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Hannah Forsyth 🍉

@hannahforsyth.bsky.social
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Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Without zooming I totally saw that guy on a horse as a rocker with an electric guitar. (spring equinox approaching in my part of the world tho obv).
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spring in the Blue Mountains is kinda amazing.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok Labor historians, historians of sexuality, historians of medicine and public health. Also humans, queers, nurses. This is a fucking incredible book 👇
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Working towards a material history of money. hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/when-money...
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When Money Mattered
Some thoughts on gold and a material history of money
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine it was free healthcare clinics, daycare centres and drop in cafes for carers of disabled family members.
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Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
BTW: true professionals care about doing their job well and looking after those who depend on them. (And hope to be paid for that 🙏) Managers (nowadays) care only about the money — and nothing else. @hannahforsyth.bsky.social wrote a whole book about that (more nuanced, of course) worth reading.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨This is happening right now 🚨 Labor + Coalition + One Nation just cut a secret deal to pass laws on ASIO's power to detain and interrogate you without charge with a warrant issued by a politician. They're trying to do this while media is distracted.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you can’t be bothered writing it, I can’t be bothered reading it. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
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If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it.
The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Truly excellent article on higher Ed’s “thru-put” model arena.org.au/tertiary-rac...
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Tertiary Rackets: Deakin.bot v Einstein.ai—the sad finale of this model of higher education? – Arena
Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth
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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For high school history teachers, "autonomy has been increasingly undermined, class sizes ever larger, and workloads impossible - and dominated by f**king forms," writes @hannahforsyth.bsky.social in her latest substack. hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The future depends on excited, passionate, well-trained history teachers.
Conditions for enabling this have never been more difficult.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Enjoying a temporary staycation with some unseasonable not-winter warmth.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Almost every sort of writing & cartooning job I've had no longer exists or is disappearing or not being paid, properly or at all. I feel a kinship with manual hay balers in the 1850s.
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked
the ancient “don’t email my wife” meme, there’s a beige suburban house with 
“STOP NOW 
don’t email my wife!!!!”
written on the white garage doors in red paint
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Surprising how much a bird called rainbow is actually not all that visible in nature.
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’ve said this so many times because it’s absolutely true.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Am confused by that blurb sentence, but reading the whole review, it seems to mean there's a personal, narrow, blokey choice of books stored in a rich man's very beautiful library. More JP Morgan than Dolly Parton.
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tonight i learned that dolphins get high. Intentionally. By gently biting puffer fish to release the toxins. And then they pass the puffer fish to their dolphin friends so they can all get high together, after which they just float around near the surface. I. SHIT. YOU. NOT.
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Say Cheese
ALT: Say Cheese
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Chris Roberts @oneeyegrey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In proper news. This, by any standards, is a very cool photo. From BBC report on Iran popping shots off at USA military and their bases.
Proud young Iranian woman looks on as tens of thousands of ppl throng streets at funeral of former leader.
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Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com · 04/07/2026
Ever felt like your corporate job is quietly killing you? At Words on the Waves, we sat down with @hannahforsyth.bsky.social, author of ‘Virtue Capitalists’, to unpack class, capitalism, and why corporate morality can feel like a contradiction. Search Not Quite Write Interviews to listen now.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Ok I get that there’s a heatwave in the northern hemisphere and that’s very hot and widespread. But it kinda pisses us southern hemisphere ppl off when you use ‘global’ in a way that literally excludes half the world. RN I’m sitting in front of the fire and it’s fucking cold outside. 🥶
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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Another absolute cracker from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social: "Universities are not safe places to work" Academics and professional staff need to remember that we ARE the university. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
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Universities are not safe places to work
Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
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Universities are not safe places to work
Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Universities are not safe places to work
Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Can I introduce you to a Leaf Sheep…a type of sea slug about the size of a grain of rice. 🙂
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
40 straight years of budgets geared towards them, and one year the (rich) boomers are not at the forefront of the politics and you get this.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Even if it were right-hand drive it'd be illegal to put a Cybertruck on public road in Australia (etc) due to decent safety rules covering drivers, pedestrians & children. If you put it on a private/dirt road or across a creek in Australia it would become a stationary pot plant very quickly.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Male hummingbird dancing for a female: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My column: what is the median income for Australians. And what puts you in the top 10% @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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ATO tax data shows that when politicians talk about 'average Australians', they’re not talking about most Australians
It might surprise people to realise just how little a majority of Australians earn. We are often told about average earnings and even average full-time earnings. But averages are not “the middle”. The...
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hey, Channel 9 newspapers, SMH & The Age how about fact-check One Nation lies about abortions, eg Hanson's lie that people 'abort the day before due date'. Absolute rubbish. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Pauline Hanson spoke for 90 minutes. We fact-checked her key claims
We break down the major talking points from the One Nation leader’s speech and fiery Q&A.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Flying fish gliding above the surface of the water. Original post
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My favorite thing is when animals feel the need to show human moms their little babies 😭😭 TT: @hayleydavo99
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 13/06/2026
I am very pro quant and materialism and empiricism and grounded scientific practice but the key thing with doing any of them good is you need a bunch of humanities and qual stuff to avoid fucking up and there are a lot of 20th century ideological hangovers that are built on denying this.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Wouldn’t it have been great to go with the headline “Small group of racist agitators overwhelmed by enormous demonstration of community spirit”. This is the alternative narrative up and down the country. Eight arrests at anti-immigration and counter protest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Eight arrests at anti-immigration and counter protest in Brighton
An estimated 300 people took part in a Stop The Boats protest, with about 4,000 at a counter protest.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Juliet Lamont was raped and tortured by Israeli soldiers. this is her story, told by Andrew Brown. #gaza #flotilla #auspol #IDF michaelwest.com.au/israeli-sold...
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Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her - Michael West
Gaza flotilla participant raped and tortured by a foreign military, while her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I tried briefly in post academia to retrain as a library technician. I didn’t because I was too busy. But it is probably the best job in the world.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses." One star out of five.
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Nikaaaaaaaah! 👻🎃 @mxnectarine.polycule-slut.cloud · 08/06/2026
Hello. My name is Iguana Monitorya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
A little gecko holding a push pin. I know a gecko is neither an iguana or a monitor lizard but they are all lizards and he’s just named after them ok. Like a guy can be named Wolf or Wolverine or Bear (in Swedish)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.
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𝕊𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖_𝔸𝕀 @susanne-ai.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A lemon glows like a little sun, garlic and olives gather close, while the red tomatoes steal the show. or a still image of vegs, olive oil, and a jar of red wine :) #synthart
Impasto still life painting an olive oil, olives, tomatoes, garlic, lemon on dark wooden table in a Greek kitchen, Mediterranean style, high quality image, vibrant colors --ar 3:4 --stylize 250 --hd --v 8.1
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Posted 5 days ago "russ_and_stacie_sullivan: Good morning, friends! Last night at WaterFire in Providence, 🔥a bunch of friends from different groups got together for a Signs of Fascism awareness event Signs of #Fascism is an event that highlights historical warning signs of #authoritarianism..."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Foreign Minister Wong is absolutely right. The Greens want to get out of AUKUS. If you are in the ALP you should probably get out too.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Like I wasn’t already scared enough of sharks.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dishonest, manipulative extremists, backed by One Nation & infiltrated state & fed Liberals, want to force girls & women to give birth. US women are dying because of new laws there: follow @jessicavalenti.bsky.social. For Australian girls & women's health rights, say no to forced-birth candidates.
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