October.

This you, @fionatribe.bsky.social?

Tyson Yunkaporta, again with the wisdom.

One for @kazcooke.bsky.social’s collection of entertainers, perhaps? (short thread 👇🏻)

Early for a haircut appointment, and this is the view from the salon. #Wadawurrung Country

Excellent thread (👇🏻) summarising the factual elements of the report, which “documents the widespread unlawful administration of Mutual Obligations,” a framework that punishes Indigenous people, single parents, people with disabilities, homeless people, simply for existing.

Escaping the hell of daily life “is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan #Scottish civil engineer & 1st woman member of ICE Engineers in 1927. She was #engineer on #Sydney Harbour Bridge #Australia, #Tyne Bridge linking #NewcastleUponTyne & #Gateshead & Lambeth Bridge in #London. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1899 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

The theme is cities: – Siang Lu: Ghost Cities – Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities – Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance – China Mieville: The City & The City – Peter Ackroyd’s London books – and of course Terry Pratchett’s sprawling metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, and the other cities of the Discworld.

We're always looking to grow our driver community, so if working when you want (with autonomy), supporting women from all walks of life (daily), earning 85% of each fare AND having an army of like-minded women behind you sounds like a dream, please get in touch! shebah.com.au/drive

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story,” Thunberg said during a press conference following her release. Read more:

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Residential aged care institutions, retirement village life, home support package scheme, people over 65-called “the old”-living at home making no claim on system, just coping by whatever means they can, this stage life means grappling with overwhelming challenges.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

A bountiful Friday: two items I requested several months ago both arrived today, one from the library, the other from a bookshop. Nerdery will ensue, and tea 🫖📖

It’s your 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! 💛⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Today marks the official 75th anniversary of Peanuts! On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip, shown here, was published in seven newspapers nationwide. Charles M. Schulz was 27 years old.

At Shebah we do things differently! Reclaim the front seat knowing there'll be: - No judgement about your clothes - No asking if you're single - No unwanted advances - No turning off the meter and taking the long way - No forced chat if you'd rather just sit quietly #shebahsafe 💚

Hello, yes, I’m the author or editor of fourteen books, some of them prize-winning and some of them bestselling. I’ve written nonfiction and children’s picture books. And I can *mentor you* as part of @kydmagazine.bsky.social program. You have until October 12th to apply.

A comment on itch reminded me of this idea for creating #TTRPG dungeons I had a while back. I still think its neat and I don't think I've actually shared it here on bsky. So bsky.. meet Crossword Dungeons! Do a crossword, use the answers and designs as inspiration for the rooms, get creative!

The social media ban is the 2025 version of telling women not to walk alone at night. We're regulating the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of addressing the people causing the harm

Tyson Yunkaporta keeping his eye on the ball.

The Icelandic openers had put on quite a stand in tricky conditions. Those waiting to bat down the order were mere shells of the men they had been at the start of the match.

A dislodged piece of shell signals we have hatching action at #367Collins. 🐣🥚🥚 #PeregrineFalcons www.youtube.com/live/oibsohQ...

New #AusHealthReview Collection: Ageing Well & Aged Care – Putting Consumers First These papers highlight the urgent need for integrated, person-centred approaches that uphold dignity, autonomy & quality of life for older Australians. #FreeToRead for 1 month: www.publish.csiro.au/ah/Collectio...

“He talks about how horrible Twitter is and how annoying ideas like 'micro-aggression' are. I say every tweet is a micro-aggression, and he likes that idea so much that he tweets it immediately.” – Tyson Yunkaporta, “Right Story, Wrong Story”

She tries to come across like a real betty but she ain't nothing but a slump, always out on the buckle with the grunts and sonkers and no better than a low down boot if you ask me

She nods. 'Makes sense, right? Professor, confessor. Pros, cons. What if we were to profess our sins? To entrust our university education to confessors of history, confessors of literature? Beat a profession out of someone?' – Siang Lu, “Ghost Cities”

Always a highlight of spring in Narrm Melbourne — precarious and precious. Can you feel the antici… …pation?

Glorious thread (👇🏻) about history, silk, trade, migration, cultural appropriation and homage, craftsmanship, and more.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

“…repatriation is never simply about returning objects to their ‘rightful’ place. It’s about who gets to define that place, whose version of history becomes officially sanctioned, and whether cultural justice might sometimes serve to obscure, rather than remedy, historical injustice.”

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

A brilliant writer and performer.

Gotta love a second-chance romance.

Wildly pleased with my new silver rings from tomodesign.net They’re beautifully made, very reasonably priced. These particular designs aren’t on the website: find Sally and Keith at a weekend market on the Mornington Peninsula and ask them to show you their experimental stuff 😎

“If you are living a life aligned towards art — the making of it, the receiving of it — then the patterns you leave in your wake, whether you are aware of them or not, whether you intend them to be or not, will be indistinguishable from the art itself.” – Siang Lu, “Ghost Cities”

Water governance requires institutional transformation, recognising the global water cycle as a common good. Today at #UNGA, I'll deliver a keynote at the UAE Permanent Mission roundtable on water for peace, stability & multilateral cooperation. Our report on The Economics of Water➡️ buff.ly/zog6UCd

Watching a pair of pigeons doing their thing in the tree outside my window and thinking it’s just as well angels are canonically sexless because that amount of wing-flapping could get messy.

Today Isla the gummy greyhound leaned on me for neck scritches and Teddy the anxious mini poodle came running for full-body cuddles (he knows my name now). #CafeLife

Re-watching "Secrets of the Castle," & it's got me thinking about "last"s again. There was a last time a trebuchet was used in a battle. A last time the big wooden "hamster wheel" was used as a crane on a construction site. We almost never realize something is a "last" until so much later.

Woman at the next table is telling her friend about her new career: it starts with setting up an online platform for delivering trauma-informed Pilates classes. (And physical therapy.) #CafeLife

Trish the postie beetled up on the scooter this morning to deliver this parcel and shout jauntily, 'Living the dream!' from the footpath. Unimprovable. #Freepotatoes #Spring #seeds #Delivery

Professional communicators and editors make this kind of writing look easy and straightforward. In fact, it’s an example of mastery acquired via extensive training and practice.

Mum strolled past with her two young children on little bikes. She did a double-take at the clump of freesias blooming on my nature strip, kept walking several steps, returned, bent to touch and smell, then plucked one of the stems and continued on her merry way, holding the flowers to her nose.

On misery and finding contentment (thread 👇🏻). Thank you, Ennie: this is a bit of clarity I didn’t know I needed.

Friends, are the present-cupboard-y amongst you thinking about Xmas presents? Ahem! These books are the antidote to hard-sell celebrity & useless 'wellness' marketing, big lies & frightful dullness. I promise you fun as well as updated, evidence-based, independent honesty. Local bookshops & online.

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

Strolling through the McClelland Sculpture Park, we were intrigued by an unfamiliar hoot/hum/om: we counted at least four birds in different thickets, one with a slightly higher-pitched voice. Turn the video volume to max: it’s a very quiet call amongst the wind and traffic noise. #AwesomeBirds