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Phizz

@phizz.bsky.social
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Special Collections Librarian; curator; lapsed D&D warlock; copyright law enthusiast; runner 5.

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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Love it when a business emails me asking how they can steal one of our culturally sensitive Indigenous works and I scroll down and see some kind of generic Acknowledgement Of Country below their email signature.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One for our friends in the US: ICE in Academic Libraries: Tips, Protocols, and Strategies for Protecting Campus Communities, a free webinar on September 2nd at 1pm ET. www.choice360.org/webinars/ice...
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ICE in Academic Libraries: Tips, Protocols, and Strategies for Protecting Campus Communities - Choice 360
Gain practical tips for how librarians can best respond and help keep their campus communities safe in this climate.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Information forwarded from Public Galleries Association Victoria: Recent updates to Australia’s occupation classifications mean more creative jobs are now better reflected in Census data. Now it’s time to make those improvements count.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This charmingly antiquated forum is officially the number one conjuring magician forum in the world. It won first place last year at the The International Federation of Magic Societies awards. It hasn't changed much since 2001 because it doesn't need to.
A screenshot of the homepage of The Magic Cafe internet forum. Multiple colured fluroescent titles over a flat black background. The text only covers 50 percent of the screen. The style is reminiscent of Internet 1.0 style dating back to the year 2001.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The argument for dropping the term "middle east" from our vernacular shouldn't be a new one, but we don't say "darkest Africa" any more, do we? Ditch the colonialism and just use geographic terms. www.lux-mag.com/lets-ditch-t...
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Let’s ditch the phrase Middle East - Lux Magazine
LUX's Editor-in-Chief, Darius Sanai, talks about the term Middle east and sets it into another perspective
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sydneysiders: a great opportunity for a Pictures Librarian at the State Library of NSW has just opened up: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/libraria... Salary package is a little on the low side but I guess that's what you get when all the money goes towards Shakespeare first folios instead (yes I'm salty.)
iworkfor.nsw.gov.au
Librarian Grade 1 - Librarian jobs in Sydney Region | I Work For NSW
A living library for now, for the future, for all of us Librarian Grade 1 State Library of New South Wales Cataloguing & Collection Services | Libr...
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yeah ok, official government agency for intellectal property in Australia, I guess that example of what copyright protects is valid. I'm judging you, though.
A screenshot from a government website, showing black text on a white background. It contains a headline titled 'Copyright' and three short paragraphs describing what copyright is.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
UK politics will never not be deeply hilarious. [Article from The Guardian AU 08/07/2026. Image composite Shutterstock/AFP/Getty.]
A composite photograph showing two portraits side by side. On the left is a colour photograph of Count Binface, a Darth Vader-esque fully costumed person with a metal bin mask and headpiece. On the right is a colour photo of Nigel Farage, a middle aged man reminiscent of a thumb in a blue suit.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you work back of house in a library, have a think about your relationship to the reference librarians and library officers in your workplace. If you wouldn't bend over backwards to do whatever you possibly could to help them, I'd argue you're in the wrong line of work.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Shout out to the REAL academics doing the important work in library research: rating the best library ladders in movies: reel-librarians.com/2026/06/10/r...
reel-librarians.com
Rating 5 library ladders in movies
From mediocre to mesmerizing
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Two more of Jock Sturges' photography books have been refused classification in Australia, making them illegal to sell or distribute here. My little library has quietly suppressed their catalogue records. The Australian media has not reported on it.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@travisjj.bsky.social Trav, I met a film critic over the weekend who insisted that totally eviscerating people on Twitter is called giving a "Travis Johnsoning". Don't know if that still applies with BlueSky but I thought you'd get a kick out of it.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Most PhD scholorships in Australia are related to AI and/or engineering right now, but there is one open through UniSyd which is just HAY DO YOU WANNA STUDY LIGHTNING?!
screenshot of a website section showing text which states "Lightning and prebiotic organic synthesis, University of Syndey > school of chemistry." Flat grey and white boxes behind the text, over a flat, light grey background.
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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today I learned there are AT LEAST 29 active antique bottle clubs across Australia. At a previous online auction this sealed bottle of Tasmanian Fanta sold for AU$45.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A colleague shared their favourite artwork in our little library with me today and I just adore it: Onions [art original] by Caroline Peebles, [ca. 1870-ca. 1910], H2010.77/18. We don't know much about Peebles' life but she passed away in 1911, making all her watercolours out of copyright.
image of a watercolour painting on a warm beige paper. The painting is of two onions, one larger on the left with green skin and one smaller on the right with reddish-brown skin.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Thank you, Netflix. Yes, I am wonderful; I'm a librarian.
A screenshot of a small section of an email. Black text on a white background which reads "Subject: Re: Urgently seeking copyright clearance Netflix TV series. Aren't you wonderful! Art Dept Coordinator." Some words have been whited out for privacy.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My librarian career is over, folks: I've finally been recruited by the Illuminati. #dreamsdocometrue #spam
A screenshot of a section of an email inbox. The inbox is displayed as white and grey boxes in a classic Microsoft Outlook display style. The section shows two junk mail emails from "The Illuminati".
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The London Museum exhibited THE sweetest handmade dolls in 2019 and you have to do the Buzzfeed-esque quiz t find out which Vegetable Kingdom doll you are: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/una-maw...
londonmuseum.org.uk
Inside 'The Vegetable Kingdom': From India to London
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Further proof of the tyranny of stamp addictions. Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749. #librarian
a black and white photo of two men standing on a very large porch. Both men are dressed formally in black attire. The photo print has been stamped with a very large red stamp which reads "The Argus and Australasian Ltd, Elizabeth Street Melbourne."
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Shocked and saddened for our NSW neighbours in the cultural sector after 18 regional art galleries have lost their 4-year government funding share.google/K1lphf4k7FEo...
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Regional galleries 'not sexy enough' for funding
Disproportionate funding discriminates against regional access to the arts in NSW.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 07/07/2025
If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I assisted a reference librarian on a VERY important deep dive this morning, finding pictures of giant animals in our collection. This is Goliath, H2004.100/1087, Argus via Acme Newspictures, 1936. #librarian #gooddog
a black-and-white photo from 1936, photographed for a newspaper. The photo shows a very large sea lion on the left. It is lifting itself up to approximately 7 feet in height and is facing a human man on its right-hand side. the man is in a uniform and is holding his arm up outstretched towards the sea lion. The man appears calm and friendly towards the giant animal.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Updated list of nazis in the Melbourne area (June). Please share with your community.
A community alert of Nazis in the area. Shows black and red banners on the top of a page. Below the banners are thumbnail portraits of 15 cis men, with their names captioned under their portraits. A community alert page in white on a black background. There is also a large red banner with white text at the top of the page. This page explains what actions to take against nazis in the Melbourne community.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/10/2024
Best reason to go off the record.

A highlighted excerpt from a news story, apparently about a new washroom in the city bus terminal: 


"A second person who checked out the women's restroom and who asked not to be identified because she has always wanted to be an anonymous source - reported her findings by email: "Black shiny granite..."
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
😬 Via @theonion.com #librarian
Picture shows a child sitting at a desk. Underneath is white text on a green background which reads "Interactive Exhibit Lets Kids Figure Out How To Manage Budget Shortfall That Will Otherwise Shutter Museum". Image is a pretend headline from the satirist website The Onion.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress. apnews.com/article/copy...
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Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress
The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter. The move comes days after the abrupt termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U....
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
From the late 1850s until the mid 1990s, this gong was struck to signal the closing of the library for the day. I was allowed to give it a little practice bash today and it's LOUD. H98.208/1, LTRE262. #librarian
Brass gong laid flat in a box with white padding inside it. A wooden striker is displayed inside it.Library staff members striking the brass gong with the wooden striker. Staff member is wearing blue nitrile gloves and holding the gong above a white pillow. Another staff member in the background of the shot is watching and leaning against the wall.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I'm trying to support a Wikimedia researcher at my library but the Wiki moderators we're arguing with have names like DoctorWholock9486 and JediMasterKoth29 and the Tumblr flashbacks are killing me.
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K Wylie @krt8rt8rt8rt8.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide. Shame on #QLDGovernment
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First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet
Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I spent the morning ferrying around little clumps of matted hair. My job is so glamorous. They're apparently from the camels that carried Burke and Wills on their great ill-fated expedition. H31978. #burkeandwills #librarian
Photograph looking down into a grey cardboard box. Inside the box is white tissue paper and brown clumps of hair.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This week in the library: John Ruskin's chess set. RARESEF794.1R897J #chess #librarian #rarebooks
A photograph of chess pieces. The top two rows are a creamy white colour and the bottom two rows are red. The pieces are individually boxed in grey boxes with white padded undersides. They are positioned in four rows. Some pieces are larger than others and are positioned lying flat, whilst some pieces are positioned standing.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
After listening to the @ologies.bsky.social episode on Weird Mediaeval Art, I rushed to my teammate and friend, our principal rare books curator, and asked about marginalia snails in our collection. She was so happy to show me this sweet snail wearing a hat ☺️ in a Book of Hours, RARES 096 R66HF.
Details of the right hand side marginalia from a 15th century manuscript. It shows a narrow panel of illustrations of pink flowers and green leaves. In the centre of the composition is an illustration of a blue snail wearing a red shell and a matching red bucket hat.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our friends at the Old Treasury Building have just launched a great new exhibition Making Modern Melbourne, which I encourage everyone to go see (and not just because yours truly has his name on the acknowledgements wall.) www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/making-moder...
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Making Modern Melbourne – Old Treasury Building
Princes Bridge, 1900 Reproduced courtesy Royal Historical Society Victoria In 1900 Melbourne was the largest city in Australia, a distinction it would hold for just one more year before Sydney […]
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This fascinating cultural heritage was discovered by our Digital Preservationist on a USB stick. It dates back to 2008 when the internet was all sharp corners and serif fonts, but is still functioning Trojan malware which put our forensic acquisition workstation into lockdown for a day. #FRED
screenshot of an internet popup browser window with a white background and large blue title "Free Video Nude Anjelina Jolie" then a paragraph of text about MSN featured offers.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
21 US States are suing Trump over attacks on museums and libraries: hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s... #library #trump
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21 States Sue Trump Over Attacks on Museums and Libraries
Trump’s move to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which was established by Congress, is “illegal several times over,” says a new lawsuit.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thanks for the musk sticks, Tim Ross 🥰 (If I were allowed to eat at my desk, the bowl would be empty by now. Only shame and mild inconvenience is stopping me.)
Looking down into a medium sized cardboard box. I side the box are various colourful packets of sweets, including a large amount of pink sticks.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A new digital exhibition has just been released on Ned Kelly, titled Mouthful of Dust: www.slv.vic.gov.au/mouthful-of-... presenting 3D photography of armour, boot, rifle, death mask and the Letter, and new writing from Grace Chan, Cameron Hurst, Wesley Enoch, Sarah Krasnostein, and Nam Le.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Victoria Legal Aid is looking for a law librarian in Naarm: jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobtools/jnc...
jobs.careers.vic.gov.au
Law Librarian | Melbourne - CBD |
Provide high-quality legal information and research services to Victoria Legal Aid staff and members of the public.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
To help us all through our Friday-itis, I present this tidy lil guy and his... well, whatever it is, he's looking at it so adoringly that I can't even bare to insult it. It's his baby; his treasure; his pride and joy. Look at our little guy swoon over it!
A digital photo of a paper card. There is a simple colour illustration of a man in a brown suit and a red tie. He is holding a large green fuzzy object in his hand. There is a plain light brown background and a black border. The caption text below the illustration reads "387. Le vase vegetal."
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great presentation by Flinders Uni and UniSA this afternoon at the tail end of #InfoOnline25 on the security threats of AI, warning us of the very real threat of both the integrity of data used to train LMs (data in) and the malicious use of generated content (data out).
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A warm welcome to all my new followers via ALIA's #InfoOnline25. I hope you've all enjoyed the conference so far. Please stick around for my childlike wonder at all the bizarre little things tucked away in a certain little library in Melbourne. 👋
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Attending ALIA's Information Online conference today, learning about the NLA's ICIP Protocol implementation. Really liked this quote by James Baldwin, shared in the presentation. #InfoOnline25
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Interesting tagging technique... #italianitalianitalianitalianitalian
Screenshot of text from a website, describing an artwork of a sea nymph riding a sea monster. There are several tags in italics at the bottom of the screenshot. The text is black over a grey background.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Federal Education Minister's idiotic (Coalition replicating) idea to create new "study hubs" rather than support and expand public libraries. futurecampus.com.au/2025/03/04/l...
futurecampus.com.au
Looks like a library, works like a library…
Jason Clare is keen to construct study hubs which provide student support and campus-style facilities for students closer to home.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Here it is; the talk of the town. The Whole Pantry by Belle Gibson. Held in my library as Legal Deposit and this week transferred to our Rare collection to prevent it being stolen.
Digital photo of a cook book cover.Inside text of a cook book in a light grey background.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A piece I've wanted to read ever since I heard of her fascination with the subject. Sally Rooney in superb form, on Ronnie O'Sullivan and the darkly mysterious, mathematical glamour of snooker at its best. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Angles of Approach | Sally Rooney
What makes Ronnie O’Sullivan the greatest player in the history of snooker? It isn’t just statistical dominance—it lies in his style, in the difference between thinking and acting.
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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As seen on Instagram by Sam Wallman @ourmembersbeunited and featured by Overland Magazine #librarian www.instagram.com/ourmembersbe...
Panel 8 of a colour comic about Ned Kelly. Illustration shows a light skinned man in foreground, brown skinned man in centre of composition, and Ned Kelly's armour in background. Ground is a vibrant red. Man in centre is speaking via two white speech bubbles.
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