Dee
@deerberrynz.bsky.social
Kiwi counsellor living with chronic migraine and cats. Tangata tiriti, late Gen X, polyam, kinky, queer, fat. Covid-cautious mask-wearer. Free Palestine. (she/they)
Today has sucked rancid donkey balls. I'm glad it's over.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today has sucked rancid donkey balls. I'm glad it's over.
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Untitled photograph by Eric Lee-Johnson, 1958.
Ref F.004042, Te Papa.
Ref F.004042, Te Papa.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Untitled photograph by Eric Lee-Johnson, 1958.
Ref F.004042, Te Papa.
Ref F.004042, Te Papa.
Fabulous thread! I'm currently reading 'Hemlock and Silver' and that makes the 24th @tkingfisher.com book I've had the pleasure of immersing myself in - how lovely that I still have so many more to enjoy 😍
Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Fabulous thread! I'm currently reading 'Hemlock and Silver' and that makes the 24th @tkingfisher.com book I've had the pleasure of immersing myself in - how lovely that I still have so many more to enjoy 😍
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I never do sales, but I'm doing a big Christmas sale this year! Shop #kikorangi local, support an artist, and give unique gifts that always hit with their recipient!
Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...
Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I never do sales, but I'm doing a big Christmas sale this year! Shop #kikorangi local, support an artist, and give unique gifts that always hit with their recipient!
Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...
Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...
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This is horrific.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
'Dinner or debt': Pensions cut to cover student loan payments
'Dinner or debt': Pensions cut to cover student loan payments
One Taupō pensioner says she is still facing a $58,000 student loan from a business degree she took two decades ago.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This is horrific.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
It's fifteen years today since my brother Al died (how on earth has that much time passed already?). He was 30 then, and I was 32. So much life has gone on since then, but he's still very missed, and loved.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's fifteen years today since my brother Al died (how on earth has that much time passed already?). He was 30 then, and I was 32. So much life has gone on since then, but he's still very missed, and loved.
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While cleaning up random bookmarks in my browser, one of them was to this fetching photo...? (I think it's River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...? Can anyone confirm...?) i.pinimg.com/736x/5a/3a/d...
i.pinimg.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
While cleaning up random bookmarks in my browser, one of them was to this fetching photo...? (I think it's River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...? Can anyone confirm...?) i.pinimg.com/736x/5a/3a/d...
Not a once. And I have no intention of doing so.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not a once. And I have no intention of doing so.
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I want to say that @leximcmenamin.com and @brittneymac15.bsky.social are both total pros and any publication would be lucky to have them. What Conde did to them is not right. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I want to say that @leximcmenamin.com and @brittneymac15.bsky.social are both total pros and any publication would be lucky to have them. What Conde did to them is not right. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
*beams* This is lovely!
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
*beams* This is lovely!
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1 point. I had a boombox (we called them *cough* 'ghettoblasters' at the time) - used it to record songs from the radio, and tape to tape - but I never put it on my shoulder. That always seemed a very US thing to me, not something done as much in AoNZ.
(i got a zero lolz)
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
1 point. I had a boombox (we called them *cough* 'ghettoblasters' at the time) - used it to record songs from the radio, and tape to tape - but I never put it on my shoulder. That always seemed a very US thing to me, not something done as much in AoNZ.
This gave me a much needed laugh this morning!
Alt text description: Foghorn Leghorn leans over ranting to Henery Hawk, while Barnyard Dawg stands around looking innocent in the background.
Alt text description: Foghorn Leghorn leans over ranting to Henery Hawk, while Barnyard Dawg stands around looking innocent in the background.
"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This gave me a much needed laugh this morning!
Alt text description: Foghorn Leghorn leans over ranting to Henery Hawk, while Barnyard Dawg stands around looking innocent in the background.
Alt text description: Foghorn Leghorn leans over ranting to Henery Hawk, while Barnyard Dawg stands around looking innocent in the background.
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This joke of a Govt better look into this
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand at risk of running out of some medicines if global catastrophe strikes - study
The study found that of the 10 most extensively prescribed pharmaceuticals, none could be manufactured locally.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This joke of a Govt better look into this
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
About Post-Exertional Malaise #ChronicIllness
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
About Post-Exertional Malaise #ChronicIllness
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We are delighted to post the first Bitch Media reprint on The Flytrap! In a piece originally published in March 2020, @annaham.bsky.social delved into Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community, that purports to expose con artists, but really exposes the politics of disbelief.
Fake It Off
Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community exposes not con artists, but the politics of disbelief.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are delighted to post the first Bitch Media reprint on The Flytrap! In a piece originally published in March 2020, @annaham.bsky.social delved into Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community, that purports to expose con artists, but really exposes the politics of disbelief.
This is very useful to know - not least because I'm here for a lot of 'rude' friends! And for the rest I'd at least prefer to be warned and make my own choices, not just have it all hidden by default.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is very useful to know - not least because I'm here for a lot of 'rude' friends! And for the rest I'd at least prefer to be warned and make my own choices, not just have it all hidden by default.
For those in Aotearoa NZ, this is well worth signing! #kikorangi
Women, girls & people assigned female at birth with Endo deserve better: Demand guideline review now
No matter who we are, or where we come from, we all deserve to live a life of dignity, free of pain and struggle. A life where we are believed and we have access to the care that we need. However, the...
our.actionstation.org.nz
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For those in Aotearoa NZ, this is well worth signing! #kikorangi
Ātaahua!
Sunrise over Auckland. Looking across water to Auckland CBD skyline with sun rising on the horizon on the right, & panning left, silhouetted against the sky are the CBD, Harbour Bridge, & Rangitoto Island. #sunrise #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #somethingBeautiful #HowsTheSerenity
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Ātaahua!
"As a queer person, it’s ironic that the things we grow up thinking are abnormal – like our queerness – end up being our everyday truths, and the illnesses we endure for so long finally get recognised as abnormal, as is the truth we knew all along."
A powerful read that really resonated. #pain
A powerful read that really resonated. #pain
Medical gaslighting, illness and community care: Pins and needles - Archer Magazine
If not for medical gaslighting, maybe Jewel would still be around but unwell, managing her condition as I manage mine.
archermagazine.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"As a queer person, it’s ironic that the things we grow up thinking are abnormal – like our queerness – end up being our everyday truths, and the illnesses we endure for so long finally get recognised as abnormal, as is the truth we knew all along."
A powerful read that really resonated. #pain
A powerful read that really resonated. #pain
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NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
Argh fucking fireworks! As soon as one neighbour stops with the bangs the next one starts... All the cats are jumpy, and so am I.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Argh fucking fireworks! As soon as one neighbour stops with the bangs the next one starts... All the cats are jumpy, and so am I.
In case anyone else is looking for a local calendar - some pretty options in the comments. #kikorangi
I need a wall calendar for 2026, and I would love to buy one direct from an artist. Anyone know any Kiwi or Aussie artists who do calendars??
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In case anyone else is looking for a local calendar - some pretty options in the comments. #kikorangi