This is the kind of robot I can get behind!

Went to Project Hail Mary last night (I enjoyed it) but today’s discussion in my household is mostly about the unrealistic choices of drum machines in the early classroom scenes

Just got to chase a golden retriever down our very busy road in Wellington after it walked out a fence that blew down in the wind. It had no collar but with the help of two other sets of neighbours the dog is safe and its owners are being contacted.

Also, just realising the lyrics might not even be correct for all the songs where lyrics aren't published in liner notes or whatever -- the source as far as I can tell seems to be user generated lyric sites.

I don't want my music streaming to have live lyric replay. I spent the mid-2000s listening primarily to bands with warbly vocal delivery and incomprensible lyrics. Learning the words at this stage of the game is just disconcerting.

It’s one of my fave times of year: when new students and their parents amble around town laden with laundry racks, duvets and other stuff for setting up flats.

I love that idea! Did you receive a response?

Did anyone ever have success with chain letters? Did something ever actually arrive in the post?

a good question — by 2030 I think we’ll be moving away from home delivery to centrallsed community mail boxes you go and pick up from.

It feels silly but I just bought enough stamps to send out my business’ mail for ~4 years since they hold their value. 10 years ago it was 80c to send a standard letter in NZ, now it’s $2.90.

Hi Jason, sorry I am not on Bluesky often these days! Will get in touch via email shortly.

Every Object an Archive

New project alert -- me and @annapendergrast.bsky.social having fun and learning things in 2026 www.everyobject.org

Image of a spread of Antistatic Print Object zines and paper ephemera in different colours spread on top of a wooden table.

Do you want some mail? It's that time of year:
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are about to send out our 7th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up & we'll send you a zine + extra object in the post (gratis). We love to send gifts to our friends!! Sign up>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Loose topic: Finding aids. In a partly de-physicalized cultural landscape (where even the architecture of the web doesn’t feel much like an architecture any more) are there still ways to follow your nose, or happen across something excellent? How are we finding books, ideas, objects these days?

A screenshot of a zoom call where all 6 attendees have homemade backgrounds. The people are blanked out in bright green so just their outlines are visible.

Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social
in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.

Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific

More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...

I'm calling into this AGM from Canada and really hoping I can get to bed before 2am...

Officially on holiday as of 20mins ago, although I’m yet to find the off button to stop me from thinking about work stuff when I’m off the clock.

@kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are excited to be part of the research team for this project. We helped write this backgrounder about internet infrastructure and climate resilience in the context of Aotearoa.

To find out more, and learn to get involved, head to internetresilience.nz

Apparently he's on to the detective novels now...

🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

Grounded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s latest book, The Serviceverry, writers @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and @annapendergrast.bsky.social look at the power of reciprocity and gift-giving in various digital spaces.

newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

I agree on all those things! But fear that might be a request or 3 too far based on the reports I read today!

You may definitely ask! But I fear you may not receive in most cases!!!

Writing a report? Please, I am begging you, PUT A DATE ON IT! Not just on the website page you can download it from, or in the title, but somewhere obvious in the actual report itself.

Thanks so much Rachel! So glad to hear you're working on writing more about "just enough" in this context - looking forward to reading it when it's out in the world!

It was a fun one to write, and we look at tools that support reciprocity at a community level, ways people are protecting and contributing to the knowledge commons, and what it might look like to build digital technologies within natural limits.

🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

The latest @newpublic.org newsletter is written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. In it, we explore how concepts in Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2024 book The Serviceberry might manifest in digital projects and online spaces.

newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

A screenshot of 6 people in a zoom call, all with different hand-drawn backgrounds. The people themselves have been removed and replaced by bright green shapes.

Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think.

9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific)

More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...

I learned from @kellypendergrast.bsky.social + @annapendergrast.bsky.social about this Decomputing class at Dark Times Academy — refusal, Ludditism, analog alternatives, etc. I really need this, so I signed up.

Mysterious Sound YouTube video by Flightless Bird

The newsletter also talks about probably the best podcast episode I've heard this year so far, @davidfarrier.bsky.social's Flightless Bird episode "Mysterious Sound" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ze...

Moving House. A moment of personal intersection with global shipping infrastructures.

New Scope of Work newsletter written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social is out today. It's about moving house – from packing your life into boxes to physically moving a home from one place to another. We also snuck in a bit about Shihad, because why not. www.scopeofwork.net/moving-house...