Please join us at the rally to save the #StateLibraryofVictoria from mismanagement & insane staff cuts. Library steps, Saturday 13 December at 12.30. Every citizen of this city owns this place & now we have to defend it. I'm sorry we're all so busy & distracted by bad things: but this we can do.

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

Just lookin’ #Wadawurrung Country

At a time when everything is terrible, worth reading this on George Michael's charitable donations. www.bbc.com/news/uk-3844...

The safe, inclusive rideshare service for women and kids in Australia. (And they pay drivers a larger percentage of the fare than Uber, Lyft etc.)

Labor’s inaction on the housing crisis is forcing women to choose between violence & homelessness. Specialist Homelessness Services are receiving on average 350 requests each day for help that they can’t meet. Women & children are the majority of clients and 40% of cases are DV related.

Overheard: “Most women worth their grain of salt would ignore him” #CafeLife

This week on the podcast, @maryrobinettekowal.com joins @anamariecox.bsky.social and @mike-eagle.bsky.social to talk about building a creative ecosystem that actually fits your brain. She shares exactly how she budgets, hires, monetizes, and prioritizes joy across multiple income streams...

“racked” and “wracked” are separate and different forms of discomfort #AmReading

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Oxford University Press This is hand-folding, on the ground floor of the bindery, where it seems the women worked We'll see the men tomorrow If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Music is fundamental to storing information, bonding groups and so much more. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...? In 'The Knowledge Gene', I argue that music is fundamental to being human for all of the reasons suggested in this article - and has been for tens of thousands of years.

This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.

Gideon Haigh on the enshittification of our State Library of Victoria—one of the world's most visited public libraries www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #supportSLV

Learning consultant, on the use of profiling tools like DISC, MBTI, strengths etc: “Most if them are about as rigorous as a horoscope. At best, they’re the start of a deeper conversation. So I’ll happily do your horoscope: it might not be accurate or complete, but it can be useful.”

I can’t store your text messages in the shoebox under the bed. I can store your letters and cards in there, though. And, in ten years time, I can sit cross-legged on my doona (if I keep doing yoga) with the shoebox in front of me and find your letters and cards again. All hail material things.

Is working from home good for your mental health? If so, how many days a week are best? A new study has some answers. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/whats-w...

Groovy 🎶😎

Sheltering from the wild weather and sitting indoors today. Risks: – random customers chatting and coughing at me – the cafe’s playlist has switched to seasonal pop songs, and an early #Whamageddon seems almost guaranteed 🤷🏼‍♀️ #CafeLife

I increasingly think the pandemic is a gaping wound and generative AI is a Band-Aid People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate

Woman sits in her car, petrol engine idling, parked right beside the outdoor tables. It’s been 45 minutes thus far, and she shows no inclination to leave 💨💨💨 #CafeLife

Honey, I’ve got all the thyme in the world for you 🐝 #Ceres gardens in #Narrm Melbourne

A flock of Strelitzia reginae #Naarm Melbourne (more specifically, Brunswick)

The 16 Days should not be a calendar tick-box. It should be a launchpad for laws that protect, funding that sustains, education that prevents, and political courage. womensagenda.com.au/latest/16-da...

Mature gent strolls along the suburban shopping strip. Grey hair and beard, jeans and an obscure old band t-shirt, a small backpack dangling from his hand. As he passes I catch a whiff of Bodyshop’s White Musk, freshly applied. #CafeLife

“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]

This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.

Four more sleeps to the start of #Whamageddon 🎶

Ixia ‘Elvira’ Carpet rose (madly overgrown)

'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.

Ask your depressed friend to help you out with something. I don’t care if it’s helping you try out a new recipe, or helping you choose something good to watch on TV — it’s a way of keeping connected that doesn’t make them feel like the burden they often (wrongly) feel they are.

"Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North," writes @euanritchie.bsky.social in The Point.

ping @drspacejunk.bsky.social

Here on #Wadawurrung country: 5.6 mm of rain in the last 24 hours. Sister’s place across the bay, on #Boonwurrung country: 27 mm.

#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

We gave up on Covid-19 and now we’re apparently giving up on eradicating the varroa mite that’s killing bees in vast numbers. No bees = no crops, no food.

Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Lovely Cathy and her sweet golden staffy rescue Ruby accused me today of being a dog whisperer ☺️ #CafeLife #TellYourDogISaidHi #ItWorksOnCatsToo

a polite reminder that surveys, especially customer feedback surveys, are not completed under oath and it is your solemn duty as someone uncomfortable with the trajectory of late capitalism to subvert the dominant paradigm and make your answers unusable, specious and hilarious

Aristotle: Politika (commenting on the Carthaginians, a nation of traders and merchants)

For those interested in the ritualistic and monumental places of ancestral peoples, I cannot recommend Dr. Kelly's "The Memory Code" highly enough. Its narrative approach to the anthropology of pre-literate memory is filled with a deep respect and affection for humanity and its grand endeavors.

This is fabulous - Communicating online generally and moderating communities specifically, is one of the best leadership development experiences anyone can have. All teenagers would benefit from it.

Mid-century modernism at the Gordon Institute in Geelong, built in the 1950s. The neighboring Lascelles Laboratory building with its classical frills is a little older (1920s).

Perfect location for a dark academia novel.

Your public library: so much more than books.

Older woman in a scarlet wool coat fronts up to the library desk and asks for a copy of today’s newspaper: “I want to check whether I’ve died yet.”

At the library. Signage is cute, but the cafe staff still can’t spell croissant 🤣

You’ve grown into someone who would’ve protected you as a child. And that’s the most powerful decision you’ve made.

This. And why the continuing fiasco re executives at the State Library of Victoria?! Why are Australia's cultural boards stuffed to the gunwhales with ex-Liberal Party donors/businessfolk/pensioned-off-mates & other people with no dedication to or understanding of public collections and services?