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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If you don’t want Gina Rinehart to be the next Elon Musk, put the Liberal/National party LAST in the senate and in every seat. #auspol

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

Once there where wolves by Vharlotte McConaghy

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm currently reading The God of Small Things. I just read this beautiful sentence about Estha, who doesn't speak. Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it. And I feel those words sum up most of what we do in schools.

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

We are all Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Honestly. One part of me thinks .. who on Earth could vote for these archaic, racist, idiots..and for a moment, I am calmed. But then I remember what happened with the voice to parliament. Without hope, there's no resistance... got to maintain some hope

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It was a few days ago, but the message is perfectly timed today.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'd like Peter Dutton to know I AM fed up. Fed up with men promoting #sexism & #misogyny & denigrating women, in order to win the votes of disengaged men. It's dumb, destructive & dangerous. I hope Labor's @alifrance.bsky.social wins #Dickson in a landslide. #auspol #DicksonVotes #AusVotes2025

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It's election year people. Seriously. Now is the time to act. If the slogan "get Australia back on track" doesn't ring any alarm bells, then let me spell it out... This is far-right fascist politics. We can be so much better. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘They did not come to destroy’: Sussan Ley praises First Fleet and likens it to Elon Musk’s Mars mission

It’s the latest example of the Coalition appearing to echo or praise US president Donald Trump’s new administration

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Captivating and ominous. This week my wonderful son told a stranger (who asked him what he is going to with life after school) that he was going to study wildlife ecology and she said "it's such a shame that you have been taught a lie about the climate at school. What a waste of a young mind" 😵🤯

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So great to see invasion day rallies up in numbers this year. Always was, always will be. It's election year. It's time to organise.

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Henry Giroux might be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. Speaking of the conservative right, he says "They fear an educational system capable of producing critically literate citizens – individuals who question power, expose injustice, and demand accountability."

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It's a fascist agenda... there are so many things to comment on in the world, so much growing fascism... this is just the tiny bit that tipped me over the edge today. Will we tolerate this? It's time to organise In the words of Donna Haraway (via Virgina Wolf), think we must! Act we must

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Arloween 🎃 @feraldactal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Reading is political. Reading has always been political. Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground. #booksky

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Step 1 of working this year with more clarity and focus (amid stress and despair) is to bring some more mindfulness into my day. I thought I might start with this list. Write. Resist. Meditate. Got it.

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Channelling this David Lynch quote for 2025. I started the working year yesterday with a little less spark and a little more cynism than usual. I am just not sure formal education in Australia can, or should, be saved. But now, more than ever, I have to find this energy and clarity.

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I can't wait for this conference. It's online, it's affordable, and it's full of interesting, progressive, and critical ideas about education. I honestly couldn't think of a better way to spend 3 days.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 19/12/2024

Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025 When cynical powers attempt to divide & isolate, community & solidarity are acts of resistance. But there are no superheroes here, & no simple answers to be found, only the Quest for Connection. 🧭 A 🧵: www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference

Image promo for CTRH2025 with a sepia toned world map in the background and in a fantasy type font reads Quest for Connection: Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2025

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

More wisdom to share with young writers. Might also be the reminder I didn't know I needed today. #LiteracyTeacher #TeachWritersNotWriting #CriticalPedagogy #WriteTheResistance #TeachersAsWriters

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I haven't fact-checked this yet.. but it made me laugh.. It is something I think young writers might like to think or journal about. #LiteracyTeacher #TeachingWriters

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is such a great episode that forces us to think, as we should, about what it means to learn, the impact of the ongoing quantification of learning, the normalising effect of schooling, and the importance of karaoke! Teachers are burnt out from fighting the system. Truth. #InclusiveEducation

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm always looking for wisdom about teaching young writers, and the best comes from actual writers. We are teaching writers not writing. The goal is young people writing their world (thanks, Freire). So, today's lesson is don't be afraid to suck. #CriticalPedagogy #EducationForDemocracy

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Over on linked-in, Emily Unity shared an excellent post about the proposed social media ban for under 16s in Australia. Emily says for her, social media wasn't a past-time, it was a lifeline. The "ban" is a ridiculous idea driven by populism. www.linkedin.com/posts/emilyu...

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