Margaret L Ruwoldt
@emelaarghh.bsky.social
Bibliophibian. Dilettante. Free-range nerd. She/her. Living on unceded Wadawurrung country.
Groovy 🎶😎
Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)
Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)
Jim Henson launched his first televised puppet program, Sam and Friends, when he was a freshman at the University of Maryland. The show ran for six years on NBC affiliate WRC-TV in Washington, DC.
www.openculture.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Groovy 🎶😎
Sheltering from the wild weather and sitting indoors today. Risks:
– random customers chatting and coughing at me
– the cafe’s playlist has switched to seasonal pop songs, and an early #Whamageddon seems almost guaranteed
🤷🏼♀️
#CafeLife
– random customers chatting and coughing at me
– the cafe’s playlist has switched to seasonal pop songs, and an early #Whamageddon seems almost guaranteed
🤷🏼♀️
#CafeLife
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Sheltering from the wild weather and sitting indoors today. Risks:
– random customers chatting and coughing at me
– the cafe’s playlist has switched to seasonal pop songs, and an early #Whamageddon seems almost guaranteed
🤷🏼♀️
#CafeLife
– random customers chatting and coughing at me
– the cafe’s playlist has switched to seasonal pop songs, and an early #Whamageddon seems almost guaranteed
🤷🏼♀️
#CafeLife
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I increasingly think the pandemic is a gaping wound and generative AI is a Band-Aid
People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate
People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I increasingly think the pandemic is a gaping wound and generative AI is a Band-Aid
People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate
People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate
Woman sits in her car, petrol engine idling, parked right beside the outdoor tables. It’s been 45 minutes thus far, and she shows no inclination to leave 💨💨💨
#CafeLife
#CafeLife
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Woman sits in her car, petrol engine idling, parked right beside the outdoor tables. It’s been 45 minutes thus far, and she shows no inclination to leave 💨💨💨
#CafeLife
#CafeLife
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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The 16 Days should not be a calendar tick-box. It should be a launchpad for laws that protect, funding that sustains, education that prevents, and political courage.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/16-da...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/16-da...
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence should be a turning point, not a box we tick
The 16 Days should not be a calendar tick-box. It should be a launchpad for laws that protect, funding that sustains, education that prevents, and political courage.
womensagenda.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The 16 Days should not be a calendar tick-box. It should be a launchpad for laws that protect, funding that sustains, education that prevents, and political courage.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/16-da...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/16-da...
Mature gent strolls along the suburban shopping strip. Grey hair and beard, jeans and an obscure old band t-shirt, a small backpack dangling from his hand. As he passes I catch a whiff of Bodyshop’s White Musk, freshly applied.
#CafeLife
#CafeLife
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Mature gent strolls along the suburban shopping strip. Grey hair and beard, jeans and an obscure old band t-shirt, a small backpack dangling from his hand. As he passes I catch a whiff of Bodyshop’s White Musk, freshly applied.
#CafeLife
#CafeLife
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“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
joshcollinsworth.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
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This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
Four more sleeps to the start of #Whamageddon 🎶
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Four more sleeps to the start of #Whamageddon 🎶
Ixia ‘Elvira’
Carpet rose (madly overgrown)
Carpet rose (madly overgrown)
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ixia ‘Elvira’
Carpet rose (madly overgrown)
Carpet rose (madly overgrown)
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'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
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Ask your depressed friend to help you out with something. I don’t care if it’s helping you try out a new recipe, or helping you choose something good to watch on TV — it’s a way of keeping connected that doesn’t make them feel like the burden they often (wrongly) feel they are.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Ask your depressed friend to help you out with something. I don’t care if it’s helping you try out a new recipe, or helping you choose something good to watch on TV — it’s a way of keeping connected that doesn’t make them feel like the burden they often (wrongly) feel they are.
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"Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North," writes @euanritchie.bsky.social in The Point.
Northern Australia is extraordinary, and it’s under severe threat
Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North.
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North," writes @euanritchie.bsky.social in The Point.
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Here on #Wadawurrung country: 5.6 mm of rain in the last 24 hours.
Sister’s place across the bay, on #Boonwurrung country: 27 mm.
Sister’s place across the bay, on #Boonwurrung country: 27 mm.
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Here on #Wadawurrung country: 5.6 mm of rain in the last 24 hours.
Sister’s place across the bay, on #Boonwurrung country: 27 mm.
Sister’s place across the bay, on #Boonwurrung country: 27 mm.
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We gave up on Covid-19 and now we’re apparently giving up on eradicating the varroa mite that’s killing bees in vast numbers.
No bees = no crops, no food.
No bees = no crops, no food.
We'll miss the bees when they're gone
Varroa mite detected at Salt Creek, South Australia
"Since the national decision to transition to management, we are now focused on managing varroa in a way that minimises its impact, while ensuring business continuity.."
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Varroa mite detected at Salt Creek, South Australia
"Since the national decision to transition to management, we are now focused on managing varroa in a way that minimises its impact, while ensuring business continuity.."
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Varroa mite found at second site in South Australia
The deadly bee parasite has been detected in South Australia again — this time in the state's south-east.
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We gave up on Covid-19 and now we’re apparently giving up on eradicating the varroa mite that’s killing bees in vast numbers.
No bees = no crops, no food.
No bees = no crops, no food.
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Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
Lovely Cathy and her sweet golden staffy rescue Ruby accused me today of being a dog whisperer ☺️
#CafeLife
#TellYourDogISaidHi
#ItWorksOnCatsToo
#CafeLife
#TellYourDogISaidHi
#ItWorksOnCatsToo
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Lovely Cathy and her sweet golden staffy rescue Ruby accused me today of being a dog whisperer ☺️
#CafeLife
#TellYourDogISaidHi
#ItWorksOnCatsToo
#CafeLife
#TellYourDogISaidHi
#ItWorksOnCatsToo
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a polite reminder that surveys, especially customer feedback surveys, are not completed under oath and it is your solemn duty as someone uncomfortable with the trajectory of late capitalism to subvert the dominant paradigm and make your answers unusable, specious and hilarious
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
a polite reminder that surveys, especially customer feedback surveys, are not completed under oath and it is your solemn duty as someone uncomfortable with the trajectory of late capitalism to subvert the dominant paradigm and make your answers unusable, specious and hilarious
Aristotle: Politika
(commenting on the Carthaginians, a nation of traders and merchants)
(commenting on the Carthaginians, a nation of traders and merchants)
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Aristotle: Politika
(commenting on the Carthaginians, a nation of traders and merchants)
(commenting on the Carthaginians, a nation of traders and merchants)
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For those interested in the ritualistic and monumental places of ancestral peoples, I cannot recommend Dr. Kelly's "The Memory Code" highly enough. Its narrative approach to the anthropology of pre-literate memory is filled with a deep respect and affection for humanity and its grand endeavors.
The Memory Code
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November 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
For those interested in the ritualistic and monumental places of ancestral peoples, I cannot recommend Dr. Kelly's "The Memory Code" highly enough. Its narrative approach to the anthropology of pre-literate memory is filled with a deep respect and affection for humanity and its grand endeavors.