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Anne Welborn

@wildagreenbough.bsky.social

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Writer, dreamwalker. Blessed with narcolepsy and CFS/ME. ACE. non-binary, she/her 🏳️‍🌈. I firmly believe books have the best moving pictures. Member SpecFicNZ

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · Apr 23

'Belling the Cat, A Tale of Alika' is now available on itch.io

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Belling the Cat, A Tale of Alika. by Anne Welborn

It's not a story about cats.

wildagreenbough.itch.io

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 23h

Grim, well-researched reading
“Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than 1/3 of their adult life to get their 1st appointment at a gender clinic, & some will never receive care...Long waits increase distress, self-harm &suicide risk &push people towards potentially unsafe routes to treatment"

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

A worthy read of the exceptionally grim situation for trans people in the UK. The US gets the media spotlight, but the UK's attack on us is more subtle but also more destructive.

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

medium.com

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1d

The #WIPSnips word for October 8th is "dungeon"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
October 8 - dungeon
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 13h

I'm claiming 'Cell' in place of 'Dungeon'. From my WIP 'The Shallow Grave', Chapt 3 'Prisoner'. #WIPSnips

Swinging out both of her slender arms Jackie’s fingers described an arc from one corner of the wall to the other. “Ah got ta step in close once in a while fer look’n out fer ye. Since ye tol mah boss Ah got nothin’ ta fear Ah’m askin' ye straight if ye’re tellin' th' truth.”
Having got that out Jackie’s nerve gave up on her and she looked away, her hands visibly shaking as she snatched them back holding them close to her body.
“Ah’m shit scared of ye, only Ah’m goin’ ta stand here ‘til Ah get yer answer.”

“Jackie, I wasn’t lying when I said that to Arthur.”
Bent over, shoulders slumped with her arms clutched tight around her body Jackie raised her head and looked directly at her.
“Boss said ta tell ye he’s got cells wurse than this un.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 11

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning.

- <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT.
- The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 6d

An amazing woman. A true conservation warrior.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry Lauren, - I'm afraid this is going to continue into next week.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 9d

And completely well deserved too.

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 9d

I haven't been to a WINZ office in years and I only went because I had to see about the paperwork for a medical alarm. Three security guards! Three of them in our tiny local office looking at me as if I was going to go wild and hit everybody with my walking stick. What has happened to this country?

A photograph of the sign above the entrance to a Ministry of Social Development Office.

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 10d

Bloody bots try to tell me how to write and how to spell. If I want to spell a word the way it was written in the 1600s I don't want a bot pushing an Americanised 'replacement' at me. Words I learned in primary school are now considered 'obsolete' which is fecking annoying. Feck Skynet and its bots.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 10d

What an absolute fuckwit, - and I make no apology whatsoever for using bad language on Bluesky.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 10d

ALL HAIL OUR NEW CHAMPION

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 10d

Kārearea NZ falcon crowned 2025 Bird of the Year

The kārearea New Zealand falcon has taken out the top spot in the 20th anniversary Bird of the Year competition.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 11d

#writingworkshops #writingtips #aspiringauthor #writings #authors

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 12d

My daughter has been writing up a storm with her own book project , - while what has her Mum been doing? Dribbling down the side of her face while knocked out sound asleep in bed.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 13d

Having had the 'flu has made friend narcolepsy more insistent. This morning I woke up long enough to get something to drink before I fell asleep again until well past mid day. Yesterday was the same. I had a friend come to see me and I couldn't wake up. Welcome back Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Pen and ink drawing. A middle aged woman messily asleep in her bed without first having changed out of her day clothes.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 14d

My ADHD daughter thanks you.

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 16d

It does sound a lot like a similar method to spoons as an aid to not burning up whatever slender reserves we might have.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 18d

To be quite honest I don't think any of them are worth subscribing to now. A few years ago Netflix was good, but not anymore. Low quality video and too darn expensive.

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 18d

What the heck is a Spoonie?

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 19d

And I was right. My 'good' eye was failing and showing signs of developing cataracts, while my never one to cooperate or be useful lazy eye was almost pristine. My new glasses when they arrive should be a major improvement, but for how long that will last I couldn't say.

Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 19d

Having finally got over the last dregs of the 'flu I made an appointment to get my eyes checked. I knew something would be wrong since trying to write without my left eye playing up was getting past a joke. Something more than friend Amblyopia had to be at the back of it.

A grey haired woman sits at a table in a sunny room with a bookshelf against one wall reading manuscripts.

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🫜🌷🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🌷🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 20d

132 years since women in Aotearoa New Zealand gained the right to vote - and became the FIRST country in the world to do so.

Happy Suffrage Day to all women!

A grainy black and white photo of marching women with a banner that is not legible. The text below says "New Zealand women marching for suffrage" and the side text says "1st country to give women the right to vote in 1893"

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 19d

What a fuckwit.

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Anna Kirtlan @seamunchkin.bsky.social · 19d

Don't usually post work stuff but the amazing reaction to this post from my new gig as comms & marketing manager for ADHD NZ made my heart sing.

Our highest ever performing post and it's an empowering te reo term for ADHD.

With the way the world is going, this is gives me much needed hope.

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Anne Welborn @wildagreenbough.bsky.social · 25d

Let me guess, - their diversity and rainbow training was devised and published without first checking things out with diverse and rainbow folk to see if it was Ok.

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