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Juliette Wade
@juliettewade.bsky.social
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Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D.
Fascinated by social systems.
Rep'd by K. O'Higgins
The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
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Parrots in a tree on my walk today! Can anyone ID this tree for me?
Against a clear blue sky, tree branches with green foliage and yellow upcurling flowers reach diagonally from the lower left.Two small, brightly colored parrots are sitting on a branch.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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My cat sat on my lap - and I have proof!

She is starting to do this more, yay! The unique thing about today is that my hubby moved her here from his chair, and she stayed.💜
A view of my knees under both a gray fleece blanket and a fluffy white cat with orange- and brown-tabby spots. She is curled in a comfy position looking outward upon the deck.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Happy Halloween!
Bust of Juliette dressed for Halloween as a raggedy-Ann-style doll. She is wearing green overalls with bright yellow flowers, a lavender t-shirt, and a wig of purple yarn with long braids. Her face is painted white with black freckles on her cheeks, a purple heart across her lips, a blue triangle on her nose, and three vertical black lines above each eye. She's also wearing her glasses, which she got face paint on!
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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On my walk tonight…
Pink spring flowers are bursting forth among light green leaves, coming through a black cast iron fence topped with gold-colored fleurs de lys.
October 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Not a Pink Lady, but a white fluffy lady with orange- and brown-tabby spots!
A white fluffy cat with orange freckles is tucked into a box that once held pink lady apples. Only the front corner of the hot pink box is visible, with the cat’s head resting over the box edge, partially blocking the white print reading “Pink Lady” in a curly font inside a heart. She is looking at us with her golden eyes.
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Here is my cat! Happy #caturday!
A hexagonal cat enclosure is attached to a sunny window with suction cups. Inside it sits a small, fluffy white cat with orange tabby freckles on her face and ears and an orange patch on her back. Her fluffy tail is orange and dark brown, and drapes out of the enclosure. In the bottom right corner of the window, a tiny artist mannequin figure stands with one hand raised in to wave.
September 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A rather surreal sight on my walk!
A pedestrian bridge snakes above the viewer. It’s bright green, suspended on a bright green pole with enormous cables that attached to the main part of the pedestrian bridge with bright orange bolts. The top of the pole is illuminated.
September 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Part of the whole point of The Broken Trust is to show readers what it means to live in a world where you have no idea what other people's lives are like, even as you walk down the same street they do. Even as you think you do.

That's our world, too. That's why Varin is "also your home."
A book cover image reading INHERITORS of POWER, JULIETTE WADE. The cover looks like it's made of layers of paper with diamond-shaped openings that pull you into a center image of two golden silhouettes, a curious man and a cautious woman facing each other against a near-black background with hints of boxes and picture frames. Outside the diamond layers is another black area, this one punctuated with tiny golden dots. In the upper left of the area is a silhouette of a face looking toward the right, and in the lower left a gently reaching hand. In the lower right is a a silver silhouette of a man looking to the left in bemusement. The corners feature more layers in shades of gold and silver, enhancing the diamond pattern of the whole. White text in the dark area on the upper right reads, Book Three of the Broken Trust.
September 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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You can take me out of California, but you can’t take California out of me.

Homesick today. Missing my friends.
Redwood forest. A huge redwood has a path going straight through it. On the right, a person in a dark jacket and a white hat is dwarfed by the tree. Redwood forest. A medium-sized tree and a slightly smaller tree have their crowns far out of frame. Closer to the viewer is a baby redwood with a slender trunk and light green needles. Redwood forest. The foreground is shadowed, with live trees on the right and a huge skeleton trunk on the left. The background glows green with sunlight.
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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New hair! Alexi is a genius with color.
Selfie of me after emerging from the salon! My hair is bobbed to my cheek level, white-blond at the roots with a mixed blue and purple ombre coming up from the tips. I’m also wearing my glasses and my light yellow UCSC hoodie…hood down, of course!
August 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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A tiny girl in a picture frame. I think cats just love *enclosure*…
My small and fluffy white cat is sitting with her brown and orange tail wrapped around her feet, looking at me. She has found a spot in the metal base of a coffee table that is sitting on its side while our guest needs the sofa bed. It looks like she has found a home in a picture frame!
June 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Where’s the dog???
My bed is a mess! The green patterned cover is bunched up so you can see part of the gray sheets. There’s a black, white, and gray toilet mat fresh from the laundry in one corner, and my husband’s reversible Japanese house coat with the red design inside and the blue yellow and white design outside, and also the dog’s pale yellow fleece blanket. Among them, the dog’s tiny black head is showing. He’s fast asleep!
June 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Wombats do indeed produce cubical poops.
Wombat poop on a tan hiking trail, with my foot for scale. The poop is cubical!
June 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's Pride Month! Quote with a queer character. 🏳️‍🌈

This image is from the epic queer historical fantasy romance comic Novae by @kaijubean.bsky.social
Sulvain and Raziol Qamar from the webcomic Novae by KaiJu are depicted gazing into each other's faces, blushing. Sulvain is pale-skinned with short, light brown hair, wearing a dark jacket and white neck-cloth. Raziol is darker-skinned with long black hair, a blue jacket and white neck-cloth. A shadow from the paned windows of Versailles creates a faint cross across their faces. Raziol's speech bubble says, "We could stay up late every night, searching the skies."
June 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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More photos!
A red and green parrot eats sunflower seeds from my husband’s hand. Most of this bird’s feathers are red but its back and wings are green, like it’s wearing a coat. Here I am hand-feeding a parrot that is standing on the back of a deck chair. This one is almost all green with a bit of reddish tinge on its neck and some red on its lower belly.
June 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Thrill of the morning: feeding parrots! They love the sunflower seeds and they are so pretty! You can also hear a
June 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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And here is the rumored wombat poop! My foot (women’s size 7.5) for scale.
My foot, jeans hem and black size 7.5 walking shoe, on the tan dirt path with a few eucalyptus leaves and four pieces of wombat poop. They are indeed surprisingly square! They are a bit more than an inch square.
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Our dog wanted to sniff everything…except wombat poop, which he had zero interest in.
Licorice, a tiny half-chihuahua-half-minpin in a blue and green parka, has paused to stick his nose into a clump of bare winter vegetation.
June 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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View from the ridge. The forest is nearly all eucalyptus! (More in alt text)
Through a foreground row of eucalyptus trees, you can see a view of the forest up to nearby hills. A forest of 90% eucalyptus is paler, yellower green than a conifer forest. The sky is blue with big banks of clouds in white and gray.
June 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Hiking today in Wombat State Forest! 🧵 (No wombats seen, but plenty of wombat poop, and yes it is square-ish. I will include a photo.
A dirt hiking path leading straight ahead into a forest of young eucalyptus. The understory is quite empty, mostly grasses and fallen leaves because it’s winter.
June 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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A very friendly pupper and I played catch in Blackwood! (That bunny toy was filthy after rain but the dog was so talented I made an exception.)
June 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Someone is displeased.
A white fluffy cat with orange and brown tabby spots sits atop my teal roll-aboard suitcase, looking distinctly disappointed in me.
June 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Pelli in her box on my desk. 💜
A fluffy white cat with orange freckles on her head is curled up in her favorite box. It’s on my desk and has one side folded down so I can rest my hand on her and give her pats. She has a big brown-and-orange tabby spot on her side, and her tail is the same color, curled around her. Her white forepaws are extended forward.
May 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Bye, Amelia!
Turns out money can’t buy you love. #Kooyong
An empty-windowed clothing store building in Camberwell Junction. Last week every one of its windows was plastered with Amelia Hamer political advertising.
May 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Weird grammar choices on my dish soap!

The text avoids the pronoun in the first sentence, but has singular verb conjugation, implying “it.” Then, in the second sentence, when we finally reach a pronoun with the same referent, it’s “us”????

#grammar #adcopy
The label of a Morning Fresh dishwashing liquid container. It reads, “SUPERIOR GREASE CUTTING POWER Morning Fresh comes in a range of refreshing scents. One squirt is enough to ensure sparkling clean dishes every time, making us Australia’s #1 dishwashing liquid.
May 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM