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Bibliophibian. Dilettante. Free-range nerd. She/her. Living on unceded Wadawurrung country.
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When your extremely kind and thoughtful aunt & uncle are preparing to move house and remember that you’re something of a nerd…

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Free entertainment tonight is provided by a local cover band performing in the nearby park. They’ve done all the 80s pub-rock hits, including a good sprinkling of Australian classics, and are now - nearly 3 hours in - regressing into 70s disco hits.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This was not on my dance card for tonight: gotta make yer own fun, eh? 🧙‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Art of the unexpected: Dale Chihuly created this sculpture for an exhibition in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. It was originally a dense lime green, but because he used polyvitro instead of glass it has faded in the UV 12+ sunlight. Fitting, as the exhibit is designed to span 3 seasons: timely art.

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On this anniversary of the first Japanese bombing raid on Darwin (19 Feb 1942), I drove the 22 km length of Ballarat’s Avenue of Honor: 3801 trees, each adorned with a small plaque naming a local person who enlisted during the first World War. (1/3) www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/arch-centenary

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Am not a subscriber, so have not read the full article - but the excerpt is a familiar story for many women. Shebah offers a safe alternative to taxis and other rideshare services.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Transferable skills, proactive HR policy, and an outstanding opportunity for the Employee Assistance Program to make a real impact. (ping @fionatribe.bsky.social @simongterry.bsky.social)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🔭 Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Goh apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25020...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

(After our panel during first excellent day of ACMI’s FACT, an audience member asked about my claim that UK arts and culture is worse off because of 1990s+ ‘creative industries’-based policy (slavishly copied by Australia) this is timely perspective) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Short thread (👇🏻) on using language to confuse and derail public conversation about anything important. Expect to see more of this tactic in #AusPol, especially as the Federal election looms. We must not fall for it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's important to emphasise this, as in my experience, men think that this DOESN'T APPLY TO THEM. That the patriarchy doesn't exist. That they, somehow, escaped the privilege of starting with the x2 and it's other men who are the problem. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

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