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Henry Bones

@henrybones.bsky.social
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Shenanigans, horseplay, hijinks, monkey business, assorted tomfoolery. Australia doesn't exist, and I should know because I live there.

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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guilty as charged, Your Honour
The view at my desk. Books, papers, pens, the usual disarray
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Comic strip in which Peter Singer investigates a flooded basement. The cause? Utility Monster!
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's plenty of research funding, too
Part of a Wikipedia entry about the division of labor in Busytown. Predators have the good jobs, pigs are explloited
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
you can get one of these guys to add to the gravitas, but it does seem a tad too much.
3D-printed little Greek warrior holding a pen. Much gravitas.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Will this do?
Francesco Bevacqua painting of a Cardinal playing the organ and singing (1913)
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Moult bon, veraiement"
a bunch of Norman nobility, looking fierce but also smug, un petit peu
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not many people know this, but when Derrida wrote "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte" — there is nothing outside the text – he was referring to the TextEdit software that comes with the Mac. He wrote a lot of his books with it.
Derrida working at a Macintosh Classic computer. He was a late adopter, but he loved Macs
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mostly, we've been thinking about mermaids, tormenting donkeys, raising our hats to the ladies, and whatever this child is doing ....
What seems to be an infant joyfully holding up a severed head
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"I'm talkin' here!"
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A 1960 Sambar Japanese truck
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hot (town summer in the city)
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's the no/yes meme woman, but just the "ew,no" bit
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Roses are red, And so are carnations ...
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A rare photo of a sort-of smiling Martin Heidegger, with the caption (possibly misattributed): 'Live, Laugh, Love!"
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Plato with a speech bubble, apparently supporting the idea that ethics has no outside. Still unclear what his position on skull calipers is, though.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
O, caput meum miserum
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Obvious, but no less true for that
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
These shitheads are a fucking death cult
News report of some Liberal Party fuckwit who says the poors must suffer in slums so he can get richer
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A lot of planks, a tin of Japan Black, a long weekend and basic carpentry skills. Also a fair bit of swearing.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The three Rs of local government: Roads, Rates and Revanchism
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An old dog, fast asleep, with her favorite chewed-up toy
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m honored, humbled…. And a big reader this year. Ready for anything!
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Margaret Van Eyk Is a beautiful sight With imperious stare And ice-creams for hair. But not much is said (They’re discreet, so I’ve read) Of the tablecloth over her head.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You show me yours, I'll show you mine
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Here's Captain Spalding exploring the Amazon. Here's Godiva but with her pajamas on."
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Here's Captain Spalding exploring the Amazon. Here's Godiva but with her pajamas on."
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tony Abbott: He's Australia's best retail politician The shopkeeper:
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He'll also be handing out copies of The Australian to patrons as they enter their gender-appropriate loo
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Weekend fare
Paperback copy of Roberto Calasso's 'The Ruin of Kasch' which may be about to ruin me.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Describe yourself in three characters
book foolOblomovhairy old hermit
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
greetings from the colonies
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.”
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you see this, post your comfort characters.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
g'night
whippet fast asleep amidst the chewed remains of her favourite toy
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This was the cause of much childhood anxiety/fascination
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just a sec, let me get my writing hat on
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
All aboard the Grievance Gravy Train!
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is the dark sky above my place a couple of weeks ago
night sky in western victoria
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A Welsh postman and pony on their rounds, 1950s
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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