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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The local models were just the friends we met along the way

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

It turns out that this horrible week is a very good moment to re-read Virginia Woolf on the life & death of Mary Wollstonecraft & MW's passionate hatred of tyranny. Here's how Woolf's essay (from The Common Reader, 2d series) ends. It takes my breath away. #18thc

She died in child-birth. She whose sense of her own existence was so intense, who had cried out even in her misery, 'I cannot bear to think of being no more--of losing myself--nay, it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist', died at the age of 36. But she has her revenge. Many millions have died and been forgotten in the 130 years that have passed since she was buried; and yet as we reader her letters and listen to her arguments and consider her experiments, above all, that most fruitful experiment, her relation with Godwin, and realize the high-handed and hot-blooded manner in which she cut her way to the quick of life, one form of immortality is hers undoubtedly: she is alive and active, she argues and experiments, we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

don't say you consumed art unless you literally chewed and swallowed that's stolen valor

A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters–sometimes very hastily–but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, "Dear Jim: I loved your card." Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: "Jim loved your card so much he ate it." That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.[21]

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 25/08/2026

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Don’t ask me. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Six frames. 1. Fellow with clipboard bails up woman passer-by, says, “Excuse me, I’m doing a short survey. Do you think Australia takes in too many immigrants?” 2. She says,”I don’t know. I mean, are we talking about the immigrants who look after my mother in the aged care home?” 3. She continues: “Or the ones who come here to pick fruit for low wages so we have affordable fresh produce?” 4. “Or the ones working in construction to build our housing and infrastructure?” 5. “Or those training to be the medical specialists were short of?” 6. “I really don’t know. Maybe you could ask the government. They should know.”

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/08/2026

Bet you didn't imagine the Well Actually Humorless Killjoy would be one of the first Bluesky jobs lost to A.I.

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A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them
"this is enough for another whole cat"
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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A wimmer is a winning swimmer (ABC style guide approved!)

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Absolutely magnificent 10/10 thread, stop what you're doing and read this I implore

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 09/08/2026

Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.

A tan plastic with gold mechanical owl. Very cute.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Been banging on about this for a long time with #ebookSOS, and sadly, for all our efforts, it feels like things have only got worse. Libraries are caught between users' unfounded belief that digital = cheaper, and the commercial might of publishers to ensure that very much isn't the case.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can you even call yourself a democracy if you don't have compulsory voting?

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

now I don't know if people not in Australia can access ABC iview, but if you've never seen the hilarious Death in Brunswick with the beautiful Sam Neill and the equally incredible John Clarke, definitely worth a look at a couple of idiot larrikins... iview.abc.net.au/video/ZX0410...

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Death In Brunswick

Down-on-his-luck Carl Fitzgerald falls for Sophie while working as a cook, but things get complicated when he accidentally kills a fellow worker. Now he must turn to his best friend Dave to help him d...

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What might have been www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V15...

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Sam Neill as James Bond - Screentest (1986)

YouTube video by Tyrozaphy

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12/07/2026

I’m increasingly of the opinion that when AI Overviews disappears we’re going to realize it was the funniest thing ever to happen on the internet Here for instance, it invents a totally new form of literary criticism, without being asked to! (rest of this is all about batteries)

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Andy Demetra @andydemetra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Why yes, that’s a Spain fan air guitarring an inflatable Iberico ham leg. How can you not be romantic about the World Cup.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/07/2026

💾 We often think of online platforms as permanent homes for our photos & videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge #podcast #VanishingCulture series, Luca Messarra explains why relying on them puts our cultural memory at risk. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Courtney does not want me to suffer through eight hours of that man’s voice because friends don’t let friends listen to a JD Vance audiobook

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/07/2026

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

it's not sad at all. it's just not perfect because humans are human. my audiobooks serve an added layer of helping with pronouncing things many readers aren't familiar with, yeah. and my audiobooks are STELLAR, and ALSO not perfect. nothing HUMAN is. that's my point.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 30/06/2026

These commercials of adults deeply emoting to Harry Potter audiobooks are embarrassing

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Absolutely thrilled to share the open access report on my audiobook reader survey, 'Audiobook Reading in Australia', with the good folks of bluesky. The full report is here: doi.org/10.25911/NQJ... or download the PDF directly at: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/7... (1/?)

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Audiobook Reading in Australia: A Report on the Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture Survey

In Australia, as in other Western nations, one of the biggest developments in book culture in the 21st century has been the rise of audiobooks. Audiobooks materially reconfigure established understand...

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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Audiobook Reading in Australia: A Report on the Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture Survey

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 25/06/2026

Michael Caine has licensed an AI version of his voice for an audiobook adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, released by audio technology company @elevenlabs.io 👇

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Michael Caine licenses voice to narrate AI adaptation Odyssey audiobook

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Now-annual reminder that if you're at ALA and someone you don't know begins asking you weird questions about book bans and censorship...and they're wearing glasses...they may, in fact, be recording you.

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hooray for this, but it's a bit astonishing in 2026 that you would have three Australian writers spruiking an overseas OzLit festival and not one is First Nations. Nice flags though.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is fairly typical of Australia's peculiar spontaneous racism, that migrants are bad except for the ones I like.

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C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“ATO data shows men earn more than women in almost 96% of occupations” by @grogsgamut.bsky.social for @thepointau.bsky.social In my line of work, 77% are women, earning about 13% less than men. Plus ave women’s salary is about 5% less than the median Aust’n salary, men about 9% more #auspol

Table shows that for Arts Administrator, 3,561 women have an average salary $70,310. While 1,035 men have an average salary of $80,931

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/06/2026

As I mentioned in this piece, I sometimes pop work or questions I've already completed into a chatbot to see what type of results it returns (less now bc I think the Q is answered) check out the emissions intensities Claude returns for coal and gas (~50% of actual) newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Coal 75 terawatt hours
gas 190 terawatt hours

Convert to mtco2-e

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Here are the conversions to MtCO₂-e:

Fuel Energy Emission Factor MtCO₂-e
Coal 75 TWh ~0.34 kg CO₂/kWh (thermal) ~25.5 MtCO₂-e
Gas 190 TWh ~0.20 kg CO₂/kWh (thermal) ~38.0 MtCO₂-e
Total 265 TWh ~63.5 MtCO₂-e
Assumptions:

These are combustion emissions using standard IPCC/IEA emission factors for electricity generation:
Coal: ~340 g CO₂/kWh (sub-bituminous average)
Gas: ~200 g CO₂/kWh (natural gas combined cycle)
CO₂-equivalent here is essentially CO₂ (methane upstream emissions not included)
If you want I can adjust for upstream/fugitive emissions (especially relevant for gas), use a different coal grade (lignite is higher ~400 g/kWh, anthracite similar), or apply country-specific grid factors.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18/06/2026

9. It wouldn’t be awful to tell X, Meta, Google & company to tidy their damn room. ”Move fast and break things” is bullshit, and a government that visibly quails at enforcing existing law on large companies - let alone creating new law to regulate new situations - is sending a message that sucks.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/06/2026

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

Comic. Lionel Messi: World Cup Goals per game. [Graph with x axis as year and y axis as number of goals per game, ranging from 0 to 3. Data points: 2006 (~1/3), 2010 (0), 2014 (~1/2), 2018 (~1/4), 2022 (1), 2026 (3) with parenthetical (so far). Behind the line connecting the points is a grayed out curve showing the trajectory.] [caption] At this rate, by 2040 Messi will be scoring hundreds of goals per game.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 11/06/2026

"can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short video and render it using ffmpeg? it should express what it's like to be a LLM. feel free to make it as personal or impersonal as you'd like."

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...

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The Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme

Two funded-fellowship opportunities for early career, postdoctoral researchers.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Not The Onion

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For those of you playing along at home, my Audiobook Studies (yes it's a real thing) State of the Discipline Article has just been published by Book History. Find it here (or email me for a PDF if you don't have access): muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of first page from Audiobook Studies: State of the Discipline by Millicent Weber, showing abstract, also available at link in post.

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For anyone wondering what email will look like in the future (iykyk)

Screenshot of gmail inbox tab with 17776 unread messages

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