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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

June 14th Obama Appreciation Day

Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have broken my socials. I watched dumb stuff - people talking to spirit boxes which are just dodgy toys and then I ended up on the Right Wing side of the internet, so I Not Interested a pile of things, banned the words US and America and now I'm just over it. The RW internet broke me.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today, we introduce you to Eugen Bacon. Eugen has won and been nominated for national & international awards; edited @BSFA.bsky.social anthologies & has been a judge in various competitions including the @genni.bsky.social @aurealisawards.bsky.social #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The campaign to bring #WorldCon to #BrisbaneIn2028 needs your support! #AustralasianSFF#MeanjinIn202 Things you can do....

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It’s Earth Day! Earth Overshoot Day this year is likely to fall on June 5 … the day we burn through more resources than the planet can regenerate in a year. Humans are living unsustainable lives. Australia overshot on March 23! It’s us! Look up! Take action. #earthday #sustainability

Child’s hand holding up a globe, continent of Africa forward, with the words Earth Day, it’s in your hands

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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

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The segregation crisis in schools funding

In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

TFW you’re watching something and it feels so cringe and you realise someone just used AI to animate a photo they stole from someone else and watching it means you’re contributing to a world where models and actors lose the jobs that keep them from starving between gigs and the whole thing is FAKE!

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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Can confirm Dame Jacinda Ardern's and (as yet un-damed) Catherine Chidgey's books both appear in our own public submissions of best reads my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/best-of-2025 ^MT

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Dogs are hardcore, aren't they? My dog was munching on a carrot, then performed some possessed acrobatics and spat out a molar (he's had $1000 of dentistry incl 15 teeth out - small dog mouths are shite - but they won't put him under since the raven fed him a scrap of 1080 - true story).

A black and silver mini Schnauzer with a green one eyed toy. Of course it's a schnauzer... mad as cut snakes every bloody one of them.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s interesting that in every community there’s people who are ready to turn on others in their community if given some zealous noise. MORE interesting is that they are so prepared to out themselves right now or join ICE … how handy if someone is taking names.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/12/2025

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. “These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

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“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban

“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Alien fungi has landed in outback WA. We’ve seen the Day of the Triffids. We know what comes next!

Bulbus black fungi on stalk emerging from gravel.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Loved The Granite Skywalk north of Albany in WA. Steep climb but worth it!

Large boulder balanced upright on a granite mountain top

Bren pretending to hold back giant boulder

The skywalk on top of the granite mountain too

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New contract signed for a contemporary YA novel with Freemantle Press! So pleased! 💕

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

As a Kiwi it is hard for me to say this… I never in my life, seen so many trees as on WA’s southern coast! Been driving through them for days!

Looking down on trees. Weird perspective!

A tree with an old person’s face. They call this one grandma Tingle but the boy one King Tingle. Bloody patriarchy, why can’t she be a Queen?!!

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Tim Jones @timjonesbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Chuffed to have my work listed alongside Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor and Richard Powers in this article by @clairemabey.bsky.social on recommended climate fiction (cli-fi) from NZ and the world!! thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-... #ClimateFiction #clifi #books #nzbooks #Aotearoa

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What is ‘cli-fi’ and why is it so hot right now?

A literary genre that's really heating up.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In grasslands shaped by fire one tree reigns supreme. The grass tree, Xanthorrhoea. Impervious to fire, it needs heat and soot to germinate seeds. Slow growing, many of these are 100 years old. The flower spikes contain resin used by the local peoples. Wanagarra Reserve, Wedge Island, WA. So pretty!

Majestic grass trees with flower spikes most with fire blackened trunks stretching across rolling grasslands covered in dry golden grass.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I think if 2025 has shown us ANYTHING it's that we need people with impeccable morals in charge.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The last people who rented my house managed to turn the beep off the microwave! If only they’d done the oven, the dishwasher, the stovetop, the washing machine, the tvs…. Hate beeping appliances!

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Look what arrived in the mail! Only a little bent. So proud to be included in the shortlist! 😍 #booksky

Certificate from WA Premiers Book Awards for Book of the Year Shortlist for The Apprentice Witnesser. A bit bent because we only have a tiny PO Box.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

When I was at high school there was a thing called the Bursary and it strikes me now that a scheme where highschool graduates can win money for uni with grades is brilliant! Was that how it worked? Kids from Huntly college weren’t told about uni so 🤷‍♀️ but if that’s how the boomers afforded uni. Wow!

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I feel like social media is in self-throttling phase. I'm old, so I remember forums where you'd say something and intelligent people would say something back. Now you say something and 100 accounts, half of which are bots, pile in with idiotic replies. Life's too short.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

WA we have all your homing pigeons. They are grumpy, shitty and ill-equipped for desert life. Half-dead, they are drawn to us like an apocalypse movie opening. Racing pigeons is not a sport. After seeing poop-spattered cities and Trafalgar Square, I realise they're not actually good at 'Homing'.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

NZ Parliament and Brownlee need to take a good long look at whose land they’re standing on before they go shutting down parliament over a waiata! Fragile old white men’s egos deserve a good slap.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A lovely evening down at the river.

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aec.org.nz @aec.org.nz · 01/10/2025

Curriculum progress in Aotearoa explained in 176 words. #nzpol

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I think I just spent three days trying to explain an account issue to a help bot. It was the opposite of helpful. Issue is unresolved. I give up.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Facebook marketplace is like, “I found these things for you, a bit further away.” “Oh like 100km away in Northampton?” “No, 3,500kms away, have a look!”

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Dear internet… I have cleaned the upholstery on all my chairs and now they’re too wet to sit on. Floor sitting is supposed to be better for you anyway.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I have an announcement #booksky! I have signed a contract for my next mg novel! Find out all about it here: macdibble.com/announcement... (Allen & Unwin have world rights if you're outside of Aus/NZ want to get in on the ground floor).

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MacDibble | Announcements

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

3 weeks out in the world, 7 days presenting, 2 publisher meetings, couple of catchups aaand I'm $300 in the black. About the amount I spent on jumpers (way less than the other business lost without me 😑). Thanks to all those who hosted me and kept me out of the red! (Suzanne, Kris, Emily, Barb 💕)

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a blue and white penguin says thank you

Alt: a blue and white penguin says thank you

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Spring has sprung on the mid west coast of Australia. ☀️

Forecast for the rest of Tuesday Max 28C, Sunny, chance of rain 5%. This is for Kalbarri on the midwest coast of Aus.

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Threads suspended me. I merely likened the breakdown of postal services to an abusive relationship, first the gaslighting then the isolating. Aussie’s have a right to criticise govt as part of law. We may not have free speech but we have that. Not sure what crime they’re trying to pin on me. 🤷‍♀️

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

forthelo_lo Loris Travel 📍Shark bay, Monkey mia

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My last post about How to Bee being up in lights on a tower in Perth got so much attention 😂 I thought I’d follow that up by showing The Apprentice Witnesser up there too alongside other WA Premiers Award shortlisted books! #booksky #bookweek #kidlit #clifi

Western Australia Premiers Award shortlisted books in lights on a tower in Yagan Square in Perth including The Apprentice Witnesser!

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Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Are you in Perth?! Did you see a giant How to Bee on a tower???!!! #bookweek

Tower in Perth has a large image of How to Bee the children’s book on it!!

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