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Fiona Tribe

@fionatribe.bsky.social
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Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | Carer | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a child, I trusted my senses. Like me, they were innocent.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lookin' at ur department website, noticin' that 80% are men over 60, knowin' that you just denied tenure to four young non-white scholars. Meanwhile, you're *all* burning out your mid-career women.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this place.
View of a long hallway within a disused factory. Saying these studios are “cobbled together” is an understatement. I love it.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Bergman's Dreams - An Original Video Essay. youtu.be/JFQtlSvdWxQ
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Being still while everything else around you is shifting is its own kind of movement. It is not “doing nothing”. It is “being still”.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s windy in Melbourne today, so …
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The wind is banging on the door and rattling my windows, like a history that won’t go away.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
The wind delivers sidewalk conversations to my bedroom window.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got up with the rain to make tea in his kitchen. The dog appeared in the doorway.
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l e a @leabysea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BW photo. A section of a sweater laid out on a white quilt.
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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Having a million opinions about everything comes cheap and easy, whereas actually doing something can cost you quite a lot.” – the late writer, Gary Indiana [via @parisreview.bsky.social]
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Sam Spurlin @samspurlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a goddamn shame that "whelm" basically has the same meaning as "overwhelm."
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Much of what I have done is left unfinished.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Laying blame for what are clearly structural issues at the feet of individuals is a particularly cruel form of societal control.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He spoke five languages and was boring in all of them.
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Frances Benjamin Johnston Trade School. Brick laying 1899-1900
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I worked outside in the dappled sun today. The fragments of a new piece …
Six shaped stoneware clay fragments freshly cut from a slab hapharzardly arranged on a board. As is my usual way, I’ve not planned what this will end up being. I just let it kinda unfold as I work.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wonder how much it cost Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to license this William Eggleston photo for a full-color, double-page spread, mentioning The Row only in microscopic type on the back corner, in today's Times
A photo of a flat field, a row of tiny trees in various species, big puffy clouds filling most of the frame
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alfred Hitchcock’s Final Escape is worth a watch.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Misty morning photos by the Exeter canal
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!’ Derek Jarman.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” ~ Octavia E Butler
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026
Talk about inspiring: Randall's studio, Madison, Sept.2025
A white dog lies stretched out on light hardwood flooring in a spacious, sunlit artist's studio with high vaulted ceilings and exposed white beams. The studio features open French doors leading to a screened porch, walls filled with small artwork and a dense collage of photos, a large wooden easel holding a sketch on the right, and various workstations, desks, and bookshelves.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Meh.” ~ James Joyce
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Approved! ❤️
Kylie Minogue and G-Flip performing at the MCG.
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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marguerite Duras on nighttime reading: “The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.”
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At night, the sea with its ships enters my room. -Yannis Ritsos (tr. Paul Merchant)
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Ask your depressed friend to help you out with something. I don’t care if it’s helping you try out a new recipe, or helping you choose something good to watch on TV — it’s a way of keeping connected that doesn’t make them feel like the burden they often (wrongly) feel they are.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some colour for your feed.
Orange paint smeared on a canvas with a tiny trowel.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What happens when no body is accountable?
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Richard Siken
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you're falling to the floor crying thinking, "I am falling to the floor crying," but there's an element of the ridiculous to it - you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you're on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn't paint it very well.
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m the person who gets killed off in the pilot episode of what ends up being a multi-season, multi-award-winning series.
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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good sky this evening.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“We created the Machine to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of our sense of space and our sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act … and now it compels us to worship it.” ~ E M Forster, The Machine Stops
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We witnessed a DV incident this morning. The Police arrived within minutes, but minutes is often too late. If we’re talking about important problems to solve, femicide needs to be one of the most pressing.
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Photography Tony Ray-Jones (c. 1968), Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK.
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l e a @leabysea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This day.
Campaign for Charles Jourdan Autumn 1979
Retro, warmly lit interior split into two panels: a doorway reveals a pair of legs in stockings and heels beside patterned wallpaper, while the adjacent wall shows a standing lamp and oval mirror casting a soft amber glow.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Swiss signs.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, does this mean that proposals are fed into an AI system which can then be used to train it? Did those applying give their consent for this?
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 24/09/2026
Winter rainfall turns bush landscapes into lush oases of flora
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Bush landscape transformed into 'once-in-a-lifetime' flower experience
Australia's bushland is brimming with life and colour thanks to consistent rainfall events through autumn and winter. 
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“People went through life like well-handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.” ~ Sarah Hall
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I get anxious when people I barely know come on too strong, too quick.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yorkshire tea > every other tea
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 24/09/2026
“I’ll go further. Politeness constricts our ability to know each other. The fear of offending means that important regions of people stay unencountered.” Ian Williams. What I Mean to Say.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Majorly tired.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Lived experience IS specialised knowledge. Emotions ARE data. Anecdotal stories are NOT fictions.
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