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Susannah Shepherd

@susannahshepherd.bsky.social

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Wellington, food, cats, writing. Recovering public servant. Also on @SusannahWrites@mastodon.nz

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Here’s our usually dignified old lady going into submission pose because she’s scared of a stroppy blackbird

A grey and white cat rolls inelegantly on a path, overseen by a bold blackbird perched on a letterbox above

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ah, fringe minor parties, bless ‘em… I feel like the local New Democrats were only supposed to put up half of this poster (“very intelligent and smart” 😂)

A poster for the New Democratic Party of NZ. The top half is a standard promo. The bottom half of the A4 reads “I'd probably steer right away from bringing the name
Social Credit out in front simply because as soon as many Kiwis see that it has been around for many years you've possibly lost those people. Build the new party on their principles but let them all first get the feeling this is fresh and new. Then if people want to go into the roots of the Democratic Party, you could have information written in a very intelligent and smart manner without losing the reader talking about the older people who know about Social Credit.”

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ah, fringe minor parties, bless ‘em… I feel like the local New Democrats were only supposed to put up half of this poster (“very intelligent and smart” 😂)

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Yeah, surely everyone knows lions look like this

Front-on facial shot of the badly taxidermied lion of Gripsholm Castle

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

A forest scene of dappled sunlight, with two tree ferns standing next to a large trunk

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This chonk, surrounded by snacks, is a kererū (New Zealand native pigeon). They are not the world's most aerodynamic bird.

A large kererū or New Zealand wood pigeon sits on a branch surrounded by leaves and a handful of orange berries that it has not yet eaten. The bird has a fluffy white front, with dark green and purplish upper plumage, and a bright orange beak. It surveys the photographer with the species' usual nonchalance.

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy solstice and cultural/religious festival of your choice, Fedi friends!

A back garden of shrubs and baby nīkau shelters under a towering pōhutukawa tree in full crimson flower

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

If you see this, post a bird 🦢

A stork perches on a large nest with the head of one of its chicks just peeking out between its long legs. There is a row of castle battlements in the distance background.

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This bit is unbelievably bad. They decided she was likely to be violent (FTAC is a big deal):

Extract from Stuff news article:
Given the number and nature of the emails, with concern for McSkimming, in early January
2024 Coster directed Deputy Commissioner Tania Kura to seek the input of the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre
(FTAC), as well as consider mental health support for the writer.
Ms Z was charged under the Harmful Digital Communications Act - a charae that was later

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Opposite but equally galling option

A coffee cup filled to the brim with instant coffee granules

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

An artist called Dennis Lushch drew this in 2019 and it is still right on the money, so to speak…

A cartoon of three men at a table. A brown-skinned man has a empty plate in front of him and looks downcast. A white man in hi viz gear has a plate with one cookie. Rupert Murdoch sits between them with a plate heaped high with cookies. Murdoch points to the white man and says “Careful, mate, that foreigner wants your cookie”

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The sleepy sighs suggest this is more comfortable than it looks #seal #sealpup #NZFurSeal

A juvenile NZ fur seal nestles among some boulders at water’s edge, enjoying a snooze in the sun. Its head is twisted up onto an angular rock.

A juvenile NZ fur seal nestles among some boulders at water’s edge, enjoying a snooze in the sun. From this angle it is twisted like a sleeping cat with a fat bottom.

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The female gaze

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I think our new tūī friend may have lost something. We’re used to seeing and hearing lots of them in surrounding trees but this one keeps coming down the the hedge close to our windows, for my viewing pleasure

A small white tufty feather resting on a wet dark wooden deck

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Sorry everyone in New Zealand, get back to work, Google says you’re hallucinating that the Matariki holiday is today #aiHallucination

Google AI assistant response claiming there is no public holiday today, because it’s July (it’s actually 20 June)

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

you have been kidnapped, and a character from the last TV show you watched is trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Scene from Murderbot where Ratthi attempts to hug SecUnit

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A film that takes place where you’re from

Two men carry a wrapped human body. Still from the movie “Carry Me Back” (1982)

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Susannah Shepherd @susannahshepherd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’m this old

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