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Naomi Preston
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Welsh in Australia, PhD candidate studying heritage interpretation of difficult histories, lover of books
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Welcome to the inaugural Complete Dunt Awards 2024 including...

Politician of the year
Cunt of the year
Twat of the year
And more

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The Complete Dunt Awards 2024
All the heroes and villains of a lunatic year in politics.
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December 27, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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what an extraordinary week of #EverydayHeritage !
It has been a privilege to be hosted on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, and to hear from @lauramca.bsky.social and Timo Ylimaunu. Thanks Steve Brown @tracyireland.bsky.social Sharpay Wu @naomijayne.bsky.social for organising! @everydayheritage.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Sharon Veale of GML Heritage speaking to us about the difficult legacies of heritage listing
#everydayheritage
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November 28, 2024 at 4:26 AM
November 28, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.
November 26, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Day 7
November 27, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Missed a day so doubling up!
Day 6
November 27, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Day 5
November 25, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Day 4
November 24, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Day 3
November 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews
Day 2
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews
Day 1
November 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts | Rebecca Solnit
Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around, made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it
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November 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Just while we're here scrolling-
"If you object that we’re not in a zombie movie because there are no brain-eating cannibals, let me reassure you, there are. The corporations are devouring our attention, and chewing our lives down to the bone to get at our data."

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Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
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November 18, 2024 at 12:43 AM
On the joy of breakfast

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Perspectives | What Should I Have for Breakfast?
Answers from Murdoch, Pynchon and Joyce
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November 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Substack post of the day no.2 Grace Blakely
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Inbox | Substack
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November 16, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Sharing some of my favourite substack posts each day, beginning with Ian Dunt
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Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.
The exodus is real.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM