Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 55m

Haha, I will try! I did look up if there were any extant fully intact giant swings in Thailand so I could watch a video of people swinging giantly, but didn't see any.

1 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 58m

(Please tell me to do my article revisions.)

1 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1h

GOOD CLEAN FUN!

1 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1h

Don't want to sound all MAHA, but it seems like a healthy pastime, and it has spiritual connotations in that context too, so great for the soul also.

2 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not sure how I feel about the Giant Swing (although if it was actually in use I'd be more positively disposed toward it).

1 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1h

Which one would you most like to defame, ajaan?

2 1

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1h

Get yourself an extremely optimistic socialist best friend.
Me: There are high levels of deprivation in my area.
Bestie: That's great!
So much more interesting than just being surrounded by the middle classes!
Me: I'm sorry for not being there, in Australia.
Bestie: You are living your best life!

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia

(Rijksmuseum)

22 92

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 23h

Numbered, limited run of two-color risograph prints of "BLAME THE BOSS", a drawing by Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman The drawing reminds people that if a strike causes disruption or inconvenience - well - that's kind of the point! justseeds.org/product/blam...

2 19

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

An owl (Rijksmuseum), c. 1650 - c. 1675

1 17 38

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

2 33 61

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

In line to pay in the petrol station yesterday a woman was talking to her friend and said “I swear to god I need a Valium and a box of chocolate ” and now this morning my 3 year old who overheard this convo, is asking for “a wee Valium and chocolate please.” It’s like living with a devious parrot

14 32 330

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1d

One uni I worked at had pictures of hamburgers, coffee and pills as bad ways to cope with stress, but it just made consuming all three at once look tempting.

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 1d

rt if you are the founder of antifa

42 260 380

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.

6 8 42

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 2d

Please vote (but only for Bush stone-curlew).

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being at #6 it looks like the Emu-wren should survive the cull tonight, but be sure and vote for Bird of the Year if you haven't already today, and make sure you vote tomorrow as it'll be down to the final 10.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

52 650 2K

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

12 420 1.8K

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 3d

Celery
Apollo 13
Love Shack

1

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4d

My dad has been suffering his own losses – mom’s dementia, cancer, fire — the past 3yrs, but he’s also been a great support as I’ve been at my lowest. Last night we talked abt what I’ve learned: don’t “pay forward” any labor, don’t ever trust administrators, prestige is empty, you are expendable

17 22 330

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Germander Speedwell @germanderspeedwell.bsky.social · 4d

A perfectly broken bouquet from a stoneware vessel; this was lying in my path face-up on the shingle, as if being presented to me (in the subtle way that the foreshore does these things!)

A fragment from a stoneware jar or vase, broken neatly around the relief image of a floral bouquet; it's lying on top of the rocks and shingle of the foreshore.

The same fragment being held in my hand, showing its size (about 2 inches high and across). It's a lovely reddish colour of stoneware.

1 2 50

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 4d

Also this tree crossing the road in Ealing, in the UK.

3 5 48

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yeah fucking hell, all I knew was unrequited love for years and years and it never turned me in to a mad frothing incel.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Narratives about how hard it is for teenage boys, and subsequently men, to deal with romantic rejection are so weird to read, as a woman who was also once a teenager. Until you realise that they’re entirely built on the premise that girls and women are the gatekeepers to sex and relationships.

18 73 500

Reposted by Kyja Noack-Lundberg

James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 4d

5 2 32

Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, well my English friend said people wouldn't know, so I was just going off that. Incorrect is a bit of a harsh way to start a reply!

1