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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Goodbye John Crowley. You meant a lot to me.

Title page of Aegypt by John Crowley, signed.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

RIP John Crowley. Thank you for the magic. 🪄💫

Book cover for the novel Little, Big by John Crowley. A woman in late 19th century garb standing on a road leading to a large, rambling house. Muted colors.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Those are from Ballantine's Adult Fantasy series - I have the whole set. 3 of the 4 are by the great Gervasio Gallardo who just died a couple years ago. There are some book collections of his art. The Hannes Bok book was I think by Ray Cruz, who became famous later as a childrens' book illustrator.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It's the 4th of July here in Australia and I have completed my single act of observance: Play the song by X, very loudly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ty...

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X - 4th of July

YouTube video by Craig Bostick

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive nobody remembers but you. STRANGE PARADISE, 1969-70, 195 (!) episodes. A feverish nightmare I thought I had as a kid. Later, when I tried to tell anyone about this show they thought I was crazy and/or talking about Dark Shadows. This was much scarier, though.

The title screen of the show Strange Paradise, with spooky, squiggly neon green lettering.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

You're not The Punisher
You're a white supremacist who didn't read the comics

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just finished The Essence by @hutchinsondave.bsky.social. What a brilliant high-wire act, with a brain-exploding final chapter. A great entry in the micro-genre he has carved out and perfected.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just listened to their album on you rec. Thank you. Really good songs, though I wish there was more Cass Elliot in the mix.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

FWIW, it was a disaster in Sydney.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

For years I've had some lovely elegiac words about dogs rattling around my brain and could never remember where they were from. I finally found them - the last three sentences in this essay by the great novelist Jim Krusoe, from 1993. “I was a dog. I did my best. Now it is finished.”

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GIFT BOOKS : 'I Was A Dog. I Did My Best'

I do not quite know why I am so very fond of dogs.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Pretty much nothing happened in the world but Kirby started sleeping in a beanbag, so that's big news.

An Australian Shepherd smiles as she relaxes in her human brother's beanbag chair.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Unfortunately we are and remain one world. A Canadian-South African tech billionaire's support for an American political party leads to mass death in South Sudanese refugee camps in Kenya; an American-Israeli attack on Iran leads to Thailand buying oil from a Russia that is invading Ukraine.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

That’s quite a story. If most people are going through a slow-rolling search for meaning in their lives, LLMs are like clay pigeon shooting machines and we’re the terracotta figurines.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Was reading today's Crowd about your posts not getting traction on Bsky, and wondered how many - like me - follow you here but get so much depth from the newsletter that the social media feed feels extraneous. Don't know if it's true, but seems like others I read, like Kottke, experience the same...

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

The cover of A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, I book I read waaayyy too young

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A bunch of people mentioned Museum of Jurassic Technology which is good; you can also get a nice vegetarian lunch around the corner at the Hare Krishna Center, which is nice But no one nominated the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick, Lake District, England? It's fantastic and talk about a gift shop

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

My Australian wife visited that museum and found an apology letter from her ex-boyfriend that took the blame for their bad break-up. She had no idea he had ever written it.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Oh no. Read every book and loved the series. That sucks.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When I think about lost media I always think about writers from the 20th century who were ridiculously popular and completely forgotten within a couple decades. Gene Stratton-Porter sold like 50 million books in the 1910s and had a bunch of movies made from them and is (I assume) utterly forgotten

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

ACMI doesn't but they'd probably do it for you. 😊 NSFA technically does but I'm not sure the follow-through on that.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Since she's my Bluesky avatar, it behooves me to wish a happy 4th birthday to Kirby the Australian Shepherd, who - needless to say - is a very, very, very good girl.

Kirby the Australian Shepherd is lying in the grass with a bright orange toy bone

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Nuclear power has been repudiated. Trumpism has been repudiated. Culture wars have been repudiated. It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺 #auspol

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I’m so sorry for your pain. Here’s Kirby and her friend Jessamaye who is part dingo

Kirby the Australian shepherd with her dog friend Jess

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

What? So it'a a bit muddy out there.

A photo of an Australian Shepherd, normally mostly white but now almost black with mud

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

And a regular web version too (phew) … amaga.org.au/Web/Web/News...

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AMaGA stands in support of US cultural institutions

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...

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Une conférence de la Dre Joanne Liu annulée par NYU

L'université de New York allègue que son contenu peut être perçu comme antisémite, mais Joanne Liu croit que NYU craint en fait de déplaire à Donald Trump.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s even worse than it looks.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If you believe that access to open data is a pillar of democracy in Australia, read this and take a moment to share your thoughts with the National Library. I support @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy and the decades of warrior work he's done on Trove. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...

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15 years of work on Trove threatened by the NLA

On Friday, without warning, I received an email from the National Library of Australia informing me that my Trove API keys had been suspended. This threatens the future of 15 years of work helping peo...

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Stacy @stacy31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My Following feed here is filled with smart and angry intelligence about the destruction of the US government, but I also want to send particular appreciation to @kottke.org for Jason’s righteous, laser-focused take on this the last few days on his site. We’re feeling it with you, all over the world

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adriankingston @adriankingston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Some key roles going here at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, important roles that come up ***very*** rarely: - Head of Art - Head of Experience and Content Design - Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures As a bonus, you would be working with me! Apps 12 Feb jobs.tepapa.govt.nz

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Museum of New Zealand Career Site

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

*Yeah, that was Ross in his heyday, in case you're European or 18 years old and never heard of him www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...

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The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1

How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 21/01/2025

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 20/01/2025

antisemites: "jews control the media" the media: "hmm, not sure that was a nazi salute, looked kind of a like a wave, or a heartfelt outpouring of love, maybe a one-arm hug of embrace towards all peoples"

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

What a sublime set of lists, if anyone’s looking for something to read.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I know there’ll be an onslaught of these, but one of my closest friend’s sister and her family lost everything in Altadena. Here’s their Gofundme if you’re of a mind. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-the-hu...

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Donate to Aid the Hull Family's Fire Recovery, organized by Jordan Downs

Please consider giving to the Hull family of Altadena as they navigate the tragic los… Jordan Downs needs your support for Aid the Hull Family's Fire Recovery

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Okay, this is a thing I've never heard. But maybe it explains why Samuel R Delany (Jr, ahem) goes by Chip?

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Yep. And techbros were reading the Foundation Trilogy, not Trouble on Triton or The Female Man.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Feeling such despair for my home city as it burns on the other side of the world, all the while knowing that I live in a place that will incinerate with equal ferocity in this climate horror we continue to perpetuate.

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Taking a wild guess since I know you only from your work, Ballard may have been a huge influence on a lot of the artists who influenced you. Would that make him your cup of poison? Hard to say. I love him, but I was reading his novels in the mid-70s and the touchpoints were more apparent then. YMMV

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Great Edward O Wilson quote from @bruces.bsky.social & Jon Lebkowsky's State of the World 2025 on The WELL: "The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." Always a January highlight to follow along: tinyurl.com/sotw-2025

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The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025

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Russell Briggs @briggsay.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Paddington in Peru on New Years Day with the fam. Not as good as 2, but a decent escape from the torrid Australian heat.

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