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Erica Spinks
@ericaspinks.bsky.social
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Love gardens, stories, quilts and the Sydney Swans. Australia.
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Give your local bookshop some love today. ❤️
October 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Yikes. I don’t want anything called a bombogenesis anywhere near me. 😱 #AustralianWeather
June 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Thank you @martinflanagan.bsky.social

www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/i-... AFL | Team & Player News, Live Coverage, Results, Fixtures, Tips & Analysis | The Sydney Morning Herald
I love Tassie footy and we need a team. But the AFL’s stadium ultimatum takes a special kind of arrogance
The still unborn Tasmanian Devils are now front and centre in the island’s culture wars. It didn’t have to be like this.
www.theage.com.au
June 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Remembering today with our Kiwi mates.

#anzacday2025
April 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Enough with the flashing lights, @adelaideoval.bsky.social It’s triggering for many people.
April 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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My flower of the day - cosmos. 🌸 🌱
April 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Would love to see what ‘The Good Fight’ would make of the current debacle in the USA. Please!
March 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Dutton = blah, blah, blah.
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Every new baby deserves a new quilt. #quilts

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Pretty in pink... and green and purple - Erica Spinks
In 2022, I made a small quilt to welcome my goddaughter’s first baby. It was fun stitching the project, mainly because it gave me the opportunity to lay out colours in a way I thought would stimulate ...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson
I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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www.asauthors.org.au/news/black-i...
Black Inc. AI licensing - what authors need to know - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA has heard from concerned writers about a sublicence arrangement that would allow Black Inc. to license their work for AI training.
www.asauthors.org.au
March 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Happy Sydney Mardi Gras! 🌈 may you all have fun and be safe tonight. 🥳
March 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Speechless after viewing this. Brilliant.
February 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Cool weather means knitting. New story on my website now.

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It only takes one cool night - Erica Spinks
Cooler weather is on the way (it was 7 degrees last night!) and that means I start knitting. Or, to be more accurate, it means I pick up the knitting project I abandoned last year and consider continu...
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February 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Libraries across Australia are safe havens for vulnerable people – so some are hiring social workers to help
Other services are increasingly telling clients that their local library can help them, and staff there are coming under pressure
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Note to self: stay away from local facebook groups. No one welcomes facts there. 🤷‍♀️
February 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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It’s Library Lovers’ Day! Tell your librarians how much you appreciate them. ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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👏👏

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Brilliant, moving, thought-provoking! Simon & Schuster is dispensing with book blurbs – will it make any difference?
‘When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them are tripe.’
theconversation.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Not all billionaires are selfish. Great initiative . 👏👏
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
This Sydney billionaire wants to hire more women. He’s spending $100m to make it happen
The gift from tech entrepreneur Robin Khuda is the single biggest philanthropic donation made in NSW.
www.smh.com.au
February 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
www.salon.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“Fentanyl Czar”. Canada sure knows how to take the piss out of the 🤡. 😂
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Watching from the other side of the world in horrified fascination as the USA is being ravaged. Total clusterfuck.
February 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Respect for the land. This week’s positive story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person
The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Magical realism takes me away from the real world and encourages me to think, what if? Loved this story. 📚
January 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I recently wrote a column for our gardening club newsletter reminding people to order their tulip bulbs early so they could be sure to receive the ones they wanted. 🌷

Just tried to order my bulbs and the ones I wanted are sold out.

Do as I say, not as I do. 😂
January 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM