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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was enjoying being asleep and now the cats and me have a virulent post-earthquake freakout going on

Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Grotesque. So it’s an arts degree, but with extracurricular wearing of ties and chinos and being groomed as a culture warrior. If you do really well at roleplaying an old white man you might get to be a Liberal party staffer for a few minutes before the party dissolves in a bucket of its own piss.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After the minute’s silence, if you’re able, I invite you to stand and join in singing the national white man’s privilege anthem: youtu.be/OzQKECQgjW8

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Moving Pictures - What About Me (1982)

YouTube video by nzoz1982

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I hear Susssan Ley is forming her own political party as well. It shall be called Canberra Punk Australia (CPA)

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Well if Angus does something, it’s always a great move, regardless of how stupid it might be if done by anybody else

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 08/06/2026

It is never necessary to give gestures of respect to One Nation or pretend that its voters are somehow deserving of understanding. I will give Toney one thing only and that is he understood how to treat ONP: beat them electorally and prosecute Pauline Hanson when she breaks the law

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The only meaningful question about the future of the liberal party is, will Tony Abbott succeed in driving it off a cliff before Malcolm Turnbull manages to butcher it up into choice cuts and offal www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.com

Can the second coming of Tony Abbott resurrect the Liberal party? Or is it another step toward ‘self-destruction’?

Angus Taylor believes the former PM is uniquely placed to help the party as its new president, but some fear he will render it even more unelectable

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My take on how to make sense of watching a rural electorate racistly punch itself in the face is broadly shaped by decades of watching the entire world continue to kill animals for food during the climate catastrophe.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Blessed to live across from a corner shop where they sell Aldi groceries at 100% markup and when you pay for your goodies they put them in a plastic bag. 😙

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I demand a royal commission where I can give evidence about how much it pisses me off when I’m offered a seat on the tram. I’m 53 for fucks’ sake!

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My unpopular opinion about this is that UQP has been working guts out to publish and defend some of the best and most progressive writers around and is obviously not your garden variety feeble entity caving at the first sign of lobbyists.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I wonder how the ticket inspectors are entertaining themselves this month 🧐

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I can't believe the "New Yorker" REJECTED this cartoon!

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Finally landed a job today after seven months unemployed! Could not get Centrelink to process my claim so earning money again will be lovely. Celebrating by lying on couch teasing Geoff Provest MP

Geoff Provest MP is a nsw national who says on Facebook that he always voted Labor.

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Vincenzo Salvatore @ebaul.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I got to keep my sister's cat for a few days! The first thing he did is spread on the guest room bed! Made it his own. Adorable! This is Jinx

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kimmie @kimmiechem2.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My night just improved by 8000% due to this absolute beauty. 🐈‍⬛

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22/03/2026

I hope we're all enjoying the experience of living in the first 15 minutes of a 1980s docudrama the BBC is only allowed to air once.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Does ‘turtles all the way down’ describe the same phenomenon as ‘a conga line of suckholes’ ?? Somewhere in the area of overlap we find the US administration.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Well the hot sign and portent for today is the teaching staff at Preston TAFE are actively planning for switching all current courses online “if this petrol thing gets any worse, and it’s probably going to”

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Why don’t they just put trump in a container

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

From “How to Make Comics for Fun and Profit” by Richard Cummings, Walck, 1974.

Solid, prescient analysis of the essential dynamic of the politics of grievance

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

What furniture exactly has Aston Hurn saved?

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Well tonight I’m reluctantly reminded that a close relation once said they thought Pauline Hanson is sexy and a longstanding dear friend who I really respect has also said the same thing about Cory Bernardi

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Five-year-old me is very very worried but also curious

Screenshot of email subject line
The New Yorker Daily
Why Everyone Has A Doodle Now

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I’m semiapolgetically going to be that guy who walks into the library and asks for the blue book, about this size, can’t remember the author or its name. Please, What book did I read recently that referenced Richard Holmes’s Footsteps? I’m drawing a total blank.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A nice night’s entertainment

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

On a Saturday night I like to go and look at my own book faced out on the Melbourne shelf at Readings

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

inside.org.au/my-reading-c... after it published an utterly moronic review of Randa Abdul-Fattah’s Discipline recently I was considering dropping The New Daily from my media habit. But this essay is so good. If you’re a historian or history-adjacent researcher you will really enjoy it.

inside.org.au

My reading challenge • Anne-Marie Condé

Just as our correspondent was wishing she had chosen a different edition of the Hobart Mercury, her eyes fell on page nine

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

What I ordered / what I got

AOC at Met gala in white dress with ‘tax the rich’ written on it it red

Gina Rinehart at her birthday partay wearing white caftan with ‘Mining’ written on it in red. Bonus Pauline Hanson wearing a shirt made of train seat upholstery fabric

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I’m at the Grand Prix. All the cars are broken apparently

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I’m not on LinkedIn, this is my lonkedin. Therefore, I’m thrilled and excited to announce that my house has lost that lingering odour of stout following on from unfortunate homebrew disposal incident a couple of weeks ago Also I’m open to work

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... this is a stupid, stupid article with its patronising and musically deaf attitude to Wings that was rife in school playgrounds in the 1970s. It’s been obvious for decades now that the Beatles was McCartney’s juvenilia and Wings was where he found himself as an artist

abc.net.au

Paul McCartney tries to escape The Beatles in Man On The Run

Morgan Neville's new documentary is a fascinating portrait of an artist rebuilding himself while the world watches on.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Photo of anti-Zionist protest in Melbourne’s City Square c.1980, photographer Terry Young. From the City of Melbourne’s Art and Heritage. Collection item number 1926514

Five men stand in Melbournes city square with a banner reading AMERICAN AND ISRAELI ZIONIST HAVE DECIDED PALESTINE’S FUTURE WILL THEY THEN DECIDE AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE? WAKE UP AUSTRALIA YOU HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED!

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There is only one photograph of Lucky Grills in the National Archives but it’s a nice one

Lucky Grills sitting at a writing desk. He has just taken off his glasses, or maybe he’s about to put them on

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Gord love em Aren’t they marvellous Bless em Victorian Liberals

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Oh yeah, the Oxford comma, the Oxford comma. People love to go on about the Oxford comma. Put this comma in everything, it’s the bee’s knees. You’ve gotta line up to give props to the Oxford comma. Fucking Oxford comma. People wouldn’t give a fuck if it was the Monash comma.

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Could just be a man that’s a hippy

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Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

“No other professor in England, he thought, set such store by being called Professor” - Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Screencap of The Age byline where the writer of a piece of lame not-news gives his byline occupation as Professor. I googled him and it’s every bit as bad as I expected

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