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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got one! I got one! I must be a real writer now!

Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎶You did it! You did it! You said that you would do it, And indeed you did. I thought that you would rue it; I doubted you'd do it. But now I must admit it That succeed you did.🎶 Well, succeeded in submitting it, anyway. Now for the months’ long wait for the result!

Screen shot of my cursor on the “Submit assignment” button.

Cover page of my completed doctorate thesis: “Australian Children’s Fantasy Fiction and the Settler Colonial Desire for Connection to Country: ‘Crow Come From this Country; This Country Come from Crow”.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear god this is pathetic. How do these so-called journalists live with themselves. Not objecting to the first paragraph, but the second one is just an embarrassment. This is how this man’s bullshit has been normalised. FFS!

Screenshot from Sydney Morning Herald article 9 September 2026 saying that social media posts about Trump sleeping on the job are misrepresentations because he’s just “looking down or closing his eyes for short periods”.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Message just sent to my siblings…

I’ve just sent my final finished draft to my supervisors. 244 pages, somewhere around 100,000 words (Microsoft Word can’t make its mind up) and ten years of my life. It’s with my supervisors for a final check before submission. And now I COLLAPSE.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He also said this... about taking responsibility for the deaths /in the streets/ of seven aid workers.

"What does it mean, justice? Lynch people in the street? No, justice is – that’s why you have a court, the court measures what happened and comes to a decision."

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I think I’ve hit my limit. I’m so tired of having Trump in my head. Yesterday, in between meeting work deadlines, I spent the day weeping for James Valentine and wondering why we only seem to lose the good ones. In other news, my beautiful dad would have been 98 today.

An older man stands against a wire fence, next to a rocky outcrop. He holds a walking stick in one hand, and a flat cap in the other. Behind him, the bush is obscured by thick fog. He is smiling at the camera and has a wave of silver hair across his head.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m really missing my dad right now. Although I am so grateful he’s not around to see this hellhole we’ve made of the world.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Not long after DT first came into power, I had a dream of him letting loose a nuclear bomb. And now here we go. Nice knowing you.

Trump announces his intention to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. I kind of knew Tim when he was in a band with friends of mine in the 80s. Real thrill to see The Whitlams after all these years.

Tim Freedman from The Whitlams singing from behind a piano, arms flung wide.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"at the goingdown of the sun and in the morning i try to remember them but their names are ordinary names and their causes are thighbones tugged excitedly from the soil by frenchchildren on picnics" Roger McGough, "On Picnics" (It was meant to be a salutary reminder, and yet here we are...)

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

You all went to see Wicked and you all missed its core message.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Reading on Boxing Day is my personal lifelong tradition, but this year I am frozen by indecision. So many unread books in the house. Where to start?

A picture of a small tabby cat climbing down from the top shelf of a small bookcase.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I suppose if I posted what I really thought about Reynolds she’d sue me into bankruptcy too. And they wonder why women don’t report SA.

Screenshot of news item from The Guardian announcing that Brittany Higgins has been declared bankrupt.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Fellow Aussies, imagine how exhausted poor Antony Green would be feeling if he’s been covering the 5000+ elections happening in the US today! #auspol

Meme image of Australian political analyst Antony Green smiling with his mouth and eyes wise open and his hands thrown up, palms forward. Text says “Has Antony Green called the election? Yes!”

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It’s taken me most of this year to write it, but I think I have a finished draft WITH AN ACTUAL CONCLUSION to a pivotal chapter of my thesis. Imma go and lie down now.

Screenshot of the word count and stats of a google doc.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

New post on Substack, link in my bio. On the latest moral panic around young people and reading and why Dickens will not save us all. #reading #childrensliterature #fauxstalgia

Tile preview of a Substack post called "Keeping Alive Their Fancy or, All Aboard the Nostalgia Train". Background image is of a 19th century painting of children in a schoolroom reading books.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Maru’s person’s message on Youtube after he died.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Tonight’s evening sky over my little corner of the world (Launceston, Tasmania).

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wrangler of two entirely uncooperative cats. Australian. Children’s and youth literature specialist. Big reader, also watch too much TV. Here are the cats (Kip and Milly):

A photo of two cats on a woman’s lap and feet. The woman is covered by a heated blanket: she lives in Tasmania and it’s winter. The cat closest to the camera is a chonky grey and white boy. The cat at the rear is a tabby with a calico-ginger wash. Both are looking at the camera/woman taking the photo.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I mean, the jokes just write themselves…

Screenshot of Apple News headline “Panahi: Why would PM cosy up with attention-seeking simpleton?”

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Listening to Beds are Burning on the #HottestAustralian100 and remembering my uni crush telling me Peter Garrett better not stand for Parliament (for the No Nukes party) because no-one under 30 would vote for him and break up the Oils. Ah the 80s.

An utterly gorgeous young man and woman on their way to a university ball, 1985. They are beaming and dressed to the nines.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

For the record, this is what I voted for. It was NOT easy to narrow down to ten.

Image of ten songs I voted for in the 2025 Triple J Hottest Australian 100.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This is not going to end well.

An awkward shot of two cats vying for space on my body. I’m in an armchair in my reading room. One (small gingery tabby) is on my knees, the other (grey tuxie) on my chest. They don’t get on.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Kippy says please don’t watch any more horror movies the world is bad enough as it is.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Abso-bloody-lutely loving this YA book by @kenneth.oppel Have it on my recommended reading list for my session on choosing texts for student engagement at @aatealeaconf in Hobart this weekend. #YA #yafiction #aatealeaconf

A young adult novel called Best of All Worlds by Canadian author Kenneth Oppel.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Saturday at home reading with the kittehs.

A tabby cat peeks over the top of a stripey carry bag, which she has climbed inside because she is a cat. In the foreground is a pile of books.

A grey and white cat snuggles against his person, who is wearing an orange paisley hand-felted woollen scarf, clipped with an Erstwilder Jocelyn Proust-designed brooch of red and orange flowering gum blossoms.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Got myself a c*nty little bob 😝

Selfie showing the back of my head in a mirror showing off a new, sharp cut haircut. (I’ve always had a bob, this is just a really good cut.)

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I’m trying to avoid Meta this week so you will all have to out up with photos of things I bought for the house lately. Number 1: this concrete darling who is probably meant to be an Aristo-cat but who I prefer to think is Mewsette from Gay Purr-ee.

A somewhat weathered concrete cat garden statue. She looks like a cartoon character, and is striking a coquettish pose. She is painted white with faded emerald green eyes and sits on a mint green base.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Nothing became him like the leaving…

Image of Peter Dutton looking creepy with half his face in shadows

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Smug. And no, it wasn’t just luck.

Screenshot of the results of today’s Wordle quiz. I got it on the second go. Damn I’m good.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Article notes she “passed away peacefully in her sleep”. #Hello

Screenshot of preview of Apple News article from Hello! Magazine with the headline “Dallas star passes away aged 100”.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Four years today since we lost our lovely mum, Edith. Here are some photos of us together over the years, and the last photo I took of her. Loved and terribly missed.

Photo of a dark haired woman holding a baby girl who is about 12 months old. Woman is smiling at the baby; the baby is looking straight at the camera (or her dad, who is behind the camera).

Black and white photo of a woman holding a young child in her arms, and making a face at the child as if they are sharing a joke. They are both in winter clothes.

A photo of an older woman and her daughter, who is in her mid-30s. They are both dressed nicely for a special occasion.

A photo of an elderly woman, smartly dressed in a pink and blue floral outfit. There is a large cup of coffee in front if her. She is smiling at the camera, or her daughter, who is taking the photo.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I mean, there are worse shadows to be under, but really, Radio National?

Screenshot of a page from the ABC Radio National page of a session chaired by me, Judith Ridge, at the 2010 Sydney Writers Festival with Melina Marchetta and David Levithan, where they name the session chair as Judith Wright, the long-deceased Australian poet.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Took me longer than I meant, in part because I hung on longer than I should have (although I have not used it in months) and in part because every time I tried the site played merry havoc with my desktop. Got there in the end via the app. Vale, Twitter, once upon a time you were grand.

Screen shot of Twitter deactivation confirmation. No, I never called it by Leon’s preferred name because fuck that guy.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My cat mantle in my study. I have some of those mid-century kitties too.

A mantlepiece full of cat figurines, a vintage children’s book called Me and My Pussies, with two original framed illustrations by Donna Rawlins from the children’s picture book Jeremy’s Tail hanging on the chimney breast above.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@aliceinframes.bsky.social Thanks for your amazing book! I am a TERRIBLE cook but I made this (with local Tassie oyster mushrooms instead of bacon) and it was delicious.

A baked zucchini frittata topped with tomatoes and tasty cheese. Delicious!

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’m glad my dad is not here to see the state of the world and how he has been proved right over and over again, but god damn I miss my dad.

An older man with a fine head of silver hair stands against a wire fence with mist behind him and a cliff face to his left. He holds his cap in his right hand and a walking cane in his left, and he smiles at the camera. The photo was taken by me, the man is my father, and it was taken in the Blue Mountains in NSW, Australia, Easter 2009.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In these shoes? I don’t think so.

Screenshot of a bot follow notification.

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