@adecinq.bsky.social
Recently retired Librarian. Happy wife with two adulting kids. Interested in politics, books and always trying to figure how to be a better person and understand the world more. Living on Whadjuk Noongar Land.
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Australian Femicide Watch journalist @sherelemoody.bsky.social: Australian men have murdered 10 women in the last 22 days. Then asked "I wonder what would happen if women murdered 10 men in three weeks." 🤔 #DV #VAW
December 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Australian Femicide Watch journalist @sherelemoody.bsky.social: Australian men have murdered 10 women in the last 22 days. Then asked "I wonder what would happen if women murdered 10 men in three weeks." 🤔 #DV #VAW
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Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector.
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#auspol news media list
docs.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector.
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
📚Top 5 of 2025📚books I read this year in no particular order are:
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
My Friends by Frederick Blackman
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
#booksky
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
My Friends by Frederick Blackman
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
#booksky
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📚Top 5 of 2025📚books I read this year in no particular order are:
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
My Friends by Frederick Blackman
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
#booksky
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
My Friends by Frederick Blackman
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
#booksky
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Delivering the truth, in spades
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Delivering the truth, in spades
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Doctors should prescribe reading, the benefits are so good…
www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... @gregcal.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... @gregcal.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Doctors should prescribe reading, the benefits are so good…
www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... @gregcal.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... @gregcal.bsky.social
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You know that thing where you want to be aware of what’s happening in the world yet hide from it all for the sake of your own mental health? Yeah that.
June 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You know that thing where you want to be aware of what’s happening in the world yet hide from it all for the sake of your own mental health? Yeah that.
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Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps more than ever.
Australia’s ‘inconvenient’ women writers blazed a trail through the 20th century
theconversation.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps more than ever.
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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Powerful story for Labor Party.
"Women empowering women. Women legislating for women. Women working for women."
#auspol
"Women empowering women. Women legislating for women. Women working for women."
#auspol
Seven female Labor candidates, ‘enough for an entire netball team’, have won seats in Queensland, with re-elected MP Anika Wells praising the party for ‘empowering women’
From tragedy to triumph: Ali France and the ‘remarkable women’ who delivered a slew of Labor wins in Queensland
Seven female Labor candidates, ‘enough for an entire netball team’, have won seats in the sunshine state, with Anika Wells praising the party for ‘empowering women’
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Powerful story for Labor Party.
"Women empowering women. Women legislating for women. Women working for women."
#auspol
"Women empowering women. Women legislating for women. Women working for women."
#auspol
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Do those who scorn Welcome to Country actually understand what it is?
The form the politicians' derision takes shows they are either ignorant or lying. And neither is a qualification for government.
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The form the politicians' derision takes shows they are either ignorant or lying. And neither is a qualification for government.
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April 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Do those who scorn Welcome to Country actually understand what it is?
The form the politicians' derision takes shows they are either ignorant or lying. And neither is a qualification for government.
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The form the politicians' derision takes shows they are either ignorant or lying. And neither is a qualification for government.
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Sensible idea to have an embedded geriatrician in the ED
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Emergency department trial reduces number of elderly people taking up ward beds
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
April 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Sensible idea to have an embedded geriatrician in the ED
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Really enjoyed watching this. So good to see this generation of engaged Australians debate in an intelligent and considered manner. Also, feel for them, the system seems to be so stacked against them right now.
Just watched this with Miss 19 (my daughter) & its much better than #QandA h/t Hannah Ferguson #TheFeed
#auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton
youtube.com/watch?v=hzRZ...
#auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton
youtube.com/watch?v=hzRZ...
Influencers Debate: Punter’s Politics, Abbie Chatfield, Freya Leach, Hannah Ferguson, Joel Jammal 4K
YouTube video by SBS The Feed
youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Really enjoyed watching this. So good to see this generation of engaged Australians debate in an intelligent and considered manner. Also, feel for them, the system seems to be so stacked against them right now.
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Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns
->UN News | #IndigenousPeople #Climate | More info from EcoSearch
->UN News | #IndigenousPeople #Climate | More info from EcoSearch
Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns
Launched on Thursday, The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples exposes a stark imbalance: while Indigenous Peoples make up just six per cent of the global population, they safeguard 80 per cent of the planet’s remaining biodiversity – yet receive...
news.un.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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These should be plastered everywhere.
December 8, 2024 at 8:46 PM
These should be plastered everywhere.
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How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.
Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU
#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU
#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
April 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.
Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU
#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU
#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
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Richard Dawkins most famous reply to: "What if you're wrong?"
April 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Richard Dawkins most famous reply to: "What if you're wrong?"
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Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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YouGov: 53-47 to Labor www.pollbludger.net/2025/04/17/y...
YouGov: 53-47 to Labor (open thread) - The Poll Bludger
Labor up again in the weekly campaign poll, though the movement is in the other direction on leaders' ratings.
www.pollbludger.net
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
YouGov: 53-47 to Labor www.pollbludger.net/2025/04/17/y...