iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 16h

Pro: “Its Blade Battery uses lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which is generally cheaper than nickel-based alternatives and requires neither nickel nor cobalt” Con: the Shark 6 is THE WORST MONSTER TRUCK! Huge & blunt-nosed. You can’t see shit to park it. Pedestrians are fucking TOAST

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Made the mistake of checking what kind of earthquake discourse is happening over at Twitter

Twitter user Cam Smith @ripwonr: “An earthquake did not just happen in Melbourne, it’s just windy you libtards. We aren’t on a fault line!! Take your tinfoil hats off and sleep”
Luke Bona @Ducce35 replies: “Wrong, retard”
Cam replies: “Mate we are in Australia, there’s a technotonic in Bali and Japan, explain how we would get an earthquake here?”

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 02/10/2026

#Earthquake confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M5.4 || 28 km S of #Warragul (#Australia) || 4 min ago (local time 02:01:39). Follow the thread for the updates👇

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earthquake, or my building falling down?

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Realising my advanced age as I proofread a story explaining ye olde tech to youthful readers e.g. having to wait a week for your photos to be developed and I remembered how important the 1-hour photo place on Swanston St used to be to me

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is nice to sit on the couch with a warm purring cat on my lap while the rain hammers down outside

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Chris Karakaltsas @hristaki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had lunch in Parkville today and was walking home until the rain finally arrived. Its falling straight down, with no wind...this is not normal Melbourne rain. This is tropical rain. Good old Climate Change.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jeez, it's really raining right now, hey

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't work out whether it is a pissweakness or a strength that Worldcat has such a short memory of my login sessions

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026

If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MASSIVE strike at QUT today. About 200 of us on the picket line demanding better working and learning conditions from our overpaid corporate managers. Such incredible solidarity.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know (from having previously edited a PhD on the topic) that Singapore has greatly expanded its tertiary sector in recent years. But did nobody sit Singapore University of Social Sciences down and say, "Listen, people are going to distrust your teaching quality & research output"?

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Kristen Halbert @khalbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Canceled by God is wild.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Maybe this is well known and I just missed it, but TIL that the publisher WW Norton is wholly owned by its employees Its post-Nortonian presidents sound like minor Simpsons characters: Storer D. Lunt George Brockway Donald S. Lamm W. Drake McFeely Julia A. Reidhead

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love non-binary Halloween. What do you mean you’re iced coffee at a job interview

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love editing ref lists with a strong sense of collegiality: names crop up in different orders in different publications, like contrapuntal voices in a Great Academic Fugue Ishiguro & Waters Ishiguro, Kent, & Waters Kent & Waters Waters & Kent Waters & Ishiguro (yes I looked over at my bookshelf)

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still Gandalfing against the style "doing a Masters" 1 it's a singular possessive adj ("a 2yr master's [course]", "her master's [degree]") 2 don't cap up unless mentioning a specific field 3 I grudgingly accept some slippage if it obeys 1) & 2) (e.g. "he has a Master of Science" cf. "he is a MSc")

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How it feels to hyphenate an adjectival phrase but not hyphenate an identical noun phrase

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ANU Law School is hiring! 4 x ongoing academic positions at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level (B/C), open as to field but with a particular view to colleagues that can teach into property, admin, equity, contract, or international law. Please share in your networks. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level B or C Salary package: $124,638 - $166,338 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full Time, Continuing x 4 positions In 1946, ANU was founded to help rebuild a changing...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just learned it's Mid-Autumn Festival – I wonder if the mooncake I forgot to eat last year is still good

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This essay made me ponder the telling slippage in the usages of 'public' & 'private' Public: owned by all, managed by govt by social contract; accessed & shared by all; visible & knowable to all Private: owned & managed by capital; access bought & sold; secret & opaque to anyone who doesn't pay

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The whole Dutch language sounds like words for labia tbh /s but it does make me realise how normalised Latinate anatomical words are in English, yet not apparently in Dutch, German and Swedish, which use compound terms instead

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I fkn love the wild delightful range of human names that I discover while editing reference lists There's a work whose co-authors include Frenzel and Thrash. But not Rhomb 🤘😭🤘

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Final Destination loose-log kill is the millennial answer to Gen X's quicksand – a fear wildly disproportionate to its likelihood of occurring in the halcyon 2005–2015 era of the online culture mines some freelancer would've pitched an investigation of how common this kind of incident was

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just learned that 'decal' is short for (Thomas Mars voice) DECALCOMANIA

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Decalcomania - Wikipedia

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't believe Macquarie Dictionary has 'brain dump', 'brain fog', 'brain fade', 'brain fart', 'brain snap', the wonderfully Australian 'derbrain' and even the relatively topical 'bushfire brain', 'lockdown brain' and 'pandemic brain' but not BRAINROT aka BRAIN-ROT aka BRAIN ROT get with it Macq

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lincraft has been closing down for so long that they're now advertising their Christmas merch at deep discounts (e.g. 4 shatterproof baubles for $2)

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I encountered this conspiracy in comments on a TikTok about Melbourne architecture. The cognitive dissonance of it totally floored me. I can’t remember what the conspiracy is called but it surely is symptomatic of a craving for “ancient heritage” that is ALSO recognisably white-coded

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generalistimo @stupw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The website itself? ...It now appears to have been made inaccessible. Very annoying! Thanks Sam! medicarestatistics.humanservices.gov.au/VEA0032/SAS....

A Services Australia site that no longer has a clanky interface, just a link to a directory of statistical reports – not ones where you can call a data report though.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OpenAI took 3 months to tell the AU govt this… by emailing the Services Australia general public inbox. Total contempt for sovereignty & security Also, chills me to think this hack was prob enabled by bureaucrats allowing ChatGPT into their workflow NO YANKS ON THE THREAD NO BOTS ON THE THREAD

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're doing an encore season of the John Farnham fundraiser concert (which was livestreamed to Hoyts cinemas) An annoying media release from Hoyts announces this fact without offering any info on dates, participating cinemas or ticket prices – you know, all the useful stuff people care about

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All of your fair academic star wars paper titles are actually titles for books written by academics aimed at a popular audience in the 2000s and early 2010s. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

81% of freelancers MEAA surveyed did work without payment of superannuation in the past year I can name 2 orgs I've freelanced for over my entire career that have *ever* paid me super: ACMI and MIFF

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

67% of freelancers MEAA surveyed in 2025–6 earned less than $40k p/a 37% earned less than $10k p/a 38.13% said freelance pay rates stayed the same in the past 10 years 26.89% said rates rose but not in line w/ cost of living 18.7%: rates reduced significantly 14.5% rates reduced slightly

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm always struck by 'wicked' for problems whose multivalencies or contradictions resist their resolution Systems scholar C. West Churchman may have coined the term in 1967; he called them 'wicked' for "the mischievous & even evil" way their 'solutions' turned out to be worse than their 'symptoms'

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

RMIT is using the centenary of the photobooth to promote PhD candidate Caitlin Langford's wittily titled project 'Automatic for the People: Photobooths and Urban Culture' Scratching my head at why the media release went with this as its lede, tho

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I want to know is whether they'll actually sell the baroque-style furniture, or perhaps Il Modernissimo (degli anni '80)

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

addressing a room of male vegans: lentilmen,

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I proofread a lot of interviews with artists & creatives for frankie magazine, & so many people recount how they studied "graphic design" as a "realistic" & "practical" substitute for the fine-art career they really wanted, & have since found their way back to

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