Russell Briggs
@briggsay.bsky.social
Former Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Museum. Now playing second-fiddle to my dog. Besotted partner of ellew.bsky.social
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
August 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
Since she's my Bluesky avatar, it behooves me to wish a happy 4th birthday to Kirby the Australian Shepherd, who - needless to say - is a very, very, very good girl.
May 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Since she's my Bluesky avatar, it behooves me to wish a happy 4th birthday to Kirby the Australian Shepherd, who - needless to say - is a very, very, very good girl.
Hey #museums folk and others: take my job! I'm off to other adventures and the best Museum in Australia needs new visionary leadership: www.derwentsearch.com.au/job-details/...
Director, Museum Experience & Engagement job in Public Sector and Government in Sydney
Find your next Director, Museum Experience & Engagement job in Public Sector and Government located in Sydney New South Wales. Apply Now for this great Di
www.derwentsearch.com.au
May 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hey #museums folk and others: take my job! I'm off to other adventures and the best Museum in Australia needs new visionary leadership: www.derwentsearch.com.au/job-details/...
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Nuclear power has been repudiated.
Trumpism has been repudiated.
Culture wars have been repudiated.
It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺
#auspol
Trumpism has been repudiated.
Culture wars have been repudiated.
It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺
#auspol
May 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Nuclear power has been repudiated.
Trumpism has been repudiated.
Culture wars have been repudiated.
It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺
#auspol
Trumpism has been repudiated.
Culture wars have been repudiated.
It’s a GREAT DAY FOR AUSTRALIA! 🇦🇺
#auspol
Post a movie from the year you turned 18.
April 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Post a movie from the year you turned 18.
What? So it'a a bit muddy out there.
April 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What? So it'a a bit muddy out there.
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And a regular web version too (phew) … amaga.org.au/Web/Web/News...
AMaGA stands in support of US cultural institutions
amaga.org.au
April 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
And a regular web version too (phew) … amaga.org.au/Web/Web/News...
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NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...
Une conférence de la Dre Joanne Liu annulée par NYU
L'université de New York allègue que son contenu peut être perçu comme antisémite, mais Joanne Liu croit que NYU craint en fait de déplaire à Donald Trump.
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...
If you believe that access to open data is a pillar of democracy in Australia, read this and take a moment to share your thoughts with the National Library. I support @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy and the decades of warrior work he's done on Trove.
updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...
updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...
15 years of work on Trove threatened by the NLA
On Friday, without warning, I received an email from the National Library of Australia informing me that my Trove API keys had been suspended. This threatens the future of 15 years of work helping peo...
updates.timsherratt.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you believe that access to open data is a pillar of democracy in Australia, read this and take a moment to share your thoughts with the National Library. I support @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy and the decades of warrior work he's done on Trove.
updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...
updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...
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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
Maybe I read too much LeCarre and @harkaway.bsky.social, but this doesn’t seem like a good thing.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
CIA reportedly offers buyouts to entire workforce in latest Trump-era purge
The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts on Tuesday, citing aim to bring agency in line with Trump priorities, US media report
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Maybe I read too much LeCarre and @harkaway.bsky.social, but this doesn’t seem like a good thing.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My Following feed here is filled with smart and angry intelligence about the destruction of the US government, but I also want to send particular appreciation to @kottke.org for Jason’s righteous, laser-focused take on this the last few days on his site. We’re feeling it with you, all over the world
February 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
My Following feed here is filled with smart and angry intelligence about the destruction of the US government, but I also want to send particular appreciation to @kottke.org for Jason’s righteous, laser-focused take on this the last few days on his site. We’re feeling it with you, all over the world
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Some key roles going here at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, important roles that come up ***very*** rarely:
- Head of Art
- Head of Experience and Content Design
- Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures
As a bonus, you would be working with me!
Apps 12 Feb jobs.tepapa.govt.nz
- Head of Art
- Head of Experience and Content Design
- Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures
As a bonus, you would be working with me!
Apps 12 Feb jobs.tepapa.govt.nz
Museum of New Zealand Career Site
jobs.tepapa.govt.nz
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Some key roles going here at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, important roles that come up ***very*** rarely:
- Head of Art
- Head of Experience and Content Design
- Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures
As a bonus, you would be working with me!
Apps 12 Feb jobs.tepapa.govt.nz
- Head of Art
- Head of Experience and Content Design
- Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures
As a bonus, you would be working with me!
Apps 12 Feb jobs.tepapa.govt.nz
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*Yeah, that was Ross in his heyday, in case you're European or 18 years old and never heard of him
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
*Yeah, that was Ross in his heyday, in case you're European or 18 years old and never heard of him
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...
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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
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antisemites: "jews control the media"
the media: "hmm, not sure that was a nazi salute, looked kind of a like a wave, or a heartfelt outpouring of love, maybe a one-arm hug of embrace towards all peoples"
the media: "hmm, not sure that was a nazi salute, looked kind of a like a wave, or a heartfelt outpouring of love, maybe a one-arm hug of embrace towards all peoples"
January 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
antisemites: "jews control the media"
the media: "hmm, not sure that was a nazi salute, looked kind of a like a wave, or a heartfelt outpouring of love, maybe a one-arm hug of embrace towards all peoples"
the media: "hmm, not sure that was a nazi salute, looked kind of a like a wave, or a heartfelt outpouring of love, maybe a one-arm hug of embrace towards all peoples"
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People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.
January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.
What a sublime set of lists, if anyone’s looking for something to read.
Semiosis: one of the top ten SF novels of the 21st century so far, according to Jo Walton. reactormag.com/on-selecting...
On Selecting the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century - Reactor
What criteria do you use to pick a Top Ten? Where do you start, and what do you cut? It's not easy...
reactormag.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What a sublime set of lists, if anyone’s looking for something to read.
I know there’ll be an onslaught of these, but one of my closest friend’s sister and her family lost everything in Altadena. Here’s their Gofundme if you’re of a mind. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-the-hu...
Donate to Aid the Hull Family's Fire Recovery, organized by Jordan Downs
Please consider giving to the Hull family of Altadena as they navigate the tragic los… Jordan Downs needs your support for Aid the Hull Family's Fire Recovery
www.gofundme.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I know there’ll be an onslaught of these, but one of my closest friend’s sister and her family lost everything in Altadena. Here’s their Gofundme if you’re of a mind. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-the-hu...
Okay, this is a thing I've never heard. But maybe it explains why Samuel R Delany (Jr, ahem) goes by Chip?
Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
January 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Okay, this is a thing I've never heard. But maybe it explains why Samuel R Delany (Jr, ahem) goes by Chip?
Feeling such despair for my home city as it burns on the other side of the world, all the while knowing that I live in a place that will incinerate with equal ferocity in this climate horror we continue to perpetuate.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Feeling such despair for my home city as it burns on the other side of the world, all the while knowing that I live in a place that will incinerate with equal ferocity in this climate horror we continue to perpetuate.
Great Edward O Wilson quote from @bruces.bsky.social & Jon Lebkowsky's State of the World 2025 on The WELL:
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
Always a January highlight to follow along: tinyurl.com/sotw-2025
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
Always a January highlight to follow along: tinyurl.com/sotw-2025
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
tinyurl.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Great Edward O Wilson quote from @bruces.bsky.social & Jon Lebkowsky's State of the World 2025 on The WELL:
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
Always a January highlight to follow along: tinyurl.com/sotw-2025
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
Always a January highlight to follow along: tinyurl.com/sotw-2025
Paddington in Peru on New Years Day with the fam. Not as good as 2, but a decent escape from the torrid Australian heat.
January 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Paddington in Peru on New Years Day with the fam. Not as good as 2, but a decent escape from the torrid Australian heat.
Accomplished this Xmas week: re-read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; re-watched the ‘79 Alec Guinness series; and re-watched the 2011 Gary Oldman version. All great, but the more recent film doesn’t hold up as well as I’d hoped.
December 26, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Accomplished this Xmas week: re-read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; re-watched the ‘79 Alec Guinness series; and re-watched the 2011 Gary Oldman version. All great, but the more recent film doesn’t hold up as well as I’d hoped.