AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈)
@madhmstr.bsky.social
“Don't waste hate on pink geranium.”
Professional aunt.
Trans rights are human rights.
Posts about black cats, picture books, and random other stuff.
5th generation Pākehā Aucklander, of UK heritage.
Professional aunt.
Trans rights are human rights.
Posts about black cats, picture books, and random other stuff.
5th generation Pākehā Aucklander, of UK heritage.
Pinned
Time for a pinned post.
I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
I post about, in no particular order:
Our cats: Midnight and Jasper.
My clothes.
My life.
Books.
Being a children's librarian.
Sports, especially #womenssport.
Craft.
Random shit.
Boosting / sharing creators' work.
I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
I post about, in no particular order:
Our cats: Midnight and Jasper.
My clothes.
My life.
Books.
Being a children's librarian.
Sports, especially #womenssport.
Craft.
Random shit.
Boosting / sharing creators' work.
I miss my dad. But, I love that this photo has captured a literal twinkle in his eye!
(This was a couple of weeks before he died.)
(This was a couple of weeks before he died.)
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I miss my dad. But, I love that this photo has captured a literal twinkle in his eye!
(This was a couple of weeks before he died.)
(This was a couple of weeks before he died.)
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PS could you forward this to Andrew Little? He seems to be confused by what being Left-leaning means, which will likely end badly for him.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
PS could you forward this to Andrew Little? He seems to be confused by what being Left-leaning means, which will likely end badly for him.
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Dear NZ Labour,
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Dear NZ Labour,
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick.
Laters
G
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Artist is TenderRebellions on IG
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Artist is TenderRebellions on IG
Just did an IT request to see if there's any way of finding files from my previous-previous position and department. One that doesn't exist any more, and we lost access to everything.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just did an IT request to see if there's any way of finding files from my previous-previous position and department. One that doesn't exist any more, and we lost access to everything.
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Geoff, be very careful or someone will sic Babka Yaga on you.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Geoff, be very careful or someone will sic Babka Yaga on you.
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The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
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92% of the seats in parliament were against the law that passed, 98% of submissions were against it.
This is not how democracy should work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Our elected representatives are there to represent us - incredibly maddening.
National and NZF should both be punished by the electorate.
This is not how democracy should work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Our elected representatives are there to represent us - incredibly maddening.
National and NZF should both be punished by the electorate.
Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': National may campaign on regulatory standards repeal
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
92% of the seats in parliament were against the law that passed, 98% of submissions were against it.
This is not how democracy should work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Our elected representatives are there to represent us - incredibly maddening.
National and NZF should both be punished by the electorate.
This is not how democracy should work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Our elected representatives are there to represent us - incredibly maddening.
National and NZF should both be punished by the electorate.
@mattyangel.com my news for the day!
10 dinosaurs are too many. We learnt this in a book at Storytime!
Today we did bird flapping songs. I don't know why, but that's what the kids wanted.
Ladybirds are cute.
My cats didn't want me to go to work.
10 dinosaurs are too many. We learnt this in a book at Storytime!
Today we did bird flapping songs. I don't know why, but that's what the kids wanted.
Ladybirds are cute.
My cats didn't want me to go to work.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
@mattyangel.com my news for the day!
10 dinosaurs are too many. We learnt this in a book at Storytime!
Today we did bird flapping songs. I don't know why, but that's what the kids wanted.
Ladybirds are cute.
My cats didn't want me to go to work.
10 dinosaurs are too many. We learnt this in a book at Storytime!
Today we did bird flapping songs. I don't know why, but that's what the kids wanted.
Ladybirds are cute.
My cats didn't want me to go to work.
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There's a sentence in this article noting that these changes save the government money.
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal
Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
There's a sentence in this article noting that these changes save the government money.
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
So they're going to proceed despite receiving strong advice about the harms it will cause to already vulnerable populations and the probable *increase* in costs over the long term.
#nzpol
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YOU PASSED IT
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': National may campaign on regulatory standards repeal
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
YOU PASSED IT
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU PASSED IT LAST WEEK
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
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Happy World Linguistics Day! Here's a short thread on the sociolinguistics of deglobalization.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day! Here's a short thread on the sociolinguistics of deglobalization.
Why I'm emotionally wobbly, reason 1:
Emails to siblings:
Before 28 Dec:
Mum’s flatties sort out the heart ready for pickup, so Mum can spend her birthday at the beach house, as is traditional
Dec 31:
1pm: leave beach for a tribute walk to the Lime Works at low tide. Float flowers and origami.
Emails to siblings:
Before 28 Dec:
Mum’s flatties sort out the heart ready for pickup, so Mum can spend her birthday at the beach house, as is traditional
Dec 31:
1pm: leave beach for a tribute walk to the Lime Works at low tide. Float flowers and origami.
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Why I'm emotionally wobbly, reason 1:
Emails to siblings:
Before 28 Dec:
Mum’s flatties sort out the heart ready for pickup, so Mum can spend her birthday at the beach house, as is traditional
Dec 31:
1pm: leave beach for a tribute walk to the Lime Works at low tide. Float flowers and origami.
Emails to siblings:
Before 28 Dec:
Mum’s flatties sort out the heart ready for pickup, so Mum can spend her birthday at the beach house, as is traditional
Dec 31:
1pm: leave beach for a tribute walk to the Lime Works at low tide. Float flowers and origami.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
#SecretSantaAoNZ some gift ideas 😜.
(From Emily: Relax, please. I don't actually think you should buy gifts for people you don't like. This is just a lighthearted way of showing you some cool local businesses, artists and causes!)
www.emilywrites.co.nz/pass-af/
(From Emily: Relax, please. I don't actually think you should buy gifts for people you don't like. This is just a lighthearted way of showing you some cool local businesses, artists and causes!)
www.emilywrites.co.nz/pass-af/
Your passive-aggressive gift guide
What to get your mean aunt and creepy uncle
Every year, I try to do a passive-aggressive gift guide. Welcome to the 2025 guide! Christmas shopping for people you love is fun. But obligatory Christmas...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
#SecretSantaAoNZ some gift ideas 😜.
(From Emily: Relax, please. I don't actually think you should buy gifts for people you don't like. This is just a lighthearted way of showing you some cool local businesses, artists and causes!)
www.emilywrites.co.nz/pass-af/
(From Emily: Relax, please. I don't actually think you should buy gifts for people you don't like. This is just a lighthearted way of showing you some cool local businesses, artists and causes!)
www.emilywrites.co.nz/pass-af/
Fruit I love, and now can't eat:
Citrus.
Fruit I'm worried I'm beginning to react to:
Apples.
Apricots.
Plums.
Peaches.
But, so far ok cooked or tinned.
Citrus.
Fruit I'm worried I'm beginning to react to:
Apples.
Apricots.
Plums.
Peaches.
But, so far ok cooked or tinned.
alright here’s my worst thing
I’m not arguing this, I am objectively wrong and weird for this, but here is the list of fruit I like: raspberries
that’s it, that’s the list
for whatever reason - mostly texture, I think, I can’t handle slimy - that’s about the only fruit I’ll seek out on its own
I’m not arguing this, I am objectively wrong and weird for this, but here is the list of fruit I like: raspberries
that’s it, that’s the list
for whatever reason - mostly texture, I think, I can’t handle slimy - that’s about the only fruit I’ll seek out on its own
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Fruit I love, and now can't eat:
Citrus.
Fruit I'm worried I'm beginning to react to:
Apples.
Apricots.
Plums.
Peaches.
But, so far ok cooked or tinned.
Citrus.
Fruit I'm worried I'm beginning to react to:
Apples.
Apricots.
Plums.
Peaches.
But, so far ok cooked or tinned.
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I should probably say that I'm just doing this run of signed copies and I don't know when I'll be doing another one.
Pre-orders for signed paperback copies of HedgeWitch and Concert & Consequence in paperback go live today too. These will be limited to NZ delivery to begin with. (Exception for overseas friends and whanau who can contact me directly)
GET EXCITED!
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GET EXCITED!
jaidedee.com/the-magic-be...
The Magic Begins! - Jaide Dee
It’s finally time! 2025 has been, well, not the year that most of us were hoping for. But I have […]
jaidedee.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I should probably say that I'm just doing this run of signed copies and I don't know when I'll be doing another one.
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Sigh.
Low spoons days, so having a break outside before storytime.
End up with a domestic behind me.
And trespassed customer walking on other side of the road swearing at me.
Yeah, that did heaps of good for my mental state.
Low spoons days, so having a break outside before storytime.
End up with a domestic behind me.
And trespassed customer walking on other side of the road swearing at me.
Yeah, that did heaps of good for my mental state.
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Sigh.
Low spoons days, so having a break outside before storytime.
End up with a domestic behind me.
And trespassed customer walking on other side of the road swearing at me.
Yeah, that did heaps of good for my mental state.
Low spoons days, so having a break outside before storytime.
End up with a domestic behind me.
And trespassed customer walking on other side of the road swearing at me.
Yeah, that did heaps of good for my mental state.
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Not to mention that school and library sales are a HUGE portion of all authors' sales. So they get the sale that you personally didn't pay for, your neighbor gets better access to books, and your unhoused pal has a place to sit WE ALL WIN
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Not to mention that school and library sales are a HUGE portion of all authors' sales. So they get the sale that you personally didn't pay for, your neighbor gets better access to books, and your unhoused pal has a place to sit WE ALL WIN
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If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
One way to tell the troublesome kids / pre-teens have moved on... the giant Christmas tree outside work hasn't had its decorations vandalised so far this year.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One way to tell the troublesome kids / pre-teens have moved on... the giant Christmas tree outside work hasn't had its decorations vandalised so far this year.
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Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
"The coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms," says Lady Tureiti Moxon.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol