Karen Healey

Hm might just take myself off the reliever list for tomorrow...

The headline with the breaking news banner is fitting

Today I saw a hummingbird chasing a full-on hummingbird-eating kestrel away from its favorite feeder and that is the kind of example and omen I would like the world to follow through on, thank you.

1. Emma Frost
2. Eowyn
3. Ted Kord
4. Bones

Hey, have you watched our latest episode yet? Maybe this weekend is the time to settle in for an #nzbooks, poetry, identity and culture chat with former Poet Laureate @chrisjtse.bsky.social 🥰

Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.

Janet Frame

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

What if we had an entire foreign policy based on the petty resentments and insecurities of mediocre weak men?

Seat strategies, yup, efficient tapping, yup, remembering to say thank you to the driver, yup, it's just like riding a bike (which I am also doing more of this year!)

This year I've started doing relief teaching at a school I can take public transport to, and it's so nice to discover my bus skills are still there.

Screenshot of text reading At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations. Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.

Screenshot of text reading In May 2023, Dean was using TruDi in another sinuplasty operation when patient Donna Fernihough’s carotid artery allegedly “blew.” Blood “was spraying all over” – even landing on an Acclarent representative who was observing the surgery, according to a lawsuit Fernihough filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth against Acclarent and several manufacturers. One of Fernihough’s carotid arteries was damaged. She suffered a stroke the day of the surgery, according to her suit. Acclarent “knew or should have known that the purported artificial intelligence caused or exacerbated the tendency of the integrated navigation system product to be inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable,” the suit alleges.

Screenshot of text reading The FDA requires clinical trials for new drugs, but medical devices face different screening. Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities, says Dr. Alexander Everhart, an instructor at Washington University’s medical school in St. Louis and an expert on medical device regulation.

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*

"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite

Me: why are all the Americans on my feed suddenly discussing commercials?

Me: oh. Big ball day sport show.

Hey so just wondering if we’ve considered having an economy that *isn’t* almost entirely based around deranged hype-fueled grifts, that’s the only economy I’ve ever experienced but I feel like there’s gotta be a better option

Is this a region-restricted sale? I'm in NZ and can't seem to get a price drop on Amazon or Kobo.

The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

John Key and his government made Peter Thiel an NZ citizen and bent the rules to do it. Talk about captured. #nzpol

o rly

This is awful and desperately important. Gender-affirming care saves trans kids’ lives.

@darusha.ca and myself pulling NZ represent numbers here!

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Today I'm thankful that all the people I most hate are men older than me because statistically speaking they'll die before me.

Romantasy Rebels: A Fantasy Romance Anthology of Standing Up and Pushing Back Read it here:

Happy book birthday to the Romantasy Rebels charity anthology! All profits go to PEN America to fight book bans.

It includes my novella A Marriage of Undead & many more stories from favorite authors like @caseyblair.bsky.social , @kehealey.bsky.social & more: geni.us/romantasyreb... #romancelandia

After that, while publishing three more books, I wrote a lot of "first three chapters plus synopsis" deals that kept getting rejected. Now that I'm mostly indie, I might go back to them someday!

I wrote a couple of nano-novels that I knew weren't it, then co-wrote a novel that I loved, but wasn't quite there, then Guardian of the Dead, my first published novel.

Not for nothing but we reaaaaally shouldn't be listening to what a noted creep has to say about other creeps. Ask any young woman in the nz lit scene who to avoid. The whisper network is LOUD.

It’s frankly insulting that the worlds worst people weren’t meeting in a command center in a volcano wearing ceremonial robes but were all emailing on Hotmail accounts like “want 2 atrosity? With wemen?”

The best

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.