museologist, science communicator, campanologist, historian, anthropologist, dancer, fibrecrafter, gin drinker, higher ed specialist, bi. he/him 🏳️🌈🇳🇿
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[updated message] Just as an FYI (if it wasn't obvious), my tweets are my opinion only and not that of any current or future employer (long story here, can't get into it, insert legal stuff). Any offence caused is by me or my cat, not my employer. Aroha nui 💕
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8 May 2025
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
All these years later, I joined Twitter because I was studying SciComm by distance learning from Otago and thought I should get more active on social media. So led my downfall lol
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24 Jan 2025
For those in that world, FYI Graham Stewart MNZM passed away yesterday at 92. One of the founders of MOTAT, originator of the Old Time Transport Preservation League, NZH photographer, author of 29 books on transport history, father of tram preservation in Aotearoa.
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2 Jan 2025
Shout out to David Seymour and the Ministry for Regulation for making me work over the summer holidays. There really should be some sort of regulation against January submission dates…
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As we get ready to ring out the year we just had (oof), please enjoy a preview of what we did this time last year: youtu.be/IdJ6mpA4MS0
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30 Dec 2024
Best views of the city! We'll ring out the old year, pile onto the roof for bubbles and Christmas tarts and fireworks from the SkyTower across the road, and then ring in the new year!
🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing
Lovely morning in the tower yesterday. Last service ringing for the year! We had 9 of us, and rang Plain Hunt, called changes, and Grandsire Doubles.
Reminder there's no practice on Tuesday, and instead we're ringing out the old year from 11pm.
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24 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas to all! For your Christmas Day viewing, please enjoy this assortment of ringing from last night's services. Wishing everyone a peaceful and restful Christmas 📷📷📷
youtu.be/lfVfuDQMlUA
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24 Dec 2024
Mōrena te whānau. Wishing you a great Christmas from the belltower 💕
youtu.be/534XsI5z-IE
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23 Dec 2024
Please enjoy this tribute as a wee #TramTuesday Christmas gift 💕
23 Dec 2024
#TramNews: @spil030n has compiled a behind-the-scenes view of @MOTAT_NZ's Christmas Lights.
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=BDBb8y12…
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21 Dec 2024
Polynesians had settled an area the size of Russia before the British could even cross the English Channel. But the anonymous X accounts of this world insist Polynesian civilisation was primitive.
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23 Dec 2024
Kia ora koutou from Tāmaki Makaurau in beautiful Aotearoa! If you want to become a kaitangi pere like me (or even a full blown crazy campanologist also like me) or just a fun group activity, let's kōrero 💕
🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing
If you're on the opposite side of the world you can chat with me (@spil030) instead! 💕
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10 Dec 2024
Amazing (if chaotic) night of ringing tongiht. 21 in the tower, including learners and 4 visitors from around the world! We rang rounds and called changes, Plain Bob Doubles, Minor, and Major; Grandsire Triples; and maybe something else.
Christmas ringing starts this Sunday! 💕
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7 Dec 2024
Lovely morning of ringing today. 14 in the tower! We had 8 at 9.15 so actually started on time! Wow! Rang rounds, Plain Bob Doubles & Minor, Reverse Canterbury Doubles, and Grandsire Doubles & Triples.
ALT St Matthew in the City taken from the street looking up through the tropical garden. There are flowers in bloom, with the white Ōamaru stone church tower punching through the canopy into the blue grey morning sky.
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3 Dec 2024
Oh that's a shame. One of the few good memories I have with dad was a Vauxhall car rally that came here and finished with a bbq under the Ngaruawahia Rail Bridge
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3 Dec 2024
Lovely evening of ringing tonight. 17 in the tower, including 5 beginners. Rang rounds & called changes, Plain Bob Doubles, Cambridge Surprise Minor, and a plain course of Stedman Triples.
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13 Nov 2024
Come learn bellringing! Currently available in ~5-6 cities across Aotearoa!
Mum joined my knitting group & the local rose society. Join a dance class. Volunteer at a museum or retirement home. Or Lions, Zonta, or Rotary. Or a park run.
JOIN SOMETHING. GET OUT ONCE A WEEK!
11 Nov 2024
I think we should promote a New Year's resolution for people to attend one event per week minimum. A meeting, a talk, a reading, a screening, a fundraiser, a vigil, a rally, whatever. It doesn't have to be The Solution for the left to be worthwhile.
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11 Nov 2024
Fuckit, I'll add to that: EVERY woman has at least one, and half the men I know have one too.
Remember that rape is about power, not attraction. It is also about violence, and some people will always use violence to get what they (think they) want.
9 Nov 2024
"Not every single woman has a scary story about a man" Yes they do. I promise you that they do.
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6 Nov 2024
"Elliott said security let people know they were entering a gay venue and to have respect." kinda pathetic if you need to give this warning.
Family hadn't been safe in YEARS 🤬
Man says he was assaulted at gay bar in hate crime rnz.co.nz/news/national/5330…
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