Sharyn
@slfesteves.bsky.social
Tangata tiriti (+ honorary Portuguesa), runner, maker, gardener, sewist, palliative care doc, chocophile & cat lover. She/Her.
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They illegally blocked a best practices document the government commissioned from experts and then disregarded it.
Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
They illegally blocked a best practices document the government commissioned from experts and then disregarded it.
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It’s my position that the MCNZ needs to MAKE SOME NOISE. Because if governments are allowed to make medical policy without input from health care professionals, it’s a slippery slope downwards. What’s next? ADHD meds? Contraceptives? Refusing meds to ‘drop kicks’ (to quote Seymour) ???
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It’s my position that the MCNZ needs to MAKE SOME NOISE. Because if governments are allowed to make medical policy without input from health care professionals, it’s a slippery slope downwards. What’s next? ADHD meds? Contraceptives? Refusing meds to ‘drop kicks’ (to quote Seymour) ???
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Medical Council of NZ’s main role is “Whakahaumaru i te iwi whānui, whakatuarā te kounga o te tikanga rata. We protect the public and promote good medical practice.” I have emailed them tonight to ask what their actions will be regarding this political interference in the delivery of medical care.
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Medical Council of NZ’s main role is “Whakahaumaru i te iwi whānui, whakatuarā te kounga o te tikanga rata. We protect the public and promote good medical practice.” I have emailed them tonight to ask what their actions will be regarding this political interference in the delivery of medical care.
This!
The problem has never been trans people.
The problem has alway been men with power and privilege who think they have the right to systemically, deliberately dehumanise and oppress anyone who doesn’t look like them in every single sphere of life.
Violence in policy is still violence in practice.
The problem has alway been men with power and privilege who think they have the right to systemically, deliberately dehumanise and oppress anyone who doesn’t look like them in every single sphere of life.
Violence in policy is still violence in practice.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This!
The second volume will be even larger
Perhaps titled ‘Word Salads’
Perhaps titled ‘Word Salads’
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The second volume will be even larger
Perhaps titled ‘Word Salads’
Perhaps titled ‘Word Salads’
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November 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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💐 What are your favourite flowers? 💐
This stunning vase from Japan features large and small chrysanthemum flowers and leaves glazed in natural colours and intricately pierced.
This stunning vase from Japan features large and small chrysanthemum flowers and leaves glazed in natural colours and intricately pierced.
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💐 What are your favourite flowers? 💐
This stunning vase from Japan features large and small chrysanthemum flowers and leaves glazed in natural colours and intricately pierced.
This stunning vase from Japan features large and small chrysanthemum flowers and leaves glazed in natural colours and intricately pierced.
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Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan
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It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
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I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”
Think we are up to 8 bbc news alerts about charlie kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”
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Sunrise, Tuesday, 19 August from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Sunrise, Tuesday, 19 August from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
Replace lawyer with doctor and most of this would still be spot on
I was thinking of client red flags: the things that, if a potential client does them, I start out suspicious and on my guard. Some of these are about honesty, some are about narcissism and personality, some are about capacity to take legal advice.
Here we go:
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Here we go:
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August 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Replace lawyer with doctor and most of this would still be spot on
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'Golden Park Light' linoprint by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
August 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
'Golden Park Light' linoprint by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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'Island with Teasels" linocut by contemporary UK printmaker Angie Lewin #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#LateSumner
#LateSumner
August 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'Island with Teasels" linocut by contemporary UK printmaker Angie Lewin #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#LateSumner
#LateSumner
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Women’s status is very rapidly eroding—in their civil rights protections, healthcare, access to the public sphere, and the cultural support for their independence and dignity. But there is no feminism: our public gender discourse is divided between transphobia and handwringing about man’s feelings.
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Women’s status is very rapidly eroding—in their civil rights protections, healthcare, access to the public sphere, and the cultural support for their independence and dignity. But there is no feminism: our public gender discourse is divided between transphobia and handwringing about man’s feelings.
“But of course, this isn’t the Trump way. What we will doubtless see, as in the recent tariff negotiations, is a series of bullying demands, resulting in triumphant announcements of magnificent deals, which turn out on closer inspection, to be largely illusory.”
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Sorry America, but it's not Australia's fault that your healthcare system is failing you | John Quiggin
Donald Trump has blamed ‘freeloader’ countries like Australia for the high cost of medicines. Unfortunately the grim statistics tell a different story
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August 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“But of course, this isn’t the Trump way. What we will doubtless see, as in the recent tariff negotiations, is a series of bullying demands, resulting in triumphant announcements of magnificent deals, which turn out on closer inspection, to be largely illusory.”
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Recommend extending this attitude into multiple areas within your community. Run for your school and community boards, join your local PTA, fuck, run for council!
Show up to counter the fascist cunce.
Show up to counter the fascist cunce.
Incredibly heartening seeing everyone on here with InternetNZ membership live-threading the AGM
People are really showing up for these fights, and even if we *lose* some of these, the experience, community and resilience gained from this sort of activism is invaluable
People are really showing up for these fights, and even if we *lose* some of these, the experience, community and resilience gained from this sort of activism is invaluable
July 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Recommend extending this attitude into multiple areas within your community. Run for your school and community boards, join your local PTA, fuck, run for council!
Show up to counter the fascist cunce.
Show up to counter the fascist cunce.
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If there is something that NZ Bluesky has made clear in the last 12 months, it is that while it doesn't (and shouldn't) agree about everything, it will absolutely mobilise and share resources and information in defence of liberal democracy.
July 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If there is something that NZ Bluesky has made clear in the last 12 months, it is that while it doesn't (and shouldn't) agree about everything, it will absolutely mobilise and share resources and information in defence of liberal democracy.