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. (they/she)
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Just a reminder that my final Par Avian set is out, and that merino banner is really worth a look 👀
The Par Avian series is COMPLETE with the final set of pins up at pepperraccoon.com right now (only 20 banners left, so snag one if you want one!)
ALSO: NZ merino studio-made Fantail Forest pennants and a matching rose gold chainset!
ALSO: NZ merino studio-made Fantail Forest pennants and a matching rose gold chainset!
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Just a reminder that my final Par Avian set is out, and that merino banner is really worth a look 👀
@thegravyaotearoa.bsky.social This may be of interest to you!
'everything begins small' is a collection of fifteen 200 word rpgs written across November 2025. Single, duet, and 3 players games, about wetlands, nature, transness, and more!
Download individual ones, or as a big ol' doc.
Grab 15 games for only $7 💚
takataapui.itch.io/everything-b...
Download individual ones, or as a big ol' doc.
Grab 15 games for only $7 💚
takataapui.itch.io/everything-b...
everything begins small by takataapui
a collection of 15 games for 200 Word RPG Month 2025
takataapui.itch.io
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@thegravyaotearoa.bsky.social This may be of interest to you!
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The headline on this page seems to be entirely cribbed from "reckons", but what it's definitely telling me is that death-cultist David Salmonella-more's system for feeding children has zero way to track what is actually going on. Beyond those making a profit marking their own homework, of course.
Rotten lunches remained at school without refrigeration for three days - NZ Food Safety
"We rely completely on the Compass Group to deliver and then take the food that isn't eaten," says the principal at the centre of the saga.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The headline on this page seems to be entirely cribbed from "reckons", but what it's definitely telling me is that death-cultist David Salmonella-more's system for feeding children has zero way to track what is actually going on. Beyond those making a profit marking their own homework, of course.
Proud to be a member of PATHA!
BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Proud to be a member of PATHA!
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A little more detailed press release about the release of our new national guidelines. Honestly it still hasn't hit home that we finally got them published - relief doesn't even begin to cover it.
Withheld Guidelines For Gender Affirming Healthcare In Aotearoa New Zealand (2025) Released
The guidelines utilise Te Whare Takatāpui, a conceptual model of wellbeing for takatāpui and rainbow people that was developed by Professor Elizabeth Kerekere.
www.scoop.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A little more detailed press release about the release of our new national guidelines. Honestly it still hasn't hit home that we finally got them published - relief doesn't even begin to cover it.
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Aotearoa Covid Action (ACA) is holding its first ever online open mic night! It will take place on the 6th of December from 8pm to 10pm and is open to all sorts of art forms; singing, playing an instrument, reciting poetry/prose, showing your visual art, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Aotearoa Covid Action (ACA) is holding its first ever online open mic night! It will take place on the 6th of December from 8pm to 10pm and is open to all sorts of art forms; singing, playing an instrument, reciting poetry/prose, showing your visual art, etc.
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Me when I'm about to release Catholic horror podcast Dominus on the Rusty Quill Network 🙏🏾✝️
(which is DEFINITELY not EXTREMELY QUEER, definitely Catholic Church approved, ABSOLUTELY not DEMONIC or SEXY or TRANSGRESSIVE in any way!!!)
Anyway follow @dominuspod.bsky.social ;)
(which is DEFINITELY not EXTREMELY QUEER, definitely Catholic Church approved, ABSOLUTELY not DEMONIC or SEXY or TRANSGRESSIVE in any way!!!)
Anyway follow @dominuspod.bsky.social ;)
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Me when I'm about to release Catholic horror podcast Dominus on the Rusty Quill Network 🙏🏾✝️
(which is DEFINITELY not EXTREMELY QUEER, definitely Catholic Church approved, ABSOLUTELY not DEMONIC or SEXY or TRANSGRESSIVE in any way!!!)
Anyway follow @dominuspod.bsky.social ;)
(which is DEFINITELY not EXTREMELY QUEER, definitely Catholic Church approved, ABSOLUTELY not DEMONIC or SEXY or TRANSGRESSIVE in any way!!!)
Anyway follow @dominuspod.bsky.social ;)
If you see this post a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
If you see this post a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
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Absolutely fantastic statement from PATHI and a number of other orgs in Ireland. Aotearoa is drawing international ire because this ban is real bottom of the barrel stuff pathi.ie/news/joint-s...
Joint Statement on Puberty Blocker Ban in Aotearoa
PATHI alongside other trans health and LGBTQI+ organisations stand with our colleagues in Aotearoa New Zealand and the young people, families, and clinicians affected by the Minister of Health’s decis...
pathi.ie
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Absolutely fantastic statement from PATHI and a number of other orgs in Ireland. Aotearoa is drawing international ire because this ban is real bottom of the barrel stuff pathi.ie/news/joint-s...
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Hey all, we have six more days to raise the funds we need. Just a few more donors could help us get over that line. Any support you could offer would be massively appreciated.
Auckland Queer Writers Anthology
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...
www.thearts.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Hey all, we have six more days to raise the funds we need. Just a few more donors could help us get over that line. Any support you could offer would be massively appreciated.
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Happy Polyamory Day! 💜
Love takes many forms. So do families, and so do relationships.
Everyone deserves the right to live and love authentically!
Love takes many forms. So do families, and so do relationships.
Everyone deserves the right to live and love authentically!
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy Polyamory Day! 💜
Love takes many forms. So do families, and so do relationships.
Everyone deserves the right to live and love authentically!
Love takes many forms. So do families, and so do relationships.
Everyone deserves the right to live and love authentically!
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.