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Mel Campbell

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Film/TV critic, copyeditor, author and shadow academic on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country Into #wattle, #robots, #folklore rituals, screen #costume, cultural […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ aus.social/@incrediblemelk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Brains are so plastic! I remember when I first encountered “Gen Z slang” and was actively trying to teach myself what it meant so I could keep up with The Children But I have actually internalised a lot of it now Just caught myself saying to my cat, “Let’s get you some more water! You need to […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Today I’m having a Goblin Day. I am going to put my head down and do work and wear schlumpy sloppy clothes and not leave my house although I have already betrayed some of the purest principles of Goblin Day by putting on okay-looking clothes and even earrings and also it’s 1pm and I haven’t […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I get a lot of recipes served to me on social media for ‘easy oven-baked weeknight meals’ where you just dump things in an oven tray and they cook together One of those is risotto and I think a lot of people like the oven-cooked version because they find it boring or time-consuming or hard on […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

This is farked. Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices. And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse: "Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The speaking exercises in #Duolingo #Arabic are so difficult because my reading skills are so poor – the only way I can pass them is to memorise the sentences by ear, but also I struggle to remember all the unfamiliar vocabulary In the languages that use Roman script at least I can read the […]

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

WTF!!! Labor has just given the worlds most evil company access to our data? #AUSpol michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-on-ster…

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I was just watching a French film and in the end credits I noticed a piece of classical music by Telemann written for the “hautbois”, and made a mental note to figure out what that was in English It means “high wood” but then I thought about it a little more AND IT CAME TO ME the English […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

American architecture YouTuber Stewart Hicks has posted a thought-provoking video about data centres: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JOmHYyQoO4 Stewart's contention is during the industrial revolution, corporations basically built two kinds of industrial buildings. The first were […]

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Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What if an owl delivered a letter to J. K. Rowling, which read... "You're a cunt."

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

In a bid to flee platform enshittification, I’m finally (like, it’s been on my to-do list since January 2024) making the move from Medium and Substack to Ghost. (Please don’t go evil, Ghosty!) Anyway, they want you to hook in all your social presences, but I didn’t want to hook in Mastodon! […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

God help me, I was just reduced to leaving a passive-aggressive note on the inside of our building’s front door asking whoever left a bag of used sanitary pads perched on top of the bin, which has burst open and strewn pads on the ground next to the bin, to clean up their own biowaste like an […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

It’s so blustery outside tonight. When I got home just before 7pm it was a brisk 16°C in here so I turned the heater on for the first time this year Now it’s 17.5°C Apparently it’s 12.7°C outside (“feels like 8.6”) The coldest it’s been in here since record-keeping began was 13.5°C on 3 July […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Just realised my #ABCClassic listening has really dropped off since I made a concerted effort to take public transport rather than driving my car Years ago I stopped using earphones on public transport, and now sometimes I don’t even have any on me if I want to listen to something on my phone […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

I haven’t actually watched Anthony Albanese’s stupid ‘address to the nation’ but what annoys me is that he’s cloaking himself in the threadbare pomp and ceremony of ‘an address to the nation’ like he thinks he’s fucking Winston Churchill or something yet by all accounts I’ve read, the speech […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

RE: mastodon.art/@mobydick/116331881443… Don’t go to see as a Captain Cook

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

It is so awkward on 1 April to be editing the kinds of online citations for which your style requires you to note access dates because now, anyone who looks at the citation and sees “1 April” as the access date will automatically mistrust the accuracy of the source because it looks like an […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

#Duolingo is such a strange palimpsestic app On one hand it presents itself as linear, gamifying itself to incentivise you to move along paths and through league tables But they are constantly shifting the syllabus and moving you around according to the 'new' version They always change the […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I always feel a bit exasperated by "Webster's Dictionary defines…" kind of citations See also: when someone cites page 1 of a source

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

It angers and disgusts me that I found the tag /?utm_source=chatgpt[dot]com at the end of a URL cited by one of my editing clients but when I mildly suggested to this client that some of the referencing problems I've encountered with their work seem like potential AI hallucinations, they said […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/11616163520… Oof, why is anyone PAYING to use AI?? Paying money to dull their brain’s own creative and analytical capacities? Paying to increase pollution and cause water shortages in their own cities and towns, and to drive up housing costs, because […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Terrible night’s sleep (2:06am–6:16am) because the fucking cat spewed somewhere in my room at 5:45am and I found myself lying awake fretfully rehearsing how I planned to respond to the vet’s email from yesterday so I figured that I was not going to go back to sleep and I should just turn my […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

RE: aus.social/@fergusryan/116144270285… lmao eshay idnapkay otplay

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

The only bit of the Winter Olympics I have watched is the figure skating. I have Stan which enables me to watch every session of every event on demand, so I worked my way through the teams event and then the ice dancing, the men’s singles, pairs and finally women’s singles I literally haven’t […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Every time I get an email that someone has subscribed to my Substack I feel so embarrassed and want to apologise to them

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

That horrendous moment when you’re drinking from a straw in public and you’re reached the end of your ability to drink silently so you have to decide: are you going to 1) make loud gross slurping noises; 2) sacrifice that last little bit of the drink; 3) try to finish it without the straw?

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

Revealed: Australia’s secret Anti-Protest Force for US Department of War michaelwest.com.au/australias-anti-… #Auspol

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Revealed: Australia’s secret Anti-Protest Force for US Department of War

As public concerns over the AUKUS and Donald Trump rise, Australia's Defence Dept and AFP set up a secretive 'Protest Force' for the US Department of War

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Feeling grumpy and depressed by the thought of all the work that awaits me tomorrow, the day I have told myself I have to sit back down at my desk This is such a terrible feeling. As a freelancer I always felt a bit sorry for wage slaves who had the ‘Sunday scaries’ at the end of a weekend […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

RE: thepit.social/@peter/11582433943197… Don’t use food delivery apps

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Just walked past a mirror and felt a stab of despair that this is what I look like that I have to go through the world having people look at THAT GROSS THING and call it me and I can’t escape being THAT GROSS THING no matter what clothes I wear, or how hard I dress it with hair, makeup, etc […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

I was reading this op-ed, which vigorously condemns bad-faith attempts to blame the global protest movement against lsraeI's genocide of PaIestinians for the antisemitic Bondi Beach massacre last Sunday www.thenation.com/article/society/b… Anyway, the […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

God, I have got my own Christmassy #StupidCatSong ‘Carol of the Grahams’ in my head Soft puffy Graham Miaows all the time He wants his food He thinks it’s good Sits on my desk Only to ask For venison He carries on He does a dance Bats at my plants Sits by my […] [Original post on aus.social]

My beautiful cat Graham, who has fluffy black and white fur, pale green eyes and a black nose, sits beside his automatic kibble feeding machine, gazing imploringly at the camera. Why won’t lovingly chopped-up tinned venison come out of the machine, served in a warm gravy? It’s just not fair

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I recently learned that 'The Rosie Project' author Graeme Simsion and his wife, psychiatrist and fellow author Anne Buist, host a strictly invite-only annual party at their mansion for Melbourne authors (no plus-ones, I guess except if they are also invited authors?) at this cocktail soirée, 7 […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

I’ve decided to start texting or messaging someone whenever I think fondly of them. No obligation to have a drawn-out conversation or to organise a get-together, but I want people to know they’re still in my life by being in my thoughts, even if we haven’t seen each other in ages I have various […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

RE: aus.social/@jessta/1156299457696123… I hate that I previously criticised the cops' repressive crackdown on public protest via "Designated Areas" by saying that if they actually wanted to achieve their stated aim of tackling violent youth crime, they'd concentrate their efforts at […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

A terrible bind that #ADHD puts me in is that I forget large chunks of my daily activity if I don't document it as lists and logs, so I create these incredibly granular documents to capture it but I also forget to update the lists and logs, and then I get completely daunted by the prospect of […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Maybe 15–20 years ago when I favoured an 'indie retro' fashion aesthetic that I referred to as 'Jaunty Pussy', I accumulated a huge wardrobe of brightly coloured cardigans in light, thin fabrics I am the sort of person who, when I find a style of clothing I like, will go back and buy the same […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Workshopping a new #StupidCatSong based on 'Wicked', the award-winning musical about my cat #Grahamstodon… Something has changed within me Something is not the same I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game Too late for second breakfast Too late for a dawn-feed leap It's time […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

RE: wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/11… I hate to observe this, but there was a Black Mirror episode along these lines. A primary-school teacher diagnosed with brain cancer gets a lifesaving cloud-based brain backup but can’t afford the company’s constant tiered price […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Yesterday on my neighbourhood walk I sweated so much that when I got home, I pushed my fringe back off my face with a headband It dried that way and so I have decided to reveal my Forbidden Forehead today The proportions of my face look so wrong to me My glasses all look terrible as I chose […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

This should have been a bigger news story. More media consolidation in Australia, with Seven looking to buy radio station operator Southern Cross Austereo. SCA owns Triple M, Fox FM Melbourne, and 2Day FM Sydney. mumbrella.com.au/sca-and-seven-west… #auspol #ausmedia

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SCA and Seven West Media propose merger

Audio company Southern Cross Austereo and television and publishing network Seven West Media have announced plans to merge.The deal would bring a number of major Australian media properties under one roof.Seven West Media owns the Seven television network, a number of regional TV licences, plus The West Australian, The Sunday Times, and the Community Newspaper […]

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

I was looking up the meaning of the #Brazilian #Portuguese idiom “mas que nada”, as heard in the #SergioMendes song In the song, the context is like “whatever! Get out of my way, let me pass, because the samba is animated; what I want is to dance the samba” I found this informative link about […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

I told myself that today I would sit down at my desk and do some proper work to make up for not having done any work on Friday or Saturday Instead I loafed about on the couch reading a trashy Cold War spy novel, wasting time on social media and trying to groom matted bits out of #Grahamstodon’s […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Voting is open for #fatbearweek2025! explore.org/fat-bear-week

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

I'm obsessed with the cats who live in and around my apartment complex and whom I only glimpse Moonlight (black with dash of white on chest) lives across the hall from me and loves to strut about outside. Is the neighbourhood darling, often patted & photographed by studenty types on the street […]

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Eughhhhh do not recommend wearing a button-through dress on a day of gorging oneself at dumplings

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

I fucken swear to fucken god, one of these days I’m gonna fucken trip over that fucken cat while holding a cup of fucken hot tea, and I’ll either scald the fucken cat or I’ll fucken scald myself

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

I wish I could figure out what makes me look at a picture of someone and go “wow, what a cool outfit” and apply it to myself so my own outfits don’t look either boring and normie or fussy and tryhard I read and think so much about this, and have watched so many […] [Original post on aus.social]

English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys at an MTV event in their youth: Neil Tennant wears a business shirt with a small dotted black-and-white print that makes it look grey, a loud geometric-patterned black tie, and a black pork-pie hat pushed back on his head. The other one whose name I can never recall looks like a cute new-wave sailor in a yellow satin, grey-lined jacket like a slicker, a jade green-and-grey striped hoodie over a white t-shirt, with little round sunglasses and a white Dixie-cup sailor hat

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

I’ve had a temperature tracking device in my living room for three years, since 2 August 2022, when I first participated in the ‘Winter Renters’ citizen science research project run by the lobby group Australian Renters to demonstrate the conditions renters […] [Original post on aus.social]

My hallway thermometer (the kind designed for fish tanks, which attaches to a smooth surface with a suction cup) sticky-taped to the side of my fuse box, shows a temperature slightly above 15 degrees Celsius

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

Oh my god, feeling like I'm falling apart today I wasted yesterday hanging out with my friend Karen and viewing wattle as it is #WattleSeason then I had to work into the night to make up for the lost time. Went to bed at like 3:30am #Grahamstodon lay on me while I was in bed and I somehow […]

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