Two mavens of the laundering world vie for control over pressing the epaulettes of footmen Heated Livery

This hits the nail on the head And seeing this pattern is why I avoided becoming a science writer for so long. Felt like I had to only be wanting it out of ego But we NEED smart people being vocal for good causes. The humble avoiding the limelight is how we got into this societal mess of untruth

i think what people are really circling around in this particular slapfight is two visions of how resistance works 1: we're going to out-tactics the government and create a secure organization that defeats them on the field 2: we're going to create spectacle which mobilizes the masses

Omfg my kid is gonna love this. Queer science history + birds = worlds collide!!

🤯 🤘Can you imagine this happening in Australia? If only we had a fully funded military program to stultify and erase Black roots of jazz and blues into institutionalised propaganda. Creative Australia should copy this: *Cold Chisel for School Bands* 🥁🧨 🫡 blabbermouth.net/news/metalli...

Would love to see an episode on @ologies.bsky.social with Jey! How many people would join me in subscribing to encourage this goal?

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

This was a charming, salty read! I’m about to join a book club and a collection of Saunders’ short stories is first on the list. Now i just have to read the book.

It is SO WONDERFUL to meet with a manager who prefers quality connection during 1-on-1s over frequent high intensity updates. The first approach is strengths-based and care-ful, the latter has its place at team level comms.

Rhythm to wake up your spirit 😍 youtube.com/shorts/4_ViT...

The Arts! Creative Australia could not top this.

Remembir everye daye ys a goode daye to reach out to a friende and tell them how much you love them. Maybe buy them a booke. Bringe up an olde inside joke. All the sillye thinges and the serious thinges about friendeshippe, thei are all infinitelye valuable. Tyme spent thus wil nevir be regrettid.

Further to that last post of mine - in case you were wondering what an Australasian swamphen looks like (formerly known as the purple swamphen - for obvious reasons), here's one I photographed at Mount Gambier in 2022. This one exuded attitude 😆 The are beautiful birds.

I prefer 8-NINE-TEN, eleven-twelve-oo-oo-ooh-ooooh!! Followed swiftly by an a cappella steel drum solo.

It’s the calm before the storm, before the last bag is packed, before the flight is checked in on and the last minute is purchased. I am, yet again, agog.

Absolutely not trying to organise myself out of a paper bag. Nope.

This is a bloody great interview and has excoriating advice from Gwen Harwood. overcast.fm/+ABExWwgiHbY

One errand at a time: visit anaconda for click and collect several suburbs over.

Cool. My perfectionist, everything is a priority, freeze on overwhelm, too shame to ask for help brain is in top gear. What would you do?

Years after my parents gifted my kiddo a magnetic perpetual motion office toy, I knocked it into momentum as I closed a window blind before holidays. Lo and behold it is still going, squeaking in sotto voce.

Lightening my heart with a chapter of tara brach’s radical acceptance and james broughton’s ode to gaiety, from a 90s book on gay soul. Any port in a storm, eh.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. My school friends eyed grace with suspicion, concluding it was “probably christian rock”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(...

Hark! An angel on my metacarpophalangeal joint!

Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to thee be glory given;

I am ready to watch this now, or ay least on boxing day. What is this mother’s day cruelty?!

HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES? Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? YEAH THE MACHYNE

Walking on, walking on broken glass…

To compete with CNN’s partnership with Kalshi, British newspapers allow you to wager a tuppence on a variety of lettuce races

As always, free to read/listen. As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.

Questioning my lifestyle choices if I’m not taking steps to getting hammered at a pub singing about tits.

A most delightful thread of tiny wondrous things!

It’s… not cosplaying as seaweed? It’s… not having an existential crisis re humans? It’s… not cross species communication and a sentient extension of that bronze sculpture of govt ministers arguing themselves under water as the seas rise?

@grimalkina.bsky.social would love your integrity analysis of this study since I’m torn between exalting “Poets can save us from AI if they use their deadly powers wisely” and “Crap. Creatives don’t need another reason to increase mainstream suspicion of high falutin’ fancy word skulduggery”.

Some reddit threads of genuine curiosity are a community service. The comments on huntsmen in AU! www.reddit.com/r/australian...

Excellent piece. “Every reduction in friction is sold as liberation: freed up for creativity, freed up for higher pursuits. But freedom from what, exactly? Freedom from the very activities that build capacity, that create meaning, that forge identity, that make us feel we matter.”

@drbensearle.bsky.social hey, thanks for your research into burnout! It’s really validating and while i had the best of intentions to do #recovember, last month actually turned out to be hell NOvember. So I’m setting my coordinates for this month, and day 2 is thank someone. That’s you! Ta!

You guys! The etymology of browse is plant-based and alludes to sprouting and searching for shoots and leaves! I am once again, agog. 🌱 www.etymonline.com/word/browse

What a lovely image after listening to Juno the photographer interviewed on Archive Fever, and playing Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite with my Cello Gang. O hai Zeitgeist.

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

Musing on new lyrics: help me to get over myself, I want a spirit like an animal… Or, what to do when Weird Al’s biting barnyard parody is your earworm, and you can’t sing it around your kids.

This is why I’m mad at myself for following threads in bsky, learning about EM “only connect” Forster’s life, listening to June Tabor sing False, False instead of doing my chores and getting my ass into gear for cello camp this weekend!

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild: Manta ray Brown snake Dingo Buff-banded rail Ruddy turnstone

“Only connect” A striking thread from EM Forster’s life. The widow with a son named after her husband’s lover! www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/subje...

Sending this to all my favourite Capricorns

timeline cleaning

@fantasticplanets.bsky.social I’m not even an amateur astronomer, but my heart always skips a beat at the sight of a radio telescope. What kind of astronomy do you do?

This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity. Get a calendar at EelFacts.net

I don’t usually support litigious processes, but this is clearly warranted. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈