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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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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Loads of the indie films have people like me on their own and I always want to go and ask them “who are you? Where have you come from? Can we be friends?”
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Amyville Hoyrror @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
Also: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The 73 Best Illustrations of 2024 (Gift Article)
The most memorable illustrations of the year, chosen by art directors at The New York Times.
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
media.tenor.com
two men standing next to each other with the words i 'll pay you a dollar to shut up on the bottom
Alt: two men standing next to each other with the words i 'll pay you a dollar to shut up on the bottom
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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
thedlist.co.nz
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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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This may sounds a bit weird but honestly get to the Franz Kafka statue on the hour between 8am and 9pm www.viewfromprague.com/franz-kafka-...
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Franz Kafka Rotating Head Statue - Visiting Guide 2025 – View from Prague
Franz Kafka’s Rotating Head statue is a fairly new addition to Prague’s list of things to see and it’s certainly worth seeing. Visiting Franz Kafka’s Head statue won’t take more than a few minutes and...
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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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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Yeah that’s fair, I usually tried to get 2-3 years out of my phone and upgraded when the battery got too bad
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I do think I’m an extreme user in that I prioritise portability (as someone without a car this is important) and I know others say “wow your phone screen is tiny” but it feels like small cars in that it could well be a thing for a small but loyal user set?
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I am basic but I love a hop on hop off tour - it’s a great way to get a feel for both the city and its history. I normally do a full loop for orientation (city and bus route) and history and then choose a point to get off
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I am on a 2 year old se that I love for being small and Touch ID but had terrible battery now, wondering if I need to buy another before it’s discontinued. I love a small phone, why can’t I have one?
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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...
news.microsoft.com
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

ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
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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 · 09/12/2024
One of the wildest things about working with frontline staff in digital is reminding them that they can just go to the loo at any time - is always a reminder of the privilege of tech work!
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Curious what you think realistic change will be in a 6 month secondment for someone completely new to government work? I saw an agency tech person come in on that time, get civil servants’ backs up by calling them incompetent only to realise by month 3 that maybe actually it was … kinda hard?
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Something else I see too often in self-published non-fiction: the implicit assumption that readers are from the US or the UK. Writers - get someone not from your country to read your work, they will point out things that you need to spell out for people from a different place than you.
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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...
htmhell.dev
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
I think it's a weird one as I don't want to use it personally but have to for work documentation? but yeah, maybe. (or get it into Visual Studio Code but I can barely control it as is)
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I also cannot spell 'repositories'
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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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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Also a millennial in NZ - while there was stuff like pink Floyd the real counterculture was via reggae
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Deadhead as in like the head head of a daisy like it was old and worn down? I didn’t even know the phrase deadhead until the 2010s (I’m a millennial and to this day couldn’t tell you a grateful dead song, I know them more from the concept of the WELL)
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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...
nytimes.com
‘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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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I didn't even know that the digital readiness check was a thing and I care about this stuff - is this that people involved with doing stuff need to radiate intent? (and i actually think that the person writing the blog post had done exactly this)
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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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Joesferatu @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
I got one! tbh it has been rolling so i could have just been at the end of the alphabet
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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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