Reposted by Nadia BaileyDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Being introduced to new people at social gatherings 2121
Reposted by Nadia BaileyBlack Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 11/09/2026David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini. Photo by Helmut Newton, 1988 110013
Reposted by Nadia BaileyLana Guineay @friggenawesome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wrote about ˙⋆✮ hair ˙⋆✮ mourning ˙⋆✮ magic For Island magazine islandmag.com/read/termina... 021
Reposted by Nadia BaileyThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇 572613649
Reposted by Nadia BaileyTom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Grzegorz Wróblewski, tr. Piotr Gwiazda 0255
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Tired: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Wired: Roberto Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony 000
Reposted by Nadia Bailey𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆𝖍 𝖓𝖆𝖔𝖒𝖎 @aliciahannahnaomi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Hello 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. 131
Reposted by Nadia Baileyhenry ✷ @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 313827
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.socialtheguardian.comThe Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality | Patrick LentonI 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 1142
Reposted by Nadia Baileysnowpea @ohpies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026it'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 041
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026An 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-...nowvoyagermag.comWho 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. 011
Reposted by Nadia Baileydeer @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, 1161
Reposted by Nadia BaileyHarriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 21/03/2026It’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...as.ft.comCan 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 041
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026These 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 040
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I 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 110
Reposted by Nadia Baileyhenry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026you’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.henry.codesA Website To End All Websites | Henry From OnlineHow to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want. 10325125
Reposted by Nadia Baileythey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Oh no, thank you, I actually just had a year. 021953
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I 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 120
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Guess I’ve found the topic of my next PhD www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...theguardian.com‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar WildeLevy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers 030
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I 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-...hilarywoodsmusic.bandcamp.comNight CRIÚ, by Hilary Woods7 track album 010
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025May have gotten slightly trigger happy placing holds at my local library (I regret nothing) 040
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Am I a member of the Sukarazukamori? I’ll never tell 250
Reposted by Nadia BaileyKristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2025going into the weekend like 0131
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Wonderful review/essay hybrid on the civic purpose of trains, via @europeanreview.bsky.socialeuropeanreviewofbooks.comGlory to the rails - The European Review of BooksMillions 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. 010
Reposted by Nadia BaileyThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Considered 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… 07122
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Meanwhile The Guardian is posting articles wondering if you can hurt a chatbot’s feelings 1153
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Four 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... 020
Reposted by Nadia BaileyBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 27/07/20251. History is not a science, it's poems about ghosts. 632368
Reposted by Nadia BaileyThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Our 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. 03310
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Anyone 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. 010
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025My paper on same-sex military mock weddings during WWI made the front cover! Free to download, check it out… 0135
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Should I book flights just so I can go to the panel on queer magic or 040
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Three meals in Adelaide, including a dish I hated open.substack.com/pub/acloudin...open.substack.comThree meals in AdelaideLa Louisiane, Mensa, Ying Chow 010
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025A real treat to review Cigarettes After Sex for The Age ✨ www.theage.com.au/culture/live... 020
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025i swear to god i’m going to throw this book across the room 340
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Back 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. 010
Reposted by Nadia BaileyJennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Isadora Duncan photographed by Arnold Genthe 092