It's been well noted and is real shit.
"A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands ...became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices."
Jars filled with a glowing red jelly
9 jars of Quince jelly, mostly gone to family and workmates
look at this lil guy!
er.. we have centipedes like this one here: www.landcareresearch.co.nz/tools-and-re...
I am so sorry!
Woman holding a little kitten
Someone dumped 5 unwanted kittens at our library's back door. Got to have a little cuddle this morning of 'Caramel' who was adopted by one of the team. She needs to be fed every 2 hours so she's at work today.
Woman wearing a blue vest in front of library bookshelves.
Civil defending at Helensville, lucky for me my colleague opened the library. #CycloneVaianu 🇳🇿
Same
I always found field trips amazing but exhausting.
I'm so tired of men pretending to give any fucks about women's safety so they can justify their transphobia.
Like sorry please show me any time you did anything to actually "protect women" at any point.
Cheese Roll Watch: We have the ingredients to make cheese rolls but it might not come to anything. Cheese Roll Warning: There are definitely cheese rolls now - and we're having them!
When I'm not sure about Watch versus Warning, I refer to this image posted by the Dunedin City Council back in 2024:
A raclette grill for sale from KMart for NZD$45.
I really don't need this but LOOK AT IT!
A bigger bigger digger with ropes and a chain tho'?
Red and purple droplets print
Yellow green hairy string print
A failed image transfer print, but I like the border textures
More gelli printing
Blue droplets with purple print
Pebbley pattern with hairy string in the back ground, weird purple and yellow pattern on the other print
An attempt at a landscape, the third layer of hills got sucked away on the final pull which is disappointing.
Gelli printed jelly fish, light green on a dark blue sea
Gelli printing day. Some successful ones, some not so much. #nzcraft #GelliPrinting 🇳🇿
Middle-aged woman wearing a light green dirndl
Posted elsewhere already but... finished my dirndl. #Burda #nzcraft #sewing 🇳🇿🧵🪡
Kia ora e te kikorangi whanau...
Just a reminder to check schoolbags for lunch boxes to avoid those annoying biological weapons developing over the school holiday.
Safer communities etc.
A black cat with yellow eyes sits on an office chair. Her front paws are curled around her chest and tail covers her back paw but her murder mittens are visible.
Princess Freya judging her minions.
really would rather be home to do my crafts and art stuff
I'm not crying at all. No no. Not at all. *I'm sobbing*
Avoiding a meeting that could have been an email.
It's quite red, so maybe totora?
"The economy is an energy system using money, not a financial system using energy. Money is a claim on energy. It has no intrinsic value. Central banks cannot print physical resources into existence."
Spaghetti and cheese on toast made with resentment.
At relatives and because I'm the only one with a v*Gina I'm expected to cook. So gourmet lunch it is
No problem! Happy to teach others about library stuffs 😃
Yup for sure. I like to think the small number of copies of such titles means they don't get prominence in amongst the 3.5 million titles we hold. :-/
yeah well we have copies of Mein Kampf and borrowers of that always get the side eye. Note that it's just 2 copies. So minimal.
part2: which means there's stuff in the collection that many librarians would not want there personally. Anyone is welcome though to make a complaint about any title. www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/en/collectio...
Some titles will be auto-ordered through a vendor. Having said that, collection policy is guided by IFLA's statement on libraries and intellectual freedom: repository.ifla.org/items/720907... which talks about providing a wide range of material representing the plurality & diversity of society.
We had Potato Mice at one stage. It was like some kind of mice potato worshipping cult. We'd get rid of one and another would appear the next day. Cat was VERY interested but only to play with the things, not to dispatch.