Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Material Culturist | Writer | Potter | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Matter matters | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | whiteowl.net.au
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Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Take me to your leader — WhiteOwl
Sitting quietly on a patio is a woman. She is making annatto - the red dye used to decorate the face and body during village ceremonies. Except there is no ceremony today. To her the day simply felt l...
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Take me to your leader: human becomings, non-Euclidean org design and lawn mowing.
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"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.”
Simone Weil on paying attention.
Simone Weil on paying attention.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.”
Simone Weil on paying attention.
Simone Weil on paying attention.
“I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people break people — and I needed to make, to do the work of unbreaking, in order to feel whole again.” ~ Maria Popova
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people break people — and I needed to make, to do the work of unbreaking, in order to feel whole again.” ~ Maria Popova
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Last November my dad, a furnituremaker, lost his woodshop, wood storage barn, and utility shed to a fire. One year later, he’s got a new shop that’s almost ready for inhabitation 🥰 After years of so many losses and so much illness, I’m happy for him ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Last November my dad, a furnituremaker, lost his woodshop, wood storage barn, and utility shed to a fire. One year later, he’s got a new shop that’s almost ready for inhabitation 🥰 After years of so many losses and so much illness, I’m happy for him ❤️
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November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Alexa, show me how to love without the fear of loss
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Alexa, show me how to love without the fear of loss
My brain is full. There is no more room available.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
My brain is full. There is no more room available.
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At this point I would pay a small amount of money to disable ALL AI features on all my devices.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
At this point I would pay a small amount of money to disable ALL AI features on all my devices.
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So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 44, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
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Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
I look good with my hair in rollers. I wish it was an acceptable way to wear your hair publicly.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I look good with my hair in rollers. I wish it was an acceptable way to wear your hair publicly.
“I find myself in the business of optics rather than substance.” After The Hunt
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“I find myself in the business of optics rather than substance.” After The Hunt
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"There is no Substack or interactive website... We want people to hold it, touch it + seek it out... That physicality gives the work its value, adding presence to information, relationships + the neighborhood itself. This is active engagement with your neighborhood + your neighbors."
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"There is no Substack or interactive website... We want people to hold it, touch it + seek it out... That physicality gives the work its value, adding presence to information, relationships + the neighborhood itself. This is active engagement with your neighborhood + your neighbors."
“I see that the desire to go back and recreate really is not about being young so much as it is about finding the people you have lost.” ~ Jill McCorkle, A Place Called Home, Twenty Writing Women Remember
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“I see that the desire to go back and recreate really is not about being young so much as it is about finding the people you have lost.” ~ Jill McCorkle, A Place Called Home, Twenty Writing Women Remember
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"Authoritarian gov'ts view culture as a threat bc in [art] you can 👀 alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable [+] the ppl with the most 💰 will get to decide who + what survives. The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes"
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Authoritarian gov'ts view culture as a threat bc in [art] you can 👀 alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable [+] the ppl with the most 💰 will get to decide who + what survives. The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes"
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I stand inside this silence, missing you with every part of me that has no language.
~Boris Pasternak to Marina Tsvetaeva
~Boris Pasternak to Marina Tsvetaeva
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I stand inside this silence, missing you with every part of me that has no language.
~Boris Pasternak to Marina Tsvetaeva
~Boris Pasternak to Marina Tsvetaeva
The results are in.
I’m crap at glazing.
I’m crap at glazing.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The results are in.
I’m crap at glazing.
I’m crap at glazing.
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Everything is getting to me.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Everything is getting to me.
I’m not sold on the background music in After The Hunt. It distracts from the dialogue in a really annoying way. I can’t explain why I’m fine with it in Hitchcock films.
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’m not sold on the background music in After The Hunt. It distracts from the dialogue in a really annoying way. I can’t explain why I’m fine with it in Hitchcock films.
My hair salon’s loyalty program kicks in when you spend over $3k per year. I don’t want to know if I qualify.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My hair salon’s loyalty program kicks in when you spend over $3k per year. I don’t want to know if I qualify.