hate It, by Second Homes

9 track album

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An absolute steal and worth your time!

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There’s two very recent cases of LLM companies claiming their models and agents have made big discoveries in mathematics and genomics/biology where it turns out researchers in those fields had been bouncing their ideas off the models and the companies have no proof the “discoveries” were independent

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think what fucks me off most about this stuff is that if I'm writing a fucking thread on Bluesky dot com about my area of professional interest I'm checking resources and making citations, and the part-time deputy PM of this Briscoes piss furniture country can just fart out this bullshit.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I try not to do too much #nzpol posting because I'm not a complete masochist but come the fuck on, man.

David Seymour, the world's least-questioned man, being quoted verbatim for some fucking reason saying "I read a couple of months ago about a guy in Sydney who had no real special training, managed to create a kind of CAR T therapy for his dog, which actually cured his dog's cancer. He used AI to develop that CAR-T therapy based on some tests of the cancer cells in his dog. Now, when I read that, I thought, that is possibly one of the coolest things I've read in years, but also one of the most terrifying, because what if he wasn't benign? What if he was a cat person? He might use it for evil. Luckily, he was a dog person."

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 01/10/2026

Every time

Scooby Doo “let’s see who this really is” meme. In the first frame is a masked figure marked “high costs for rates and power bills”. In the second frame the figure is now unmasked and reads “years of systemic underinvestment coming back to bite us”

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

Got confirmation that me being loud and autistic online is a good thing. I posted on Insta about a disability accommodation I have that is "no same day meetings." I need notice because if I have a planned out day and the executive function to focus, pulling me out of that can destroy my day.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Inspired by @pepperraccoon.com yesterday I managed to save myself from Sitting Down After Dinner and got a workout completed.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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