Bianca Michelle Parker
@bumblebigirl.bsky.social
Auckland based writer. Trans, Ace, Autistic. She/Her. Fix your heart or die
My novel DIDO ON THE EDGE coming 2026
My novel DIDO ON THE EDGE coming 2026
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“our Mamdani” would also get immediately stochastic terrorism’d out of politics, very likely egged on by leaders of the current coalition parties, and have it framed as a personal failure so maybe we should fix that issue before looking for a figurehead we can slot in
Watch nz politics fall over themselves trying to “find our Mamdani” but not fix the way we treat wahine and takatāpui Māori in politics 👀
January 2, 2026 at 4:47 AM
“our Mamdani” would also get immediately stochastic terrorism’d out of politics, very likely egged on by leaders of the current coalition parties, and have it framed as a personal failure so maybe we should fix that issue before looking for a figurehead we can slot in
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Something we have to remember, and it sucks, but it's still a factor, is that it's not just the right. Metiria Turei was driven out of politics 9 years ago not just for admitting historic welfare fraud - to illustrate the failures of the system - but because even people on "her side" turned on her
“our Mamdani” would also get immediately stochastic terrorism’d out of politics, very likely egged on by leaders of the current coalition parties, and have it framed as a personal failure so maybe we should fix that issue before looking for a figurehead we can slot in
Watch nz politics fall over themselves trying to “find our Mamdani” but not fix the way we treat wahine and takatāpui Māori in politics 👀
January 2, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Something we have to remember, and it sucks, but it's still a factor, is that it's not just the right. Metiria Turei was driven out of politics 9 years ago not just for admitting historic welfare fraud - to illustrate the failures of the system - but because even people on "her side" turned on her
I did write theatre stuff a while back and one of those plays even got a proper production so I guess that counts as career stuff? But I guess the *beginning* was 2018 when I decided I was actually gonna finish the book I'd begun seven years earlier and started putting in the work to do that.
Welcome to January, #pretendpanel! I want to hear all about your change/growth/evolution as a writer over time. People often forget what a journey it is!
January 2nd: What do you consider to be the beginning of your writing career?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 2nd: What do you consider to be the beginning of your writing career?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM
I did write theatre stuff a while back and one of those plays even got a proper production so I guess that counts as career stuff? But I guess the *beginning* was 2018 when I decided I was actually gonna finish the book I'd begun seven years earlier and started putting in the work to do that.
The Stranger Things finale is fine. Just... fine. There's not much tension in the final battle, but the wrap up is good. They dare to be a bit ambiguous, a bit open ended. That's more than I expected. I understand people are mad about that, but I think it's the best bit of the whole thing.
January 2, 2026 at 7:03 AM
The Stranger Things finale is fine. Just... fine. There's not much tension in the final battle, but the wrap up is good. They dare to be a bit ambiguous, a bit open ended. That's more than I expected. I understand people are mad about that, but I think it's the best bit of the whole thing.
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
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#nzpol Suggest you all reread this 1 year old article so you can better understand why David Seymour chose to visit the President of Argentina while you're all distracted by family holidays and boxing day sales. 🤬
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
#nzpol Suggest you all reread this 1 year old article so you can better understand why David Seymour chose to visit the President of Argentina while you're all distracted by family holidays and boxing day sales. 🤬
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Huh, so it turned out the entire newspaper was being geared towards attacking a minority group and no amount of extremely limited differing opinion would compensate for that decision? Sounds like a place you shouldn't work for if you have any ethical integrity.
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Huh, so it turned out the entire newspaper was being geared towards attacking a minority group and no amount of extremely limited differing opinion would compensate for that decision? Sounds like a place you shouldn't work for if you have any ethical integrity.
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this is, indeed, a crusade by the people directly running the New York Times to destroy the rights and lives of trans people in this country
they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it
they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
this is, indeed, a crusade by the people directly running the New York Times to destroy the rights and lives of trans people in this country
they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it
they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it
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Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?
The four books you need to understand me
January 1, 2026 at 8:28 AM
The four books you need to understand me
So there's no ambiguity here, is there? Your product isn't going around telling people they're "a divinely protected survivor" unless you told it to. This is an app designed to derange people and we're just handing it to our kids with less concern than we did tamagotchis
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So there's no ambiguity here, is there? Your product isn't going around telling people they're "a divinely protected survivor" unless you told it to. This is an app designed to derange people and we're just handing it to our kids with less concern than we did tamagotchis
Gorrilaz were right, the future really is comin' on.
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Gorrilaz were right, the future really is comin' on.
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“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
One of the greatest scenes in a mainstream film. A casual demolition of the very notion that anything is fixed or certain in this world, delivered like Shakespeare by Tommy Lee Jones, right in the middle of a silly movie about fighting an alien bug.
My favorite scene of this movie & always resonated with me. Men In Black (1997)
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
One of the greatest scenes in a mainstream film. A casual demolition of the very notion that anything is fixed or certain in this world, delivered like Shakespeare by Tommy Lee Jones, right in the middle of a silly movie about fighting an alien bug.
I go back and forth on this because the fantasy of that scene is obviously *nice*. It's nice for younger viewers to see that kind of universal acceptance. But it's also like... no one in that group has anymore complex feelings about it than that? Really? In 1987?
okay going by the tv show where the teenager coming out as gay has universal support in 1987 I’m starting to think people don’t know just how *recent* any level of societal acceptance was and that being under the age of 35 means you can’t process a time when it wasn’t a settled issue
they will
they will
December 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I go back and forth on this because the fantasy of that scene is obviously *nice*. It's nice for younger viewers to see that kind of universal acceptance. But it's also like... no one in that group has anymore complex feelings about it than that? Really? In 1987?
"The pro-democracy movement must include people who want to exterminate entire other peoples from existence."
The pro-democracy movement needs to include factions which we disagree with vehemently on all other matters.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"The pro-democracy movement must include people who want to exterminate entire other peoples from existence."
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"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
"Hey folks, quick update: we're still being riven by infighting and can't work out what the hell it is we're doing (though obviously we're still very commited to being transphobic)! Logically therefore this is the perfect time to give us your money."
Now, more than ever, we need a CEC that will fight for a party led by its members — not MPs or bureaucrats.
December 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Hey folks, quick update: we're still being riven by infighting and can't work out what the hell it is we're doing (though obviously we're still very commited to being transphobic)! Logically therefore this is the perfect time to give us your money."
With regards to the discussion of Avatar's cultural relevance (or lack thereof) I think decades of having every major film being based on a pre-existing IP and marketed at geek/fandom circles has warped our understanding of what that even is.
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
With regards to the discussion of Avatar's cultural relevance (or lack thereof) I think decades of having every major film being based on a pre-existing IP and marketed at geek/fandom circles has warped our understanding of what that even is.
I feel like I've never seen much discussion of No (2012), a fantastic film about political messaging that's incredibly pertinent to our current situation
December 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I feel like I've never seen much discussion of No (2012), a fantastic film about political messaging that's incredibly pertinent to our current situation
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Cishet white men sure do feel entitled to everything, even *marginalization*.
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Cishet white men sure do feel entitled to everything, even *marginalization*.
I'd ideally like to have more space in my life to write consistently. When you work full time everything has to fit into the gaps around that and it's becoming harder to make that work.
#pretendpanel, it's all good saying what our goals are, but we need to slow down and think through the steps it's going to take to get there. So...
December 26th: What do you need in order to achieve your writing goals in 2026?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
December 26th: What do you need in order to achieve your writing goals in 2026?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I'd ideally like to have more space in my life to write consistently. When you work full time everything has to fit into the gaps around that and it's becoming harder to make that work.
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
My novel Dido on the Edge got picked up for publication next year
Wrote a short story for an anthology also being published next year and got to meet a lot of cool writers doing that
Lost about 8kg thanks to healthier living
My novel Dido on the Edge got picked up for publication next year
Wrote a short story for an anthology also being published next year and got to meet a lot of cool writers doing that
Lost about 8kg thanks to healthier living
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
✈️ Moved across the country
✒️ Edited over a score of novels and creative works
✍️ Had two novels published, wrote a third for the start of 2026
🧳 Presented at six conventions across the country
🏳️⚧️ I lived, bitches!
✈️ Moved across the country
✒️ Edited over a score of novels and creative works
✍️ Had two novels published, wrote a third for the start of 2026
🧳 Presented at six conventions across the country
🏳️⚧️ I lived, bitches!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
🖤 Wrote three short stories
🖤 Published a second adult picture book
🖤 Started a business with my beautiful daughter
🖤 Gained a following of over 5K on BlueSky
🖤 Wrote three short stories
🖤 Published a second adult picture book
🖤 Started a business with my beautiful daughter
🖤 Gained a following of over 5K on BlueSky
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
My novel Dido on the Edge got picked up for publication next year
Wrote a short story for an anthology also being published next year and got to meet a lot of cool writers doing that
Lost about 8kg thanks to healthier living
My novel Dido on the Edge got picked up for publication next year
Wrote a short story for an anthology also being published next year and got to meet a lot of cool writers doing that
Lost about 8kg thanks to healthier living
There's a difference between kindness as an actual value and "kindness" as an excuse to do harm because you enjoy it. No one who wants to strip others of bodily autonony or spiritual freedom truly believe what they do is kind. They do not think you'll be happier after, they don't care how you feel
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There's a difference between kindness as an actual value and "kindness" as an excuse to do harm because you enjoy it. No one who wants to strip others of bodily autonony or spiritual freedom truly believe what they do is kind. They do not think you'll be happier after, they don't care how you feel