Allanah

@allanah.bsky.social

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An optimist on a good day. 💚 Science and impact comms, whanau, running, food, dance, books. She/her. Tangata tiriti. 🇳🇿 www.sharedscience.nz

A blue sky, blurred by frost flowers on a skylight. Is the photo of the sky or the frost? The frost.
A small tent nestled (a word which implies more comfort than the situation involves) into a depression dug into a snow bank. The sun is rising over the mountains silhoutted in the background, casting orange light over the foreground snow the sky fades from orange to a in promising blue.
A small chopping board with a kiwifruit skin, dirty teaspoon, some orange peel. And half a perfect orange.
Snip of RNZ news headline: One-in-100-year coastal floods now happening twice a year in Wellington -study"
Snip of news headline from RNZ. 'A storm every eight days - country's biggest insurer calls for systematic response' by Kate Newton
More castles, this one by a lake. Sigh. Really just don't judge the book by it's cover. Audiobook narrator is Grrrrover Garrrrdner, who is too old for the character but gets all the intonation right for me.
There is so much going on here. 8 pictures. They are some macarons, a park bench, stacks of papers, I think some street scenes, a close up of a violin, a glass of red wine and a bunch of pink tulips
It's another castle, this time as the crown atop the head of a point eared goblin who is facing forward, but eyes left. There is an airship in the background.
Shades of black and pale gold. There is a throne room. The throne has a massive spiky sunburst. Think threatening, not friendly. At least I think that's what it is. I read it ages maybe I'm wrong. Not really a visual person.
It's a sci fi cover. There is space. There is a space ship. There is a looming planet casting a terrifying white light. Is it a tractor beam? Who knows. You cannot see the giant fucking spiders at this scale.
A drawing of five birds on telegraph wires, which are doubling as music notation lines. In the lower third are some clouds and treetops, but otherwise it's a bluesky with a perfect yellow sun. A really great cover.
An orange world on fire cover of hands holding screens in a crowd covering their faces, while two characters in muted blue are running fearfully through the aisle in the middle.
Cogs, wheels, are those flowers or blood? Silhouttes of four people, you can tell already they have attitude.
Cartoon style, boy meets girl cover. Girl is looking at her laptop, boy is looking at her.
I went with the understated cover here. All white, exactly the title, right aligned in black and red, and a stylised lion underneath. Lovely.
There a raven. On a white background. It's dramatic and fine.
Basic cover. Drawing of sad looking, square jawed, broad shouldered dark haired young man. With a crutch.
Well that's better. A dark haired figure looks over a lake with swans. Shades of melancholy blue and grey. Ancient Celtic borders.
Typical 90s fantasy cover with vague greenery and a forest glade. Heroine in the foreground is inappropriately blonde, did the artist even read the book? Why is there a castle? Ffs.
Book cover of Cotillion by Georgette Heyer. A drawing in strawberries and cream colours of three smiling young ladies wearing period appropriate hair and gowns
Highlighted passage from a book says: You take a spoon for yourself because you know there’s never any spoons. But then you only have to think for a second about everybody else, and you put it right back.”
FB post saying The one thing I love about grading essays that were uploaded to a dropbox rather than submitted by hand on paper? Reading the file names. ‘FINAL FINAL COPY' is always a crowd-pleaser but someone just elevated the game to a whole new level with 'Untitled Document (29)'.
Screenshot of the stuff quiz What term is given to an artwork, usually watercolour, applied directly to a wall or ceiling. The choices are fresco, frottage (the eyebrowc raising one), mosaic and sgafritto
Two screenshots from Tova interviewing Luxon. The first is above the table and Luxon is taller. The second is full length and you can see his chair is so high his feet don't touch the ground.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to reach out and pose this most pertinent and entirely reasonable question regarding the parameters, boundaries, constraints, limitations, and/or restrictions — whether measured in words, pages, characters, sentences, paragraphs, or any other conceivable unit of textual quantification — that may or may not govern, apply to, or otherwise circumscribe the length, extent, breadth, depth, or overall volume of written content that you are expected, required, encouraged, or permitted to produce in fulfilment of the aforementioned assignment task, namely Part One, which concerns itself with the defining of a research problem. In response to your query, and after careful, thorough, and considered reflection on the matter at hand, I am pleased to be in a position to confirm, communicate, convey, and make abundantly clear to you that there is, in fact, no word limit, no page limit, no character limit, no paragraph limit, no sentence limit, and no other form of quantitative restriction of any kind whatsoever currently in place, operative, or applicable to the said task. I trust this comprehensively, exhaustively, and unambiguously addresses your question
Claude error page. Claude will return again soon and they are trying to fix it. it must be truly broken as the copy does not use any em dashes or the words honestly or genuinely
Four beehive hexagons, in a pattern, in silver, on a chain, on on the hexagons has gold bee wings attached. That was a piss poor job of explaining sorry
A silver charm in a beehive shape with a honey coloured stone in the bottom
A small white dog with enormous ears, recently absolutely scalped at the groomers, rests in a square of sunlight cast from a skylight. The floor, which is a room belonging to a teenage girl, is unusually clear of clothes, books, and other detritus.
A raggedy stack of letters, cards, and postcards from the late nineties, the contents of which have remained unread since first opened 30ish years ago because both the writer and the recipient are too chicken shit to read them again. They contain, I expect, a portrait of lasting friendship and quite a lot of embarrassing angst and drama.
Three headlines This is the Christopher Luxon I know: national mp gushes over pms no drama act I had to vomit, driver escapes guessing 250kmh Bathurst 12 hour crash Wheelchair user takes on floodwater
Snip ofnewspaper headline: High flying Phoenix Chase record fifth straight win and a first against the reigning champions
Screenshot of stuff headline: ‘Unfortunately I can’t bring my gun’: US tourist grabs steak knife as robbers storm Napier street by Chris a Marriner, Feb 6 2026 3.55pm
A lamington, balanced on one end with cream piled on top, tower like, and a bite taken from the whole.
Spotify screenshot of Ella Wishes you a Swinging Christmas album cover by Ella Fitzgerald. It has an unidentifiable and inexplicable animal on it.
Red rose bush and bedding plants in flower against a charcoal fence. In place of soil, hailstones.
Secret Santa unwrapped. Yarn in three colours, two types of knitting needles, chocolate, socks, earrings with tui, card, tinsel and bluetac.
A Christmas present bag in front of a decorated Christmas tree (bling not bougie beige style). The bag reads be merry, shine bright
Who knows? We're playing a game of is it an oyster or something else here. Either way, interesting choice of Christmas decoration on the rack.
The sweetest small scrappy fluffy white white dog in the would.
An open sideboard cupboard, the cupboard is stuffed full of board and card games, in a haphazard enough fashion that if one assumed the one jigsaw in the cupboard was Not My Thing one would be correct.
Ripe strawberries growing and practically glowing in the sun.
Peonies opening up with lots of foliage in a vintage flower printed vase, in front of floral wallpaper. It's a definite vibe.
Limestone boulder with pockmarks and a stretched out climber 75% of the way up
Many plastic boxes and lids organised unexpectedly and impermanently in a large drawer
Book shop window with signage reading Fuck Social Media. Marry books. Kill AI.