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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @queens.cam.ac.uk showing the famous 'mathematical' bridge Spoiler alert: Contrary to legend, the bridge was *not* built by Isaac Newton If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a wooden bridge spanning the River Cam; one end goes into a college. A small boat can be seen in the water, with two poeple in it

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where do stories begin? Artist & graphic novelist Rebecca Stewart in conversation about ideas, creative practice, & what happens between “this might be something…” and a finished work. Fri 20 Nov 2926 in Narrm Melbourne. #BookSky www.bookneckbooksellers.com/events

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Events — Bookneck Booksellers

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 05/10/2026

Time for another #AwesomeBirds #WildOz edition. This predatory songbird has one of the most beautiful songs in the bush. They’re extra chatty right now, reinforcing the pair bond at the start of the breeding season.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Current reading 📖 #CafeLife but in the garden

A wooden bench strewn with a coffee cup and a copy of “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens. We’re sitting at the end of a stepped bluestone path, surrounded by a lush garden.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're not looking for, hear what they're not listening for, run after what they're not chasing, and smell what isn't even there.”

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dog is snoring on the couch beside me, and she’s suddenly developed hiccups. Sound asleep, snorcupping 🤣

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dad would have been happy to see his beloved orchids continue thriving and multiplying in my sister’s garden. (Some of these pots need a new home: Frankston-Mornington area in Victoria, very reasonable price.)

Four cymbidium orchid flowers with petals in shades of red and gold; two have dark red throats; on the other two, the pale cream throat is speckled with dark burgundy red.

Cymbidium orchid flowers in shades of cream and burgundy; many buds yet to open.

Cymbidium orchid flowers in shades of burgundy and cream.

View of several large pots of orchids along the side of a driveway. Long stems droop heavily among the thick strappy leaves: each stem bears roughly 12-20 flowers and buds.

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Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A great exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art: Motherboards, exploring women's contributions to computing history. Lots of textiles work! sjmusart.org/exhibition/m...

Main room of the exhibition, showing video art and a standalone sculpture seemingly extended by a wall mounted pattern made of electric cables.

Amor Muñoz
Born 1979, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Polyptych MR4 (First period), 2010/2013
Canvas, screen printing, embroidery with cotton thread, and worker documents
MR4-Maquila Region 4, 2010/2013
Video and sound
Produced by Nestor Jimenez
Courtesy of the artist
Taking the form of a mobile factory for the manufacture of electronic textile artworks, Amor Muñoz's Maquila Region 4, or MR4, project sought to make visible the individual women workers who are routinely obscured through the process of outsourced manufacturing,
Muñoz would bike her nomadic project through economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico and offer residents a chance to work for US minimum wage-$8.00 per hour at the time of the project, compared to the standard rate of $1.20 per hour in Mexico-embroider conductive thread into artisanal fabrics to create fully functioning circuit panels. The electronic textiles brought together the main exports of maquilas (factories along the US-Mexico border that offer raw materials and cheap labor for export), textiles, and electronics, while the accompanying time cards are physical reflections of the individual maquila workers who would otherwise remain anonymous.

Marilou Schultz
Born 1954, Leupp, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
Lives and works in Mesa, Arizona
Replica of a Chip, 1994
Wool mounted on wood
Courtesy of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Silicon Valley's Fairchild Semiconductor operated an assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, from 1965 through 1975. During its operations, the Shiprock facility employed primarily Navajo women. The company's promotional materials characterized these women as particularly adept for assembly work due to their
"nimble fingers," honed through generations of intricate jewelry and textile work.
In 1980, another Silicon Valley giant, Intel, expanded its operations to New Mexico.
In honor of the relationship between Silicon Valley technology and Indigenous women weavers, Intel commissioned artist Marilou Schultz to weave a replica of one of its microchips. The commission was technically demanding, requiring substantial experimentation and skill to reproduce the chip's asymmetrical patterns and varied colors. The experience inspired Schultz to continue exploring new technologies through weaving, creating textiles of digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchips. Intel gifted Schultz's Replica of a Chip to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society during its 1994 conference, "Weaving Tradition and Technology, held in San José.

Analia Saban
Born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Flowchart (Painting Gesture), 2025
Oil stick on encaustic paint on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, Karen Hillenberg, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson, and the Collection Committee, 2026.04.01
Analia Saban makes visible the hidden infrastructures of the digital age by rendering them through the techniques and materials of older technologies. Using a Jacquard loom, Saban weaves patterns of computer chips and cooling fans from copper wire and linen yarn for her "Copper Tapestries" series. Her "Motherboards" series comprises circuit boards coated in thick printer's ink that paradoxically brings out the boards' intricate surfaces.
Her most recent series, "Flowcharts, continues her concern with the dichotomy between the hand and the machine but expands beyond hardware to uncover the manual work behind artificial intelligence. On a panel covered with white encaustic made of beeswax, resin, and pigment, and layered with black oil stick, Saban has carved a flowchart with instructions for depicting gesture. Her graphic instructions parallel the inputs that structure machine learning-_-from the manual labeling of data fed into training algorithms, to the prompts users enter into generative artificial intelligence tools to produce text, images, and other outputs.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yearning for a w.a.l.k. but it’s raining ☔️

Elsa the cavalier spaniel gazes out the window. Two minutes from now she’ll be snoring.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First flush of the season: plenty more to come 💐

A vintage crystal vase on the kitchen bench holds a small posy of roses from my sister’s garden. From this angle you can see two pale yellow flowers (one a classic rose, the other a frilly double), a dark pink and a pale pink.

Another view of the same post, highlighting three orange roses in various stages of opening.

A view from above to show the white rose.

A different angle showing subtle variations on the theme of ‘pale pink and pretty.’

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you can pronounce it clearly, you haven’t had enough.

Signage at a pub, advertising Tooths Sheaf Stout. Say that three times fast!

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You’re OK at the cuddles, but you’re not my person. #DogSitting

Elsa the King Charles Cavalier spaniel throws a reproachful glance as we snuggle on the couch. Photo by me.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll be chatting with Matt Tribe about weapons in space and the Moon's water cycles, on 774 ABC Melbourne tonight! Tune in at 7.45 pm ACST or 8.15 pm AEST! 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

abc.net.au

ABC Melbourne Live Audio - ABC listen

Listen live, whenever you want, wherever you are with ABC Melbourne.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026

Women in Indonesian Borneo risk life and limb to battle blazes making their communities sick. More than 100 women are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed "Power of Mama", patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A damp day at the neighborhood shopping strip. An electrician waits in the ute. His apprentice approaches the grocery and steps out of his muddy work boots, which wait patiently on the footpath while the apprentice dashes inside for flavored milk (iced coffee, of course) and snacks. #CafeLife

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spring: self-raising flower.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Band names for sale, many different genres available: Axiom Grudgecastle Serving Suggestion Ablative The Howling Gibbons Tea and Toast Arquebus Zoonosis Fishbait Fishnet Scaly Handkerchief Williams X Axis The Eighth Wonder of the World Churros and Honey Bunsen Burner Bunsen Burger

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Australian Arts Review @artsreviewau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Melbourne based architectural illustrator Emily Soley, the artist behind Draw My Home, opens A Love Letter to the Inner North, her debut solo exhibition, at Dear Neighbour, Fitzroy, from Friday 2 October 2026. artsreview.com.au/melbourne-il...

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please share! Participants wanted for an online survey investigating player attitudes towards hybrid boardgames. Scan the QR code/go to go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey & enter the prize draw. Questions? Email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Ethics ID No.: 35781

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone who has been a castaway counts the number of days — they all know their number and account for those days, that time of being not-here. – Yann Martel, in conversation with Claire Nichols at the Sydney Writers Festival, 2026

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026

Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia.

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The joy of song: where songbirds came from and why we should listen to them

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He, preparing to leave: Is there anything at the supermarket you’ve forgotten? She: Well, I forgot Clive of India yesterday. #CafeLife

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New EP forthcoming, with three songs by written and recorded by Chrissy and Tim Finn; Charley Drayton on drums. squee!

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Caitlan Charles offers a succinct analysis of where — and why — our funding, prevention and response efforts need better coordination and integration.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The AFL Grand Final is the 2nd most dangerous day of the year for women in Australia. That’s a fact. Victoria Police & police everywhere preparing for up to a 20% rise in male violence against women on Saturday

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 23/09/2026

At 24, she discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her male supervisor. Jocelyn Bell Burnell spotted the signals that changed astronomy. Decades later, she received a $3 million physics prize. She gave it all away to help underrepresented students become scientists. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Black-and-white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell smiling outdoors beside a large radio telescope array, holding papers in her hands.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me, chatting with aunt Val who runs two book clubs: “My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”

Excerpt from “The Pursuit of Love” by Nancy Mitford.

“Have you read Brothers?" Lady Kroesig asked Uncle Matthew, conversationally, as they settled down to their soup.

“What's that?"

"The new Ursula Langdok — Brothers — it's about two brothers. You ought to read it.”

“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. But Davey here reads books — you've read Brothers, Davey, I bet.”

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today’s update from the crisant crisossant croissant cafe.

Display case at the cafe, a handwritten label offering “plain crisossant”

Another handwritten label on the “almond crisant”

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘I once heard Aunt Emily and Aunt Sadie talking about it… Aunt Sadie said: "How does she manage it?" and Aunt Emily said: "Skiing, or hunting, or just jumping off the kitchen table."’ 'You are so lucky, having wicked parents.’ — Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pen and ink well, from Cartier’s Japanese period. Shown with a ring and clock, for scale (no bananas allowed in the gallery).

Inkwell, fountain pen holder and pen stand.
Cartier New York, c. 1927.
Porcelain, wood, gold. The objects are decorated in black, red and gold; their design is clearly inspired by traditional Japanese designs.
Sold to Countess Mona von Bismarck.
Cartier Collection: DI 07 C27.
Countess Mona von Bismark - born
Mona Travis Strader in Louisville, Kentucky in 1897 - was a fashion icon of her day and great collector of jewellery.
Society photographer Cecil Beaton once said of the Countess, 'Her houses, her furniture, her jewellery, her way of life were little short of a tour de force.'

Pen and no bottle shown with an alarm clock and a ring, for scale. They’re all on the small side compared to similar products available today. This display is part of the 2026 Cartier exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The word pirate has one i and an r.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thirty evening gowns + a dozen antique sewing machines + original paintings by local artists. A dreamy day out in Skipton, Victoria. #McFarlaneCollection #MechanicsInstitute

A pale grey evening dress with fitted bodice and full skirt.
The owner of the McFarlane Collection writes: “Grey Ball Gown - a challenge - grrrrrh!
Friend, Val Oliver found this gown seven years ago, at ‘Hunter Gatherer’ op shop - Geelong.
It had lot of black dye marks on the satin skirt, perhaps stored near a damp, dark item.
Treatment: bath pre-wash soak. Overnight in weak bleach powder, two rinses, line dry, dye marks visible. Dabbed spots with paste of oxy powder, let sit 2 hours. Soaked two days, stronger bleach, rinse, line dry - still stained.
Using Nellie's Wow stain removing bar, 30% vinegar to water, tamped, soaked, bleached.
Sunshine dry two days - clean. New over skirt, straps made, beads resewn. Happy!”

Bodice of the pale grey evening dress. It’s a bustier style, fitted and boned, with a broad halter strap of duchess satin, a darker shade of grey than the rest of the frock. The bodice fabric is probably a matte satin; it’s embellished with transparent beads and a scattering of small colored crystals. The overall effect of the beading is reminiscent of raindrops on a window.

Satin waistband and pleated top of the skirt. Squint or zoom the photo to see that the soft tulle is laid over a heavier underskirt of pale grey damask with a subtle swirling design. This layering would move and shimmer elegantly when worn.

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The ASRC described it as a "dark day for multicultural Australia", arguing the reforms would significantly expand Australia's immigration enforcement and detention system and warning it would have serious consequences for asylum seekers and refugees.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

sbs.com.au

ICE enforcement in Australia? Burke quizzed over US-style detention concerns

Labor was accused of following in Donald Trump's footsteps, but the home affairs minister says that's a misrepresentation.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey everyone! It's International Talk Like a SPACE PIRATE Day! Who's your favourite space pirate? #TalkLikeASpacePirateDay

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No matter who is in power, rounding people up, locking people up in detention centres is brutal," he said. "Why would you be building that sort of capacity if you weren't also considering detaining whole families?" www.naroomanewsonline.com.au/story/935264...

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Labor on thin ICE with plan to detain visa over-stayers

A crackdown on unlawful non-residents as part of a broader migration overhaul will not resemble US-style immigration enforcement,...

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