Dayle Vavasour

Academic shoving science into relationships - parasocial, intimate, and personal.

Trying to be unapologetically me, sorry.

[Thomas Fabbri @thomasfabbri]

Hundreds of porn stars and sex workers had their Instagram accounts deleted this year. I spoke with some of them about their fight to stay on the platform.
https://t.co/ldAfpzQK7c

[RNZ @radionz]

#BREAKING Pharmac has backed down on a controversial drug brand switch affecting patients with epilepsy and mental health conditions after three people died following the change.

https://t.co/1dzvSn1YKg

[Jack McDonald @tautokai]

This will be portrayed by James Shaw and many others as a victory for climate action, but I see it as a complete failure. The ZCB is so weak and compromised that even National will support it, because it doesn't guarantee any climate action at all.

[Charlotte Persephone @CPHotmess]

I’m getting randos mad about my bi lesbian joke earlier, so here’s a reminder that lesbian has historically included all women types with wlw leanings, regardless of whether they sometimes sleep with men, and that goes back literally thousands of years.

[The Spinoff @TheSpinoffTV]

There’s direct correlation between being a wanker and doing huge fireworks displays in your backyard that upset everyone around you
https://t.co/ZI9klrhQB2

[Pina✨ADHD Alien Comics @ADHD_Alien]

My totally unscientific explanation of why I quit everything I start and how everything gets too overwhelming. Bigger Version on my homepage!
(Close-ups in comments)

#adhd #adhs #mentalhealth #comic #tdah

[Christian Rika ⚡ @CrikaRika]

Using pregnant person includes trans, non-binary, and cis people, of which women are a part of. Anything else would be incorrect by excluding. All power to @janlogie 💖🌟 Inclusive language matters. Get it done.

[DHH @dhh]

The debate over targeted political advertisement keeps dancing tantalizingly close to the eventual conclusion: NO ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE TARGETED ON PERSONAL INFORMATION!

[Richard Hills @RichardHills_]

If the “blowtorch left on” lead is true, can we not publicise the identity of the person, ever. I can’t imagine the pressure and heavy responsibility they are likely feeling.

We don’t need to do the classic NZ thing & make someone a household name for unfortunate reasons.

[RNZ @radionz]

Rubbish-strewn campsites, home-made toilets and illegal felling of native trees by "arrogant and disrespectful" freedom campers at Lake Waikaremoana have shocked and saddened Ngāi Tūhoe. https://t.co/6ZPuF6LkTY

[raine @sonyaism]

Look, I'm all for innovative treatments for depression, anxiety, insomnia and other conditions that exclusively cause suffering and have entirely no upside at all, but I'm not exactly down with all non-neurotypical brains being genetically deleted from existence.

[John Hart @farmgeek]

This is a fascinating diagnostic technique, probably with multiple applications, but what happens when a future insurance company denies someone cover, claiming “pre-existing condition” based on analysis of their childhood sports videos?

[Barnaby Bennett @mrbarnabyb]

Cos guns are really helpful to see better right?

[thorny (ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social) @thinkiamsad]

the fact that employers are allowed to snoop on their employees' personal social medias, and that employees are expected to never speak ill of their jobs, is fucking dystopic

[Kim Warren @Fellwolf]

Some of you may have seen this headline tweeted out by @guardian. It seemed incredible to me, so I took a bit of a look deeper. Here follows a short thread about not believing everything you read, always tracking back to source data, and survey design.

[Dayle Vavasour @vavasword]

I'm not sure I'm personally ready for 'sissy' to be reclaimed yet (existing uses of the term can be quite transmisogynistic), but I'm glad people are beginning to explore that space.

[The Spinoff @TheSpinoffTV]

Sissymancy! references the AIDS Quilt project while laying new ground for current and future generations of queer artists
https://t.co/3XQHqGQGQe