Toi Aro d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency! I held the Toi Pōneke version of this residency earlier this year and it was an amazing opportunity. If you're a Wellington region artist and meet the criteria I'd really encourage you to apply. www.toiaro.nz/residencies

Ōtepoti: solidarity with local trans folk Sarah is studying at Otago Uni, seeking asylum here in Aotearoa Te Waipounamu. She needs our support with living, fees & gender affirming care costs givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

Support Sarah After Escaping Prosecution as a Trans Refugee Advocate.

Sarah is a trans advocate that lost her scholarship because she's trans. She has limited support due to her asylum seeker status.

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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Geoguessr put me right at the St Bathan's research site and I was so excited when I realised where I was. WHERE IS THE MAMMAL? THE ONE-FEMUR MAMMAL. HOPPING. HOPPING.

It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1

Release day tomorrow! Looking forward to launching Tides of Time into the world: books2read.com/b/tides3

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Tides of Time by Andi R. Christopher

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Dude failed the Uber driver background check because he once left a fridge outdoors in the state of Tennessee; redditors have all the Alice's Restaurant references, as is good and proper. www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

From the mildlyinfuriating community on Reddit: Failed an Uber background check

Explore this post and more from the mildlyinfuriating community

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It is my birthday, please hire me.

It's me, Nico.@nicasio.bsky.social · last mo.

If you've got a novel manuscript in need of developmental editing, a quick-but-incisive overall evaluation, or a sensitivity read, then hit me up! I've got spots open starting mid-month, and can't wait to get my grubby little hands all up in your stories.

Anyway it took a few weeks but I resolved the latest medical bureaucracy thing and have new meds to try. Wish me luck!

Just seen a claim that everything [infrastructure wise] caters to people who can't bike [at the expense of cyclists] and I swear to fucking god having limited transport options due to disability is not some privilege of laziness, it's really frustrating and restricting.

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

Me: do we have any jam? Partner: what do you want it for? What have I done to inspire such suspicion???

Folks I've just realised I could make scotch (or welsh ig) eggs in the air fryer...

Me: ok brain time to get some sleep 🧠: ON THE NING NANG NONG WHERE THE COWS GO BONG

*cackles* IKEA order just arrived

Just realised I should have asked the compounding pharmacy for a custom colour for my tablets. I wonder if they do that. All my meds are white or orange at the moment and it's getting confusing.

New story day! "Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults," in @nightmare-magazine.com, is about trans folks trying to live under authoritarianism. And also mysterious teeth. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/patt...

Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults - Nightmare Magazine

The dryer groans to life, then begins thumping ominously. Maddie, already halfway out of her building’s laundry room, swears under her breath. The machine grinds and shakes. She slams the stop button,...

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"Should all people in Aotearoa get the same protection from discrimination?" A resounding YES from me Will you join me in signing support for Ia Tangata? iatangata.nz

Ia Tangata — the fix the Government shelved

Almost three years of work. 27 recommendations. Shelved in a day. Add your name to bring it back.

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Tides of Time - 3 in the Charley Deacon series - is available for pre-order now, releasing later this month. books2read.com/tides3

Excellent launch of Trish Harris' Out of the Box at Te Matapihi today. It ended with dancing. Lovely to see so many friends and colleagues there and meet some new people. Looking forward to reading the book. oup.nz/library/out-...

Out of the Box - Otago University Press

‘Deaf or disabled people get put in a box. It’s frustrating, it’s tiring and it’s boring. I want that box to be broken open!’—Mojo Mathers In Out of the Box, an illustrated book for readers aged 12+, ...

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Finally got over myself* and used the Relay app, and wow the pharmacy I was calling did not understand the concept, but it definitely helped. *Me: waaaah is this cultural appropriation because I'm not actually d/Deaf Deaf friends: omg Andi STFU and just use the app

If you missed I’M NEURODIVERGENT AND I’M AN AUTHOR with @andiwrites.bsky.social and Janna Ruth earlier, never fear! You can catch up with the recording in your own time. www.youtube.com/live/7c5g3qd...

Marginalia '26: I'm Neurodivergent and I'm an Author

YouTube video by Jackie Lee Morrison

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Hey! I'm speaking on this in a bit over an hour.

Jackie Lee Morrison@jaxies.bsky.social · last mo.

Second Marginalia panel drop! Join @andiwrites.bsky.social and @janna-ruth.com as they chat about how being neurodivergent has affected their lives and work, and helped propel their writing careers forward 🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Never not annoyed by what spell check has become.

Huge thanks to @clairemabey.bsky.social and @thespinoff.bsky.social for this interview about Marginalia which kicks off TOMORROW 🥳 thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-07-...

A new, free festival puts marginalised writers on the main stage

'At big festivals we always end up in the side rooms.'

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TIL that redshirting children is a sports-derived term that means means holding them back a year in education, not sending them to an alien planet to die as cannon fodder, and uh I probably owe some people an apology for judging their parenting now...

Depending on the sibling, someone innocent would go to prison, a child would wander off and probably die, and the supermarket shelves would be empty.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

Tides of Time - 3 in my sea magic filled Charley Deacon series - is now available for pre-order at Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, and more: books2read.com/tides3

Imagine if Ann Widdecombe has just found out God's a woman though.

Hello UK friends! I’m delighted to say that my novel Song of the Saltings is now out in your country at all good bookshops! Pubbed by the wonderful folk at Guppy Books. Please spread the word! If you liked The Grimmelings I hope you’ll like this. #ukkidlit #kidlituk guppybooks.co.uk/book/song-of...