Julia Schiller

Expat American Kiwi; weary activist; director Cheeky Parrot Games, a one-woman board game publisher she/her

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

@covidbagofdicks

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

These cheaters are at it again, using the orange man/a cropped electoral commission graphic on their flyer.

[Friesein @Friesein]

"COVID is here to stay" is a fatalist position.

In the 1800s, before municipal water filtration, saying "there's nothing we can do about cholera" would have been wrong. The same is now true of COVID.

Far-UVC/ventilation/filtration can hugely reduce transmission if we demand it.

[Ginette McDonald ONZM @McDonaldGinette]

Chloe Swarbrick. Intelligent.Cleareyed. Surrounded in parliament by unevolved trumpy dullards
Refreshing https://t.co/HV1ouAQD34

[Cheeky Parrot Games @CheekyParrot]

Let's go Aotearoa! You won't find a better candidate this election year: this endemic terrestrial crustacean is modest, hard-working, family-minded, and rolls into a ball when stressed. #bugoftheyear2026 Vote Taranga Pill Woodlouse: https://t.co/9QtaTnELlu

[Cheeky Parrot Games @CheekyParrot]

Voting link: https://t.co/9QtaTnELlu #bugoftheyear2026

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

Get your vote in by Sunday! #bugoftheyear2026

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

I know it’s so bleak everywhere but take a moment for a bit of joy—you don’t have to live in Aotearoa—and support something tiny but mighty, unassuming and hardworking #TarangaPillWoodlouse for #bugoftheyearnz

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

📺 OMG—who made this?! Noah Wyle has a message for all you—vaccine skeptics…

Share with a friend who needs to hear it.

[Justin Lee @DailyJLee]

Early covid aware people, the ones who looked for themselves, who accepted the grim reality unfolding, a lot of us knew pretty early, this could be a long time, decades maybe, we buckled up for the long haul (1

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

I know it’s so bleak everywhere but take a moment for a bit of joy—you don’t have to live in Aotearoa—and support something tiny but mighty, unassuming and hardworking #TarangaPillWoodlouse for #bugoftheyearnz

[Cheeky Parrot Games @CheekyParrot]

In New Zealand, a bat can be Bird of the Year so let's make a crustacean the #bugoftheyearnz A fun election for once! https://t.co/T8dIzj9Q8N
Vote the endemic Taranga Pill Woodlouse: https://t.co/9QtaTnELlu

[Cheeky Parrot Games @CheekyParrot]

Small. Essential. Endemic. The Taranga Pill Woodlouse may be overlooked, but it’s holding New Zealand’s forests together — help it win Bug of the Year! #TarangaPillWoodlouse #BugOfTheYearNZ https://t.co/8PcUtE93pY

[Dr. Marcus Shepard @MarcusShepard]

The pressure to believe that the ongoing Covid pandemic is over.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

BOYCOTT AMERICA 🤷DO NOT TRAVEL TO A COUNTRY THAT ASKS YOU TO HAND OVER YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY, YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION 🤷 AMERICA SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HOST ANY GLOBAL SPORTING EVENT 🤷 AND NO ONE SHOULD TRAVEL TO AMERICA UNTIL DEMOCRACY IS RESTORED ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

@AstroPuss Evidently that ship has sailed: I just read today that it needs to be started early. I’ve actually had the flushes many years and usually Remifemin keeps them under control but they’ve popped out a lot the past 14 months.

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

@niaspeaksall Seems to me the process started in the mid-1980s with neoliberal “reforms” under Thatcher, Reagan, etc. Imagine the wrench for my generation, beneficiaries of civil rights and feminist advances only to be slammed into this new dog eat dog hell as *we* reached adulthood.

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

Lockdowns didn’t break society, it was that realization that people would fuck over everyone else to avoid the slightest inconvenience, that the health and lives of other people were worth less than trinkets. That they’d cut years from your life just so they could go eat brunch.

[#voteofnoconfidence @Deco_Belle]

From Luxury Marmite Sandwich 🥪 n Facebook, this was to good not to share, it's bloody brilliant.

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

So instead of a strong, well-funded, properl-staffed public health system, we get propaganda.

[Julia Schiller @Cheeky_Games]

@deidrejowen Green, 54, nearsighted since age ~12 (rapid onset), now presbyopic, mild EBMD diagnosed 2 years ago