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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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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I for one welcome our fuzzy winged overlords

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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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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh I love Babette's Feast! Absolute masterpiece

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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.

lan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com • 14h
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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Real-time fact-checks on your feed:
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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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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@tkaraoz.bsky.social Schlich Street Yarralumla is in fact named after the well known architect Edvard Schlich

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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

I also have a co-authored article in the works with the amazing @corinnanorue.bsky.social comparing the Australian and German data in more detail. Watch this space (or get in touch for more info!). (/fin)

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

In addition to this report, which I hope will be helpful for some of the amazing industry folks who have supported the project, including Creative Australia, the APA, ALIA, ASA, Vision Australia, and others, I will be talking about the survey at BookUp Research Day later this month.

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

(8) Multitasking continues to dominate audiobook consumption behaviours. - Only 16.9% of Australian audiobook listeners use audiobooks without multitasking.

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

(7) 40% of Australians consider listening to an audiobook to "count" as reading. - 40.0% of Australian respondents considered audiobook consumption a form of reading. By comparison, only 21.2% of German respondents considered audiobook consumption a form of reading.

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

(6) Listeners who haven’t tried AI-narrated audiobooks are neutral or ambivalent rather than definitively opposed. - These made up 57.6% of respondents who haven’t tried AI narration.

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

(5) The uptake of AI narration is highest among listeners with vision and hearing impairments. - Accessibility needs to be more prominent in conversations about AI narration.

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

(4) Most people have never listened to an AI-narrated audiobook. - 17.4% have tried an AI-narrated audiobook or other text-to-speech technology at least once. Men are more likely than women to have listened to an AI-narrated audiobook.

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

(3) Male listeners listen almost exclusively to male narrators, while female listeners listen to both male and female narrators evenly. - 81.4% of men and 45.3% of women most recently listened to a book narrated by a male narrator.

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

(2) The Australian market is dominated by US accents. - 37.6% of respondents’ ‘most recent listens’ had a US-accented narrator, compared to only 22.1% with Australian-accented narrators.

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

(1) Audiobook listeners are regular consumers. Nearly three-fifths (59.2%) of audiobook readers listen to an audiobook at least once a week. Once people begin consuming audiobooks, they quickly become habitual listeners.

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

This survey asked 503 Australian audiobook readers about behaviours, preferences, demographics and more. We also ran a parallel survey of 500 German audiobook readers and there are some neat comparisons! Main findings are:

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

doi.org

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

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm either having an aneurysm or I don't know what a syllable is

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My dentist maintains my teeth are flossable

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This densely metaphoric text is not glossable

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Roses are red This five-lane highway is not crossable

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