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Louisa

@ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social
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Printmaker, painter, number 1 fan of galliformes. Australian living in Finland.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A different view of a pied stilt. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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AL Creed 🇨🇦 @alcreed.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The No Take / Only Throw dog comic translated into Sumerian
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MyGov Inbox Message
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@ifbookspod.bsky.social you have been summoned
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A friend of mine son’s gave this to his dad
Card that says‘it’s your birthday but I ain’t spending any time on it because in the meantime every three months a person is torb to pieces by a crocodile in Queensland
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is homophobic
A reply to a library acquisition request for the movie 9 to 5 saying "unfortunately the film is not available in Finland with library licencing rights."
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today’s Baseball Name is Max Wank
Max Wank

Positions: First Baseman and Relief Pitcher
Bats: Left • Throws: Right
6-1, 185lb (185cm, 83kg)
School: Florida State College at Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL)
Full Name: Max Wank
View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Bringing Up Baby. It's more screaming, running around and animal noises than the average 3 stooges short, and yet so many people consider it the pinnacle of comedy. Actively made my whole body judder with annoyance.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I don't give a flying fuck if trans girls have an advantage in sports. Many people have an advantage in sports. That's how sports work.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You can almost hear the frost in this magical wintry landscape – somewhere in Denmark, c.1950 (Harry Opstrup; Royal Danish Library) 🗃️
photograph in washed-out colours showing a stream in the centre of the shot with frost-covered banks on either side and snow-covered trees in the background
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
From earlier this year - a red-tailed black cockatoo at Menindee, New South Wales.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Almost every sort of writing & cartooning job I've had no longer exists or is disappearing or not being paid, properly or at all. I feel a kinship with manual hay balers in the 1850s.
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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Well I guess that not everyone here will have seen that I made a longer comic about attending this school earlier, around Christmas, it was on the Patreon. I will put it here. It's 11 pages/images, so three posts. One:
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Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
doing some external examining for a uni I once worked at & touched to see that the .jpg of James Hadley's 1882 Aesthetic Teapot I uploaded 7 years ago is still the header image for the English dept's Queer Histories module on the VLE 🥲
the masc face of James Hadley's Aesthetic Teapot (1882). Here's his handle, here's his spoutthe femme face of James Hadley's Aesthetic Teapot (1882). Here's her handle, here's her spout
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer? [from 2021]

[Title]:

How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer?

[Following panels show a footballer being interviewed in various scenarios]

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[Making first contact with an alien on another planet]:
Yeh y’know obviously it’s a great to make first contact, we’re here to represent humanity and give it 100 per cent

2
[Chained above the fiery pit of Hell] :
2 Yeh y’know obviously it’s disappointing to be in the fiery pit but you’ve got to look forward

3
[Being devoured by tiny Nanobots in a future dystopia]: 
Yeh y’know obviously the murderous nanobots are a factor but we’ve got to take the positives 

4 
[On WW2 VE-Day]
Yeh y’know obviously we’re pleased to win World War 2, they came out organised and made it difficult for us

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[In a multi-dimensional vortex]:
Yeh y’know obviously there’s no easy games at the multiverse level, take one dimension at a time

6 
[Stood on a cloud, next to a shining orb of light]
Yeh y’know obviously it’s great to see the face of God, we’re happy with that

7 
[In the midst of an apocalypse, the world on fire]:
Yeh y’know obviously we wanted to survive as a species but we haven’t managed to do that 

[Ends]
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his armsArticle screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Imagine being the first European to be swooped by an Australian magpie
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I love hän
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
They finally put a face to my number one enemy
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Look at those teeny tiny feets! 😄 Those little tootsies are totally out of proportion to the chonky bird. A laughing kookaburra beside the River Murray at Morgan.
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JuhaS @lauluompelimo.mastodontti.fi.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
Heidän maailmansa on jo kahden (2) ruukun kokoinen! Liikkumista ei voi sulavaksi sanoa, mutta porras kuitenkin ylittyy. (Otin videosta äänet pois, ku taustalla oli hirveä rakennustyömaan meteli.) #lokkivahti
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Going to blame Reference Man for the fact that I have to wear a scarf in the car all year round because otherwise the seatbelt cuts uncomfortably into my neck. I'm not even short.
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/h...
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‘Sports have never been fair,’ trans athlete Harrison Browne says | CNN
Harrison Browne, the first openly transgender professional hockey player and “Heated Rivalry” actor, wants people to know why inclusion is important in sports.
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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A spotify playlist of various artists where all songs are either “running up that hill” or “rolling down the hill”
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ah christ do I have to reactivate the Catholicism I cast aside at the age of 5
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
cool
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My smouldering sizzling hot take about this list (Of which I've read 16, at least two of which I thought were hot garbage, and one of which I couldn't finish because I found it so dull), is that there should be a limit of only one book by each author in the list. Three Thomas Mann books? Come on.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Incredible
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I try not to be cynical about medical fields but I can't say I was overly happy with my recent experience with the gynaecological field. I got prescribed a pill and only *after* I started taking it I found out that I could be bleeding for three months before my body adjusted and this was "normal"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I want to get special May Day (Vappu) mead doughnuts from the bakery but I'll have to walk across town in the cold to get them. Life can be extremely difficult.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Uncommon courtesy. My @smh @theage.
Four frames. Intro: “Angus Taylor reckons Welcomes to Country are overrated. I mean, when did we ever overuse courtesy?! Frame 1. British coloniser arriving on Australian shore greets indigenous people, says, “I say chaps, do you mind if we take your land and kill your people?” 2. Father and two kids wave Aboriginal flag at old First Nations ANZAC diggers marching. Father says, “Thanks for defending our country.” 3. Man in suit clutching rolled up plans greets Indigenous man and woman, red dirt background, says, “We’re from the mining company. Can we please obliterate your cultural heritage?” 4. White man and woman say to bowed young Indigenous kid, “Sorry for wrecking your life. How can we begin to make it up to you?”
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
still haven't, still happy
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
First the extremely not Australian "Aussie" shampoo, now this beer "inspired by Australia" which is made in the UK. What's with all these Fauxstralian brands? www.dropbearbeers.com
dropbearbeers.com
Drop Bear Non Alcoholic Beer
Award-winning non alcoholic beers brewed in the UK by Drop Bear. Free next working day delivery on all UK orders. Vegan & Gluten Free.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Guess it's time to post the favourite train bops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaN2...
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Lentävä kalakukko (1951 versio)
YouTube video by Esa Pakarinen Jr. - Topic
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I had formed an impression that all the songs about trains were good. Midnight Train to Georgia, the Slow Train, Lentova Kalakukko? All bops. But then, I heard the Okaihau Express. It doesn't even have a tune! It's barely a song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNM1...
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The Okaihau Express - Peter Cape
YouTube video by John Fitzsimons
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
and if you live in a country like Australia or New Zealand where they are pretty large and don't historically have a lot of predators, you don't even need the binoculars!
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@mattbaume.bsky.social important plant information
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nothing like a top with extremely specific birdlife on it! I believe these are loons, mergansers, smews, eiders and maybe the odd swan.
A mirror shot of me wearing a green long sleeved t shirt with black and white waterfowl all over it. I believe the waterfowl are loons, mergansers, smews, swans, eiders, perhaps grebes and cormorants. I am holding the phone with two hands because my hands are too small to hold it one handed.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I had a thought about swimsuits today and how sometimes it's hard to find something for your specific taste. I want a swimsuit that you can swim in without it falling off, but I don't want a built in bra because I can't stand the feeling of underwire and/or padding.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I love these twisty bois
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Damien Smith @damo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
As a Strayan, this one always gets me.
Tweet from @parsfarce:

american birds: chirp chirp
european birds: cheep cheep
australian birds: FUCKIN АНАНАНАНАНАНА
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We are having a Normal One about Ilya from Heated Rivalry not knowing about loons
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hey, you should read this @parkermolloy.com piece on the collapsing of what is largely an intersex/DSD story into an anti-trans culture war frame. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
open.substack.com
The IOC's New Policy Isn't Really a Trans Story
Every headline says the IOC banned trans women from the Olympics. The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.
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Louisa @ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hilarious to me that apparently in hockey they call insulting the other team "chirping." In cricket that's called "sledging", which brings to mind sledgehammers rather than small adorable birds.
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