Bren MacDibble

“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.”

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."

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My doctor said I was on the cusp. So it could be one or two. 🤷‍♀️ Plus where we live, hot dry air means airborne diseases struggle. It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve had a cold or flu. No covid. Touch wood.

Luuuuuurrrrvvvvve Snow Crash! What a book! 💖

Oh why MMR? I asked about measles but the doctor said I probably didn’t need it.

Imagine getting into government and your only policy is to undo everything the last govt did? Like who votes for whingers with no actual plan? Now we’re back to the original problem, councils can’t afford to cope with runoff and sewerage. Nice one, Egghead. What a waste of time.

Oh wait… if you’re in the US authors don’t get paid to compensate library borrowing… I forgot about that. Stingy govt.

The library and libby exist to serve you free books. Waitlist your favourites today!

Or lentils and dried beans and bulk brown rice. The family that tootles together stays together.

Rock shaped like an open hippo mouth

Rock shaped like a hippos mouth in the dry surrounding landscape

Wave Rock with grumpy photographer squatting in foreground complaining about tourists all having fun pretending to surf a rock! 🤘 People give the shot scale, I told her.

Wave Rock with me, my partner and dog in front taken by nice tourist who took time off from making cheesy surfing shots on the rock wave to help out.

Hippos Yawn and Wave Rock WA.

Bulbus black fungi on stalk emerging from gravel.

Exploded bulbus fungi.

Gravel pit with rock rack and motorhome

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

Large boulder balanced upright on a granite mountain top

Bren pretending to hold back giant boulder

View down from granite mountain top

The skywalk on top of the granite mountain too

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

You'd think a man with zero sphincter control would be careful about mentioning animals that are routinely forced to sit in their own excrement and shit bombers but there he goes, mouthing off like he's too thick to be embarrassed by a single thing.

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

I saw one journalist call people moderates and extremists instead of left and right and it makes so much more sense.

Put the word ‘Have’ in there as required. I lived part of my childhood in the Ruahine but these Tingle forests are endless!

Trees and a treetop walk. So bouncy!

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?!!

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!

I did not know that!

They got 300+ roo stomachs playing a rock song in Fed Square recently. That was cool. Weird but cool.

What is ‘cli-fi’ and why is it so hot right now? A literary genre that's really heating up.

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!!

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

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!

That makes Guy Fawkes Night even more ridiculous. So very tone deaf.

Women.

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

Oh wait... I don't think that we're allowed to make jokes like that anymore. I meant what are we celebrating here? Resistance? Failed resistance? A chance to play at being Guy Fawkes? I don't get Guy Fawkes Night at all.

Happy blow up the pommy parliament day! Not sure about this one. Maybe we should just blow up our own parliament once a year to keep politicians on their toes. The more we blow it up, the worse they did that year.

Had the person who made those ever seen a dog? I feel like someone just explained a dog to them and details were lost in translation.

Deport him back to the land of the giants!

And the news, everyone’s always swearing in Aus. I don’t understand why the bleeping instead. Just let them swear! And when you’re in hospital the machines that go ping are the most annoying thing, why put them in fictional shows? To make us annoyed?

Also the dog has beep phobia. Hospital shows on tv are like torture for him. Also bleeping the swearing. MKR looking at you! Just mute it. Why bleeps?