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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

grounds for divorce

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 27/08/2026

"You're making a huge mistake if you don't stop what you're doing right now to manifest your goals and imagine your dream life under the light of this full moon!" From "Moon Water," a new comic by Polly Lou Adams. 🌕️ buff.ly/MGfMj45

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My cup of ambition is thimble-sized today

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Going to stay with my mum for a few days while she's recovering from surgery. Five books may be a little over the top for four days...

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's about five preacher types in front of Flinders Street right now, basically having a screaming match with each other, except with megaphones

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I assumed this wasn't the actual final cover until I saw it at work the other day. Nope. That's it. That's the book.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Having to remember to tap on my myki in this hellscape feels particularly cruel

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Next time someone acts like I'm a huge fucking weirdo when I tell them I'm anti-AI, I'll send them this link.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just going out on a limb with my pick for the Stella tonight...

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's May, otherwise known as the month I *may* get my shit together (unlikely but not impossible)

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We should just play this instead of the national anthem tbh

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you're wondering how my day is going, I'm on my way home and just tried to use the tram tracker app to find out how much longer I have to wait. I'm at a bus stop.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Why are sprayed edges everywhere all of a sudden? (Not a complaint, I love them!)

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As a library person though, the holds queue for Wild Dark Shore...oof

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Excited to see Cannon on the Stella longlist - one of my favourite graphic novels of 2025 (and love that the Stella recognises graphic storytelling ❤️)

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Since everyone took the piss out of Sussan for having an extra letter in her first name, Angus has decided to take a letter out of his name

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of the reasons I miss my dad is because I'd show him something like this $70 to do list stand on an online store, then step back and watch him lose it for the next half an hour about how he could make it himself out of a wood offcut for five bucks at the most and so on and so forth

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The thing that annoys me most about Stranger Things 5 is finding out Dustin is playing a bard when he's been a rage-filled barbarian all season. Also, this is the nerdiest skeet I'll ever skoot.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm constantly getting those ads for mobile games where you have to save the king from being squashed, drowning, burning, freezing. I love them, if only because watching the ruling class get what they deserve makes me cackle like a maniac

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Nice Wilcox book on the left

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year to everyone except 2025

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My mum set off the smoke alarm and I royally fucked up the gravy (up yours Paul Kelly)

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Me: i really should post something to one of my various social media accounts Social media: *everything is terrible* Me: oh no

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Product idea: a screen i can hang on my wall with "in this house, we do not" and whenever i need to, i can customise the sign with the rest of the sentence ("use generative AI", "support TERFS" and so on). Then I could just point to the sign. It'd save a lot of time.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

From 2 years ago. Free MIRRORSHADES! Weirdly this epic cyberpunk antho doesn't exist as an ebook. So we turned it into a free online webpage. Happy reading, and may ye wax gnarly and punk and dirty and ecstatic and intricate and all that good shit. Happy cybermonday. rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/

rudyrucker.com

Mirrorshades

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Has anyone else ever had a dream where they had to move into their grandma's house and then inexplicably ended up making out with Weird Al Yankovic, or is it just me?

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Can we just call it early and give the next miles franklin to the Harold Holt swimming centre guy on Instagram?

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

we need kaiju billy corgan immediately

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Copywriters. We need to talk about the word "elevate". Unless you actually work for an elevator company, could you maybe...I dunno, try a different word once in a while?

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

*immediately adds a frankly irresponsible number of comics to her cart*

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My niece and I drew pictures of the same orca image from the internet, then rated then. Mine is the one at the top. I gave hers a score of 20/10 ✨

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm going away. Somewhere your emails will never find me.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Aussie Bird Count, Melbourne edition:

Photo of Pam the Bird graffiti on the platform at Footscray station

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

My 10yo nephew, completely out of nowhere: Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday, and right now you can save up to £50 per person My 75 year old mum: ...um WHAT

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In every relationship, there's someone with a normal, working front door key and someone who has to stand outside wedged inside the screen door, twisting their key in the lock around for five minutes while muttering swear words

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Trying to find out when the Miles Franklin announcement is happening and AI has already called it

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sometimes, I long for him

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night.

A large title panel declares this character's name:

THE TW*T COLLECTOR.

He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand.

Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure.

slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!"

There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear".

The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

At no point of "dancing on my own" does Robyn specifically say the song is set *at a club*

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Kid at my work, looking at my lazy eye intensely: ARE YOU BLIND? Me: No, but I do have bad eyesight, which is why I wear these big glasses Kid: CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING?? Me: Yes, but my eyes are a bit different...

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michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Things I absolutely didn't have on my bingo card for this year #42 - taking my bereaved mum to see AC/DC

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