Meanwhile, my bromeliads are divine! 4 in one year at the same time is astounding 💕🌸

Thanks to some bluesky friends for the prompt to post my annual reading blog post. My list of favourite books read in 2025. 53 books read, with 14 of them being 5 stars. I discuss some of them here: shallowreader.com/2026/01/07/m...

My 2025 Year of Reading shallowreader.com/2026/01/07/m... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/in-2023-24-australians-paid-more-than-4-times-on-hecs-help-than-gas-companies-did-on-prrt/

I know that I am in a different phase of life as my most enjoyable lead-up-to-Christmas event has been watching four (!!!) Bromeliads emerge. I hope you all have a calm and slowly revelatory Christmas 💕

My friend is auctioning her late husband and late son's substantial Dr Who collection. It would be lovely if you could share this with any fans you may know. #drwho www.theodorebruceauctions.com.au/auction-cata...

"It's the standout for affordability." Houses in Melbourne are now more affordable than in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth & Adelaide - so how did Victoria do it? Hear more on the latest Dollars & Sense with @grogsgamut.bsky.social. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/48rcY3r

Double bromeliads peeking out.

AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it. I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A post in which I get a bit annoyed about the Greek stereotype in romance fiction but still enjoy the novel. shallowreader.com/2025/11/27/t... #tbrchallenge #romBkBlog

My garden is in full bloom, including my 30 year old daisies which are waist high.

A wild storm. Hail, startling thunder and lightning. I shut down all my computers and stopped marking. I am waiting it out with the lights turned off.

I have finally caught up to the TBR challenge. Though I cheated.🤷 Two themes for one book. And there are a ridiculous amount of detailed spoilers. shallowreader.com/2025/10/29/t...

A review post for @superwendy.bsky.social and the #tbrchallenge. I may have gotten a tad ranty. But overall, I loved this book. shallowreader.com/2025/10/16/t...

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"

My bus driver was feeling rage-y today. He leaned heavily on his horn, shouted at passengers and flew up the bus lane as though buses don't need to observe speed limits. It was a white knuckle ride. All this while blasting yacht rock. I don't think it was having a relaxing affect on him.

Hello Gehry, my old friend.

You can search this database by genre and see which films were based on romances (although I'm not sure if they're all romances as we'd now define that): herhollywoodstory.com/database/fil...

The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.

And here is a photo from earlier in the week of the blooming magnolia just on dusk.

I am obsessed with this nearby magnolia.

YES! Imputing "delusions" to a chatbot is like saying your Scrabble tiles are delusional because the seven letters you drew misspell a perfectly good word.

#TBRChallenge - another catch up post: Reading Notes 87-91 shallowreader.com/2025/08/03/t... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

@superwendy.bsky.social Well hello! I put one up today!

Molly Keran on Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Crusie, contemporary romance, and what happens when genres get adventures. mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/g...

It was an incredible protest. It was bucketing rain yet the turnout was phenomenal. Thank you, Sydneysiders for marching for humanity, and opposing the Gaza genocide. Perhaps the rhetoric from both the media and politicians will start to shift.

pretty shitty that young people now have to learn with both a 24/7 torrent of entertainment microtargeted to their neuroses in their pocket and a learning environment full of chirpy little prompts to press a button and fake their homework so they can spend a little more time in the neurosis torrent

The Greek-Australian Writers' Festival photographers: The Heart of Giving by Effy Alexakis-Fr Nektarios's soup kitchen Art On The Wall by Eirini Alligiannis-street art in NYC Glimpses Of The Silk Road by Marios Kalyvas & Aretha Zygouri-travels from Turkey to China www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Koraly Dimitriadis will be discussing her book The Mother Must Die at the Greek-Australian Writers' Festival in Little Bay, Sydney. A read that felt like a life I could touch but managed to avoid. Tickets for tomorrow's festival: www.trybooking.com/events/landi... shallowreader.com/2025/04/26/g...

#RomBkBlog: via Dr Vassíliki Veros, an invitation to the Greek Australian Writers' Festival 2025, this Sunday April 27. For more details:

Author Vanessa Riley finding out that she can't use the word "slavery" on canva is really something else. www.threads.com/@vanessarile...

Magda Romanska reflects on how the growing use of AI to read emotions echoes past surveillance regimes. “If AI can read us like an open book, without the need for our consent, what effect does this have on...the entire trajectory of our lives?”

The Greek-Australian Writers' Festival returns for the 4th year. Come to Little Bay, Sydney for a day of reading and writing centring on Greek-Australian perspectives. Authors include Koraly Dimitriadis, Will Kostakis, George Kouvaros and Shelley Dark. greekfestivalofsydney.com.au/program/even...

This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m... #AI #copyright

Big gas is getting more than 70% of WA's gas for free. We put these billboards up in the middle of Perth to let everyone know. Please share! #auspol

A stick library for good doggies 💕🐕 . . . (Top marks for the local preschool promo.)

"If protest didn't work, they wouldn't try to ban it." "If information weren't so valuable, they wouldn't try to hide it." "Don't think for a minute you don't have power." "Don't think for a minute you can't make change." @richarddenniss.bsky.social wraps up the #ClimateIntegrity Summit.

#TBRChallenge - New Year, Who Dis: Reading Note 84 shallowreader.com/2025/01/28/t... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

Nice day for a harbour swim 🏊‍♀️💕

Two blog posts in one week? It must be summer holidays 💕🏊‍♀️📖🤩 Here is my Best of 2024 reading post. I hope you all saw in the new year with health and happiness. shallowreader.com/2025/01/02/m...

My last 5 reviews for @superwendy.bsky.social's #tbrchallenge. A catch-up post including books by Katherine Center, Lauren Layne, Cara Bastone and Jennifer Hayward #romancelandia shallowreader.com/2024/12/31/c...

My bromeliad aechmea is in early flower. I love the pink petals peeking out!

I have been working with a small #archive which includes #textiles stored with napthalene. I'm trying to find out (calling museums etc) if I can get rid of 2 decades worth of napthalene odours but can't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Cause guess who is fatally allergic to napthalene...🤯😵

Last night I attended the launch of the Greek-Australian Archive at the State Library of NSW. The digital archive has oral histories about the mid-to-late 20th century experience of migration to Australia including many interviews with elderly Greeks 💕 greekaustralianarchive.sl.nsw.gov.au

Five writers I've read five books by Lauren Layne Teri Wilson Sarah Morgan David Sedaris Penelope Janu

My 25 year old daisies in my front yard continue to bloom. They love Novembers. This year, they have peaked at hip high 💕🌻

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Our parent organization is here! Check out their CFP for the upcoming 2025 conference.

Everything @katydidinoz.bsky.social says in her thread.