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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈)

@madhmstr.bsky.social

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“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.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · Nov 11

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.

Two black cats on a floor. One is demonstrably larger than the other.

Books are a big deal tshirt, with Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems.

The Monster at the End of This Book Book with matching tshirt, held by a rainbow haired librarian wearing rainbow glasses.

The library is for everyone tshirt in bright colours and cartoon like head and shoulders illustrations of people with love hearts on their cheeks.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 23m

It's in this one, but you have scroll down to 5.37pm.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Local election results: The major upsets

Progress results from the 2025 local elections are trickling in.

www.stuff.co.nz

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 25m

Now the elections are over, I can go back to hugging one of my local board members.
And reposting their informative FB posts.
Can't show favouritism during the election period.

AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 29m

www.tickaroo.com/e/Ge7PpbANp6...

13 regions vote to remove Māori wards

13 regions vote to remove Māori wards13 regions have voted to remove Māori wards in the 2025 local elections, according to provisional results.Tasman, Tararua, Taupō, Marlborough, Whangārei, Thames, H...

www.tickaroo.com

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 2h

Don't worry xo. No news on that front from me, just Mum's service.

AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 2h

Same!

AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 2h

Recent events have made me think about songs I'd like played at my service.
So far....
open.spotify.com/playlist/4ac...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 6h

Day 6 at work. #Librarianfashion for local council voting.

The election colours are orange and black, so 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Bandana by @pepperraccoon.com.

Necklace and earrings from Sabine. Sometimes I need her close, so I can be the best librarian.

Orange and red bandana with bees.
Orange tartan trousers.
Orange jacket.
Orange and blue glass necklace and earrings.
Black sparkly Doc Martens.

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 10h

Forgot to tag #pukapuka so y'all can witness my name dropping

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11h

Ms. Rachel calls out Barack Obama's statement on Gaza, highlighting how referring to 'Israeli families' while calling Palestinians 'the people of Gaza' strips them of their humanity. 'Palestinians have families, too,' she wrote.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 19h

A new portrait of Monolophosaurus. The crest here is more voluminous than most reconstructions, exploring the idea that the underlying bone might have been anchoring a larger pneumatised casque.
#SciArt

A digital portrait of a large carnivorous dinosaur in a forest setting. The dinosaur has a large boney crest above its snout and eyes, and large folds of skin hanging around its neck and jaws. The dinosaur is mostly earthy brown, but with brighter blues and pinks around the eyes and throat.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 15h

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 23h

Come on Suzie.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.

Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space"

Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.
There's even a picture book about it.

www.beatnikpublishing.com/products/my-...

My Cat Can See Ghosts

What on earth is causing the cat to zoom, skitter and kung-fu kick the air? Could it be a ghost? A delightful tale that celebrates our feline friends in all their quirks, and why they deserve a warm s...

www.beatnikpublishing.com

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 1d

Shit is so bad that the best American news of the week is that Dolly Parton didn't die.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

#Librarianfashion
I like owls.

Navy-ish dress with cream owls.
Bronze-y owl with black tummy necklace.
Bronze-y owls earrings.
Black shoes with cream details.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

Birdle 🇳🇿 10/10/2025

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birdle.nz

Birdle New Zealand

Play and guess today's Birdle in 5 guesses. Learn about a new New Zealand bird every day.

birdle.nz

AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

#Librarianfashion
@johubris.bsky.social Midnight tried to eat my necklace!

An outfit, with cats.
Pink pinstripe trousers.
Blue ankle boots.
Mauve shirt.
Pale blue wrap top with flowers.

Small black cat on a lap demanding pats while person is trying to put on socks and boots.
Large black cat on a lap demanding pats.

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

archive.org

AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yes.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 1d

Not my call, thank goodness!

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