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Adrian Vickers
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Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/ .. more

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Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes a blog on Indonesian subjects. He has studied and documented Gambuh dance traditions, Panji (prince) stories, and other Indonesian art and cultural subjects as well as historiography and colonialism. He has a BA and PhD from the University of Sydney, is the Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Program. Vickers' most recent book, The Pearl Frontier, co-written with Julia Martínez, won the University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. .. more

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · Nov 19
The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting has undergone a major make-over. We're still fixing some things (like the bibliography link), but thanks to the Systemik team, I've been able to add a lot more: heurist-usyd.cloud.edu.au/heurist/?db=...
The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 23h
Does the Age/SMH still have sub-editors? So many poorly written stories (one-sentence paragraphs with 4 clauses, confused chronologies), not to mention grammatical errors.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
In the cases I know, the main language‘authority’ was actually telling people to mispronounce names of places. I gather that happened for Arabic too.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
ABC language people have been stuffing up Indonesian pronunciation for years, it’s not a new thing

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Inggris

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Beberapa negara bagian di AS

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d
I apologize to everyone not interested in #internationallaw and, particularly in #Myanmar rgd. #Rohingya. There will be lots of posts on this due to the current #ICJ hearings. But I can't emphasize enough, how important it is to follow also rgd. other potential cases, esp. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza!

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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.bsky.social · 1d
How should EU scholars prepare to avoid losing their files in case the US excludes us from their internet services (including cloud, emails etc.) after the invasion of Greenland? Should I simply download everything I have on onedrive, dropbox, gdrive?

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 2d
I've seen a take going around that we must be cautious supporting uprisings in Iran because a power vacuum will allow america or someone else to swoop in. Modern Iranian history has been twisted by western interference, but this still seems an argument against solidarity with oppressed people.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
Agreed, miles away from the stage, poor sound

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 2d
Denis Hay: “Child care, aged care, employment services, disability supports, and housing assistance are no longer primarily delivered by the government. Instead, Australians are pushed into complex systems run by for-profit service providers.”

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
We get AI summaries every time we use Google

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
The Singapore and Thailand examples are interesting. I’ve seen a few discussions about them (but don’t have any links to hand)

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
You have to pay big $ to them to get them to come to your country. Not what I’d call an objective ‘guide’

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d
Not least because if you actually *want* more people to do high paying tertiary qualifications, you’re creating a weird situation where an electrician on a higher salary is paying less tax than an English teacher. Not clear what the value of this is.

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 2d
Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters - BBC News
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed or injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.
www.bbc.com

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
What would Edith say?

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 3d
The League of Nations archive has been entirely digitised, prompting some to question whether new research methods are being developed to process the volume of materials now available

libraryresources.unog.ch/leagueofnati...

#archives #history
Research Guides: Researching the League of Nations Archives: Introduction
A Guide to Consultation and Research Techniques
libraryresources.unog.ch

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
Me too

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
But doesn’t work in this context, as you say. Might there be an older form? Time to check the old dictionaries

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
I was wondering about hogel=high, but ‘high mud’?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
It’s the result of sustained campaigning by The Australian (almost daily articles). A newspaper that claims to have expertise in identifying racist cartoons.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d
broke: great man theory of history

woke: great idiot theory of history

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
I’m sure they’ll still be ok, that was just the other day

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
That goes double for the T20 team. Most of the top performers in the BBL aren’t in the World Cup squad

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d
Watching old Murder She Wrote makes me miss comfortably eclectic old set dressings of middle class TV homes. Every house interior now - even in purportedly middle class homes - is a glossy minimalist painting. Fresh flowers! Immaculate sinks! Shiny counters! Matching tableware and napkin holders!

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 3d
2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹

"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."

+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
Bar graph showing global ocean heat content change in the upper 2000 m from the late 1950s through 2025. There is a long-term warming in the time series, which is using IAP/CAS data.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
As captured at the end of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatwav...
Heatwave (film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Reposted by Adrian Vickers, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Shan Kothari

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool. The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 4d
When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
My back deck today