Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Turns out even teenagers can't defeat the healing power of having a day off, putting on some Nina Simone, and getting a lemon yoghurt cake into the oven 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"You want to help me bake a cake?" "Ah... no? "You just want to help eat it?" "Yes?" 000
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Like this?static.klipy.comDog 'Shark' Crushed It in PoolALT: Dog 'Shark' Crushed It in Pool 020
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanJosh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here’s a gift link for this piece, which hits on so many themes I have been struggling with recently. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time. 413151
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3545201095
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today's fun fact: exit mould and laundry spray come in the exact same bottle 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"So who was in your group, were there any little kids?" "No, no echidna-gartners" 130
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today's small good thing: blueberry countdown has started 010
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate? 451283365
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970172264
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I would do this if I had the space! Then I would throw all my half dirty but not ready for the wash clothes on it and think "Mt Washington" to myself everytime I walk past! 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Interesting background on the Arts Centre Melbourne strikes (and just how hard it is to actually strike)artshub.com.auACM employees are striking for fair pay – but how, when and why can workers actually go on strike?In Australia, there are many conditions that must be met before workers can take legally protected industrial action and go on strike. 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ah that would make sense yes, clearly I'm in the wrong corner of the sector 000
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm getting super from a lit journal soon and I'm FLOORED No idea about this 20% who are apparently did get super, wonder where 110
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wowee that is a truly horrible thing to say, I'm so sorry that happened 100
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanJennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026“Something we have decided is that we’ll be paying writers MEAA rates. We’ll pay $1.12 a word. And we’ll pay ASA rates for the illustrations and graphic storytelling as well... We’d like to honour appropriate remuneration of creatives in Australia.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @asauthors.bsky.social 0123
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanHarry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Took the day off work, saw an echidna. This is what capitalism is trying to keep from you 110816
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OH MY GOD I'M GETTING SUPER FOR A PIECE OF WRITING 🦄🍀😱 031
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And the award for best media release in my inbox this morning goes to... 020
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanSumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Another time round with this piece in @lostballoon.bsky.social - would love you to read it as I really loved writing it 🧡 2227
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sat down to watch the 2018 Westwood doco: "So anyway I don't know that I want to show any of this shit. And I don't know what the fuck this is." Glorious. Just glorious 110
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today's small good thing: hearing my kid coming down the street from school (because his bestie always walks him home and those two don't stop talking) 141
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Macquarie Dictionary word of the day going niche 001
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanErin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’ve got a new flash in this month’s @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, a true story that reads stranger than fiction. Thanks a million to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for loving this, because I truly love Pithead Chapel. ✨🖤pitheadchapel.comAnd Treebeard Said, “I Must Do Something, I Suppose”Erin Vachon I tell my friends it will get bad, then better. Soon. A timeline sketch. Summer, then. We will conquer. At protests, we flex such chants into religion. I. I. Believe. Believe. That We. … 138023
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116783318
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 04/09/2026did the American dialect quiz as an Australian and... I'm Miss Rhode Island mydialect.us/quiz-standar... 020
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today's small good thing: the Sydney sea eagle cam www.youtube.com/live/nw4pdgy...youtube.com 120
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Before I turn in a book review these days, I ask myself if I have sinned as others have sinned against me. To whit, willfully refused to read a section, awfully misquoted a passage or placed it out of context, hexed upon me unsubstantiated intent or influence, gotten the basics of the plot wrong, 31707
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 31/08/2026(and it's 90% the big kids who are pretending they're too old but clearly they're not ♥️) 120
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Today's small good thing: someone strung some swings up in the trees outside, and now the morning school rush is just the sound of kids and screams and laughter 230
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Currently working on my next art book review. Cannot tell you how deeply I love reading/thinking/writing these! 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I love it, the dress code for the media preview of QAGOMA's Jim Henson exhibition is "Bold, Bright and Fantastical" 000
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanSage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I learned a new word, "retronym", I love this concept. We had cameras, then we had digital cameras, and the retronym is "film cameras", a distinction that didn't have to exist until digital cameras came along. (See also: watch --> wristwatch --> retronym: pocket watch.) 5365
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanTommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026the moment AI developed the TRUE artist mindset 010013
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 29/08/2026But if you're an artist in the parenting trenches right now, try The Divided Heart by Rachel Power, an oldie but a goodie 000
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 29/08/2026🔗 All too briefly mentioned in my latest book review for the Art Guide Bookstore, which focused on three recent Australian art books (by Archie Moore, Deborah Kelly and Odette England) that had me thinking about familyartguide.com.au 100
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 29/08/2026🗣️ Acts of Creation: On art and motherhood by Hettie Judah (Thames & Hudson) #artbook #bookreviews #booksforartists 121
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanMel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The peregrine falcons are back for 2026 and they have three eggs!! Livestream started on Monday after the first egg was laid on Sunday 1123
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A literary award where the best books are announced not with titles or author names but with the books' cruelest 1-star reviews on Goodreads. To recognize yourself and claim the prize, you have to publicly admit that not only do you read your own Goodreads reviews, you've memorized the meanest ones. 71066
Reposted by Jane O'SullivanKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I genuinely wonder how many Yayoi Kusama obituaries will mention this: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...artnews.comYayoi Kusama Expresses “Deep Regret” For Anti-Black Statements Ahead of Exhibition at SFMOMAThe artist issued the remarks just before an exhibition on her work opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 22673183
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The 5 #Simpsons lines I utter most off the top of my head: 1. No, no, dig up stupid 2. Which was the fashion in the day 3. No, it's the children who are wrong 4. You don't win friends with salad 5. I see you've played knifey spoony before 010
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 24/08/2026When I die, I would also like something good to read in the afterlife 171
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Governments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. But these figures prove arts and culture are central to the social foundations of Australian life."theconversation.comNearly every Australian engages with arts and culture. Politicians should pay attentionGovernments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. New data shows they are wrong. 000
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 20/08/2026John Balsessari, Goya series (1997) & Kevin Yaun, Outlet by Window (2026) Yaun's work currently on show at Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles 020