Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
History, curriculum, curriculum history, books, writing. PhD student researching gender, historical consciousness, and the history curriculum in Australia. Passionate about rural equity. She/her. 🏳️🌈 My words and thoughts are my own.
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Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
· Sep 29
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
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Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
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“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
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I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
Donate to Veterinary care for Butter Bean, organized by Tristan Gall
Hi everyone.
I run Geelong Guinea Pig Rescue in Geelong and we have one of our perma… Tristan Gall needs your support for Veterinary care for Butter Bean
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
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#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
Donate to Veterinary care for Butter Bean, organized by Tristan Gall
Hi everyone.
I run Geelong Guinea Pig Rescue in Geelong and we have one of our perma… Tristan Gall needs your support for Veterinary care for Butter Bean
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
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For too long we’ve been subjected to a disempowerment discourse that asserts “the humanities are dying”. They’re not dying, but there is an effort by governments and corporations to kill them. And yet, the public’s desire to learn and engage with the humanities persists.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For too long we’ve been subjected to a disempowerment discourse that asserts “the humanities are dying”. They’re not dying, but there is an effort by governments and corporations to kill them. And yet, the public’s desire to learn and engage with the humanities persists.
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Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.
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You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.
ryan lizza is a bad person
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
I just read an incredibly disturbing novel (Tender Is The Flesh) that I'll be thinking about for a while but I need a palate cleanser to wash my brain out after and I've scanned all my shelves and can't decide... I hate this! #BookSky 💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I just read an incredibly disturbing novel (Tender Is The Flesh) that I'll be thinking about for a while but I need a palate cleanser to wash my brain out after and I've scanned all my shelves and can't decide... I hate this! #BookSky 💙📚
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Huge TW for graphic descriptions of obstructed labor and infant death, but if you can stomach that, this is worth reading. Tells us a lot about where we are as a culture. The rightward heel-turn of the birth influencers in question will surprise no one
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Huge TW for graphic descriptions of obstructed labor and infant death, but if you can stomach that, this is worth reading. Tells us a lot about where we are as a culture. The rightward heel-turn of the birth influencers in question will surprise no one
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Yep, I was wondering when they would get to that. The crunchy woo-sphere has been lurching right for a while now, it was only inevitable that the divine feminine cultists follow.
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yep, I was wondering when they would get to that. The crunchy woo-sphere has been lurching right for a while now, it was only inevitable that the divine feminine cultists follow.
The war on expertise is exactly what we're currently living through and this article is a prime example of just how dangerous and damaging it is.
My kid had shoulder dystocia coming out, but the midwife solved it pretty quick.
But the war on expertise means we fight against our own living children, now.
Great country.
But the war on expertise means we fight against our own living children, now.
Great country.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The war on expertise is exactly what we're currently living through and this article is a prime example of just how dangerous and damaging it is.
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Kept waiting for the part of the story where she was imprisoned or sued into the ground and it just never came. Monsters
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Kept waiting for the part of the story where she was imprisoned or sued into the ground and it just never came. Monsters
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don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
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The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
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oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
I have been putting off doing a big clean out of my pantry for weeks and weeks and I finally decided to do it today and I'm less than half way done and am entirely made of regret at this point. My name is misery and I may die at the bottom of this pile of randomly assorted pantry items
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I have been putting off doing a big clean out of my pantry for weeks and weeks and I finally decided to do it today and I'm less than half way done and am entirely made of regret at this point. My name is misery and I may die at the bottom of this pile of randomly assorted pantry items
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
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Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card