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2026-06-19 00:54:15 CEST

great audio documentary about the Nutbush - one of the early initiations into Aussie culture for our teenage daughter was learning this on hike https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2026/06/tina-turner-and-the-nutbush-australias-national-dance #Australia #Straya #NowPlaying

2026-06-09 02:34:40 CEST

there is absolutely no way this is going to go horribly wrong 😑
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2026-06-08 06:30:47 CEST

street corner comic strip
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2026-06-02 05:23:57 CEST

very funny, Australian publisher. 🦘 #VinylRecords
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2026-04-24 14:20:56 CEST

it used to be sites were vying to be the one loading quickest, now you have a cloudflare bot taking ages to check you’re human before anything loads 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-04-17 14:11:08 CEST

visited brother, so was able to pick up the present he got me
#NowPlaying Lionel Ritchie - Can’t Slow Down #vinyl #VinylRecords
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2026-04-09 13:27:04 CEST

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I look forward to reading their paragraph on the landline phone

2026-04-02 01:50:33 CEST

“our LLM-based genAI product is for entertainment purposes only”
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2026-03-15 10:38:35 CET

several podcasts I listen to are starting to lean heavier and heavier into video, and I am not sure if they’re doing it because they know that’s where their audience is, or because that’s where they’d like their audience to be.
either way, it’s killing the podcasts for me — why would I want to sit and watch a podcast? podcasts are what I listen to while I do *other* things.

2026-02-09 02:16:45 CET

all those bad bunny posts of youse have nothing on medieval manuscripts
(British Library Royal MS 10 E IV)
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2025-12-21 22:13:41 CET

recommend, would go again. #Victoria
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2025-12-06 07:29:53 CET

if ChatGPT was really as world changing as its owners claim it is, surely there would be much more lucrative ways of monetising this amazing new technology than *adding ads* https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

2025-11-02 21:13:41 CET

I remember when the argument against doing xyz to counter the far right was “doing xyz would only serve to drive the far right underground”, and really in hindsight would we not have been a lot better off if the far right had been driven underground.

2025-10-30 09:20:24 CET

For this northern European, it remains striking how bright the sun is here in #Melbourne. Today in the park the contrast so bright it would seem black and white if it weren’t also so bright green.
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2025-10-10 01:22:28 CEST

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absolutely - yet you received exactly what it is designed to generate: the most plausible next text following from your input. It really should have no role in search engines whatsoever.

2025-10-09 22:00:24 CEST

yesterday caught a google AI answer that was not just wrong, it made no logical sense whatsoever - the words simply couldn’t be made to mean anything, and I find myself wondering if it’s a hopeful sign that the bubble is about to burst

2025-09-04 08:26:03 CEST

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what am I going to notice next time I walk past, Linehan or somewhat? @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-09-04 08:20:59 CEST

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seriously, you put Boyne and Galbraith next to each other in your most prominent public-facing display there’s no way you deserve the benefit of the doubt. nor my custom. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-09-04 08:02:51 CEST

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cents. they have cents here.

2025-09-04 06:03:39 CEST

walked past them again and I hadn’t even seen the Robert Galbraith that’s also on display right next to the Boyne. so my instinct was right and that shop gets none of my pennies going forward. @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-24 00:17:22 CEST

I would like to support my local bookstore, but then I see them put John Boyne prominently on display and I’m like “you know what, I’ll go to the next neighbourhood’s” 🤷🏻‍♂️ @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-21 10:53:05 CEST

got this a few years back but it turned out I was not in the right headspace at the time, so it lingered on the shelf, then in an intercontinental container, then again on the shelf. started today and enjoying it so far - so I’m pleased I decided not to dispose of it yet. 🥳 @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-18 23:10:16 CEST

I see Warra Warra Wai is shortlisted in the Australian History category of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards - richly deserved. @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1uhw…asey
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2025-08-15 23:54:23 CEST

got this because all three of us were interested in reading it. anyone here read it yet? (I loved last year’s Miles Franklin award winner, so that badge may be a recommendation) @npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-08-13 14:59:24 CEST

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meanwhile I did get this. @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-13 06:14:44 CEST

I mean $2 for all those pages is an excellent price:words ratio, but is the book worth the significant amount of time it will surely take to read it? I’d never heard of it but it looks like a Thing™ that may or may not be worth it for someone working his way into Aussie literature? @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-11 13:36:05 CEST

BBC has continued with the 13 Minutes podcast without the original producers, and the new series, about the space shuttle, is just very, very poorly put together - while nothing of the content is uninteresting per se, it has no apparent direction whatsoever. there’s just no overarching narrative, just an accumulation of anecdotes. sigh. (meanwhile, the original production team restarted through another provider, a few months back, with their own series about the space shuttle, which I thought was fascinating)

2025-07-30 04:09:14 CEST

new from the library, will summon summer by reading this. @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-07-12 00:30:23 CEST

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just read through the acknowledgments and see the author thanks an old study friend of mine for the sabbatical that allowed him to write the book, so must be a good book then 😄 @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-07-11 11:58:34 CEST

picked up this from the library today - anyone read it, and is it good? @npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-07-08 07:59:00 CEST

“Tracker had that habit of annoying people. And you wanted to punch him in the head sometimes. … A bastard, there was no doubt about it.”
Reading Alexis Wright’s Tracker during #NAIDOCWeek - it is just the most lovingly written biography, what a treat.
@npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-07-05 02:08:40 CEST

not hosier lane | hosier lane
#Melbourne
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2025-07-04 10:37:30 CEST

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“Uncle Larry Walsh was two-and-a-half years old when he was taken. A toddler standing before a magistrate, made a criminal before he had even learned to speak his own name.
A child marked by the law, sentenced to a life without family, without the certainty of knowing where he belonged.
He recalled the day his life was changed: on
24 May 1956, while his mother was in hospital giving birth to his younger brother, he and his two sisters were taken from their home. Later, he learned that authorities had come and taken not only them, but a group of other children-all at once, like a sweep. As Melbourne prepared for its glittering turn in the spotlight as the host city of the Olympics, children were being snatched with impunity from loving families. Their stories would remain largely unheard for decades.”
@npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia #Victoria
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2025-07-04 10:35:56 CEST

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“To this very day, not one law enforcement official has been charged over the death of an Aboriginal person. The colony started as it meant to go on.
This was how control was maintained. Not just by the mounted police or the gun, but by the quiet, bureaucratic sanctioning of violence.
A poisoned meal, a raid at dawn, a report filed away whose careful phrasing obfuscated the reality. Aboriginal lives were statistics; their deaths inconveniences noted in passing. The colony moved forward, indifferent to the blood that greased its wheels.
In the twenty-four years since Henty and Batman had staked their respective claims on Gunditjmara and Kulin land, so much had changed. By the time of the colony's founding as Victoria in 1851, its First Peoples numbered just 2,000, their population having been 15,000 at the point of contact in 1834.”
@npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia #Victoria
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2025-07-03 03:43:04 CEST

this will be essential reading for people here in #Victoria #Australia I am sure. The Yoorrook Commission’s report, Truth Be Told, is available here: https://cdn.craft.cloud/06ad3276-b3d9-4912-bcbb-37795aade9a8/assets/documents/Yoorrook_Official-Public-Record_Accessible.pdf @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-06-23 12:29:41 CEST

will be alone at home for two weeks so will likely be reading more than usual, so put in reservations for two of Nnedi Okorafor’s books from the library - Lagoon was one of the highlights of my reading last year, so I am looking forward to exploring more. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-06-20 11:24:59 CEST

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now reading up on the community radio stations of #Melbourne - this place really is something else. additional to PBS and RRR, I’ve now got 3CR, 3MBS, and SYN I need to check out - any others people enjoy?

2025-06-20 00:46:20 CEST

people told me that in #Melbourne you need to choose your footy team - what they didn’t tell is that people are equally tribal about the radio stations; this I discovered from the bumper stickers.
triple R is heavily represented on cars around me during the school run, but I have found my station: PBS https://www.pbsfm.org.au/ absolute joy; constantly playing cool music I’ve never heard before. #NowPlaying

2025-06-19 13:01:04 CEST

seeing reporting so reminiscent of the run-up to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, just absolutely astonishing how the media learned literally zilch about how to report on these kinds of war-hungry misinformation bombardments

2025-06-15 01:03:31 CEST

only just now saw this: a very kind review of my Middle Dutch Brut edition in Renaissance Quarterly, by Alisa van de Haar
(PS the book is now also in paperback, making it hopefully more accessible for classroom use: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781800348608) @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-06-14 10:12:01 CEST

pretty sure I will not be able to finish this within the 3 weeks (3x3 weeks if there are no reservations and I can renew) the library gives me 😩 @npub1ny7…uv57 #WorldMusic
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2025-06-09 14:26:01 CEST

reading Alexis Wright’s excellent Tracker, with cat purring on lap, and Miles Davis playing from the turntable (just near enough to press play to the same side without scaring the cat off the lap, so hearing side A on repeat 😼) @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub19g6…n4f5
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2025-06-03 12:48:13 CEST

got Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls from the library. @npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-05-31 08:59:22 CEST

among all the furore about #Kneecap I thought it worth remembering that the head of this statue ended up on stage at their recent #Melbourne gig 😂
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2025-05-22 11:08:51 CEST

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same cat, different angle.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-05-22 11:07:03 CEST

#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-05-10 12:44:39 CEST

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yeah, though I used “find irritating” as a euphemism for “I think they’re pieces of shit all”, so I think we don’t disagree 😅

2025-05-10 10:42:03 CEST

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so many of you agreeing with me makes me question my assertion of the authorial intent 😅
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2025-05-10 00:12:31 CEST

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😂👆

2025-05-09 23:41:03 CEST

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(very much not saying you’re wrong to like elves. this is just an instinctive dislike I have which I have no rational reason for whatsoever. I probably descended from orcs or something) @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-05-09 23:39:24 CEST

reading Lord of the Rings again and I know this is not High Literary Criticism and it *definitely* goes against the author’s intent, but I’m genuinely curious: who’s with me in finding elves extremely irritating throughout? @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-05-09 14:54:07 CEST

I read Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy over the best part of a year and finished it only 3 months ago but honestly I feel I’m almost ready to read it a second time. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-24 09:26:51 CEST

started re-reading The Lord of the Rings (and Hobbit first) for the first time since the movies came out, and also long enough since I last saw the movies that I will be able to wipe them out of my memory completely by reading the books. please remind my not to watch the movies again after. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-24 08:22:06 CEST

excellent op shop find - I had been looking for this, so doubly happy to find a pristine copy 🥳
@npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-03-19 13:04:49 CET

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though I first should work my way through this excellent haul from the library (together with Miye Lee’s Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store). @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-19 13:00:36 CET

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now got this posted to me from the other side of the globe. 😺 @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-18 10:05:38 CET

got this weird book from the library. @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-05 11:18:32 CET

reading Alexis Wright’s Tracker. what an absolute delight her prose is (also, helping me to contextualise a lot of Praiseworthy). @npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia
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2025-02-28 07:02:21 CET

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to come back to my gut reaction, however, that phrase: "least violent". How. How can someone desire to set out to make a ranking of how violent exactly every colonialist genocide in history has been, compared to each other, and that expressly to set out the argument that the genocide they feel a beneficiary of was less violent than the others. And that's all right then?
It's High Genocide Fidelity. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-28 06:51:26 CET

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also, skimming through it the main "historiographical" argument, it seems to be that there is scant documentary evidence of violence. I am doubtful that is convincing evidence for the argument. There's scant documentary evidence of several other otherwise well-evidenced genocides, for reasons. Funny how that works, eradication. @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-28 06:49:11 CET

saw this book in the library and quite regardless of the value (or lack thereof) of the historical research in it, it made me wonder what mindset one must have to dedicate themselves to writing a book *series* to argue that "the genocide perpetrated by my ancestors in the stolen and unceded country I now live in was less violent than other genocides" (and also what drives a librarian to reserve precious shelve space for such an endeavour). @npub1ny7…uv57 #Australia #Straya
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2025-02-22 08:34:39 CET

sometimes, for a moment, she manages to look exactly like the kitten she once was
#CatsOfMastodon #caturday
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2025-02-21 11:06:27 CET

the aussie accent has this intonation where the end of the sentence is often pronounced at a higher pitch
in British English, a higher pitch at the end of the sentence often indicates scepticism or worse
so when I first arrived here and in the shops my “thank you” was answered by a “that’s alright”, with “right” in a higher tone, to my UK-trained ear that sounded like “that was definitely not alright, which should have been obvious to you” 😅 (I’m used to it now)
#Australia #straya

2025-02-09 11:18:23 CET

#Australia and specifically #Melbourne, meet your new permanent resident, Cuggles.
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2025-02-09 10:30:02 CET

I started Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings - great couple of chapters so far, and I am pleased to find the book has a soundtrack. @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-31 08:36:09 CET

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“Invisible Kitties” - the Calvino reference is, of course, not exactly subtle, yet it took me reading a couple of chapters and thinking “these remind me quite a lot of…” to clock 🤦🏻‍♂️ @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-01-31 08:10:46 CET

after finally finishing Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy I was recommended and lent Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings which I very much want to read, but after Praiseworthy I really do need a breather, so I got Yu Yoyo’s Invisible Kitties which looks like an easy but fun read🤞 @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-01-28 07:57:58 CET

“bin chickens”, I have been told 🗑️🐓
#Australia
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2025-01-05 07:41:17 CET

Q for #Melburnians: as a new resident here I understand I need to have a team. Advise me which one I should choose and why! (Or alternatively which one I *shouldn’t* and why.) #Melbourne
please repost for reach 🙏

2024-11-27 23:34:57 CET

finished Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians Discovered Captain Cook, and what They Tell about the Coming of the Ghost People
learned more from this than from any book on Australia I’ve read so far (though I am very much open to suggestions for more!)
what a great book - a truly exquisitely executed balancing act between different narrations of place and encounter; a modern chorography, reminding me of Camden’s Britannia more than any recent book I’ve read, in several interesting ways.
@npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1uhw…asey
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2024-11-21 01:17:46 CET

200 pages in I can confidently say this is an *amazing* chorography of the east coast of Australia, mapping its narratives, its histories of its First Nations and their contact with European colonisers. Truly fantastic storytelling and truth telling.
Those of you who know me from the before times may remember I worked on Poly-Olbion, and may even remember my live tweeting of my reading of Camden’s Britannia. This book is that: an account of places’ histories finding its own position between truths, lies, myths, stories, accounts, and accountings. A truly masterful balancing act, mapped along coast lines, islands, bays, estuaries and beaches.
Go get this book. Darren Rix & Craig Cormick, Warra Warra Wai - How indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook & what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People.
@npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1uhw…asey
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2024-11-14 23:44:19 CET

if you like listening to, well, any kind of music really, do make sure you’ve heard Nina Hagen Band’s debut from start to finish someday.
#NowPlaying Nina Hagen Band - Unbeschreiblich Weiblich #punk @npub19g6…n4f5
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