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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Calling all #piano music lovers in #melbourne Australia. My friend Zachary Dunbar, a virtuoso pianist, is hosting a concert on Friday 4th September. Details below 🎼🎹 www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concer...

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Zachary Dunbar - 'Twilight' — Tempo Rubato

Solo piano Concert starts 8.00pm Bar open from 7.00pm Tickets $30 | Concession $25 About Zachary Dunbar Program

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

After five years, my edited volume, 'The Psychology of Place: Rebuilding Sense of Place in a Post-Colonial World', is complete! I invite you to join the celebration and meet contributors at the launch in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 17th July.

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Book Launch: The Psychology of Place, Edited by Iain Butterworth PhD

The Australian Fulbright Alumni Association invites you to a civic and cultural event to mark the international launch of The Psychology of Place.

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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Everything is staged. Including his assignation attempt.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Looks like "Severance", but the worst possible spin-off.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I can't praise enough this superb analysis of #heatedrivalry. It explains very succinctly why the show resonates so widely with LGBTQI+ folks, with straight women and also many straight men, and how toxic heteronormatively poisons us all.

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The Cultural Power of Heated Rivalry

YouTube video by M.E. Berkshire

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This was great. So happy to see mainstream Australian TV celebrating queer joy and identity

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

@hrnews.bsky.social This is easily the best analysis of HR that I’ve seen— it deserves to be shared widely! 🙌🙌🙌

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The Cultural Power of Heated Rivalry

YouTube video by ME B

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Oh my lord. It really is 1933 in the US.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is so powerful. Beautifully spoken words

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"As to whether Herzog’s tour will be a deliverer of healing and unity as Albanese apparently expects, or drive a wedge deeper into this country’s rendered heart, I think we all know the answer." #auspol

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

So great to see mainstream Australian TV celebrating this incredible show — and LGBTQI+ people’s lived experiences — so enthusiastically. It’s a significant milestone

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Here we are. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Two frames. 1. Customs and Border Protection agent with suitcase open holding two pieces of paper, says to man opposite, “President Herzog, we note there’s a photo of you here signing a bomb meant for Gazans, as well as a UN accusation of incitement to genocide…” 2. Same scene but agent is handing closed suitcase to the man saying “Welcome to Australia and enjoy your stay.”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Follow the money. If we had mainstream political journalists worth the name, they'd focus far less on the superficial race-horse politics of One Nation v LNP. And far more on the links between Rinehart, MAGA, One Nation, Advance, IPA & other RW 'think tanks', and the global Atlas Network. #auspol

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Kelly Mantle @kellymantle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thank you Catherine O’Hara 💟🎭

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Leo Herrera @herreraimages.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The great Catherine O’Hara. What range and deep knowing.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I never met Catherine O’Hara, but I wish I had. I would have told her what an exquisite human being she was, and how her art gave me warmth and life.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 30/01/2026

just thinking about how Moira Rose was such a singular character in the history of television who legitimately only could have been played by Catherine O’Hara.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is awesome. Melanoma is a modern-day Cruella de Ville.

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

RIP Catherine O’Hara. What a devastating loss. She was the absolute best of the best.

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Actress Catherine O'Hara dies at 71

YouTube video by ABC News

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This makes me so happy! God... Canada just rocks. Damn!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Oh my god.

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The moment when you realize the chatter around Heated Rivalry has been so positive because the Russian bots don't want to draw attention to it, even by saying bad things.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

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Alex Kelly @alexkelly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

holding on to heated rivalry glimmers while everything around us is hyper difficult open.substack.com/pub/jenka/p/...

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Heated Rivalry and the Art of Anti-Dystopia

Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Its crazy how hard the right has to work and how much money they have to invest to try to win the culture war and then a Canadian TV show abt two gay hockey players made for $28 takes over the world in the course of a month.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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Iain Butterworth @iainbutterworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a wonderful article about Heated Rivalry. We are “returning to it, lingering with it, and talking about it in the language of emotional recognition rather than entertainment. That kind of response usually signals that a show has tapped into something collective.” www.out.com/voices/heate...

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Why 'Heated Rivalry's relationship of equals is revolutionary

Opinion: Psychotherapist Leor Ram breaks down how two closeted hockey players broadcast a surprisingly healthy model for relationships.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Chef's kiss for the apostrophe.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Every withdrawal from the Adelaide Festival reminds us that there are many prominent people with integrity and principles, who will stand up to the bullying of a foreign power and its local acolytes. #ZionistMcCarthyism #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fascinating that a centre-right Israeli paper gives more critical coverage to the racist behaviour of the Adelaide Festival Board, and Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah's very reasonable response, than almost all Australian mainstream media.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Mal Lanyon is the same bloke who declared in September that he would be adopting a "laser-like" focus on combating antisemitism, & whose Force in November approved a neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament with a banner reading 'Abolish The Jewish Lobby'. So, y'know. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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Police commissioner extends protest restrictions in NSW

The NSW police commissioner will extend temporary protest restrictions across Sydney for another two weeks.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social - How many nations will Donald Trump need to illegally invade before you think about the need to review #AUKUS, and the increasingly dangerous US 'alliance'? #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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US ‘has no right’ to take over Greenland, Danish PM says after renewed Trump threats

Mette Frederiksen responds to president amid febrile atmosphere after US actions in Venezuela

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

See @albomp.bsky.social ? It's not that hard. #auspol

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Test results summary: He crayoned mostly inside the lines and was able to tell the difference between Stephen Miller and a hyena (on the third try).

Dementia Don with his weekly test results.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Turn the channel!

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

While Australian politicians pretend this isn't happening, or like the NSW Premier, speak euphemistically of "international events", Israel's #EthnicCleansing of the #WestBank continues.

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