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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com

soundandcolormag.com

Sound & Color

A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction

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A. Elizabeth West @damewritesalot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I made one, haha

Mapquest picture of Lake Ontario renamed "Lake Him Up"

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Has Death gone on holiday and made Death of Rats the Interim Reaper? #SQUEAK

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s no wonder the production has won so many awards. I hope they tour it again for a longer season when they are back from France. 15/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Then from the PIE we can move out again to the Sanskrit manas “mind, spirit” or munih “sage, seer” and we are back at Cassandra, at being able to read the world around you and understand what is likely to happen next, and then being empowered to shape or challenge or prepare for that. 14/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What does meaning mean? “to have in mind” from Middle English mēnen, from Old English mænan "intend (to do something)”, alongside the Sean Gaelige mian “wish, desire”, Cymraeg mwyn “enjoyment”, and PIE *men- “to think”. 13/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is what AI can’t do, right? This is the very thing that (as a teacher) I want my students to be able to do; to make meaning. 12/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

But during the play we all sat there, doing nothing, thinking that we were doing the right thing because in the theatre we are meant to sit and watch and laugh and clap and otherwise stay silent. In Ganesh the audience is both interpolated into the play and interpellated by it. 11/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I find myself hearing that adage of evil triumphing when good people do nothing (Burke? Mill? I don’t think a proper attribution for the quote was ever determined). 10/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Was that just part of how the actor prefers to engage with others? I know plenty of neurodiverse folk who dislike physical contact. Or was it a refusal to join with someone because of fear, dislike? 9/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We comfort ourselves that, this is imagined. We let the conventions govern our behaviour, our bodies. But at curtain call the man who had refused to die compliantly refuses to hold hands with the cast member who performed violence against him. 8/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The idea that we sit, we watch, we clap or we laugh, but we don’t intervene. We are addressed directly and we sit silently in response. We watch a vulnerable man be attacked and hurt by a man who is in a position of trust, power and authority, and we stay in our seats. 7/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I think that Mark became the avatar for the audience, his limited capacity to communicate, his purported inability to differentiate between the imaged and the real, reflected the audiences limited capacities when they feel themselves bound by theatrical (and by extension) social conventions. 6/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s one of the things I love about Brecht’s and Brechtian inspired theatre, that the performers make their work & the theatrical conventions explicit.The play opened and closed with Mark (played by Tamika) sitting in a spotlight, reminiscent of the opening scene and closing scenes in Godot. 5/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It was the natural trajectory of the Thatcherite/Reaganist project that was reiterated through New Labour in the UK, and into current populist politics. I think the thing that was really impactful for me was the way it makes the audience complicit. 4/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

People who experience the daily fascistic tendencies of our society (in this instance, the disabled writers and actors involved with Back to Back) have seen and been telling us that this is where we are headed. 3/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I think the thing that was so significant for me about the play was the recognition that, while the play feels so pressing and salient in our current socio-political context, it was written 15 odd years ago, and was telling us that this was where we were heading the whole time. 2/15

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Dragon at the playground. She is a whole lot of person and I am always wanting more.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'm looking for submissions on twenty-first century historical horror (novels and/or TV/film) written by women for an edited collection I'm putting together. More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/.... Contact me if you're interested!

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cfp | call for papers

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

As noted, it is nearly 6 am and I have been awake since 1:30. Yay.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's 7:30 on a Sunday evening. Not 10 years ago I would just now be heading to the pub for a Parma and a couple of wines with mates. Just a quiet one. Now I'm waiting for the dryer to finish so I can sort/iron/fold and get to bed before the child awakens because I won't get any sleep after she does.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I got obsessed when we put on her play Morning Sacrifice for VCE theatre studies. I think Cusack's work is undervalued for teen readers.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Also Come in Spinner is an under rated Australian Classic and (along with Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy) would be on any #AustralianLiterature curriculum I got to build. #RareBooks #Booksky

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

AND it turns out it's from the library of John Platts-Mills QC. I am very excited.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I know this is going to be niche content. However: this week I acquired a copy of Come in Spinner signed by both Cusack AND James.

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Oh how I wish that sports journalists would speak to some queer people

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The 2026 Academic year starts tomorrow in Aus 1) Re students who are across the news, and possibly impacted by what looks like World War 3, how do I help them care about their studies? 2) for those who have no idea because they never open a news source, how do I get them to care about World War 3?

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

And Kristeva earned it. I don't even care if the rumours about her being a Soviet agent are legit.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/02/2026

Defund this

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is the energy I WISH my students brought to a lecture.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's O Week. Pray for us. Vale short line for coffee. Vale clean toilets. Vale getting food in under 10 minutes. But, we do have a fresh lot of JAFFYs, and they are so cute and little. It's like new getting puppies at a petting zoo. #UniMelb

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a small white dog is running on a wooden floor next to a blue refrigerator

Alt: a herd of small white dogs are running on a wooden floor next to a blue refrigerator

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/02/2026

What happens when a "private lie" crosses the line into a criminal act? goodlaw.social/ouzo

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 07/02/2026

“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What is it like to be an Elder Millennial who remembers life before computers/the internet? You know that TV show Hoarders? That but it's my desktop and/or external hard drives. Also insomnia, back ache and perimenopause.

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'd like to remind everyone who thinks that policing has always existed that modern policing is less than 200 years old, having begun in London in 1829

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: bit.ly/43CrodY

TeamUP with Collaborative Projects, University Press Week 2025, featuring logos of press projects mentioned in the post: The W. Hodding Carter III and Transregional Middle Easts series, Direct to Open (D2O), First Gen scholars program, and Centre for Literatures in Canada lecture series.

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

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Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements

Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Student thesis: I will fill [x] gap in the literature. Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men? #MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 04/11/2025

I was wondering how long Teen Vogue’s remarkably tough-minded progressive journalism would last. The masthead has been doing some fantastic work. It looks like that time has come to an end.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Today I have no classes, the 🐉 (now 1) is in childcare, and my research assistants, Cwtch and Cariad, are helping me mark (which I am doing from bed because insomnia was real last night). There is sun. I have creamy soda and a Bakers' Delight pizza. I am being productive. Small mercies, big loves.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Yes. Our time is precious. I could be reading actual beautiful things or being with people (derogatory).

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I hate marking assessments so goddamn much. I've always hated it. Having to also keep an eye out for AISlop in assessments has exacerbated that. I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Yiiiike. I am more and more convinced that firms should only be able to be partnerships, not corporations.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of. Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Also, let's discuss the claim from the client's representative that the legal practitioner is accepting donations to the client's defence: it's been a while since I studied trusts accounting, but that doesn't sound like a accepting funds that can be returned. 6/ #Auslaw

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In addition, would these social media posts breach s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975? For funsies is there anything in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 about interfering with electoral materials? 5/ #Auslaw

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