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Vicky Teinaki

@vickytnz.bsky.social
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Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. vickyteinaki.com

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
i totally missed that second thing!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Great policy resolving one of life's great headaches.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
'My So-Called Life' at 30 - like Freaks and Geeks, one of those shows that as much as anything showed how casting agents knew what they were doing(and that writers were sometimes just ever so slightly too far ahead of the curve) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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'My So-Called Life' at 30: How a short-lived show became a ’90s pop culture touchstone
Thirty years after its short but memorable run on ABC, it is widely regarded as a miraculous one-season wonder that captures the era’s competing strains of irony and earnestness.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Clearing down my emails and have discovered the D*List - I love this for being about disabled peoples' experience in NZ but with the personality of a pop culture mag thedlist.co.nz
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The D*List
The home of disability culture in Aotearoa. Replenishing, unapologetic stories told by disabled people, for disabled people.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Also, some fun diagrams about the spheres of civic design (though i'm twitching in that I think l-r axes switch from diagram 1 to 2). From raco.cat/index.php/Te... . Second diagram defo inspired by both liz sanders' research methods and dubblerly's play on it www.dubberly.com/articles/an-...
Diagram organising the roles of civic designers around the two dimensions of materials and the spaces of actions. Quad Institutional sphere and tackling relationships - civi designers as intermediaries; quad tackling relationships and social sphere - civic designers as connectors, aggregators and network builders (tackling relationships within the social sphere), social sphere and mix relationship/problems - civic designers as decentred actors. Quad tackling problems and social sphere - civic designers as facilitators (tackling problems within the social sphere). Quad tackling problems and institutional sphere, civic designers as advocates and activists (tackling problems within the institutional sphere)Positioning Civi Design within the space of action and materials of the civic arena. Axes are sphere (institutional-social) and problems (solving-framing). 
Middle - civic design. cicit and institutional (design for public innovation). Design for asocial innovation and design for politics in institutional and problem solving quad. Social and problem solving include social design and design for democracy. Problem framing and social sphere include design justice, political design and design activism.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Some interesting models in this, though I always want to ask "how did this work with someone that wasn't a white abled dude" as I often wonder if these assume even power dynamics (could be wrong though) gustavorazzetti.substack.com/p/the-10-bes...
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The 10 Best Canvas for Culture Design and Team Building
A collection of the most downloaded culture design canvas and teamwork tools for creating better workplaces.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The Mexican government is using AI to help prevent suicides restofworld.org/2024/mexico-...
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Mexico is using an AI-powered app to prevent suicides
MeMind has connected 10,000 at-risk people with mental health treatment, contributing to a 9% drop in suicides.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A Christmas present - gift article of the NYT best book covers of 2024 (there are some beauties here, ranging from excellent execution to running with excellent wordplay) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...
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The Best Book Covers of 2024 (Gift Article)
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Inspired by the accessible forms workshop @cjforms.bsky.social and I did earlier this year, I dashed off a festive note for @lori-t.bsky.social’s accessibility advent accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk/advent-calen...
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Day 22: Making accessible forms
25 days of digital accessibility tips, starting from 1 December 2024. Curated by accessibility specialist Lori Thomson. Doors open based on your time zone.
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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 22/12/2024
happy “I’m gonna start a side project” holidays
A two panel comic book style drawing. The first panel is a console with two red buttons labelled - “admit to yourself your dream is dead” and “pay $12”. A white gloved hand is hovering betwixt the two options. The second panel is a white man, holding a cloth to their forehead. They are sweating and look anxious. There is text that reads “domain renewal”
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A man in board shorts is gingerly walking barefoot across a beach carpark on a hot day, wincing and muttering: "Shit. shit. shit. shit." under his breath with each step. His partner calls from their car: Do you want your jandals?* He replies stoically: Nah. I can take it. *flip flops (2)
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Spotted while cafe writing and roaming in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (20s) in full 80s romantic goth regalia is strutting down the street in the sunshine, grooving to his own personal soundtrack as he pulls a folding shopping trolley full of vegetables behind him. (1)
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
He's making a list He's checking it twice He's put an image in the document oh heck
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
if I had billions of dollars I would do cool things like revive Wishbone and fund a Muppet film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express with Daniel Craig doing a silly Belgian accent
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Dr Karaitiana Taiuru MITP, MInstD @ktaiuru.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Congratulations to Microsoft NZ for launching their Cloud Region datacentre in Auckland giving more Māori Data Sovereignty opportunities, jobs, considerations to Papatūānuku etc. news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2024/1...
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New Zealand’s First Hyperscale Cloud is Open for Business – New Zealand News CentreYour Privacy Choices Opt-Out Icon
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Alex Billington @alexb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A look at my 10 favorite movie posters of 2024. Winding down at the end of the year... These are the posters that really stood out and stuck with me! Here's my list: onfs.net/3OKUDUi What are the other great posters from 2024? Any other favorites worth mentioning? #movieposters #cinema #bestof2024
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Our 10 Favorite Movie Posters from 2024 - Universal Brutalist Sunset | FirstShowing.net
With the year winding down, it's time to look back and highlight some favorites from the world of movies. The past few years I've been putting together these collections of my favorite poster designs,...
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I thought about that a lot @allconsuming.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The nurse was holding my hand as I opened my eyes. She leant in close. “The operation was a success,” she whispered. “You’ve got endometriosis, but we’ve removed the cells we found. They were in your pouch of Douglas." www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-pouc...
image text says: In 2024, I thought a lot about my pouch of Douglas

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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Something I have remembered about “tours of duty” - normally involve extensive training. Get techies on training of “public service for the digital age”, the public sector accessibility duty, devolution, ethics - then a 6-12 month uk gov tour of duty will be more productive.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Something I don’t love about self-published books is when it’s also meant no professional editor. Symptoms of this I have seen over the years include: - unreadable type (tho some small pubs are bad too) - questionable assertions - style guide mistakes (a name not being capitalised and so on)
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 07/12/2024
On day 7 @tink.uk illustrates how good AI is at accessibility. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
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HTMHAIL - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Working on prototype kit guidance and getting exasperated with myself that the muscle memory is not quite there in correcting 'Github' to 'GitHub' (camel case arrgh things i've learned in the last month)
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Marcel LaFlamme @marcellaflamme.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How should access to digital publications be provided once they enter the public domain? This new report sees a role for both dark archives and national libraries in moving beyond preservation to ensure widespread legal access. arcadiafund.org.uk/highlights/t...
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The Preservation of Knowledge in the Digital Age - Arcadia
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
TIL what the Boys of Summer line “deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” meant, basically didn’t twig it was Deadhead as in the Grateful Dead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/a...
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‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s (Gift Article)
The year 1984 was a watershed in pop music. The stars who’d made it big the previous decade had to embrace new instruments and MTV or risk being left behind.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This is very very good
I think we should shed the idea that Al is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. Al is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.
Projects that claim to "democratize" Al routinely conflate
"democratization" with "commodification". Even open-source Al projects often borrow from libertarian ideologies to help manufacture little fiefdoms.
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Chris Bush @chrisbush.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
EA just made a whole bunch of #accessibility patents open-source This means that other developers throughout the industry can use the technology at no cost. The news comes after EA made a pledge not to sue rival companies for co-opting these types of tools. www.engadget.com/gaming/ea-ju...
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Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
LimeWire Wrapped

1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac
2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv
3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3
4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav
5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
OK I take it back, I got one - did I manifest that? 😅
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I seem to be the only person in my internet friend groups that did *not* get a ticket in the govcamp lottery 🙃
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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk #accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityRegulations
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25 days of digital accessibility tips – Accessibility Advent Calendar 2024
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I was all "I didn't write this post this year surely, wasn't it maybe 2022?" nope, this January 👵
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Peter Booty @peterbooty.com · 03/12/2024
You guys, there's a whole database that documents the taxonomy of bread tags. And it is fascinating. horg.com
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Elvish Presley @elvishpresley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Me: man my bacbook is struggling with Teams, Office stuff and coding Also me:
many many browser tabs
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 30/11/2024
It's not just the best film version, it's better than the original text because Scrooge ends up sitting down with Bob and not his awful relatives. Dickens must be kicking himself for getting it so wrong, and not including singing fruit.
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transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨 NEXT THURSDAY AT 6PM 🚨 It's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social #2, with: - @cthimon.bsky.social & Holly Simpson, MoJ, on product development/policy/digital - Isadora Schappell & Anna Goulden, @ucl-iipp.bsky.social , on missions & capability Join us in person at MoJ, or online! lu.ma/4gdplw35
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TransformGov Talks : Second event · Luma
For our second event we have Simon Manby and Holly Simpson from the MoJ speaking about digital and policy teams working together. Also Isadora Schappell and…
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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 29/11/2024
I was listening to an interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a few days ago who said we need more stories in Hollywood depicting a solutions oriented future beyond dystopia. My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.
A collage of 9 images from a scene in Star Trek: The Next Generatoon TV series (“The Neutral Zone” 1988) showing Picard in dialogue with Ralph Offenhouse.

From left to right:

Picard: A lot has changed in the part 300 years. People no longer obsessed over the accumulation of things. We’ve eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We’ve grown out of our infancy.

Offenhouse: It has never been about possessions—it’s about power.

Picard: Power to do what?

Offenhouse. To control your life, your destiny.

Picard: That kind of control is an illusion.
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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 28/11/2024
Journal: Going Offline is online …for free Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours. 🔗 adactio.com/journal/21578
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Going Offline is online …for free
Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Vanity Fair's weird story about Cormac McCarthy grooming an abused 16-year-old girl and then stealing her stories and voice for his books thing has really bothered me (and a lot of other women). A bit more on that subject from my memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence about muse as trap....
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Defo did not see these at the HMRC digital delivery centre Newcastle in 2015 (though I remember the HMRC “register once update everywhere” mantra) anyone else in digital gov in 2015 see or not see these?
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A fun little quest story for culinary nerds: slate.com/life/2024/11... 🍽️
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It Was Once America’s Favorite Cake. Why Is It Now Impossible to Bake?
In the late 1960s, you couldn’t go to a PTA potluck without running into one of these confectionary marvels—what happened?
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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
UKRI is recruiting a Director to lead work on R&D and Place. A great opportunity for an action-oriented leader who wants to tackle the many well-documented issues of the geography of R&D in the UK! careersportal.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Honestly forgot she was playing against herself in this short
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Content Teatime @contentteatime.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
100 followers and we promise to start planning the next Content Teatime...
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Craig @kiwicraig74.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This looks super cool…
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