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Lucy
@erstwhilelucy.bsky.social
She/her. Dramatic lesbian librarian prone to fun facts and flights of whimsy. Currently working in academic libraries in Naarm. Always down to talk smack about Lord Alfred Douglas. He knows what he did.
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im bullying the richest man in the world 😭
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It’s giving losers on fb who post black and white AI photos of lions with shitty quotes about power on them when the closest they’ve ever come to having authority is claiming ownership of the remote
“We are coming for you.”

No doubt Albo is quaking in his boots.

I guess when you’ve just written your party out of contention at the next election - & possibly for all time - mindless bravado will happily substitute for analysis. Or leadership, for that matter.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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We used to think technology was inherently liberatory. Now it’s empowering corporations and conmen, writes @ethanz.bsky.social.
Tech bros used to be progressive. What happened?
We used to think technology was inherently liberatory. Now it’s empowering corporations and conmen
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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On Sunday, The Age commissioned an opinion piece from Palestinian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah - only to decline publishing it after it was submitted.

Thanks to Randa for letting us publish it here.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.
Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
www.deepcutnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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'One of the proposed solutions to the fact that these AI companies are already stealing the work of creatives, writers and artists is not to wonder – not even performatively – about how to protect the output of the creators but to suggest formalising the theft'. rick-morton.ghost.io/crumbs-at-th...
Crumbs at the Slophouse
There was a man at the ice creamery the other day and I cannot stop thinking about him. He looked about 50. No family in tow, indeed no other travelling friends or acquaintances in sight. From his pe...
rick-morton.ghost.io
August 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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if you care about journalism jobs in australia, you'd go out and poison your family with mushrooms, because currently the entire infrastructure of australian journalism is wrapped up in mushroom trial reporting, and we need to keep that going
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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If I ever get so "Old White Bloke" as to write a column like this, you all have permission to hunt me down and slap me around the head yelling "Retire, bitch".
June 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Adriana Smith was dead. For 6 months, her corpse was kept on life support because of an abortion law demanding a fetus be carried to term. Because she didn’t get the care she deserved to begin with.
A dead Black woman turned into an incubator.
This is medical violence. This is racism This is America
Baby of brain-dead woman delivered in Georgia, woman's mother says - BBC News
The woman was being kept on life support because of Georgia's strict abortion laws.
www.bbc.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Finished Anna Dorn's 'Perfume and Pain' last night and I am OBSESSED. Chaotic, reality TV obsessed, paranoid, self-obsessed yet immensely self-critical lesbian diva? Sign. ME. UP.
Immediately running to get my hands on everything else she's ever written.
June 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I don't know how many times I've said this but: your work email is not private. Maybe don't do trade union business on your work email.
June 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.

(Via Christopher Hale)
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Everyone on Twitter right now.
June 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys

46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll

to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.
Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again
Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a Democratic Party.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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I can’t help but notice that every single time an LGBTQ+ person is killed in a high-profile hate crime, masses of people immediately rush in to explain why it could not possibly have been a hate crime, actually.
June 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ICE arresting people at deportation hearings encourages people not to go and keep up with their legal status. they’re literally creating more people in an undocumented status on purpose.
June 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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decades-long manhunt finally ends
May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I remain incredibly confused about how op eds like this - and reports of climate disasters in Aus - continue to be published with zero mention of significant climate policy decisions being made by Aus governments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The floods and droughts in Australia are fingerprints of a warming planet | Kimberley Reid
It is undoubtedly clear that continuing to burn or export fossil fuels will increase climate change and the risk of extreme weather
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM