Jojo (they/them)
@jojoinabox.bsky.social
Professional non-creative wordsmith (and amateur creative wordsmith) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Currently crocheting more than reading. See https://red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io/.
Profile pic is Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. Header is Akaroa Harbour.
Profile pic is Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. Header is Akaroa Harbour.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Autistic people need two types of accommodations:
Type #1: Ear defenders, quiet workstations, note taking apps
Type #2: Decolonized workplaces, justice for all, truly sustainable work
Employers freak out about #1 and never even see #2 coming.
Type #1: Ear defenders, quiet workstations, note taking apps
Type #2: Decolonized workplaces, justice for all, truly sustainable work
Employers freak out about #1 and never even see #2 coming.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Autistic people need two types of accommodations:
Type #1: Ear defenders, quiet workstations, note taking apps
Type #2: Decolonized workplaces, justice for all, truly sustainable work
Employers freak out about #1 and never even see #2 coming.
Type #1: Ear defenders, quiet workstations, note taking apps
Type #2: Decolonized workplaces, justice for all, truly sustainable work
Employers freak out about #1 and never even see #2 coming.
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Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like:
Big books
Classic rock music
Soft, squishy yarn
Iced tea
Hot tea
Cat purrs
Potatoes
Fresh basil
Dad jokes
Beach!
Big books
Classic rock music
Soft, squishy yarn
Iced tea
Hot tea
Cat purrs
Potatoes
Fresh basil
Dad jokes
Beach!
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like:
Sunsets
Nature
Walking (running, when fibro permits)
Chatting to fellow Aussies/ authors/ ADHDers/ autistic or queer people
Chocolate
Local radio station's ECLECTIC music
People giving a shit.
A sense of humour.
Alternative rock.
Travel.
Sunsets
Nature
Walking (running, when fibro permits)
Chatting to fellow Aussies/ authors/ ADHDers/ autistic or queer people
Chocolate
Local radio station's ECLECTIC music
People giving a shit.
A sense of humour.
Alternative rock.
Travel.
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like:
- cats (but also just animals)
- time travel stories
- music
- coffee
- being a fuckin shithead edgelord and making dry af jokes
- Pastel mint green
- crying
- italian (all things)
- not being a cunt
- millennial dusty rose pink
- cats (but also just animals)
- time travel stories
- music
- coffee
- being a fuckin shithead edgelord and making dry af jokes
- Pastel mint green
- crying
- italian (all things)
- not being a cunt
- millennial dusty rose pink
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like:
Big books
Classic rock music
Soft, squishy yarn
Iced tea
Hot tea
Cat purrs
Potatoes
Fresh basil
Dad jokes
Beach!
Big books
Classic rock music
Soft, squishy yarn
Iced tea
Hot tea
Cat purrs
Potatoes
Fresh basil
Dad jokes
Beach!
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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/...
This is one of the pieces of creative writing I'm working on today, which is going to go out to paid subscribers of Red Pens and Playwriting in January.
Thoughts on sharing more sneak peeks for the blog like this?
Thoughts on sharing more sneak peeks for the blog like this?
Sneak peek: "The hare revealed itself to you as it always does: a shadow at the edge of the lantern’s range, tall and still in that particularly active way it has. As you focused your hazy eyes on it, you got a better look at the soft glow of its night-dark fur, the small silver fires of its eyes."
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is one of the pieces of creative writing I'm working on today, which is going to go out to paid subscribers of Red Pens and Playwriting in January.
Thoughts on sharing more sneak peeks for the blog like this?
Thoughts on sharing more sneak peeks for the blog like this?
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If you don’t derive any benefit from the act of writing, no pleasure or catharsis or satisfaction, why are you doing it? This isn’t meant to be an aggressive question, I’m not demanding an answer, but it’s a thing you may want to ask yourself. Life is short and you could do something else?
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If you don’t derive any benefit from the act of writing, no pleasure or catharsis or satisfaction, why are you doing it? This isn’t meant to be an aggressive question, I’m not demanding an answer, but it’s a thing you may want to ask yourself. Life is short and you could do something else?
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#TicketingNews: Motu Move has launched on all Metro buses and ferries across Greater Christchurch (Christchurch, Selwyn and Waimakariri) on Monday morning.
Passengers can now pay a standard Metro fare using contactless debit/credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Metro cards.
Passengers can now pay a standard Metro fare using contactless debit/credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Metro cards.
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#TicketingNews: Motu Move has launched on all Metro buses and ferries across Greater Christchurch (Christchurch, Selwyn and Waimakariri) on Monday morning.
Passengers can now pay a standard Metro fare using contactless debit/credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Metro cards.
Passengers can now pay a standard Metro fare using contactless debit/credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Metro cards.
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My place is literally two houses out of the flood management area!
#Christchurch #NZ New flood level map
- worth checking if you’re looking to buy a house
- Christchurch *was* built on a swamp, and it shows… ⬇️ All that blue!
ccc.govt.nz/services/wat...
- worth checking if you’re looking to buy a house
- Christchurch *was* built on a swamp, and it shows… ⬇️ All that blue!
ccc.govt.nz/services/wat...
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My place is literally two houses out of the flood management area!
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Hey writers! Do y'all know what a zeugma is?
Wanna find out? 😏
#Writing #WritingTechniques #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity
Wanna find out? 😏
#Writing #WritingTechniques #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hey writers! Do y'all know what a zeugma is?
Wanna find out? 😏
#Writing #WritingTechniques #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity
Wanna find out? 😏
#Writing #WritingTechniques #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity
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i would enjoy chores more if they unlocked some cool loot like a new hairstyle or a weapon
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i would enjoy chores more if they unlocked some cool loot like a new hairstyle or a weapon
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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This is just solid gender-agnostic advice, by the way
If you're feeling isolated or alienated, get into an Art or Craft as best you are able and join a community dedicated to it
Look to your local library for resources! You will be surprised by what's available
If you're feeling isolated or alienated, get into an Art or Craft as best you are able and join a community dedicated to it
Look to your local library for resources! You will be surprised by what's available
Specifically, get a hobby in which you MAKE something, and then find places for other people who share that hobby
Making things is good for you on, like, a spiritual level, so you're already improving your outlook, and you have a healthy foundation on which to build new relationships
Making things is good for you on, like, a spiritual level, so you're already improving your outlook, and you have a healthy foundation on which to build new relationships
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is just solid gender-agnostic advice, by the way
If you're feeling isolated or alienated, get into an Art or Craft as best you are able and join a community dedicated to it
Look to your local library for resources! You will be surprised by what's available
If you're feeling isolated or alienated, get into an Art or Craft as best you are able and join a community dedicated to it
Look to your local library for resources! You will be surprised by what's available
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God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
I've got Nebula, and definitely recommend it!
I think I'm supposed to tell you that Nebula has free trials now and you can sign up for one at go.nebula.tv/12tone if you want. I dunno. Live your life.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I've got Nebula, and definitely recommend it!
I recently returned to finish the trilogy with the final book, and it gets even more excellent as it goes on!
oh yeah, finished "The Black Coast" by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social . It was a certified banger with an interesting take on cultural taboos and culture shock.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I recently returned to finish the trilogy with the final book, and it gets even more excellent as it goes on!
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶
September 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶
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Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
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Don't forget to grab a free queer book this November!
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Free queer books
Searching for a new queer story?
Grab these books for free for a limited time!
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November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Don't forget to grab a free queer book this November!
books.bookfunnel.com/queerfiction...
#queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #booksky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers #queersky
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#queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #booksky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers #queersky
I made the @tastinghistory.bsky.social recipe for chicken paprikash for dinner, and I am OBSESSED. 🤤 It's especially nice with roasted parsnips...
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I made the @tastinghistory.bsky.social recipe for chicken paprikash for dinner, and I am OBSESSED. 🤤 It's especially nice with roasted parsnips...
How wonderful! 💚
Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
Adopt a kākāpō
Kākāpō adoptions are a special way to support the conservation of this taonga species. You can adopt a kākāpō for yourself or as a gift.
www.doc.govt.nz
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
How wonderful! 💚