Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Material Culturist | Potter | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Matter matters | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | DMs disabled | Signal @ fionatribe.12 | whiteowl.net.au
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Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Take me to your leader — WhiteOwl
Sitting quietly on a patio is a woman. She is making annatto - the red dye used to decorate the face and body during village ceremonies. Except there is no ceremony today. To her the day simply felt l...
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Take me to your leader: human becomings, non-Euclidean org design and lawn mowing.
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I call this painting ‘Woman in STEM pondering her degree’.
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I call this painting ‘Woman in STEM pondering her degree’.
All my gym gear is in the wash so, to demonstrate my commitment to training, I have dug out the gear I bought online during lockdowns and am now at the gym looking like a clown.
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 PM
All my gym gear is in the wash so, to demonstrate my commitment to training, I have dug out the gear I bought online during lockdowns and am now at the gym looking like a clown.
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they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups
January 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM
they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups
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It’s very weird having computer science sitting at the highest-number-of-unemployed-graduates table. “Can I get you a drink?” asks anthropology, noticing how uncomfortable it looks.
January 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
It’s very weird having computer science sitting at the highest-number-of-unemployed-graduates table. “Can I get you a drink?” asks anthropology, noticing how uncomfortable it looks.
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What frustrates me about false positivity is that actually the deeper form of being genuinely ok isn't to be free from 'issues'- not at all, it's being open to go there, it's being willing to acknowledge anxieties & understand them.
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
What frustrates me about false positivity is that actually the deeper form of being genuinely ok isn't to be free from 'issues'- not at all, it's being open to go there, it's being willing to acknowledge anxieties & understand them.
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The light & warmth feels inviting on a dark January morning 🧡
January 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The light & warmth feels inviting on a dark January morning 🧡
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
January 22, 2026 at 3:20 AM
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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The amazing churches of Pierre Pinsard
No 1: Église Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Rouen, France
Designed 1962. Completed 1968 #PinsardChurch
Visit it here: www.google.com/maps/place/%...
No 1: Église Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Rouen, France
Designed 1962. Completed 1968 #PinsardChurch
Visit it here: www.google.com/maps/place/%...
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM
The amazing churches of Pierre Pinsard
No 1: Église Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Rouen, France
Designed 1962. Completed 1968 #PinsardChurch
Visit it here: www.google.com/maps/place/%...
No 1: Église Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Rouen, France
Designed 1962. Completed 1968 #PinsardChurch
Visit it here: www.google.com/maps/place/%...
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wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead
It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
I’m fixing a bathroom plumbing issue myself, with the help of YouTube, the tools Dad gifted me over his lifetime of teaching me DIY skills, and Mack at the plumbing store.
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I’m fixing a bathroom plumbing issue myself, with the help of YouTube, the tools Dad gifted me over his lifetime of teaching me DIY skills, and Mack at the plumbing store.
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Everything’s a scam, a gamble, a fake, a posture, a shakedown. It’s disgusting. I’ll be a loser — a misser-out-on-“opportunities” — in this world, and I’m absolutely fine with that.
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Everything’s a scam, a gamble, a fake, a posture, a shakedown. It’s disgusting. I’ll be a loser — a misser-out-on-“opportunities” — in this world, and I’m absolutely fine with that.
Love, and strife emergencemagazine.org/essay/is-pad...
Is Paddy Heneghan Dead? – Liam Heneghan
Ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan, keeping vigil by his father’s bedside, glimpses how all life resides in the kingdom of decay.
emergencemagazine.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Love, and strife emergencemagazine.org/essay/is-pad...
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How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more
When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world
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January 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more
“That was the first in a series of losses, each of which had their effect. My Dad’s death, … the loss of a friendship I thought unassailable, the catastrophic love affair and its aftermath, the death of confidence.” ~ Robyn Davidson, Unfinished Woman
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM
“That was the first in a series of losses, each of which had their effect. My Dad’s death, … the loss of a friendship I thought unassailable, the catastrophic love affair and its aftermath, the death of confidence.” ~ Robyn Davidson, Unfinished Woman
It’s hard to tell which is the frypan and which is the fire.
January 21, 2026 at 11:57 AM
It’s hard to tell which is the frypan and which is the fire.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“Then imagine preparing the compacted sterile ground by digging.”
“Then imagine preparing the compacted sterile ground by digging.”
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"In the morning he brings me a piece of bread and some water and, if my pail is full, he removes it."
"In the morning he brings me a piece of bread and some water and, if my pail is full, he removes it."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"By deleting a repository, there’s a very real chance that a project many people rely on will cease to exist."
"By deleting a repository, there’s a very real chance that a project many people rely on will cease to exist."
January 21, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“Then imagine preparing the compacted sterile ground by digging.”
“Then imagine preparing the compacted sterile ground by digging.”
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Saw a post from an actual friend on LinkedIn the other day and was like, ooof, we lost another one
January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Saw a post from an actual friend on LinkedIn the other day and was like, ooof, we lost another one
Him: What are you up to now, Fiona?
Me: I’m mostly working with clay. What are you doing? Are you still lecturing in anthropology?
Him: cowboysimple.com.au
Again, I blame the pandemic.
Me: I’m mostly working with clay. What are you doing? Are you still lecturing in anthropology?
Him: cowboysimple.com.au
Again, I blame the pandemic.
Cowboy Simple
Home page of Cowboy Simple, a country group from Sydney. We play countryfied funk, truck stop soul, yeehaw disco....or something' like that
cowboysimple.com.au
January 21, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Him: What are you up to now, Fiona?
Me: I’m mostly working with clay. What are you doing? Are you still lecturing in anthropology?
Him: cowboysimple.com.au
Again, I blame the pandemic.
Me: I’m mostly working with clay. What are you doing? Are you still lecturing in anthropology?
Him: cowboysimple.com.au
Again, I blame the pandemic.
People pretend they’re doing okay when they’re not because they’ve most likely seen people distance themselves from those who are more open about their struggles.
January 21, 2026 at 10:51 AM
People pretend they’re doing okay when they’re not because they’ve most likely seen people distance themselves from those who are more open about their struggles.
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"At the end of the day, this is not about bacteria, it is about whether the basic assumptions of modern life can still be trusted... I wish we all knew when to trust the intelligence that remains, even as the systems around us fray."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
Diary of Unexpected Continuities
I have written before about my yoga teaching friend, someone with whom I have experienced more altered perceptions and distorted senses of time than with
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January 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
"At the end of the day, this is not about bacteria, it is about whether the basic assumptions of modern life can still be trusted... I wish we all knew when to trust the intelligence that remains, even as the systems around us fray."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
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Wednesday, a day of the week, derives from Old English 'Wōdnesdæg' & literally means 'Look after yourself, the news is optional'.
January 21, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Wednesday, a day of the week, derives from Old English 'Wōdnesdæg' & literally means 'Look after yourself, the news is optional'.
Watching meetings through glass is surprisingly revealing. Not being able to hear what is being said means you focus on other things.
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Watching meetings through glass is surprisingly revealing. Not being able to hear what is being said means you focus on other things.