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🦇 Mel 🦇

@melbailey.bsky.social
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Reads too much. Watches too much TV. Cookbook collector. Indoors Enthusiast. Paranormal Believer. From Aotearoa. General All Round Weirdo. She/Her. 🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ I absolutely do not have my shit together.

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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 53m
Dylan is packing and it's giving me anxiety. He just picks up clothes and puts them (folded at least) into his suitcase without making a pile first to double check what he's taking. It's madness. MADNESS!!!!
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 1h
Off to Melbourne early tomorrow morning. Hoping this is a really relaxing holiday, no rushing around, nowhere we have to be at any time, lots of chill time.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's an Evil Tentacle kinda day.
Me wearing a blue T-shirt with a neon Evil Tentacle picture on it
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dylan: what's this???? And it was a surprise Southland care package, thanks @andrew.joll.nz 🥰🥰🥰 Are Belgium Biscuits considered a breakfast food? 🤔
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a great book btw.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A tray of cinnamon rolls
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 29/09/2026
My friend Steven runs an improv stand-up show every month in Auckland called The Dice Show - highly recommended! It's on tonight in K Road if you're looking for an outing. events.humanitix.com/the-dice-sho...
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The Dice Show
Daring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash!), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, high-stakes improv stand-up show.
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got myself a batch of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education about school attendance. One of them presents David Seymour with a rather awkward problem. It begins on 11 February 2025. Intrigued? #nzpol
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a new season of MKR but I'm watching the first episode and it's barely about the food any more and all about the drama so I don't think I'll bother.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is alllllll making a lot of sense
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Should I make cinnamon rolls? I should make cinnamon rolls.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lying in bed when I hear the sound of the cat's biscuits being eaten, which is weird because I sat up and looked at Moriarty and he looked at me. Whoever it was left through the cat door when I got up to investigate 🤷
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean sure but also uhhhhhh
Text reads "I beg you to keep the wherewithal for this fantastic snack-cum-supper ..."
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean I wouldn't have called it that
A wide massaging circle held on around the waist with a belt. 

It is called "Anko Vibrating Ring Massager".
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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a kitty I sculpted
Polymer clay sculpture of a stylized roly-poly cat, seated with one paw raised
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dinner is cheesy tomato and pumpkin gnocchi with homemade bread rolls.
Dinner as described above
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My sister gave me her old bread maker so now I can make dough with very minimal effort.
A tray of homemade bread rolls.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't even know if the teens have noticed that the clocks changed. It's the school holidays, time has no meaning.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Screenshot of posts of mine from Oct 2025.

1: Dylan thought that watching The Mummy "3 or 4 times" was lots and this is how you get statements like "You haven't watched The Mummy enough and it shows".

Anyway he's going to watch The Mummy with me soon.

2: "You've watched The Mummy too many times and it shows"

"No and that's impossible anyway. You cannot watch The Mummy too many times"
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me having just spent 2 hours shoe shopping with the 15yo: ugh I need a rest but I don't know what I want to watch Netflix: hi have you watched The Mummy lately? Me: ... ... ... ...
Me watching The Mummy
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got 11/15 but only because I remembered some of them from @ninjakitty.bsky.social's posts. They somehow all manage to look like the worst thing.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What if we brought the worst fashions back? These look terrible on everyone. I also saw a stretchy, low waist, below the knee, handkerchief hem skirt the other day and was like "oh .... no".
Jay Jays just dropped styles and it's denim capris with Mary Jane type ballet flats. 

The 90s called (on a massive phone) and they don't want this back, they said to burn them.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dinner is sausages, mashed potatoes, peas, cauliflower cheese, crispy cauliflower leaves, and gravy.
A plate of dinner as described above
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please admire my cauliflower cheese
A large enamel dish of cauliflower cheese
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again using up leftovers we have fried rice (using leftover sushi rice) with capsicum, cabbage, onion, garlic, ginger, carrot, cabanossi (leftover from last night's garlic bread pizzas), egg, and kimchi.
A bowl of fried rice.
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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the archives
Screenshot of a tweet:

Lena @DeaExLena

"Being a woman isn't just a feeling" cry the TERFs, but what the hell else would it be? Did Shania sing "Man, I Feel Like I've Got Two X Chromosomes and A Uterus"? She did the fuck not.

8:36 PM, Sep 2, 2018
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I refuse to line up for ages for unnecessary things. Like lining up for whatever new shop is opening or the latest viral food place. Like, no, I will not be waiting an hour for the privilege of giving a business my money, I'll just go somewhere else.
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lunchboxes guys, lunchboxes
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Came home from the supermarket to find out the 15yo (yes 15 not 5) had drawn facial hair on himself. At least it was with a whiteboard marker.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me: (driving car into wall) My car has gone rogue! Me: (dropping phone into tub) My god, my phone has gone rogue! Me: (tripping over table) The table! It's gone rogue!
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I loaned my copy of Tender is the Flesh to my dad and he was saying that he reads a bit each night but then has to put it aside to digest (haha) what he's just read 😂😂
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My sister just sent me this. Sorry she didn't get a price on this wonderful artwork.
My sister's message "found a beautiful painting for your house ..."

The painting is browns and blues mostly. It has a large wolf head looking forward with a smaller wolf head in profile to the side of it. Those appear to be in a dream catcher. There is another wolf head above the dream catcher. 

Why.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I literally only just found out that Daylight Saving starts this weekend. Oops 🤷
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somebody was further down the bed but then he needed to be closer. He's going to be so sad when we're away. The youths will be here to look after him but they sleep downstairs so he'll be a bit lonely.
A sleeping cat tucked right in beside me on the bed. He couldn't get much closer without just literally being on me.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@madhmstr.bsky.social Happy Birthday you gorgeously lovely person 🥰🥰🥰🥰
static.klipy.com
Happy Happy Birthday Monkey Dance
ALT: Happy Happy Birthday Monkey Dance
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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 24/09/2026
ranking all my mutuals by mouthfeel
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One week until we take the younger teens to Melbourne for a week! Planning a pretty chill time, no real itinerary, just a few things we want to go to, a lot of food we want to eat, and we'll see how the weather and energy levels are each day and go from there.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watching an American decluttering her wardrobe and she's like "I need to go through my swimsuit bin because there's so many I just don't think I like any more" and I still live in a "why would anyone own more than one (or maybe two) swimsuits????" world.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My lunch is roasted kumara, pulled pork, yoghurt (because there is no sour cream), and sauerkraut.
A (messy) bowl of food as described
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We did a pulled pork for dinner on Tuesday night, had leftovers last night, and there's still enough left for lunches today (and maybe tomorrow too). And the pork was $28 so that's pretty good.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Few things I hate more than starting a new book. Who the fuck are these guys and why are they bothering me? You think you can compare to the last guys? You have no idea what we went through together.
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😂😂😂 perfect response
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 23/09/2026
You sleep on you back wrong and wake up with a sharp tinge in your shoulder To take three Tylenol, turn to page 125 To ignore it with the belief it will work itself out throughout the day, turn to page 98
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Chuckabilly Clay @chuckabilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hello my fellow Horror Hounds! I’m in process of opening an horror indie bookstore with plans to open Fall 2027. We could use your help if you can spare anything. Even a $7 gift helps get us to our goal! Or if you can’t give, please share! 💙📚🩸 📕
gofund.me
Donate to Join Us in Creating a Horror Community Bookstore in Chico, organized by Charles Clay
I am a book and reading advocate and activist in beautiful No… Charles Clay needs your support for Join Us in Creating a Horror Community Bookstore in Chico
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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm watching a pantry reset video and she's like "generally on the top shelf we put things we don't want the kids to be able to get" and then she pulls down a harmonica and just yes 😂😂
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mama.melancholia @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved…” 🥰
smokeinsilence:
have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it's no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don't
viridianmasquerade:
I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade.
Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won't talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend's parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone l've ever loved, even for a heartbeat.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year
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