As noted, it is nearly 6 am and I have been awake since 1:30. Yay.

It's 7:30 on a Sunday evening. Not 10 years ago I would just now be heading to the pub for a Parma and a couple of wines with mates. Just a quiet one. Now I'm waiting for the dryer to finish so I can sort/iron/fold and get to bed before the child awakens because I won't get any sleep after she does.

I got obsessed when we put on her play Morning Sacrifice for VCE theatre studies. I think Cusack's work is undervalued for teen readers.

Also Come in Spinner is an under rated Australian Classic and (along with Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy) would be on any #AustralianLiterature curriculum I got to build.
#RareBooks #Booksky

AND it turns out it's from the library of John Platts-Mills QC. I am very excited.

I know this is going to be niche content. However: this week I acquired a copy of Come in Spinner signed by both Cusack AND James.

Oh how I wish that sports journalists would speak to some queer people

The 2026 Academic year starts tomorrow in Aus
1) Re students who are across the news, and possibly impacted by what looks like World War 3, how do I help them care about their studies?
2) for those who have no idea because they never open a news source, how do I get them to care about World War 3?

And Kristeva earned it. I don't even care if the rumours about her being a Soviet agent are legit.

Defund this

This is the energy I WISH my students brought to a lecture.

a small white dog is running on a wooden floor next to a blue refrigerator Alt: a herd of small white dogs are running on a wooden floor next to a blue refrigerator

It's O Week. Pray for us.

Vale short line for coffee.
Vale clean toilets.
Vale getting food in under 10 minutes.

But, we do have a fresh lot of JAFFYs, and they are so cute and little. It's like new getting puppies at a petting zoo.

#UniMelb

She Bradburied that brilliantly.

What happens when a "private lie" crosses the line into a criminal act?

https://goodlaw.social/ouzo

“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”

What is it like to be an Elder Millennial who remembers life before computers/the internet? You know that TV show Hoarders? That but it's my desktop and/or external hard drives. Also insomnia, back ache and perimenopause.

I'd like to remind everyone who thinks that policing has always existed that modern policing is less than 200 years old, having begun in London in 1829

TeamUP with Collaborative Projects, University Press Week 2025, featuring logos of press projects mentioned in the post: The W. Hodding Carter III and Transregional Middle Easts series, Direct to Open (D2O), First Gen scholars program, and Centre for Literatures in Canada lecture series.

How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY

Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
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Student thesis: I will fill [x] gap in the literature.

Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men?

#MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy

I was wondering how long Teen Vogue’s remarkably tough-minded progressive journalism would last. The masthead has been doing some fantastic work. It looks like that time has come to an end.

Today I have no classes, the 🐉 (now 1) is in childcare, and my research assistants, Cwtch and Cariad, are helping me mark (which I am doing from bed because insomnia was real last night). There is sun. I have creamy soda and a Bakers' Delight pizza. I am being productive. Small mercies, big loves.

Yes. Our time is precious. I could be reading actual beautiful things or being with people (derogatory).

I hate marking assessments so goddamn much. I've always hated it. Having to also keep an eye out for AISlop in assessments has exacerbated that.

I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.

Yiiiike. I am more and more convinced that firms should only be able to be partnerships, not corporations.

As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of.

Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.

Also, let's discuss the claim from the client's representative that the legal practitioner is accepting donations to the client's defence: it's been a while since I studied trusts accounting, but that doesn't sound like a accepting funds that can be returned.
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#Auslaw

In addition, would these social media posts breach s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975? For funsies is there anything in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 about interfering with electoral materials?
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#Auslaw

5.1.2 is likely to a material degree to—
(i) be prejudicial to, or diminish the public confidence in, the administration of justice, or
(ii) bring the profession into disrepute.

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#Auslaw