Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
History, curriculum, curriculum history, books, writing. PhD student researching gender, historical consciousness, and the history curriculum in Australia. Passionate about rural equity. She/her. 🏳️🌈 My words and thoughts are my own.
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Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
· Sep 29
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
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I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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Lately the only part of Bluesky to bring me any joy has been the fountain pens feed. Consider this an expression of my gratitude.
![Ink bottle, brown fountain pen, text "As times become increasingly fraught, I find myself retreating to the smaller and increasingly analouge [sic] elements of my life."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreig42zalkiatmu2g3pdfltqgwaaldghcozh2vegbo3dibalc4npkou@jpeg)
January 23, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Lately the only part of Bluesky to bring me any joy has been the fountain pens feed. Consider this an expression of my gratitude.
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Yeah, the fountain pen feed is a rare delight.
Speaking of which, here’s my Iroshizuku ink bottle tattoo.
Speaking of which, here’s my Iroshizuku ink bottle tattoo.
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Yeah, the fountain pen feed is a rare delight.
Speaking of which, here’s my Iroshizuku ink bottle tattoo.
Speaking of which, here’s my Iroshizuku ink bottle tattoo.
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Historians, have I got a choice grant application opportunity to share with you:
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?
January 28, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Historians, have I got a choice grant application opportunity to share with you:
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?
New ink day! I love filling my fountain pens with fresh colours way too much - feels like adding a little whimsy to my day is the best kind of self care at the moment. Pretty happy with my choices (see next post).
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
New ink day! I love filling my fountain pens with fresh colours way too much - feels like adding a little whimsy to my day is the best kind of self care at the moment. Pretty happy with my choices (see next post).
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I often remember the Rainbow Serpent, which I adored as a kid, but as a kid I made no note then of the author and being older and more anxious now, I’ve long worried that perhaps it was a misappropriated story. How delightful to learn this morning that it wasn’t: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
With The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey shared the spirit of our country. His work is a gift to us all | Alexis Wright
Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I often remember the Rainbow Serpent, which I adored as a kid, but as a kid I made no note then of the author and being older and more anxious now, I’ve long worried that perhaps it was a misappropriated story. How delightful to learn this morning that it wasn’t: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
It's set to be 45 here by 2pm. The last four days have been 39, 42, 43, 45. The next four days will be 43, 44, 46 and then *finally* a reprieve at 30.
We have OK air-conditioning but it's struggling with the relentlessness of the demand. I shudder to think how we would manage with it.
We have OK air-conditioning but it's struggling with the relentlessness of the demand. I shudder to think how we would manage with it.
whoaaa... looking at the temps across Australia today.
That's extreme.
Feeling for all the folks who were/are affected by this heatwave (we've been spared here in Sydney but other capitals and regional areas are really in the thick of it)
That's extreme.
Feeling for all the folks who were/are affected by this heatwave (we've been spared here in Sydney but other capitals and regional areas are really in the thick of it)
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
It's set to be 45 here by 2pm. The last four days have been 39, 42, 43, 45. The next four days will be 43, 44, 46 and then *finally* a reprieve at 30.
We have OK air-conditioning but it's struggling with the relentlessness of the demand. I shudder to think how we would manage with it.
We have OK air-conditioning but it's struggling with the relentlessness of the demand. I shudder to think how we would manage with it.
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For 20 years, I've seen the biggest-ever public marches -- anti-Iraq War, anti-Global Warming, anti-Palestinian genocide and pro-Indigenous rights -- be dismissed as radical fringe concerns while far-right cranks are said to appeal to 'ordinary Australians'
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 AM
For 20 years, I've seen the biggest-ever public marches -- anti-Iraq War, anti-Global Warming, anti-Palestinian genocide and pro-Indigenous rights -- be dismissed as radical fringe concerns while far-right cranks are said to appeal to 'ordinary Australians'
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Record temperatures, bushfires, meh fire up those data centres that use stonks of water and require a shit tonne of electricity
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Labor to fast-track data centre approvals as OECD flags energy strain
The global body said the cloud computing boom meant Canberra would need to make additional efforts to meet its 2050 net zero carbon emissions target.
www.afr.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Record temperatures, bushfires, meh fire up those data centres that use stonks of water and require a shit tonne of electricity
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
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The nuclear industry never managed to solve its waste issues. Cigarettes were always carcinogenic. Its increasingly clear that AI chatbots have structural hazards that the tech industry can’t or won’t solve www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The nuclear industry never managed to solve its waste issues. Cigarettes were always carcinogenic. Its increasingly clear that AI chatbots have structural hazards that the tech industry can’t or won’t solve www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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Aussie media do not represent fatal level heatwave with stories about people flocking to the beach challenge
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Aussie media do not represent fatal level heatwave with stories about people flocking to the beach challenge
I love everything Colm Toibin writes, but I have to say this was an excellent choice over the weekend while it was 43 degrees - he captured the icy cold particularly well. A novella that explores grief, family struggle and masculinity in a subtle but beautiful way. He is truly a master. #BookSky 📚💙
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I love everything Colm Toibin writes, but I have to say this was an excellent choice over the weekend while it was 43 degrees - he captured the icy cold particularly well. A novella that explores grief, family struggle and masculinity in a subtle but beautiful way. He is truly a master. #BookSky 📚💙
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It’s here, isn’t it.
🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record.
🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’.
🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon
#heat #climatecrisis
🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record.
🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’.
🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon
#heat #climatecrisis
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
It’s here, isn’t it.
🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record.
🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’.
🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon
#heat #climatecrisis
🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record.
🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’.
🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon
#heat #climatecrisis
8 days in a row forecast to hit 41 or over (high of 46 tomorrow) in my town, which is just oppressive heat. It's hard to explain to people how much of a difference a few degrees makes at that end of the scale - over a week of it is such a long time, not something I can recall happening in my life
Australia is the hottest place on Earth right now.
We’re paying the price while big coal, oil & gas corporations make billions destroying our climate and environment.
Billions in profit, billions in public subsidies, and yet many of these polluters pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher.
We’re paying the price while big coal, oil & gas corporations make billions destroying our climate and environment.
Billions in profit, billions in public subsidies, and yet many of these polluters pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher.
January 27, 2026 at 2:31 AM
8 days in a row forecast to hit 41 or over (high of 46 tomorrow) in my town, which is just oppressive heat. It's hard to explain to people how much of a difference a few degrees makes at that end of the scale - over a week of it is such a long time, not something I can recall happening in my life
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A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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Remember when left-wing "authoritarians" were "lynching" conservatives on campus? I hope everyone who wrote articles about that is feeling great. But they might want to reflect on the way the metaphorical language of violence allows us to treat actual violence as a reaction to figurative violence.
January 27, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Remember when left-wing "authoritarians" were "lynching" conservatives on campus? I hope everyone who wrote articles about that is feeling great. But they might want to reflect on the way the metaphorical language of violence allows us to treat actual violence as a reaction to figurative violence.
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I left my fountain pens at home, how am I supposed to wax and yearn poetically with a ballpoint pen
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I left my fountain pens at home, how am I supposed to wax and yearn poetically with a ballpoint pen
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"Why are you using a notebook and pen?"
Me: *pointing to news about political turmoil, civil unrest, international conflict, natural disasters, man-made tragedies + everyone wanting to sell me some kind of thing I don't need* Because a paper journal and fountain pen offers none of this shit.
Me: *pointing to news about political turmoil, civil unrest, international conflict, natural disasters, man-made tragedies + everyone wanting to sell me some kind of thing I don't need* Because a paper journal and fountain pen offers none of this shit.
January 26, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"Why are you using a notebook and pen?"
Me: *pointing to news about political turmoil, civil unrest, international conflict, natural disasters, man-made tragedies + everyone wanting to sell me some kind of thing I don't need* Because a paper journal and fountain pen offers none of this shit.
Me: *pointing to news about political turmoil, civil unrest, international conflict, natural disasters, man-made tragedies + everyone wanting to sell me some kind of thing I don't need* Because a paper journal and fountain pen offers none of this shit.
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I have been off Bluesky for a few days and the reduced political and news noise has definitely been a good thing mentally.
I am going to continue the trend for the long weekend and focus on cleaning and refilling my fountain pens and hopefully doing some reading and cross stitching. Much nicer.
I am going to continue the trend for the long weekend and focus on cleaning and refilling my fountain pens and hopefully doing some reading and cross stitching. Much nicer.
January 23, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I have been off Bluesky for a few days and the reduced political and news noise has definitely been a good thing mentally.
I am going to continue the trend for the long weekend and focus on cleaning and refilling my fountain pens and hopefully doing some reading and cross stitching. Much nicer.
I am going to continue the trend for the long weekend and focus on cleaning and refilling my fountain pens and hopefully doing some reading and cross stitching. Much nicer.
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Minns is sad he wasn't around to storm the beaches back in 1788
The land and waters are not his or any other settlers to "take back"
Always was
Always will be
Aboriginal land
Respect Country, that you now call home. Respect First Peoples, who are kin to Country
The land and waters are not his or any other settlers to "take back"
Always was
Always will be
Aboriginal land
Respect Country, that you now call home. Respect First Peoples, who are kin to Country
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Minns is sad he wasn't around to storm the beaches back in 1788
The land and waters are not his or any other settlers to "take back"
Always was
Always will be
Aboriginal land
Respect Country, that you now call home. Respect First Peoples, who are kin to Country
The land and waters are not his or any other settlers to "take back"
Always was
Always will be
Aboriginal land
Respect Country, that you now call home. Respect First Peoples, who are kin to Country
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To be clear, to talk of one section of society "reclaiming" land which was stolen by our settler-colonial state and whose sovereignty remains unceded, and when settler-colonialism is at the heart of the current racialised rupture, is just grotesque
It was appropriate to have a day of mourning, but this language is very problematic in the context of Israel's actions and the political insistence on merging all Jews with that country as a unitary identity. And Minns' tie colour choice wasn't an accident.
January 23, 2026 at 2:22 AM
To be clear, to talk of one section of society "reclaiming" land which was stolen by our settler-colonial state and whose sovereignty remains unceded, and when settler-colonialism is at the heart of the current racialised rupture, is just grotesque
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It is impossible to overstate how the US is being run and ruined by people steeped in stages of Poster's Madness that science has no name for.
not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 PM
It is impossible to overstate how the US is being run and ruined by people steeped in stages of Poster's Madness that science has no name for.
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Sky risers and luxury resorts on the mass graves of genocide victims is totally ‘on brand’ for Trump’s America
Sickening beyond words
Sickening beyond words
January 22, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Sky risers and luxury resorts on the mass graves of genocide victims is totally ‘on brand’ for Trump’s America
Sickening beyond words
Sickening beyond words
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“why didn’t authorities do anything after seeing he’d been radicalized? how did he get a gun?” sure hits different here
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 PM
“why didn’t authorities do anything after seeing he’d been radicalized? how did he get a gun?” sure hits different here