Bizzario

@rbizzario

Senior Lecturer. Teacher & academic development; Applied linguistics; Education. Forest dweller 🌳🌱 Toitū te Tiriti. Free Palestine. Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.

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Bizzario@rbizzario· 9d

Argh - we need our 18-24 year-olds enrolled! There’s 203,208 of them yet to enrol. I will have to do my bit and talk to young people around me and encourage them to enrol to vote. elections.nz/stats-and-re... #NZPol

A two-column table showing a low voter enrolment statistics for the 18-24 year old age bracket. Out of the estimated eligible population, only 53.89% are enrolled to vote. 203,208 young people are still yet to enrol.

Bizzario@rbizzario· 11d

‘Cunts are still running the world’ in all caps - using the design from Now That’s What I Call Music album cover art.

Top and bottom words (cunts, world) are in large yellow font and purple shadows. The middle banner (are still running the) is in purple on yellow.

Bizzario@rbizzario· 12d

This week I popped into a class collab of Dance and Acting students. I just can’t help but think how lucky they are to be working with others through their bodies and minds largely uninterrupted by digital technology. #AcademicSky #LearningTeaching

A black and white photo of students dispersed in a large room with high ceilings from which lights and cords are suspended. Most of them are in various sitting poses and a couple are standing.

Bizzario@rbizzario· 13d

I’m having a proper sick day today 🤧🫩 I have this beautiful view from my bed, but I can’t get off my phone!

A view of hill tops, tree tops and a large rewarewa tree against cloudy skies.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jul 1

Everything is ka pai with Billie, & a @colourmefiji.bsky.social art print in it! Yay, for finally meeting the person behind the art and the posts 🌀 Buy art from vunilagivou.com ✊🏽

Billie lounging amongst the art and books displayed on a console table.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jun 27

Everyday cat day #CatSky

A silhouette of a cat against a picture window, with tree foliage on the left and a forest-clad hills in morning light midground. The image is framed by shadows.

Bizzario@rbizzario· May 17

Fat Freddy’s Drop was amazing last night. Sounded impeccable. Performed with so much heart & remembrance for our DJ Mu.

DJ Mu on the backdrop of Fat Freddy’s Drop - holding his favourite things, with a halo hovering on his head.

Bizzario@rbizzario· May 15

Photo taken in May 2020. The day we went out of hard lockdown. We’re still a team of 5 million. Just a little bit fractured & fraying at the moment.

A picture of black sand beach, blue sky and a child in the middle facing away from the camera, wearing a polka dot dress and leggings.

Bizzario@rbizzario· May 2

Post your warning sign

A triangle sign on a wooden wall saying ‘yield to indigenous knowledge’. You can also see orange glow of the sunset in the horizon, a mountain range and very tall concrete walls in the background.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Apr 29

I appreciate your work. Kia kaha ✊🏽

Photo of a metal road flanked by tall foliage with a bit of blue sky peeking in between and sun rays visible off the dust.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Apr 27

Billie, your cuteness is too distracting!

A tabby cat with a red bell on her collar sitting on a window ledge with her eyes closed. You can see a blurred view out of the window of blue sky and green forest.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Apr 7

Billie and I spending Good Tuesday (thanks to tertiary ed).

Billie caught in mid-yawn, sitting on the heat pump, under my TV showing NASA’s Artemis live feed.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Mar 29

Also inspiring was going to a play yesterday with an all-Filipino cast & storyline. It was wild to see, & hear Tagalog & Bisaya live onstage with references that maybe only the Filipino diaspora would understand but then experienced by non-Filipino audience too. www.iticket.co.nz/events/2026/...

The stage set of the play ‘Laro sa Entablado: Kusina’, showing restaurant-style table seatings and a kitchen props on a platform.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Mar 19

Tama Iti rocks a hat, any hat, all day everyday! This is my fave at Waitangi 2024. 🔗 for the significance of the context: www.nzgeo.com/stories/what...

Artist & activist Tame Iti (Tūhoe) leads supporters of his performance piece towards the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The procession chanted, “The Treaty is a fraud. Honour the Treaty.” 📷CORNELL TUKIRI

Bizzario@rbizzario· Mar 16

For my fuel ⛽️ For morale ✊🏽

A cup of at-home coffee with a lovely heart with petals latte art design set on a blue tablecloth.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Mar 13

I found it!!! #AcademicSky Pedagogy questions are inseparable from labor conditions questions. Teaching philosophies are inseparable from labor politics. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. Addressing pedagogy without addressing labor is, in the big picture, useless.

A screenshot from an old Twitter post saying:

"Pedagogy questions are inseparable from labor conditions questions.
Teaching philosophies are inseparable from labor politics.
Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions.
Addressing pedagogy without addressing labor is, in the big picture,
useless."

With the time and date stamp of "2:41 AM · Oct 6, 2022".

The message was posted by Jess A. Goldberg.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Feb 26

2026 is the year of the horse. The horses—

Two horses in a paddock. The horse on the left is brown with white patches, while the horse on the right is all white. Their names are Captain and Pluto.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Feb 11

Good Lorde! It was the loveliest, most inclusive crowd. The kid & I were surrounded by superfans in their friend groups, coupled up & some younger ones with their parents. Yes, I felt proud too—of our Lorde & our young people! Best first concert for my girl! www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...

Lorde Ultrasound Tour Auckland 🇳🇿2026.

Lorde’s image is projected on a large vertical screen onstage. She is wearing a light up jacket & holding a microphone. The stage is empty but filled with smoke, with two silhouettes (musicians) playing instruments. Slightly off centre bottom part of the image, you can see a warm, ambient light—which is actually Lorde in her light up jacket singing amongst the crowd.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Feb 5

Billie catching the morning rays ☀️

A picture of a cat on a window ledge. Her white chest is glowing from the morning light. In the blurred background you can partly cloudy blue skies and the greenery of a forest.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Feb 3

I did a session today, and this beautiful doggo was in attendance! So cute, & so chill! I would love a doggo but my lifestyle doesn’t suit having one yet.

A close up of a grey dog that looks like a greyhound maybe?

Bizzario@rbizzario· Feb 1

Post a pic you took to bring some zen to the timeline

A view out the window of a rewarewa tree and blue skies.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jan 18

Cut our camping holiday short because of the weather up north. Sad that parts of Te Tai Tokerau are getting battered again with heavy rains.

A beach scene with grey clouds, choppy waves onshore. There’s a surf life saver, a yellow surfboard, and a black buggy in between two yellow and red flags on the sandy beach.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jan 8

Thank goodness for Muay Thai 🥊🧘🏻‍♀️

A pair of black Muay Thai gloves on a chair. There is a fist in red hand wraps above the gloves.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jan 2

Reskeet with the most recent pic of your pet post.

A photo of a tabby cat on a fence post. Slightly blurred in the background is a kawakawa plant and other shrubbery.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Jan 1

New Year’s Day walk after a very chilled day at home 🌳🌱 In the midst of what we might find 2026 to be, I hope we all remember the peace, joy and restfulness of the simple things life brings.

Blue skies and thick white clouds above a forest in the distance. In the middle is a quiet road flanked by bush on the left and right.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Dec 27

It’s that time when Christmas cheers blur into (the kid’s) birthday celebrations.

A photo of a wall with a large mirror, festooned with garlands of silver tinsel, reindeers, pink and orange fan streamer, and a ‘happy birthday’ garland. On the bottom left is a cat tower with metallic red, purple and green balloons and a gift bag next to it. You might also spot a handmade frame of a cat with stickers all over it.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Dec 16

Thank you #SecretSantaAoNZ! Great to hear this picture has given you joy! I totally thought it was a frame for my graduation parchment paper 🤣 The good thing is that this is a gift that will keep on giving 🤣🤣🤣 🕺🏻🕺🏽🕺🏾🕺🏼🕺🏿

The note reads “No, I don’t why and I definitely don’t know who - most think it’s a local attempt at Elvis. It made me smile and I just kept coming back to it - good luck finding a place for it.

*smiley face*

Happy Christmas

From your Secret Santa

Bizzario@rbizzario· Dec 16

Billie ran away and is nowhere to be found 🤣 #SecretSantaAoNZ

A stitched monochromatic portrait of someone with a blinged up collar reminiscent of Elvis and his lookalikes. A Christmas 2015 Nature Sounds CD, and a card.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Dec 16

Billie very excited about gift opening. #SecretSantaAoNZ

A Christmas tree, a large plastic NZPost bag, a mug of coffee and a cat.

Bizzario@rbizzario· Dec 13

Must see movie ➡️ The Kitchen (2023). Great acting, storyline, superb soundtrack. Watch it!