Evelyn!
@umbellule.bsky.social
doing my best 👭🌈
she/they 🌻 ME/CFS, ADHD, et al 🌻 Ōtepoti, Aotearoa
she/they 🌻 ME/CFS, ADHD, et al 🌻 Ōtepoti, Aotearoa
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teaching a course on oral history & narrative medicine in the spring and want to include something on covid/long covid. what is some of your favorite writing about living with long covid?
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
teaching a course on oral history & narrative medicine in the spring and want to include something on covid/long covid. what is some of your favorite writing about living with long covid?
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sometimes a masterpiece is too good to wait. from the upcoming show Strip Law, I give you the song "Pizza Party"
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
sometimes a masterpiece is too good to wait. from the upcoming show Strip Law, I give you the song "Pizza Party"
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
(a song written for a scene where i was just like lets have some fun pizza party music and then composer Casey Trela went Mozart-level hard)
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It’s perfectly OK to demand better from Hipkins and Labour (or other parties) and to criticise their 'strategy'. People have been doing so for decades. It’s Labour's job as opposition to pressure and criticise the current govt, and it’s up to the public to pressure Labour 🧵
#nzpol
#nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It’s perfectly OK to demand better from Hipkins and Labour (or other parties) and to criticise their 'strategy'. People have been doing so for decades. It’s Labour's job as opposition to pressure and criticise the current govt, and it’s up to the public to pressure Labour 🧵
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely?
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely?
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
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I've designed a new form of martial art where you simply admire your opponent's fighting stance as with the guiltless eyes of a child
October 9, 2023 at 4:04 PM
I've designed a new form of martial art where you simply admire your opponent's fighting stance as with the guiltless eyes of a child
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An NZ ban on Under 16YOs from using social media platforms won't only affect teens. Platforms will use it as an excuse to data grab info from older people too. Like PatronScan database used by Dakota Bar holding identity info of customers and with no deletion option. So many #privacy issues.
#NZpol
#NZpol
if you need some help understanding or explaining why this is terrible, start here: newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/id-p...
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
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If we're copying policies from Australia how about capital gains tax, collective bargaining agreement/stronger unions, stronger competition watch guards.
Just saying.
Just saying.
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
If we're copying policies from Australia how about capital gains tax, collective bargaining agreement/stronger unions, stronger competition watch guards.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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I'm sure many of you have seen this, but on the off chance you haven't... The Calibre release 8.16.2, dated December 4, includes "AI” features. It might be time to stop updating. Source of screenshot is the Calibre What's New page, taken this morning. calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm sure many of you have seen this, but on the off chance you haven't... The Calibre release 8.16.2, dated December 4, includes "AI” features. It might be time to stop updating. Source of screenshot is the Calibre What's New page, taken this morning. calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
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If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers
Dear Minister Simeon Brown
We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...
our.actionstation.org.nz
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
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Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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I struggle with this teaching medical students in NZ: I had to add a slide with the legal definition of conversion practices bc people always asked how they could possibly be happening here in this day and age??? People don’t understand that any effort to change who we are is conversion.
Very suspicious of articles that are actively trying to manufacture & reinforce a very narrow definition of conversion practices, focusing on electric shock treatment. Banning electric shock treatment is not going to impact on the extensive conversive therapies in use today, including in the NHS.
“More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexual preferences and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973…”
And in 2025, conversion practices remain legal in the UK and the government is abusing trans youth by denying them healthcare.
And in 2025, conversion practices remain legal in the UK and the government is abusing trans youth by denying them healthcare.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I struggle with this teaching medical students in NZ: I had to add a slide with the legal definition of conversion practices bc people always asked how they could possibly be happening here in this day and age??? People don’t understand that any effort to change who we are is conversion.
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I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol
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getting gender euphoria from my shithead nephew saying I'm chopped unc
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
getting gender euphoria from my shithead nephew saying I'm chopped unc
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NHS gatekeepers are telling me that I have to defeat the Witch King of Angmar before they'll prescribe me estrogen
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
NHS gatekeepers are telling me that I have to defeat the Witch King of Angmar before they'll prescribe me estrogen
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Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
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When you announce a new Substack-hosted newsletter in LATE twenty twenty five, you are announcing things about yourself that do not command my interest or respect
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When you announce a new Substack-hosted newsletter in LATE twenty twenty five, you are announcing things about yourself that do not command my interest or respect
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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If any NZ Labour MPs, or candidates, are seeing this - nah, it's not good enough for your leader to adopt a fence position while our community is under threat even if you've all been given the go to say "what we actually mean is". He's a leader, if he isn't leading, he's losing.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
If any NZ Labour MPs, or candidates, are seeing this - nah, it's not good enough for your leader to adopt a fence position while our community is under threat even if you've all been given the go to say "what we actually mean is". He's a leader, if he isn't leading, he's losing.
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When asked how he is, my grandpa (91) replies, “As well as can be expected under the conditions which prevail.” It is an answer I appreciate more and more
November 1, 2023 at 2:15 AM
When asked how he is, my grandpa (91) replies, “As well as can be expected under the conditions which prevail.” It is an answer I appreciate more and more
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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee