Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · 42mDid you know you can submit your own work to the Daggers? It doesn’t have to be submitted by your publisher! All members can submit (trad & indie). Not a member? You may only submit trad published work. Subs are open & we’d love to see your work! buff.ly/ZV8mI4x 011
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMiriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 2hThis is awful: Exclusive: Hundreds of Australians, including war veterans, are being buried in unmarked communal graves - by Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comHundreds of Australians, including war veterans, are being buried in unmarked communal gravesExclusive: Guardian Australia investigation reveals state governments use shared graves to bury those deemed too poor to pay for funerals. ‘It’s unspeakable,’ one relative says 012
Reposted by FrancesjkeyLauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 13h"Killer Karate Krusher - for a 'Grip of Steel'..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Joe Weider's Karate Krusher. Australasian Post, 1977. 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyFierce Reads @fiercereads.bsky.social · 17hPEN reports that SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson was the second most banned book in the 2025-2026 school year. 📣 SPEAK UP for banned books during #BannedBooksWeek by sharing what books changed your life and pledge your support for the Freedom to Read here ➡️ vist.ly/5m532 14566198
Reposted by FrancesjkeyEveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 12hIF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS AND WANT TO STOP BOOK BANS!! TAKE ACTION! Make your voice heard. Interim Hearing. October 7, 2026. Texas Capitol. Austin, TX. E1.028. Meeting starts at 8AM. buff.ly/3dLesWMbuff.lyShare your SB 12 & SB 13 story with the Senate Education Committee.Make your voice heard. Interim Hearing. October 7, 2026. Texas Capitol. Austin, TX. E1.028. Meeting starts at 8AM. 01511
Reposted by FrancesjkeyDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 15hWhat if the ground beneath your feet remembers? Bogs aren’t wastelands. They're time capsules; beautiful living systems that preserve food, rituals, travel, climate, and human stories for thousands of years. Today, I wrote about the muck that keeps our history. The New York Times, October 5, 2026 27112
Reposted by FrancesjkeyDave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 13hI'm presenting BLB from 12-2pm today @3rrrfm.bsky.social playing LOADSA 2026 misc. www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...rrr.org.auPrograms: Banana Lounge Broadcasting — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent RadioFeaturing dashes of old time weirdness and lashings of contemporary mainly Australian sounds... May contain traces of jazz. Hosted by Dave Graney with Andrew Delaney. 092
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 304169095013
Reposted by FrancesjkeyProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, this is happening. Come along if you wanna learn about our cool Aussie mammals. October 20, at the Espy. Feels cool to say that. Tickets 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-secret...eventbrite.comThe Secret Lives of Our Native Mammals: Australia's Fabulous FuzzballsTalks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-min Q&A with Professor Euan Ritchie 2389
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it. 13159131333
Reposted by FrancesjkeyGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Slounge [slunj] (n.) 1. A lazy, skulking, or sneaking person; an idle ne’er-do-well. 2. A greedy scrounger that prowls or hangs about in search of food. (v.) 1. To lounge, loaf, or move about in an idle, slouching manner. 2. To skulk about in hopes of obtaining food. 27219
Reposted by FrancesjkeyChristchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Find out what's new to the library collection this week and which just ordered titles you should be adding to your holds list! my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-titles/#... ^MT 011
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Vale Hilary McPhee - her fabulous memoir of a life in Australian publishing appeared in a new updated edition earlier this year www.mup.com.au/books/other-... 1146
Reposted by FrancesjkeyLauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"... Your Whitlam Government's education grants will mean a new deal for government schools and needy private schools..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Australian Labor Party. Woman's Day with Woman, 1974. 131
Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today we are happy to induct Kadambini Ganguly into the Archive! Her academic accomplishments were at the center of the Brahmo Samaj's efforts to improve women's rights in India in the 19th century, and particularly their access to medical care and education. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/uxb64ay6tinyurl.comHope Where There Was None: Kadambini Ganguly and Women’s Medical Care in IndiaIn early 19th century Bengal, to find yourself pregnant was to see stretching before you nine of the most agonizing months of your existence. Considered Unclean by social practice, you were removed to... 313747
Reposted by FrancesjkeyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dr. Margaret Allen: the first woman to perform a heart transplant (Stanford, 1985). • 1985: Founded the first heart transplant program, U. of Washington Med Center & served as its director until 1996 • 1994: First woman president, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) #WomenInSTEM #MedSky 026583
Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is the birthday, in 1927, of American author Barbara Mertz. Writing under her own name as well as pen names Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels, Mertz may be best known for her mystery and suspense novels, including the Amelia Peabody series. #WriterSky #BookSky #Egyptologist #History #BOTD 1113
Reposted by FrancesjkeyComms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Amazing insights here into how big oil is pushing into Australian schools. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auInside the fossil fuel industry's push into Australian classroomsAt least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group. 0912
Reposted by FrancesjkeyDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/ 1047689
Reposted by FrancesjkeyBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Microfiche catalogue system at Sydney University's Fisher Library in 1985 – the state-of-the-art microfiche catalogue superseded the library's card catalogue for all items acquired after 1983 (University of Sydney Archives) 🗃️ 22512
Reposted by FrancesjkeyKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO 9143135
Reposted by FrancesjkeyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Geophysicist & space physicist Marcia Neugebauer made the first direct solar wind measurements via instruments on the Mariner 2 spacecraft. She developed instruments used on Earth-orbiting satellites, Apollo lunar experiments & the Giotto mission to Halley’s Comet. Born #OTD in 1932. #WomenInSTEM 91225415
Reposted by FrancesjkeyDave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Saturday afternoon October 3rd we play a special show at Cross Street Music Hall in Brunswick. Playing all sorts of songs from across our songbook , some with different instrumentation. @sighphilanthropist will be playing a set of Nick Drake songs to open proceedings. Come along! 161
Reposted by FrancesjkeyLauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Here's an entirely new departure in washday working! The lattice design of the new CAPRI plastic basket allows for proper ventilation of the clothes..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Capri. Australian Home Beautiful, 1959. 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyCeryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dr Emma Strada 1908 1st woman in #Italy to graduate in #engineering (@ Uni of Turin). Committee dithered over ingegnere or ingegneressa. Had electric light installed in home to celebrate. 1st President of Italian Assoc of Engineering & Architects d. #OTD 26 Sep 1970 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_St... 4435121
Reposted by FrancesjkeyWendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“I thought, I’m hearing everybody talk about girls, but I want to hear the girls,” Gilligan said. “The girls we’re talking to today — they describe it as a battle to be heard, and a battle that’s not worth fighting.” A very interesting read. #Sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/s...nytimes.comHow to Really Listen, According to Someone Who Has Been Doing It for Decades (Gift Article)Carol Gilligan’s groundbreaking feminist book “In a Different Voice” is more than 40 years old. She wishes it weren’t still so relevant. 01712
Reposted by FrancesjkeyLauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Remember how great she looked last summer. National Colour Video Camera and Portable VHS lets you keep those moments and relive them over and over..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) National Instant Home Video. Australian Playboy, 1980. 011
Reposted by FrancesjkeyBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026theguardian.comAustralia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged againA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent 045
Reposted by FrancesjkeyGracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Meet the woman without whom the Brooklyn Bridge would not have been completed. Emily Warren Roebling, the "woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge." . www.asce.org/about-civil-...asce.orgEmily Warren Roebling 14516
Reposted by Francesjkeywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026During the early 20thc, artist Rowena Cade (1893–1983) started to create the open air Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, on the Cornish cliffs, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt 8674135
Reposted by FrancesjkeyHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The modern kitchen. Why serving hatches are a necessity from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963 2120726
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249175520
Reposted by FrancesjkeyIda B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Probably most famous for her novel, "Iola Leroy," Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born 201 years ago today; free, in Baltimore. In this gift article they give her story while also acknowledging that they didn't give her an obituary in 1911 www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/o...nytimes.comOverlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist (Gift Article)One of the best-known Black poets of the 19th century, she was also a renowned orator. “You white women speak here of rights,” she said. “I speak of wrongs.” 3265124
Reposted by FrancesjkeyCeryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rosemary Rees, 1 of "1st 8" UK Air Transport Auxiliary women pilots, chose flying over dancing as career. 2nd in command to Margot Gore @ Hamble all-women #ATA ferry pool. Flew 91 different aircraft types. 1946 started Sky Taxi charter company. b. #OTD 23 Sep 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemar... 320861
Reposted by FrancesjkeyGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Soubrette [soo-BRET] (n.) 1. A pert, coquettish, or mischievous young woman or maidservant, especially one who engages in intrigue. 2. A theatrical character of this type, or an actress who plays such a role in a play or opera. 26820
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMiriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How many "beginning of the end" stories will it take before the slow drip of realisation begins to penetrate the collective mind of human populations on our beautiful, endangered planet? #environment 131
Reposted by FrancesjkeyCeryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Georgia Louise Harris Brown 2nd African American woman to become licensed architect in US. 1st Black woman to earn degree in architecture @ University of Kansas. Later worked on large projects in #Brazil incl designing an airport, factories & homes b #OTD 21 Sep 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia... 111132377
Reposted by FrancesjkeyMichael Black @michael.bsky.team · 20/09/2026I just learned Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Womp. All the more reason to use @bookhive.buzz or @popfeed.social 55322
Reposted by FrancesjkeyLauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"DO YOU struggle for balance? Are you forever trying to maintain energy. enthusiasm, and the will to do? Do your personality and power of accomplishment ebb and flow..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) The Rosicrucians. Australasian Post, 1964. 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Misty Miss Christy @tmmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Painter Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour (9/19/1831-9/11/1916) was born in Paris. She studied with François Bonvin, Charles Louis Lucien Muller, & François Rude. Exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World Exposition. Her painting Charity was included in the 1905 book "Women Painters of the World." ~Wikipedia 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Dear @dangolding.com The ABC Classic #ScreenSounds ep celebrating 60 years of #StarTrek tv and film music was logical, flawlessly logical. Live long and prosper. Thank you so much. 🙏 📺 🎥 🎶 🖖 #StarTrek60 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auSoundtracking sixty years of Star Trek - ABC listenLive long and prosper with sixty years of Star Trek soundtracks. 2347
Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Misty Miss Christy @tmmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Bettye Lane (9/19/1930-9/19/2012) "has been called the official photographer of the women’s movement and was one of the few photographers who captured the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village." villagepreservation.org/2012/09/24/r...villagepreservation.orgRemembering photojournalist and Westbeth resident Bettye Lane - Village PreservationBettye Lane, a photojournalist who lived at Westbeth, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. She has been called the official photographer of the women’s movement and was one of the few photographers w... 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyThe Misty Miss Christy @tmmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026BOTD in Mali, Fatoumata Diabaté lives in Senegal. She has worked for World Press Photo agency, Oxfam, Rolex, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, & more. She is a member of the Djabugusso photographers’ collective/Bamako. www.artsy.net/artist/fatou... Image comes from The Eyes of the World Foundation. 021
Reposted by FrancesjkeyCeryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Beverley Bolin 1st woman registered #architect in South #Australia in 1949. @wes1919.bsky.social journal reported 1948 arrival in #London where she continued to practice #architecture. 1988 President of Women’s Architectural League in LA d. #OTD 19 Sep 2014 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverle... 014345
Reposted by FrancesjkeyKaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Here's the real Bess Houdini, accomplished teenage magician, dancer, singer & independent firecracker, photographed in the 1890s ... & how she was portrayed by Janet Leigh in the 1950s movie. Read Bess's real story & see rare pics of her in my new book, Spooky Ladies, out soon. 1245
Reposted by FrancesjkeyGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Pyrrhonism [PEER-uh-NIZ-um] (n.) 1. Extreme or universal skepticism; profound doubt. Used in a sentence: “Eudora Dinkle maintained a staunch Pyrrhonism toward medical advice, meteorological forecasts, and anything printed in the Pucklebriar Weekly Newsletter.” 49536
Reposted by Francesjkeyc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."artsci.tamu.eduFrom Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on MathematicsEmmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c... 161302512