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Bren MacDibble

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MG & YA NZ writer now living in WA and loving it! She/her Books: How to Bee In the Dark Spaces The Dog Runner Across the Risen Sea The Raven's Song The Apprentice Witnesser www.macdibble.com

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · Jun 5

So many amazing books in the NZ CYA Awards this year including five by my publisher @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #nzcya #booksalive

Images of the five shortlisted books in the Junior Fiction segment of the NZCYA Awards.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 1d

Look what arrived in the mail! Only a little bent. So proud to be included in the shortlist! 😍 #booksky

Certificate from WA Premiers Book Awards for Book of the Year Shortlist for The Apprentice Witnesser. A bit bent because we only have a tiny PO Box.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 4d

He didn't mean to drop shit. His adult diapers just had a tear! 🤣

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 4d

They just change things for the sake of change. I feel like they are spiteful people who just don't want Ardern to have any legacy. Sad eggheads. Work from a place of love, not hate!

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 4d

#Auspol #Australia

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 8d

For a man who doesn’t know where Albania is or what big words mean, he’s got his grudges lined up like ducks in a row hasn’t he? Is that a form of Paranoia?

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 8d

The distinguished holding of the pipe to add gravitas to balance the youthful face is cute.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 11d

Bloody hell. That sucks. Instead of funding it they ended up scrapping it not long after that. But concept wise it sounds good.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 11d

When I was at high school there was a thing called the Bursary and it strikes me now that a scheme where highschool graduates can win money for uni with grades is brilliant! Was that how it worked? Kids from Huntly college weren’t told about uni so 🤷‍♀️ but if that’s how the boomers afforded uni. Wow!

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 13d

I always wonder how old the coffee is in those pods... also it would take four of them just to fill a group head... which is what the amount I normally use for one cup.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like social media is in self-throttling phase. I'm old, so I remember forums where you'd say something and intelligent people would say something back. Now you say something and 100 accounts, half of which are bots, pile in with idiotic replies. Life's too short.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 14d

WA we have all your homing pigeons. They are grumpy, shitty and ill-equipped for desert life. Half-dead, they are drawn to us like an apocalypse movie opening. Racing pigeons is not a sport. After seeing poop-spattered cities and Trafalgar Square, I realise they're not actually good at 'Homing'.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 16d

NZ Parliament and Brownlee need to take a good long look at whose land they’re standing on before they go shutting down parliament over a waiata! Fragile old white men’s egos deserve a good slap.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 16d

Upper class twits? He’s even too thick to be embarrassed by his own ignorance.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 16d

Xenophobia and xenial? Xenial would be a great word for a baby to learn in a xenophobic world! After years of xylophones and xrays it’s time to expand and words that start with Ex are cheating. We could introduce the Gen wars. Grandma is Gen X that’s why she surfs and rides a motorbike!

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 17d

What’s it on?

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 18d

This looks great!

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 18d

Exactly. Youth crime will surge. When you shut most of a generation out of society they will be angry. I had no education or money but at least there were jobs and eventually I could afford rent, or a car, not both. As a teenager I didn't think I'd get anywhere. We were the dregs. No education even.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 18d

I grew up in poverty when the education system was in shambles but I feel the old anger rising at saying kids are getting a 'free ride!' There's no free ride for young people. They start out with educational debt, no jobs, no affordable housing. Without rich parents they are munted!

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 19d

The sea of red for the red line looked good!

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 23d

Absolutely. Jane is the best of humanity. Unfair she’s gone and absolutely shites live on.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 23d

In my system, refunds go faster if you process a larger payment before you do a refund. Then the money is there with card processing to be used immediately. Otherwise they draw on your bank account and that slows things down. So it’s worth waiting a couple of days for the next payment to be due.

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 24d

A lovely evening down at the river.

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aec.org.nz @aec.org.nz · 24d

Curriculum progress in Aotearoa explained in 176 words. #nzpol

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 24d

Dancing in confused circles with kids helps them grow up to be fine people and is a lot more fun. Bots are mediocre sychophant suck ups full of erroneous information that can’t even answer a question! 😩

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 25d

Distant people sitting in the red light of sunset against red cliffs.