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Brekekekiwi

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Teacher, Writer and Man about town. All this is personal opinion. Check out my writing through https://linktr.ee/AaronDickAuthor You can see my bsky video updates at @author-aarondick.bsky.social Pākehā. He/him.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · Jun 5

2025 has been a productive year, with more to come!

So far in 2025: A fantasy thriller; a collection of speculative short stories, novellas, and poetry; and a short story in a Kaiju anthology.

Check out my recent writing (or my older work) through the link in my profile!

🇳🇿📚💙📚🪐
#IndieAuthor

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 13m

The replies are fantastic

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Jul 9

DUNERAKER

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 15h

Someone Else #nzpol

a cartoon character with the words someone else written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon character with the words someone else written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Toby Morris @xtotl.bsky.social · 1d

People Watching: Lunchtime in Paeroa on a Friday

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Hot Water Balloon

xkcd.com/3153/

Comic. [Giant balloon reminiscent of a hot air balloon but wavy and laying on the ground with “bloop” “bloop” sound effects. Two people are in a basket attached to one end of the balloon.] [caption] Hot water balloon rides turn out to be significantly less romantic than the air kind.

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Pratchat @pratchatpodcast.com · 23h

#Pratchat88 – They’re All Good Dragons, Bront

Illustrator, game designer and educator Brendan Barnett joins Ben to discuss art, ideas, inspiration, creative process, dragons, wizards and goblins (oh my!) as we leaf through Paul Kidby's 2024 gorgeous coffee table book, Designing Terry Pratchett's…

#Pratchat88 – They’re All Good Dragons, Bront

Illustrator, game designer and educator Brendan Barnett joins Ben to discuss art, ideas, inspiration, creative process, dragons, wizards and goblins (oh my!) as we leaf through Paul Kidby's 2024 gorgeous coffee table book, Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Paul Kidby started bringing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to life when, on the third attempt, he showed off his skill to the author by drawing his own versions of Discworld characters who had so captured his imagination.

pratchatpodcast.com

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 12h

Banish X creatures from your cemetery and strike every unit here for X damage.

Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 12h

I didn't miss him, I love him.

He can be a Great Old One for me.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 12h

I'm still savingup for one of those crazy gold King Arthurs, praying I get enough before they're all gone 🙃

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 16h

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 12h

You would just make something new and leave well enough alone.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 12h

Every kept saying focus on rates, and I kept trying to find out how they would afford to do all the other things they think need doing!

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 12h

SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS

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Aaron Dick- Author @author-aarondick.bsky.social · 13h

My next novel "A Baker's Coven" is getting closer, and here's a small glimpse at what it is! Does any of that spark your interest?

If you like friendly tabletop fantasy humour, parody, and a bunch of witches rolling their eyes, then I hope you'll keep your eyes out for this!

🪐📚💙 #FunnyFantasy

Take a sneak peek at the blurb for"A Baker's Coven" my upcoming satirical fantasy rom-com

A blurb with many pieces cut out

Mira enjoyed learning witchcraft... until... Then she spent a year rebuilding her bakery business in Senoonheim, a city absolutely crawling with... Despite her encounters with..., she has decided to...; it's time to start a coven of her own.

Orcs drink with ant folk, while... Mira is thrown together with..., and all of them muddle along under the watchful but mostly uninterested gaze of Lord Stanley Cornucervin...

Will Mira's coven... the nerve to ask Mira out? ...

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Nikky Lee - Author @nikkythewriter.com · 3d

A reminder to my NZ spec fic author friends – don't forget to enter your works into Te Pae Tawhiti Awards, Aotearoa's first judged speculative fiction awards! We're looking for novels, novellas, YA, MG, short stories, graphic novels and more!

tepaetawhitiawards.nz/how-to-enter/

#nzbooks #nzauthor

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 17h

the PM's office door is just going to have Prime Minister Christopher and then a column of names written in sharpie and crossed out

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Aaron Dick- Author @author-aarondick.bsky.social · 1d

A quiet lonely day and something hungry is approaching through the mists. Check out my horror short story "Orphans" in my collection "omens".

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#ShortStories

Pale yellow images of mist, cows in a field, and an axe

The cover of my short story collection: omens

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Brady Haran @bradyharan.bsky.social · 2d

Our traditional Nobel Prize video.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics (quantum tunnelling) -
youtu.be/wwJf9ZUuKi8

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics (quantum tunnelling) - Sixty Symbols

YouTube video by Sixty Symbols

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Kenneth Feller @authorkfeller.bsky.social · 1d

The Outsiders of Orkland is now available worldwide! Also, I just received a bulk shipment of paperbacks, so let me know if you're in NZ and you're after a signed copy🤘

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

Cow Tools comic with a speech bubble coming out of the cow.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 1d

As in changed from the bits we've already seen??

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Went to Sabaton's first ever NZ gig and at one point the guitarist was telling the crowd about how much they had wanted to come and how great it was to finally be here, and someone started Tutira Mai and the whole metalhead crowd sang to the visiting band.
I loved it so much.

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 1d

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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Please do this! I got paid for one of my ebooks being picked up by Auckland Libraries this month and it rules!

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Apr 15

This is what happens when you request books from the library! Place a hold or an alert on Libby! Fill out the request firm on the library website! Ask at the front desk! You and your neighborhood get cool books and authors get paid. Libraries are so dang cool.

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · Apr 14

hell yeah @emilystjams.bsky.social

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