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Nadia Bailey

@nadiabailey.bsky.social
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PhD candidate and freelance writer for hire | Researching intersections between Spiritualism, queerness and the First World War www.nadiabailey.com

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Being introduced to new people at social gatherings
St. Francis Points to Death, fresco from c. 1320; North transept, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi. A mural of St Francis of Assisi with a golden nimbus around his head and his right hand with stigmata raised, gestures towards death, who still has some traces of dark flesh hanging on him. Death wears a jaunty crown and looks a bit bashful, while Francis looks as if he is trying to convince the viewer that death is a good guy.
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini. Photo by Helmut Newton, 1988
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Lana Guineay @friggenawesome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wrote about ˙⋆✮ hair ˙⋆✮ mourning ˙⋆✮ magic For Island magazine islandmag.com/read/termina...
A woman with long black wavy hair, dressed in white silk and looking away
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Girls only want two things
A recent search history showing two results: wine bar and cemetery
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Grzegorz Wróblewski, tr. Piotr Gwiazda
Ghosts: they are fleeting and silent. In contrast to us.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tired: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Wired: Roberto Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
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𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆𝖍 𝖓𝖆𝖔𝖒𝖎 @aliciahannahnaomi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Hello I released a new collection of precious jewellery today inspired by the complex natural systems that turn decay into life again. The collection is called Loam and it’s available on aliciahannahnaomi.com and via e.g.etal in Melbourne’s CBD.
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 15/05/2026
"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“I saw the best minds of my generation writing lists about which of the Muppets were most fuckable.” Much to relate to in this, via @patricklenton.bsky.social
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The Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality | Patrick Lenton
I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video
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snowpea @ohpies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
it's true that LLMs are functionally no different to that guy who isn't actually that good at his job but keeps getting promoted because he's cultivated an air of sounding like he knows things, however we should not dignify this in any way by calling it intelligence
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
An astonishingly good profile via @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social, the kind that both paints a complex portrait of its subject, while delighting on the sentence level nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-...
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Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuoco’s appointment as Venice Biennale president has divided his critics. He is proving far more complex than expected. A closer look at his beliefs and the contradictions that define him.
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deer @boneccrone.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
[At the café. I pick up my phone and start typing]: Friend: I thought you didn't have social media. Me: I don't. Friend: But- you're... What is that, Bluesky? Me: It's not social. It's not media, either. Friend: Bu- Me, exasperated: It's a POST,
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Pronunciation practice is going great
A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I learned about meat and money”A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I find meat and fish to be a nuisance”A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I connect fish with onions”
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 21/03/2026
It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life as.ft.com/r/2472cb26-a...
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Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
[FREE TO READ] Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Valentine’s Day eve at the florist
An explosion of rose petals strewn across a tiled floor
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
These people who want to “generate a book in a day” will never know the joy of getting to know a character layer by layer, the relief of solving an intractable plot problem, the satisfaction of PUTTING IN THE WORK and seeing your story flower into life. Absolute soulless motherfuckers
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
the painting "Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind" depicting a furiously wailing woman climbing out of a well and gazing directly at the viewerscreenshot from Twin Peaks with BOB, a long-haired and very creepy man in denim jacket crawling over a couch in a 1980s suburban living room, looking directly at the viewer with malevolent intentthe painting "Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind" but the figure of Truth has been replaced by BOB from Twin Peaks, who strikes the exact same pose when he climbs over the couch in the original showthe Twin Peaks screenshot, but now Truth from the painting is crawling over the couch
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Me and who
A drawing of a lion and a dragon, about to tongue kiss (or so I choose to believe) 

Source: the German alchemical manuscript ‘Clavis Artis’
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I cannot get to Europe for this but you can bet your ass I’d write the hell out of a paper on how the Catholic Church reckoned with the demoniac spectres of Spiritualism during WWI
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A real news headline today
Key event: 33m ago

Demon questioned on wedding plans
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This has not aged well
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Oh no, thank you, I actually just had a year.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I deleted my Spotify account a few months ago. Zero regrets. Currently using a mix of Bandcamp and my old library of ripped CDs loaded onto an iPod classic and let me tell you, the iPod still fucking rules
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Guess I’ve found the topic of my next PhD www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I simply love an album with churchlike organ, eerie violins and a tremulous children’s choir as back up. Hilary Woods gets it hilarywoodsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-...
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Night CRIÚ, by Hilary Woods
7 track album
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
May have gotten slightly trigger happy placing holds at my local library (I regret nothing)
A stack of books, top to bottom: Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov, The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones and The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting by Yoko Nakazawa.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Am I a member of the Sukarazukamori? I’ll never tell
Dressed in black and white, I stand in front of a giant cherry blossom tree, petals strewn like snow at my feet
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
going into the weekend like
black and white illustration of a man wearing a bowler hat, riding a horse. they seem to radiate

from: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896)
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wonderful review/essay hybrid on the civic purpose of trains, via @europeanreview.bsky.social
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Glory to the rails - The European Review of Books
Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s…
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Meanwhile The Guardian is posting articles wondering if you can hurt a chatbot’s feelings
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Four days later and I’m still thinking about Athina Rachel Tsangari’s stunningly beautiful film Harvest. Quite possibly film of the year for me. (There’s one more screening tonight at MIFF, get along if you can!) miff.com.au/program/film...
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1. History is not a science, it's poems about ghosts.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Happy birthday, Laura
A black and white photograph of Laura Palmer. She looks serious.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched! publicdomainreview.org/support If you like what we do, and want to see it continue, then please do lend your support. Available to donors, our themed postcard packs: upcoming theme on... DESIRE.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Anyone have a recommendation for a good read-it-later app now that Pocket is shutting down? I’ve built a personal archive of all my favourite writing there and without it I will be BEREFT.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My paper on same-sex military mock weddings during WWI made the front cover! Free to download, check it out…
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
*stares in scholar of WWI queer history*
Text: A small marble headstone sits in the rusty red outback dirt, a monument to two men described as “firm friends during life, now resting here”.

Childhood mates who enlisted in the first world war together, Richard Slingsby and James Renshall are spending eternity side-by-side in Ivanhoe cemetery, in far western New South Wales.

The diggers’ lives are memorialised in just 40 words cast in stone, their humble grave belying an epic tale of camaraderie.

When Renshall was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1917 and feared dead, it was Slingsby he contacted to let him know he had survived.

Upon their return to Australia, the pair worked and lived together on outback stations until they died three years apart in their mid-60s.
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deer @boneccrone.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Goth friends near me
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Should I book flights just so I can go to the panel on queer magic or
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Melbourne!
View of Melbourne’s city skyline at sunset
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Three meals in Adelaide, including a dish I hated open.substack.com/pub/acloudin...
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Three meals in Adelaide
La Louisiane, Mensa, Ying Chow
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A real treat to review Cigarettes After Sex for The Age ✨ www.theage.com.au/culture/live...
A photo of a review in the newspaper. The headline of the article reads: Bedroom band somehow delivers intimate arena show. There’s a photo of lead singer Greg Gonzalez in black and white and a review awarding the show four out of five stars.
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
i swear to god i’m going to throw this book across the room
“Rosalind’s shadow on the striped wallpaper showed the nightdress pulling tight across her breasts”

Why do we need to know about her breasts?? “Then of Oliver unbuttoning her pale blue blouse. Touching her high young breasts…”

Okay now she’s imagining her father thinking about her breasts?? “Mrs Rasp contemplated Rosalind’s breasts, which always aggravated her”

Now a random lady is thinking about her breasts‘Or,’ pursues Rosalind, her breasts itching underneath her blouse, ‘I could do the ladies’ hammer and nail competition’

Again: why do we need to know about her breasts???
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Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Back home after five days of Adelaide Writers’ Week. It’s a perfect festival: great line-up, picturesque surrounds, and almost every event is free. I can’t believe we still get to have nice things.
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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Isadora Duncan photographed by Arnold Genthe
A woman dancing. She is bare-footed and her dress ethereal and light. Her head is thrown back and her arms are outstretched.

Title
Isadora Duncan dancer
Names
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
Created / Published
between 1915 and 1923.
Headings
-  Isadora Duncan Dancers.--Performances
-  Dancers
Headings
Glass negatives.
Genre
Glass negatives
Notes
-  Credit line: Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
-  General information about the Genthe photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.agc
-  Forms part of: Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)
-  Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.
-  Temp. note: Batch one.
-  PR6 card; sleeves
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-G432- 0958-COPY [P&P]
Source Collection
Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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