Louisa
@ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social
Printmaker, painter, number 1 fan of galliformes. Australian living in Finland.
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Brilliant commentary from Deb Kilroy & Tabitha Lean. Calling out the lack of respect shown to all sorts of women & girls by so many anti-trans extremists, with their sudden interest in women's sport, prison conditions & toilets! They're as see-through as a cyclone-wire nightie.
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women
Women in prison are being used as weapons in a broader campaign of transphobia. It is grotesque political theatre.
womensagenda.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Brilliant commentary from Deb Kilroy & Tabitha Lean. Calling out the lack of respect shown to all sorts of women & girls by so many anti-trans extremists, with their sudden interest in women's sport, prison conditions & toilets! They're as see-through as a cyclone-wire nightie.
@emmatleena.bsky.social torille
Standing room only in the Queer Entomology symposium, especially for Chris Marshall and the greatest grad student T-shirt ever created
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@emmatleena.bsky.social torille
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So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
Reposting this because while I do find it enjoyable to read a good Irish outfit roast, the outcome of this must be that everyone wears horrible boring outfits because deviating even slightly from the norm means you get cut down immediately. Which is just a sad thought.
It's all fun and games until you realize that as a result everyone dresses the same (shit) in Ireland
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposting this because while I do find it enjoyable to read a good Irish outfit roast, the outcome of this must be that everyone wears horrible boring outfits because deviating even slightly from the norm means you get cut down immediately. Which is just a sad thought.
oh my GOD
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
oh my GOD
ooh cool I bet that'll be really great! I bet every single Norwegian is going to love that!
"oh but Norwegians all speak English anyway" you say.
a) not all of them
b) what if they're watching something originally in, say, Korean
c) what if they're Deaf
"oh but Norwegians all speak English anyway" you say.
a) not all of them
b) what if they're watching something originally in, say, Korean
c) what if they're Deaf
On the topic of speech-to-text: Norway's national broadcaster NRK is cutting pay for subtitlers bc they're replacing manual translation w/ machine outputs
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
NRK kutter i honoraret til tekstere – skal bruke mer KI
NRK skal effektivisere tekstingen ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (KI). For teksterne betyr det et heftig kutt i honorarene.
www.kampanje.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ooh cool I bet that'll be really great! I bet every single Norwegian is going to love that!
"oh but Norwegians all speak English anyway" you say.
a) not all of them
b) what if they're watching something originally in, say, Korean
c) what if they're Deaf
"oh but Norwegians all speak English anyway" you say.
a) not all of them
b) what if they're watching something originally in, say, Korean
c) what if they're Deaf
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Concrete bus shelter design by architect Clem Cummings, Canberra, Australia (1974)
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Concrete bus shelter design by architect Clem Cummings, Canberra, Australia (1974)
Somewhat perturbed by the recent run of DaRk and Twiszted Agatha Christie adaptations with their jittery camerawork and evil music or whatever. Agatha Christie's already dark and twisted! She literally wrote a book where the entire cast are morally compromised potential murderers and they all die!
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Somewhat perturbed by the recent run of DaRk and Twiszted Agatha Christie adaptations with their jittery camerawork and evil music or whatever. Agatha Christie's already dark and twisted! She literally wrote a book where the entire cast are morally compromised potential murderers and they all die!
I love a twisty boi
Giving this one another run, since it's rainbow bee-eater season again. We only see them here during the warmer months.
This one performed an unorthodox landing 😄
This one performed an unorthodox landing 😄
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I love a twisty boi
It's funny seeing the scandal of Albo wearing a Joy Division shirt because the truly outrageous band shirt to wear here in Finland is a Coldplay Music of the Spheres shirt, because it indicates that you had a spare 400 euros you could just blow on a concert. (Yes that is how much the tickets cost.)
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It's funny seeing the scandal of Albo wearing a Joy Division shirt because the truly outrageous band shirt to wear here in Finland is a Coldplay Music of the Spheres shirt, because it indicates that you had a spare 400 euros you could just blow on a concert. (Yes that is how much the tickets cost.)
I am truly staggered by people who ask ChatGPT for the answer to something factual. Getting it to generate a silly poem or a meal plan is stupid enough, but just thinking that it'll give you actual facts as an answer to a question is downright dangerous (plus easy-to-access information exists!)
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I am truly staggered by people who ask ChatGPT for the answer to something factual. Getting it to generate a silly poem or a meal plan is stupid enough, but just thinking that it'll give you actual facts as an answer to a question is downright dangerous (plus easy-to-access information exists!)
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Absolutely bonkers that the 1931 Frankenstein movie credits "the novel by Mrs. Percy B. Shelley." Sure, Mary wrote the book, but why not put her husband's name there instead
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Absolutely bonkers that the 1931 Frankenstein movie credits "the novel by Mrs. Percy B. Shelley." Sure, Mary wrote the book, but why not put her husband's name there instead
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... I read this piece and stopped every 20 seconds to scream: "LET THIS GIRL HAVE A SELF-CARE MONTH!!! LET HER DO HER NAILS!!!!! LET HER ENJOY A POP CONCERT!!!!!!!"
‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her
The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... I read this piece and stopped every 20 seconds to scream: "LET THIS GIRL HAVE A SELF-CARE MONTH!!! LET HER DO HER NAILS!!!!! LET HER ENJOY A POP CONCERT!!!!!!!"
Whenever someone asks for recommendations for older queer media, two things happen. I get super excited wanting to recommend all the fabulous queer things I've seen that I love, and then, I proceed to forget about half of them. I should have a master list somewhere for this purpose.
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Whenever someone asks for recommendations for older queer media, two things happen. I get super excited wanting to recommend all the fabulous queer things I've seen that I love, and then, I proceed to forget about half of them. I should have a master list somewhere for this purpose.
My off-the-top-of-my-head recommendations as a fan of queer media: Maurice - book (written 1912 or so, published later), The Group - book (1963), Victim (1961), Something For The Boys (1981), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Coming Out (1989, east German!), Beautiful Thing (1996)
This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >
October 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
My off-the-top-of-my-head recommendations as a fan of queer media: Maurice - book (written 1912 or so, published later), The Group - book (1963), Victim (1961), Something For The Boys (1981), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Coming Out (1989, east German!), Beautiful Thing (1996)
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This is such a great idea -- you should make it a goal for LGBTQ+ History Month to experience a some great vintage queer media. I'm piggybacking off Mark's tweet with a similar offer: Tell me what kind of thing you like, and I'll give you a recommendation!
This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >
October 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is such a great idea -- you should make it a goal for LGBTQ+ History Month to experience a some great vintage queer media. I'm piggybacking off Mark's tweet with a similar offer: Tell me what kind of thing you like, and I'll give you a recommendation!
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I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social I'm ready to blow your mind RE canned pumpkin being "butternut squash" because in my home country, butternut pumpkin *is* pumpkin.
(In my worldview, and I guess all of Australia's, any cucurbit with a hard orange flesh is a pumpkin.)
(In my worldview, and I guess all of Australia's, any cucurbit with a hard orange flesh is a pumpkin.)
October 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social I'm ready to blow your mind RE canned pumpkin being "butternut squash" because in my home country, butternut pumpkin *is* pumpkin.
(In my worldview, and I guess all of Australia's, any cucurbit with a hard orange flesh is a pumpkin.)
(In my worldview, and I guess all of Australia's, any cucurbit with a hard orange flesh is a pumpkin.)
How to tell the internet that I only want cute whimsical pumpkin children's book witch Halloween and not horror movies and slashers Halloween, aka what Kanopy REALLY wants me to watch
October 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How to tell the internet that I only want cute whimsical pumpkin children's book witch Halloween and not horror movies and slashers Halloween, aka what Kanopy REALLY wants me to watch
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also they WILL come into your house for free, unclear what part of the market this represents
The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe.
Scared of spiders? Some former arachnophobes now are keeping jumping spiders as pets
The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe.
n.pr
September 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
also they WILL come into your house for free, unclear what part of the market this represents
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I've always found it strange how the fact that 30% of Australians were born overseas doesn't seem to play much of a part in our national discourse. In the US it's only ~16%, the UK ~17%. The huge dynamics of that reality here should be kept in your thought orbit before opining about stuff
September 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I've always found it strange how the fact that 30% of Australians were born overseas doesn't seem to play much of a part in our national discourse. In the US it's only ~16%, the UK ~17%. The huge dynamics of that reality here should be kept in your thought orbit before opining about stuff
The feeling when you just want a recipe to use up milk that's past its best and then you end up in the bad corner of the internet. Enjoy your bovine tuberculosis I guess.
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The feeling when you just want a recipe to use up milk that's past its best and then you end up in the bad corner of the internet. Enjoy your bovine tuberculosis I guess.
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On this week's Sewers of Paris, I'm chatting with David Secter about how he bluffed his way into getting equipment, money, and a film crew to make one of Canada's first queer movies. Available now wherever you get podcasts and at www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shown...
September 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On this week's Sewers of Paris, I'm chatting with David Secter about how he bluffed his way into getting equipment, money, and a film crew to make one of Canada's first queer movies. Available now wherever you get podcasts and at www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shown...
Me, to myself: You do not need to watch all of series 18 of the police procedural soap opera The Bill, all EIGHTY SIX episodes of it, just so you can see how they handled the gay storyline that was the first gay content you saw on TV as a kid. Your life is only so long.
Me: but what if I did tho
Me: but what if I did tho
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Me, to myself: You do not need to watch all of series 18 of the police procedural soap opera The Bill, all EIGHTY SIX episodes of it, just so you can see how they handled the gay storyline that was the first gay content you saw on TV as a kid. Your life is only so long.
Me: but what if I did tho
Me: but what if I did tho