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If you’re freelance, self-employed or contracting, do not enter terms such as “self-employed”, “contractor” or “business owner”. Enter the description of your actual occupation. The information you provide will help the ABS to code your work in the creative sector accurately.

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Occupation: Be as specific and desciptive as possible: library curator, gallery installer, museum educator, gallery public programmer, archivist. Main duties: include a brief description of the work you do, use keywords such as visual arts, literature, music, dance, theatre etc.

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This matters! The Census helps show the size, diversity and location of Australia’s creative workforce. Reliable Census data gives governments,  industry and researchers a clearer picture of the workforce, helping to inform future planning, skills development and infrastructure.

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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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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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.

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.)

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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...

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.

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...

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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

I actually told him you've mellowed out through the years and he looked at me like I was insane. You've still got that bad boy reputation, old friend.

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.

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.

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".

Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am Lady Parsley because of course I am.

Photograph of a handmade doll against a white background. The doll has green hair which looks like parsley herb. It is wearing a purple floral dress and has a grumpy look on its face.

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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...

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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.

David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 07/07/2025

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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

Ooh I've got something for that:

Black and white photograph of a sea leopard in a recording studio, 'singing' into a microphone.

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.

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

Like a hot water bottle that randomly stabs you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025

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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 · 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.

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.

Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is not how we usually display such items! Hence the box taking a visit to both our Preservation and Conservation labs. Will be getting less daggy new housing shortly.

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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

(Or maybe it was Alice's parents who disapproved. Relationships in high society England were complicated in the Victorian era.)

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Phizz @phizz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

John Ruskin was an English polymath who was good at everything except for wooing the ladies: he was famously rejected by Alice Liddell; the real-life inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

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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

This Book of Hours is from the Netherlands, ca 1490, titled 'Horae beatae Virginia Mariae ad usum Romanum, cum calendario'. #rarebooks #librarian

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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.