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Mom: “No videogames, go play outside” Me: “Ok”

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Just came across the term 'scrollhole' so that's the word-of-the-year question answered for me. We're done here.

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I love photos like this. There’s nothing going on, really, someone just saw this and said “Oh he’s so HANDSOME. I have to take picture.” From my collection, 1959.

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Really enjoying the trend of DiDi/Uber drivers getting me places in total silence 🧡

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Anyone know how I can get little juice box size unflavoured soy milks? I only use it for coffee and never get through a litre

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Check it out I’m at #BWF25 out of season event to see #GeraldineBrookes in conversation with #SusanJohnson at Brisbane Powerhouse #BrisLit

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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One thing I quite liked doing on the now-dead website “Twitter” was answering questions for writers and doing little screenwriting / storytelling threads. Anyone got any questions about writing for animation, writing for Jentry, writing / indie-producing Murder for Dummies, or similar? Lmk

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i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting

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Nurture the hell out of the seeds of the future you want because they too are sprouting in the chaos.

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I wrote a feature on romance fiction for the current edition of The Big Issue Australia. It was pretty challenging to try to capture a whole huge literary movement & all its history & community in 1 story. Anyway, grab a copy from your local friendly vendor thebigissue.org.au/issue/bob-dy...

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Baby animals Bear - cub Wallaby - wallbaby Echidna - echid Zebra - zebrat Giraffe - halfaraffe Axolotl - axolittle Squirrel - squirrt Otter - totter Dik-dik - kid-kid Lynx - minigolf Elephant - elinphant

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Sex gifs

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New research looking at how Australians read for recreation has shaped 10 tailored tactics to help you read more based on whatever is getting in your way.

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Hey book/lit friends, who’s going to be in Brisbane for GenreCon?

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I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

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I think we all agree that MS Word can be quite a nightmare. What are some of your biggest frustrations with it?

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Back at ye olde state library of qld for a couple hours of writing with a little group I’ve been welcomed into since moving back to Brisbane.

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Native people smuggled our ceremonies thru time, hid them under our hearts and carried them thru “Christian” indoctrination, beatings, violence, spiritual warfare and assault on all levels, for hundreds of years. We hid our languages under our tongues, and ancestors carried those treasures across

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They couldn’t make Cool Hand Luke today because that hard boiled egg scene would cost $35 million to shoot.

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Aww?! Thank you so much 🥰

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If they but knew it

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[blind date] HER: I'm a big country fan. ME {trying to impress her}: China is very large.

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A late storm is building and even though storms have damaged a lot of my things, events, holidays, driveways, toys over the years, each one brings me this elemental joy

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"The sea moves but not in the direction of most things. I felt sure that most things moved from left to right or in the reverse. But the sea has an entirely other relationship to space; it seems to move backwards, pushing at the end of it." - Renee Gladman, Calamities

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