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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gang - You may hear more about the ‘grandparents’ rights movement. It might sound reasonable at first. Be assured: everyone in this movement (and it is a movement) is a perpetrator of child abuse. There are no exceptions: grandparents with legitimate problems who really care leave immediately.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But yes there are people lobbying for this, and a lot of the people they lobby do not, and have chosen not to, understand abuse dynamics

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oooooooooooh yeah so ‘grandparents rights’ is a very specific movement for a very, very specific type of person, not a general descriptor of a cohort ‘I’m tempted to say ‘ask me how I know’ but tbh if you’ve made a guess, you’ve guessed right

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

2/ Leading to a genuinely confusing user experience and lack of confidence about what is and is not legit Coupled with A huge and violent surge in scamming, driven by the radically reduced cost of both scamming and scamming at scale > Society-wide economic problem. Big one

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fr though I just left the bank (needed a cheque) and I think we might be in perfect storm territory As you will doubtless know, beyond a certain level ‘more security’ is actually ‘less security’ Old creaky systems Unevenly distributed UX, focussed on onboarding new customers & new products/1

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyhow, a lot of our most famous people are either very sad about how limited their impact ultimately was, or shockingly egotistic and unaware of how limited their impact was. We’re fun at parties.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Which is ironic because literally the whole purpose of design is to change things, commonly expressed as ‘from current situations to preferred situations’, Herbert Simon) (ask me about my masters thesis in public service design capabilities I dare you)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unfortunately a lot of the luminaries in my industry who I’ve met irl didn’t turn out to be so great. (Human centred design (HCD) and related design disciplines. We got a LOT of idealists, we’ve had a LOT of big thinkers, but our actual ability to get stuff done is mixed at best.)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New way to horrify the youngs just dropped: Say you’re a fan of ‘the Nirvana’. That gem courtesy of my 13 yo who now has no one to blame but himself.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I live next to a suburb called cook, we have one of those big explainer suburb signs like in the article, it says COOK, and just for the record the Discount Hut at the Jamison centre does a very brisk trade in white spray paint. It’s always in stock, too!

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah but you can fish the lake with no shame! It’s environmentally beneficial! Death to carp! Also there are jellyfish in lake BG. FACTS. Menzies specifically didn’t want a place (town, suburb, or iirc street) named after him. Institutions were fine.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No I will be like Menzies, name nothing after me! (This is quality Canberra lore and absolutely true, he never wanted to be glorified topographically)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hahaha for context that literally did happen, to be fair I had four cars out front at the time and three of them were clearly write offs Well one wasn’t *quite* a write off… 🙃

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like Ive besmirched my own reputation. @asherwolf.bsky.social please confirm for dan that my house lowers the tone of my neighbourhood

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah but your family who live there are old aren’t they

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Downer still has bogans, downer still has people who ‘do sculpture’, downer still has people who got here from Bhutan like two years ago, downer still has genuine old-school share houses. You move to downer. (Related: get ready to be genuinely surprised by Canberra’s extensive Bhutanese community)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watson: Maybe, but too many young people. Hackett: maybe, but too many old people. Aranda: join the squadrons of people who still believe in their hearts that they are ‘left’ but also make enough &$$ that they can buy electric cars new. (It’s a Skoda, thanks for asking)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You move to downer. If you move south of the lake anywhere but Curtin you’ll die in your heart (and even Curtin is a stretch). Avoid the false gods of Turner O’Connor and Lyneham, they have fallen to people like me. You move to downer.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still affordable ish, central, you got the gang gang cafe right there (cafe/bar/performance venue), you get the weird old houses with the gardens someone planted with weird stuff 50 years ago. Or to summarise: vibes

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dan if you ask me these things I *will* answer. TLDR: Downer.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

+1 for Dan (Ok now you gotta move to Canberra fr)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(Also please consider making my sewist husband’s day and telling him you like this coat he made from upholstery velvet! He sews basically all his own clothes, but his day job is law professor type stuff. What a guy, right?) (@djag2)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Please enjoy this mid 80s gown by Canberra designer Maggie Shepherd, which I got from my mum and recently wore to her 80th birthday. (The sash ties around the waist!)

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

/new customer. Never heard of them before, big fan now. I’m 47, professional, in Australia (shipping sucks oh well), tend to spend $$$ on very few, very good garments. Congratulations you got me!

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@trufelman.bsky.social hey hey! Absolutely loved the second hand clothes episode. You gotta be collecting impact metrics, right? If yes please tell the real real that they sure as hell achieved brand awareness with me, I’m slap bang in the middle of their target market and I’m an all but guaranteed/

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Getting the issue in front of senior people who can *independently* conclude the outcome is unfair is the outcome, wellbeing type policies are a way to get there

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Policy. School will have a policy related to something vapid like respect or if you’re lucky something a bit meatier, like psychosocial safety. If they don’t vic ed does. Escalate based not on fairness (which can be argued) but on the effect of unfairness on you (which can).

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This sucks, is advice welcome or unwelcome?

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cheap peanut butter is infinitely superior to expensive peanut butter.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘You’re a bit much’ Words only spoken by people who are not enough. It can be fun to tell them!

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mine would be ‘yeah but it was funny though’

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coherence is the virtue of cowards anyhow

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The belligerence, hostility, and knowing-what-he’s-talking-about-ness are like a glass of wine in the bath. Soothing, reassuring, perfect. Being yelled at by žižek for my moral and/or intellectual incoherence would be a dream come true.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mmmmmm love me some Žižek

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Even back in the 90s I was annoyed by that thing of Carrie Bradshaw writing her damn columns on her damn laptop sitting on her damn bed as if ergonomics was made up 2026 and here I am I GUESS

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In which we work at the arboretum

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh no i agree with you absolutely. I’d also say (as a ‘yes and’ kind of a statement) that by definition reactivity is reactionary. Which used to be an insult *reserved for conservatives*! That’s is now, we’re the reactionaries! It’s not good enough, not at all!

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A guy lives longer than some other guys. #ThereCanBeOnlyOne

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Engineer: it depends on the starting state of the cup Me: listen, you fools, this is a question with a literal answer, a real one, IT LITERALLY DEPENDS ON THE STARTING STATE OF THE CUP

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Further context: You can only buy sausage in bread. There are no other foods on sale. You can also buy a can of fizzy drink, standard size. That's it, there are no other things on sale. This is Australia-wide. The lunch of kings.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Can confirm. The Bunnings sausage is effectively our national dish (it's a long thin sausage in a piece of supermarket white bread, with onions and tomato sauce). Every weekend the stall is manned by a different charity, they make a motza.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No man I’m too smart to fall for that

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

*am newspaper columnist* *am classic sci fi enjoyer* Uh

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just paid in full tbh. Worth it.

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Zoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Should it be on the PBS? Yes, obviously. It is for people over 65 or so you can wait but on the other hand - you can also not get shingles. Shingles = horrible nerve pain, not just ‘a rash’.

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