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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

btw when I was five and my mum told me the new prime minister was Bob Hawke, I asked why it wasn't Dad

Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

not my unemployed butt being mad I'm only owed $4 from my tax return, only to twig that's because I haven't *paid* any tax... because I'm... unemployed...

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

copyediting a fine art book and a minor infuriation: I am not allowed to restyle or correct anything in painting titles because it might have artistic purpose ... but I've never edited writing by a painter that wasn't full of non-intentional errors (can't ask the dude cos he's dead)

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

have been obliged to move, discovered that not only do the Brighton Coles trolleys not have anti theft devices a la western suburbs, they actually have cup holders

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msilverstar fandom account @msilverstar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Now's the time for this gay WWII spy movie

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A delightful thing that happened: found an old tram ticket in a handbag of my grandmother's and now it's in the Melbourne Tram Museum collection Estimated date 1949 to early 1950s victoriancollections.net.au/items/6a7bb0...

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Ephemera - Ticket - MMTB 4d with Bushells Tea advert, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), late 1940s

From the collection of Melbourne Tram Museum . Conditions of Use: Public domain. Please refer to source page for full media reuse details.

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Lauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"is your husband a FAGGED OUT FATHER?..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Parke-Davis Myadec Capsules. Woman's Day with Woman, 1964.

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Lauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"A Census will be taken of all persons in the Commonwealth on the Night of Wednesday, 30th June, and all such persons are required to furnish the particulars specified in the Census Form..." Commonwealth of Australia. Australasian Post, 1954.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Manuscript page for Anita Brookner’s 1988 novel Latecomers, as featured in Hermione Lee’s forthcoming biography.

Two pages of tight, neat but hard to read handwriting in a spiral bound book. No changes or edits are visible.

Cover of the book, showing a photo of Brookner alongside a vase of slightly drooping tulips

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

1. Never thought leopards would eat my face 2. Moving big dial that says racism 3. Would've killed ET with hammers 4. Them slags... freaks my nut out 5. Grover real fuckin sexy

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

these fat little roast chickens

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

can't seem to capture the full extremity of the judgement in this fac

a small fluffy tortoiseshell cat sits on a pyjama clad person's outstretched legs, staring with great solemnity

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I like 'ask the internet' as asking can only be done to people, which foregrounds that the internet is made of people, 37 million billion trillion deranged tiny clown people squashed in a microprocessor the size of a fingernail all squeezing their bulb horns

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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Landscape #32 - Saskia Boelsums, 2017.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 24/07/2026

Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust.

a scene from the Strouse-Adams musical All American (book by Mel Brooks, for the record) showing a human pyramid of male athletes, a number of them in provocative states of undress, in a locker room

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

lit journal slush reading back on. clearly so many people are being told they should precis/pitch a short story in the cover letter. for me, cripes no. literary short stories should not feel didactic or like I've read them before, but you're making me read a didactic, shitter version in advance?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/07/2026

New today on the Society's blog: 'How to Read Foreign-Language Sources in 80 Days' bit.ly/4fx6TVp Dr Jasper Heinzen on the value of, and routes to, better language understanding for Year 3 History students. Jasper's project was supported by an RHS Teaching Fellowship for 2025-26 #Skystorians

$Opening page for the post: 'How to Read Foreign-language Sources in 80 Days: Helping History Students Get the Most out of Translation Software', by Dr Jasper Heinzen, University of York. Full abstract: "In this post Dr Jasper Heinzen reflects on the design and implementation of his recent project, ‘How to Read Foreign-language Sources in 80 Days: Helping Students Get the Most out of Translation Software’. This project, run at the University of York, was supported by the award from the Society of a Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowship for 2025-26. The project enabled Year 3 History Undergraduates to gain a basic understanding of the German language in order to support primary research in German texts for their dissertations. Jasper emphasises the necessity of expanding language knowledge and education ‘to prevent the refraction of global cultural knowledge through the prism of one language’. The Society’s Teaching Fellowships programme runs annually to encourage innovative practice in the teaching of history in higher education. The Fellowships are generously supported by the Scouloudi Foundation. Recipients of Fellowships for 2026-27 will be announced in the near future."$

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sounds the sort of thing you'd say if you were hiding Dracula's grave

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

watching Agatha Christie's Marple 1984 and I swear the opening bars of the theme music come from 'Every sperm is sacred'

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C. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Dreyer’s copyedit has a great example of a sentence starting with a conjunction that a copyeditor should not strike. (I recently had to stet several of these unnecessary deletions in one of my books.)

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

meanwhile, I have cause to write some remarks about the crucifixion, which I keep wanting to type as crucifixation, which I think is when malicious parties forcibly dress you up as nineties Madonna

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

centrelink sent a letter saying I did not upload a requested document in April, and if I don't call them on the phone within 14 days, they will suspend my payment. however, I did upload the document, and their phone service consistently hangs up on me due to no operators available. get in the bin.

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

this is so diverting (and recognisably 80s plus totally unwearable), like what is the occasion for the outfit on the right particularly, like are you a cowgirl but you have a long gathered skirt, that is not going to work, or are you a servant in a grim sanitarium in this sad dull colour head to toe

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

a very nice poem from 1970 about an encounter with a horse, in The Paris Review Daily Poem email, if by nice one can mean kind of eery and also very tender and very evocative of horse-ish-ness, also I'm not confident I understood the ending but it made me anxious mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...

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“Oats,” Stephen Tapscott

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

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Deerposts @deerposts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Innocent deer comes within inches of death from vicious housecat

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

grimly satisfying piece about enslaved women's violence against white overseers in the antebellum South - showing that the equation of violent resistance uniquely with manhood is false. recommended if you would like to hear about an overseer being chopped to bits with a hoe doi.org/10.1080/1466...

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Challenging the overseer: enslaved women’s violent resistance in the US antebellum South

This article examines violent confrontations between enslaved women and white overseeing men, exploring how enslaved women opposed overseers through the weaponization of objects and fixtures on sit...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/06/2026

A full list of shortlisted articles for the 2026 prize is available here: bit.ly/3QsFxXX The winners of this year's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes will be announced on 1 July at the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, 2/2

Text for the listing of the Royal Historical Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize:

"The Royal Historical Society’s Early Career Article Prize 2026 recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of journal articles published in 2025. This year’s shortlist of eight articles is now available and follows an open call for early career historians to submit a article or book chapter, published last year, for consideration. Two final winners of the 2026 prize will be chosen, with the announcement to take place in July. Also now available: the shortlist of the Society’s First Book Prize, 2026, for a first scholarly monograph written by an early career historian and published in 2025."

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Another thing I found in the ASIO archives was when they didn’t tape Four Corners and had to approach the ABC for a recording.

ASIO memo from 1978 on National Front of Australia

1. DURING THE WEEK, OF 11-12 NOVEMBER, THE ABC TELEVISION PROGRAMME,
"FOUR CORNERS', CONSISTED OF AN EXAMINATION OF RIGHT-WING GROUPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, WEST GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA.
CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION WAS, 1 UNDERSTAND, GIVEN TO THE NATIONAL FRONT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND AUSTRALIA AND THE LEADER OF THE NATIONAL FRONT HERE, ROSEMARY SISSYON, WAS INTERVIEWED. SISSION IS OF CONSIDERABLE INTEREST TO US AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTERVIEW WAS MOST REVEALING.
2. WITHOUT FOREWARNING OF THE PROGRAMME, HEADQUARTERS UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT MAKE RECORDING ARRANGEMENTS. | HAVE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE ADG/S AND HE AGREED WITH MY PROPOSAL THAT I DRAW THE MATTER TO YOUR ATTENTION AND ENQUIRE WHETHER WE MAY BE ABLE TO OBTAIN A PRINT. OF THE FILM FROM THE ABC ITSELF. YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE MATTER WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love this because I love dads but would love an Australian version, so many don't translate e.g. gun nuttery and name suffixes are not a thing

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Deerposts @deerposts.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Current mood

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Pump-action soap dispensers are a disgrace -and I won't put up with them any longer
By Adrian Chiles, a perfect man

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

wow this hit hard re illness (cancer, maybe) - just after me and two similarly chronically ill friends had to leave half an exhibition unseen, from fatigue, lol www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-seven/...

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What the Body Owes — The Marrow International Poetry

by Hali Sofala-Jones

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

the magical thinking around identity in general that defines the past few decades bothers me. it feels like in a secular ultra-capitalist society we longed for a concept of the soul and we arrived at many things to mistake for our innermost self

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 03/06/2026

Courtesy of @pbirk.bsky.social, this unassuming-looking correction in the Times. Except that what the Times had originally printed is that Valdez had moved to NYC to "pursue a full life as 'a queer in the arts.'"

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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

George Nelson for Herman Miller DSS Storage System 1955

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Belinda Rule @belindarule.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

so many good possums today, I am struggling to restrain myself

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/05/2026

I recently read a novel written (and set) in 2007, and everything about it is entirely informed by the culture and technology of 2007. You would have to entirely rewrite it to reset it in 2026, and I'll bet that whoever's currently tinkering with older books is doing a shitty patchwork job of it.

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

THE VICTORIA LINE REPORT NO 5: LONDON'S VICTORIA LINE (1969) | www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcxOGxUIsJw

An image captured from THE VICTORIA LINE REPORT NO 5: LONDON'S VICTORIA LINE (1969)

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Mary @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Another for the collection.

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