Natasha
@natashanatasha.bsky.social
Cats. Bikes. Sewing. Regional living. 🇦🇺
Trying my best.
Trying my best.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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‘Spare a thought then for English spelling’s silent letters, many of them conscripted assistants that are there to make other letters shine.’
I urge you to subscribe to @dannybate.bsky.social’s newsletters if you’re excited by word histories and dissections.
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I urge you to subscribe to @dannybate.bsky.social’s newsletters if you’re excited by word histories and dissections.
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The Silence of the Letters
This post was inspired by communication between me and James McConnachie, who recently and kindly reviewed my book, Why Q Needs U, for the most recent edition of The Sunday Times. Screens…
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October 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
‘Spare a thought then for English spelling’s silent letters, many of them conscripted assistants that are there to make other letters shine.’
I urge you to subscribe to @dannybate.bsky.social’s newsletters if you’re excited by word histories and dissections.
dannybate.com/2025/10/21/t...
I urge you to subscribe to @dannybate.bsky.social’s newsletters if you’re excited by word histories and dissections.
dannybate.com/2025/10/21/t...
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Went for a walk today in a reopened area recovering from bushfires that took place earlier this year.
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Went for a walk today in a reopened area recovering from bushfires that took place earlier this year.
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Meanjin only cost UniMelb $220k a year?! This is CHUMP CHANGE in such an institution. The whole thing is infuriating. I haven’t accepted its end. Won’t somebody please tell me it’ll exist again somehow
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Meanjin only cost UniMelb $220k a year?! This is CHUMP CHANGE in such an institution. The whole thing is infuriating. I haven’t accepted its end. Won’t somebody please tell me it’ll exist again somehow
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
Happy 4th birthday to the best little tuxedo boy. What an adorable blessing George is.
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Happy 4th birthday to the best little tuxedo boy. What an adorable blessing George is.
I legit feel like I have become less bright following multiple covid infections. 😔
This is a game changer.
theconversation.com/mounting-res...
theconversation.com/mounting-res...
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.
theconversation.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I legit feel like I have become less bright following multiple covid infections. 😔
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They're here, everyone! This isn't like "sorry for those polluted US towns but we're built different"
We have RECENT LIVING MEMORY of awful bushfires & drought restrictions, yet just 1 of these proposed data centres' usage could supply 66k Melburnians with water for a YEAR
7 of them want permits
We have RECENT LIVING MEMORY of awful bushfires & drought restrictions, yet just 1 of these proposed data centres' usage could supply 66k Melburnians with water for a YEAR
7 of them want permits
Hume City Council sounds alarm on 'tidal wave' of data centre water applications www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Council sounds alarm on 'tidal wave' of data centre water applications
A council in Melbourne's outer north has voted for more scrutiny over applications for resource-intensive data centres, with its deputy mayor warning the significant volumes of water they require coul...
www.abc.net.au
August 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
They're here, everyone! This isn't like "sorry for those polluted US towns but we're built different"
We have RECENT LIVING MEMORY of awful bushfires & drought restrictions, yet just 1 of these proposed data centres' usage could supply 66k Melburnians with water for a YEAR
7 of them want permits
We have RECENT LIVING MEMORY of awful bushfires & drought restrictions, yet just 1 of these proposed data centres' usage could supply 66k Melburnians with water for a YEAR
7 of them want permits
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
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below is the brief acceptance speech I was going to give on Tuesday, but instead my Fellowship was rescinded a few hours before the award ceremony:-
I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
below is the brief acceptance speech I was going to give on Tuesday, but instead my Fellowship was rescinded a few hours before the award ceremony:-
I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
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I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal, Yuggera and Jagerra peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
1/
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
How is this a comfortable way to sleep? Peanut the sun seeking buffoon.
May 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
How is this a comfortable way to sleep? Peanut the sun seeking buffoon.
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Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
May 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?”
😂
😂
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So which is it News dot com dot au
You literally are saying the event that happened was disgraceful whilst the top banner ad is literally part of the reason that the act occurred.
Your staff didn't even think to pause the ads today.
You literally are saying the event that happened was disgraceful whilst the top banner ad is literally part of the reason that the act occurred.
Your staff didn't even think to pause the ads today.
April 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
So which is it News dot com dot au
You literally are saying the event that happened was disgraceful whilst the top banner ad is literally part of the reason that the act occurred.
Your staff didn't even think to pause the ads today.
You literally are saying the event that happened was disgraceful whilst the top banner ad is literally part of the reason that the act occurred.
Your staff didn't even think to pause the ads today.
I drink so infrequently now, the glass of wine I’m having with dinner tonight is sending me 🥴
April 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I drink so infrequently now, the glass of wine I’m having with dinner tonight is sending me 🥴
In addition to quiet carriages on trains, I wish there were low odour carriages so I wouldn’t have to breathe through the fug of perfume, the smell of a person who had a ciggie just before hopping on the train, and whatever that weird bodywash is that smells like watermelon.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In addition to quiet carriages on trains, I wish there were low odour carriages so I wouldn’t have to breathe through the fug of perfume, the smell of a person who had a ciggie just before hopping on the train, and whatever that weird bodywash is that smells like watermelon.
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Australian book authors, how do you publicise your work? Tell us in this 15-minute survey from RMIT-Swinburne researchers: rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Australian book authors, how do you publicise your work? Tell us in this 15-minute survey from RMIT-Swinburne researchers: rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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I am going to lose my mind. Every previous coronavirus spilled over from animals. A novel virus has never leaked from a lab.
Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something *which has never happened* is the occam's razor explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...
Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something *which has never happened* is the occam's razor explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am going to lose my mind. Every previous coronavirus spilled over from animals. A novel virus has never leaked from a lab.
Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something *which has never happened* is the occam's razor explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...
Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something *which has never happened* is the occam's razor explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...
Are these the same photo
March 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Are these the same photo
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An absolute honour to contribute to the diversity section of the SIGN Research 10 Years of Streaming in Australia report! You can read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1P-90...
March 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
An absolute honour to contribute to the diversity section of the SIGN Research 10 Years of Streaming in Australia report! You can read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1P-90...
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Truth in Political Advertising Laws Before the Next Election. I even contacted my local member about it too. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/truth_in_pol...
Truth in Political Advertising Laws Before the Next Election
It's perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. It shouldn't be.
Tell the Australian Parliament to pass truth in political advertising laws before the next election. #auspol
ADD YOUR NAME to the peti...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Truth in Political Advertising Laws Before the Next Election. I even contacted my local member about it too. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/truth_in_pol...
apparently working in the office is the one true path of collaboration and productivity lol, but I legit need a way to tune out the outside-voice-volume conversations about (currently) what people did in high school for work experience. My noise-cancelling headphones are barely strong enough...
March 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
apparently working in the office is the one true path of collaboration and productivity lol, but I legit need a way to tune out the outside-voice-volume conversations about (currently) what people did in high school for work experience. My noise-cancelling headphones are barely strong enough...
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Hi @keanebernard.bsky.social Just wanted to point out that the Suburban Rail Loop $200 billion estimate is a furphy.
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🚇The Suburban Rail Loop is many things, but it's not a $200 billion project. It looks big because the detractors like to quote cost estimates in nominal dollars - which add 50 years of inflation. Our letter in yesterday's Age. #Melbourne #PublicTransport
February 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Hi @keanebernard.bsky.social Just wanted to point out that the Suburban Rail Loop $200 billion estimate is a furphy.
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