Elle B
@lunarpedlar.bsky.social
She sells the moon. Plays with words for a living. PhD research @ Monash with a focus on narrative design and autoethnography. Banner & Pfp my own. My favourite emoji is 🎈.
It wasn't a nostalgic day, I was just day drunk c':
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It wasn't a nostalgic day, I was just day drunk c':
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December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
Pardon me that this is a little personal.
I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks with trembling hands. Its stupendous card catalogue blew my schoolboy mind. Search my name in the modern electronic counterpart today and it appears 125 times, mostly for works I researched there. My 84-year-old mother has been a volunteer library tour guide for more than a decade. Continue reading...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
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Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Savage Garden (this was my very first concert. I was 11 c': )
Placebo (Sleeping with Ghosts tour)
Nine Inch Nails (Many times now.)
Rage Against the Machine (at Big Day Out 08)
Bruce Springsteen (at MSG when he was doing the River tour in 2009 🙏)
Savage Garden (this was my very first concert. I was 11 c': )
Placebo (Sleeping with Ghosts tour)
Nine Inch Nails (Many times now.)
Rage Against the Machine (at Big Day Out 08)
Bruce Springsteen (at MSG when he was doing the River tour in 2009 🙏)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Daft Punk Alive 2007
Garbage
The Chemical Brothers
Evanescence
Placebo
Daft Punk Alive 2007
Garbage
The Chemical Brothers
Evanescence
Placebo
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
They Might Be Giants
Hilltop Hoods
Elton John
The Amity Affliction
The Living End
(Limiting to 5 is so hard 🥺 Concerts are my happy place)
They Might Be Giants
Hilltop Hoods
Elton John
The Amity Affliction
The Living End
(Limiting to 5 is so hard 🥺 Concerts are my happy place)
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Savage Garden (this was my very first concert. I was 11 c': )
Placebo (Sleeping with Ghosts tour)
Nine Inch Nails (Many times now.)
Rage Against the Machine (at Big Day Out 08)
Bruce Springsteen (at MSG when he was doing the River tour in 2009 🙏)
Savage Garden (this was my very first concert. I was 11 c': )
Placebo (Sleeping with Ghosts tour)
Nine Inch Nails (Many times now.)
Rage Against the Machine (at Big Day Out 08)
Bruce Springsteen (at MSG when he was doing the River tour in 2009 🙏)
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If you win enough fights with him, Post Malone evolves into Jelly Roll
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you win enough fights with him, Post Malone evolves into Jelly Roll
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Big Tech companies steal the work of real journalists to train their AI machines that spit out misinformation and fake facts. Put your name to our open letter demanding they PAY UP:
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Big Tech companies steal the work of real journalists to train their AI machines that spit out misinformation and fake facts. Put your name to our open letter demanding they PAY UP:
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
www.meaa/.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUpn @microsoft
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Hiroshima Castle, Japan
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hiroshima Castle, Japan
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
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The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The Long Kiss Goodnight is legitimately an excellent Christmas movie. "Chefs do that" has lived rent free in my head since 1996.
#WriteStuff Q3 Best Christmas movie? "Die Hard", "Gremlins", and "The Long Kiss Goodnight" all count.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The Long Kiss Goodnight is legitimately an excellent Christmas movie. "Chefs do that" has lived rent free in my head since 1996.
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the reason why i am silent for long periods on this account is because i forgot my password.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
the reason why i am silent for long periods on this account is because i forgot my password.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Silver hair comb from Japan done in the 1800’s with Tortoise and dangling plover birds. (Miriam Slater collection)
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Silver hair comb from Japan done in the 1800’s with Tortoise and dangling plover birds. (Miriam Slater collection)
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Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo, Japan, during the cherry blossom season.
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo, Japan, during the cherry blossom season.
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The Temple Main Hall of Shoren-in. Photography by Totororo.roro
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Temple Main Hall of Shoren-in. Photography by Totororo.roro
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With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point