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Brekekekiwi

@brekekekiwi.bsky.social
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Teacher, Writer and Man about town. All this is personal opinion. Check out my writing through linktr.ee/AaronDickAuthor You can see my bsky video updates at @author-aarondick.bsky.social Pākehā. He/him.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3h
On a dark dark hill there was a dark dark town. In the dark dark town there was a dark dark library. And in the dark dark library... there was a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton! Stromness Library is ready for #Halloween with Steph's fabulous #Funnybones art!
A window decorated with characters from Funnybones
A window decorated with characters from Funnybones
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Book Haven @bookhavennz.bsky.social · 4h
It’s BookShop Day on Sat 10 Oct & @pipadam.bsky.social will be in BookHaven at 12.30 for a wee kōrero on ‘ai & technocracy & community & bookshops’. pip knows lots about the evils of AI companies & the joys of books written by real people & available in real shops - so come on by on #NZBookShopDay
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 8h
As we draw ever nearer to election day here in Aotearoa New Zealand, I inevitably start to yet again think on the real travesty of our political process ... That we don't get a Democracy Sausage.
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Leobylaw on Stan Twitter in Car During Rain
ALT: Leobylaw on Stan Twitter in Car During Rain
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 10h
brb abducting classical architecture before the world is lost beneath the waves (if you saw this with typos no you didn't)
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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 9h
Does running out of the room in tears when Artax is in the swamp the first three times I watched the Neverending Story count?
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This amateur statistician has observed that the NZ media does not cover the parties in proportion to their seats in Parliament. It does not cover them in proportion to their current polling average. It does cover them approximately in proportion to their total donations #NZpol #ViciousCycle
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1News NZ (Unofficial) @1newsnz.nzcow.com · 04/10/2026
📢 Tens of thousands of wētā have now been bred at Butterfly Creek in Auckland and at Auckland Zoo.
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'Amazing conservation success': Zoologists celebrate wētā growth
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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A huge thank you to everyone who came to my New Zealand book launch event at Scorpio Books, it was such a blast! My thanks to local legend Rob Cruickshank for interviewing me, and to the staff at Scorpio for hosting such a great event (and squeezing over 100 attendees into the shop somehow)! 🪱📚🧪
A photograph of me signing a book after my launch event, with a queue of attendees lined up to get their copies signed.A photograph of my sitting in a bookshop with Rob Cruickshank, who was my interviewer for a Q&A style book launch event.A photograph of two stacks of my book 'The World Beneath our Feet', on display at my New Zealand book launch event.
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
L'embellie / The break in the clouds - 1962 or 1963 #artbots #magritte
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you know what's awesome about our transport policy, you can download, print and make your own Green transport assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/...
An image of a model kit for a Green Party train that you can print, cut out and folder to make your own train
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meet the tiny indie publisher behind the New Zealand novel of the year
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Meet the tiny indie publisher behind the New Zealand novel of the year
The two-person, artist-led publisher is passionate about building a community of readers.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 03/10/2026
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52 Pickup Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @52pickupstudios.com · 02/10/2026
We've just mailed out prints of 52 Pickup issue #42, 'Zolt Chess', a two-player chess variant played with a chess set and standard playing cards, to our amazing Patreon Insiders! patreon.52pickupstudios.com/posts/physical-mini-171090427
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Physical Mini-Zines Sent 📮 | 52 Pickup Studios
We design original tabletop games every single month! Our amazing Insider tier members receive a physical mini zine print in the mail each a
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Mittsusaru @mittsusaru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More holiday activities sffanz.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/m...
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More holidays thoughts…
…for the second week Short Film Festival Lego Star Wars Exhibition Not just Auckland this time.
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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It's amazing how this wall built across Aotearoa New Zealand's Alpine Fault in the 1960's has successfully halted any movement since! We should show our appreciation for such amazing engineering and forethought.
A dead straight 24 metre long 1 metre high wall in the middle of a meadow surrounded by mountains covered in forest.View looking straight down the wall showing it is indeed dead straight.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026
This is the opposite of Jaws. They mayor is like "we should do something about this shark" and the entire country says "shut up we love the shark."
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This was the thread bsky.app/profile/gari... Terrific stuff all round
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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ive noticed a few podcasts and YouTube videos saying koh-fie (rhyming with the letter O and the sky) for ko-fi fundraising recently. Ko-fi is just tla tredemark-able way to spell coffee, isnt it?
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fury. Sing, O Muse, of the Fury of the Fast, La Familia, that brought countless ills upon the roadways.
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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)
Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying:
“The govt should get out of education and health…”
“We need more contestability in social welfare…”
“the govt should sell ACC and the post office…”
“We should privatise electricity and roading…”
“Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM”
“That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's refreshing.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, yeah, this happened early hours this morning in Dijon France.
Top banner, burnt orange colour with the black and white Huia logo in the middle. Under that, in green background is a photo of the French cover of Charlie Tangaroa et la Creature Des Abyssses and smaller version of English Charlie. Top left corner are the words '2006 Etoiles bleues Literary Prize' and bottom right corner is a white Huia logoAccolades in France for Māori YA novel

Aotearoa author Tania Roxborogh wins Génération Mer award for Charlie Tangaroa

Author Tania Roxborogh has won a 2026 Génération Mer literary award for the French edition of her children’s novel Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea.

The novel has been named the winner of the Étoiles Bleues – Ados category, an award celebrating books that engage readers aged 13 to 18 with marine life and the ocean.  

Originally produced in Aotearoa by Huia Publishers, Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea was published in France by Au Vent des Îles and translated into French by Christine Roth.Roxborogh said she was deeply honoured that Charlie’s story had found another home with readers on the other side of the world.

‘It means a great deal to me that a story about a Māori boy from Aotearoa New Zealand has crossed the ocean and been welcomed in France. Stories connect us, and I think our oceans connect us too.

‘In Charlie Tangaroa, the sea isn’t simply the setting for the story. Charlie’s identity and whakapapa are connected to Tangaroa and to the moana. If we understand the ocean as something we are in relationship with, rather than simply something we own and use, that changes how we behave towards it.

‘I’m enormously grateful to Génération Mer for recognising Charlie’s story, to Christian Robert and the team at Au Vent des Îles for bringing the book to French readers, and especially to Christine Roth, whose translation has allowed French children to connect with Charlie and his world.’ Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea follows Charlie, a Māori boy who discovers he has an extraordinary connection to the ocean and the creatures within it. The novel draws on pūrākau, whakapapa and mātauranga Māori while asking questions about the relationship between people and the natural world. It combines wild adventure and humour with themes of belonging, identity and care for the environment.

The Génération Mer award adds an international honour to a book that has already received significant recognition in Aotearoa.

Roxborogh said she was ‘delighted’ to share the news.

‘When you write a story that is grounded so firmly in Aotearoa, you don’t necessarily know whether readers thousands of kilometres away will see themselves in it. This award reminds me that the particular can also be universal. Charlie can remain completely himself—a Māori kid from Aotearoa—and still make a connection with a young reader in France.’
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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nz writers: go.bsky.app/9LaZKuR
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Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's my birthday! Today's my birthday. I could've made a 'sale' for 'promotion' but I'm sleepy <3 If you want you could check out my books whoah! remwigmore.itch.io books2read.com/vengefulwild2 OR just go and review your favourite indie book, request it from the library, or tell a friend about it!
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."
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Shutupika @shambolika.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's the anniversary of my liberation from the womb, and I got sent a copy of my super mulitalented cousin's #pukapuka - Terri Te Tau. Yaaaaay Terri! Has anyone read it yet?
Cover of The valley of unlikely acquaintances, by Terri Te Tau
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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone else having trouble with the Popular With Friends feed?
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Helen Beech @beechworks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Grateful Team work Sunshine Long chat with Mum Lots of fresh eggs Big tidy up and get rid of Him Excellent food
Tui Tui Tui
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Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omg I could name them
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
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ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No point fixing this roof leak. We're going to replace the roof once the mortgage is paid off in 10 years. #nzpol
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026
came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id...
I figured out how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing is a big part of it.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We don’t have any of her scarves, but we get to admire Helen’s art every day. I definitely see the appeal of a portable version.
One of Helen’s beautiful paintings hanging on our lounge wall
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ms 7 is making her album cover debut! She was Ms 6 when @tariqa.bsky.social took this photo of her with a weird cloud in Bali last year. Might look like a Pink Floyd album cover, but I promise there's only about 20 seconds of guitar solos all-up in its 33 minutes and 59 seconds.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this video has everything (carpool coalition on instagram) #nzpol
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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I paid my student loan (a hefty $90k thanks to interest being applied from day one) and I would happily support a government paying off other people’s student loans. Just because I don’t benefit directly from the policy doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No she’s not.
TLS: Mary Beard on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have not given up hope of a genuine Benoit Blanc murder mystery with the muppets. Just, not addressing at all that it's been in a shared muppet universe this whole time.
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I Suspect Foul Play Knives Out
ALT: I Suspect Foul Play Knives Out
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