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Shannon
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Reader. Writer. Dreamer.
Wurundjeri Country. Melbourne, Australia.
She / They
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electricbaa.bsky.social
Succinct Substack read from Jeanette Winterson on direct action against the inhumanity of Israel’s actions in Gaza - and how it ties in with the future of democracy

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...
Normal People?
Sally Rooney has blown up a storm around herself since she wrote a piece in the Irish Times against genocide in Gaza, and more specifically, pro the now banned Palestinian Action Group.
open.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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And if I may be so bold as to recommend some non-fiction though that’s not what you asked for, I highly recommend Theory of Water. If you don’t read it, I think this podcast discussing the book is well worth a listen

tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water - Tin House
What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
tinhouse.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
23 years ago i lost my son to suicide. There were no dedicated Aboriginal Mental Health Services dealing with youth suicide then.
There is now.
Dr. Tracy Westerman and the Jilya Institute are self funded tgrough donations.
Please donate. It saves lives.

www.thejilyainstitute.com.au/donate/
Donate to Jilya | The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health
www.thejilyainstitute.com.au
May 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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tinhouse.bsky.social
📻A new episode of Between the Covers w/ @davidnaimon.bsky.social talking to one of Australia's most celebrated & daring writers, Michelle de Kretser.

She describes her uncategorizable latest book, Theory & Practice, as 80% fiction, 15% essay & 5% memoir.

Listen! bit.ly/BTCMichelled...
March 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
The magic of a tropical rainforest 🌎
February 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
www.scotsman.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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emergencybk.bsky.social
Heading to my nearest country town for med appointments & educate some locals in my @mfwitches.bsky.social t-shirt👊😎
#FuckMurdoch
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Started a starter pack!
November 16, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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dkmok.bsky.social
If you like giving books as gifts, and you'd like to give someone a book about hope, community, defiance and determination, I recommend "Something, Someday" by Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson.
dkmok.bsky.social DK Mok @dkmok.bsky.social · Mar 7
I recently read Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson. A powerful and poetic picture book about hope, defiance, action, allyship and change. Trying to describe it doesn’t do it justice. Just go and read it. Highly recommended.
 
💙📚👍🏼 #KidLit #Diversity #Resilience
The cover of a children’s book titled Something, Someday, by Amanda Gorman, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, and Christian Robinson, Caldecott Honor-Winning Illustrator. A bright, collage-style illustration depicts a small boy with brown skin and short curly hair standing against a bright yellow background. He’s holding a large, red watering can, tipping water onto a small green plant.
November 7, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
One of the spookiest things in #JapaneseFolklore is the hyakki yagyo, or night parade of one hundred demons. On inauspicious nights, all the #yokai, ghosts and other supernatural creatures parade through the streets of Japan, singing and dancing wildly.
#FolkloreSunday #Spooktober
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A collection of yokai walk across a red bridge, they hold burning torches in the air.
October 27, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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vajra.me
Sale's halfway through, so grab while the grabbing is good! Ebook is $2.99 on Kindle, Kobo, B&N, Apple, and Google.
vajra.me Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · Nov 1
Hey, my second novel RAKESFALL is currently $2.99 on Kindle! Generally everyone so far has been like What The Fuck Did I Just Read (complimentary or derogatory, we swing both ways) and I feel like it's totally worth three American dollars if you want to find out www.amazon.com/Rakesfall-Va...
Amazon.com: Rakesfall eBook : Chandrasekera, Vajra: Kindle Store
Rakesfall - Kindle edition by Chandrasekera, Vajra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Rakesfall.
www.amazon.com
November 2, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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dkmok.bsky.social
The ABC is holding its first Insect of the Year poll! Entrants include the plush blue-banded bee, the glam golden stag beetle, and the Lord Howe Island stick insect, like the one from my story The Birdsong Fossil! A nice celebration of Aussie insects.

#Insects #Nature #Wildlife #Australia
Insects are 'the little things that run the world'. Now you can help choose Australia's favourite
The ABC has begun its quest to find out which native six-legged marvel is Australia's most popular insect for 2024. Six experts have selected their finalists for an online poll.
www.abc.net.au
October 21, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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mymerehut.bsky.social
I see you little bee. #flower #Yellow #bee #LongmontColorado #Photography
A bee on a yellow flower
October 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
more importantly:

"In study after study, South has shown that simple investments in the environment — ­renovating dilapidated houses, clearing trash-strewn lots, planting shrubs and trees — lower gun violence in the surrounding blocks by as much as 29 percent."

www.phillymag.com/news/2023/03...
A Penn Doc's Green Initiative Shows How Environmental Factors Impact Gun Violence
Eugenia South of Deeply Rooted on the benefits of investing in and beautifying our streets and neighborhoods
www.phillymag.com
October 13, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
In early 2023, we started getting flooded with "AI" generated stories. A handful of other publications (Asimov's, F&SF, Analog) were also hit to varying degrees, but (according to my 2023 survey) we were the canaries. All the rest were reporting low-to-none. This year's survey results will be uglier
October 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
electricbaa.bsky.social
Inevitable? The source of the cases was a Legal Practice Management System with ‘AI features.’ www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...
Melbourne lawyer referred to complaints body after AI generated made-up case citations in family court
Legal professional used software to generate a case citation list, but did not use documents that had undergone human verification
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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dkmok.bsky.social
Finished reading Bindi by Kirli Saunders. A beautifully written children’s book about a year in the life of 11-year-old girl Bindi, told in a series of poetic vignettes. Gently funny, full of warmth and tenderness, woven with moments of profound emotional power. 1/3

💙📚👍🏼 #KidLit #DiverseBooks 📚🌏
A compact, hardcover children’s book titled Bindi by Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler, Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Winner. The black and white illustration has a meditative, charcoal-style texture, and depicts a tuft of spiky grass next to the feather of a black cockatoo.
October 9, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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dkmok.bsky.social
Great article about how traditional job recruitment methods often don’t accurately measure how well neurodivergent candidates would actually do the work. Having a neuroinclusive workplace means you hire and retain the most skilled, productive and passionate staff. 1/2
#Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent
Nearly half of the staff at this agency are neurodivergent. The CEO says there are real benefits for her bottom line
Many Australians are neurodivergent, yet some don't disclose this to employers for fear of discrimination. So how practical is it to create a neurodivergent-friendly workplace?
www.abc.net.au
October 4, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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jodimca.bsky.social
This is a really good overview of what's going on at the moment in Australian publishing, which is, to put it extremely mildly, in flux.
Big Fish, Little Fish: Australia's national literature is being swallowed up
Two independent book publishers were recently absorbed by larger companies. This doesn't bode well for the health of our literary culture.
www.crikey.com.au
October 1, 2024 at 2:43 AM
electricbaa.bsky.social
Facts, respect and listening. Yes, more of that would be good in Australia also.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 29
I'm not afraid to speak my mind about things, but there are some things I decide I didn't know enough about, others I didn't see why need to be involved, and still others where my opinion is complicated enough I'll need a 5k word essay at least to explain it.

www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/comm...
Are Americans Afraid to Speak Their Minds?
Two-thirds of Americans now say that they are afraid to say what they believe in public, because someone else might not like it.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 29, 2024 at 3:04 AM
electricbaa.bsky.social
First Peoples Assembly of Victoria are gearing up for statewide treaty negotiations. There are a bunch of info sessions and activities coming up for mob and allies all around Victoria. If you’re in Victoria (Australia), sign up for updates and spread the word -

www.firstpeoplesvic.org
TREATY FOR VICTORIA | First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria
We are the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria – the democratic voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on the journey to Treaty in Victoria. Walk with us.
www.firstpeoplesvic.org
September 28, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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itsmargarethall.bsky.social
Had some time to kill before my flight on this rainy Sunday, so I swung by one of my favorite Chicago secrets; Oz Park, where statues of Dorothy, Toto, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man watch over children at play. Whimsy is an essential part of city planning!
September 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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prankster36.bsky.social
I'm realizing one of the central narratives of the Arthurian cycle is that when the kingdom starts to decay the heroes start to ride out on a quest to find the magic thingie that will fix all their problems instead of staying home and doing the work, and that's infected a lot of fantasy fiction
September 3, 2024 at 5:43 PM