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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 1d

Whose decision was this? Bloody hell

Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 5d

So for the love of all that Jane stood for, stop sharing those shitty AI generated fake funeral posts.

Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 5d

We've heard from many people who are interested in attending memorials in the United Kingdom or the United States – but Dr. Jane's wishes were that people honour her locally.

We're planning an official memorial event, which the public can attend in person and online.

Photo: Vincent Calmel

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 10d

I have no opinion on Taylor Swift.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 12d

Still struck by a Merriam-Webster IG post I saw on legal doublets: artefacts of the bilingual Norman legal system. The English synonym went first in the pair

law (English/Germanic) & order (French/Roman)
cease & desist
all & sundry
lewd & lascivious
breaking & entering
free & clear
will & testament

Legal doublet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 15d

Rick’s one of the good guys. Really happy about this.

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 16d

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

www.abc.net.au

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 15d

They made her remove her tampon; it’s about control And humiliation

“The state government has lost a landmark case involving the illegal strip search of a woman by NSW Police at a music festival in 2018. Sydney woman Raya Meredith was awarded $93,000 in damages”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Woman awarded $93,000 in damages after 'humiliating' festival strip search

A Sydney woman subjected to an unlawful strip search at a music festival has been awarded $93,000 in damages, in a judgement that could see thousands of others also receive compensation.

www.abc.net.au

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 15d

These absolute clowns.

Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 15d

Seriously.

"FBI director Kash Patel gave New Zealand's police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, on a visit to the country earlier this year..."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

FBI boss Patel gave NZ officials 3D-printed guns on Wellington visit

On a visit to New Zealand in July, FBI Director Kash Patel presented three senior security officials with 3D-printed guns that were later destroyed.

www.abc.net.au

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Mx. Fee - FREE LINK @mxfee.bsky.social · 15d

I know it's not the point of this article at all but Briggs is ridiculously good at what he does. If you haven't heard his stuff, I recommend checking him out. Either solo work or A.B. Original, or any one of the multitude of collabs he's done - it's all good! Briggs is amazing.

Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Productivity commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations

Productivity Commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations

www.theguardian.com

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 16d

Yellow-footed rock-wallaby ... on a rock.
Boolcoomatta Reserve.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15d

That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that"

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 17d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦 @debbieg.bsky.social · 21d

I've read some of this in an earlier form, and it's REALLY interesting. Especially if you like children's fantasy and have sensitivity to and curiosity about absorption and/or appropriation of indigenous myth and the way fantasy can give a "way in" to the Land (or Country).

Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 21d

I've posted on Substack about my PhD research. I'm writing about the way White children's writers have worked within the fantasy genre to explore a different relationship to Country than the realist "everything in Australia will kill you" mode allowed.

open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...

Australian children’s fantasy fiction and the Settler Colonial desire for a connection to Country.

An overview of research towards my PhD in Children's Literature through the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

open.substack.com

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks Debbie!

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 17d

New post on Substack, link in my bio. On the latest moral panic around young people and reading and why Dickens will not save us all. #reading #childrensliterature #fauxstalgia

Tile preview of a Substack post called "Keeping Alive Their Fancy or, All Aboard the Nostalgia Train". Background image is of a 19th century painting of children in a schoolroom reading books.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 17d

I mean, my brother-in-law owns a stack of Toranas. He restores them and then sells them. It’s his retirement plan. So they could have one if they really wanted one.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 21d

I've posted on Substack about my PhD research. I'm writing about the way White children's writers have worked within the fantasy genre to explore a different relationship to Country than the realist "everything in Australia will kill you" mode allowed.

open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...

Australian children’s fantasy fiction and the Settler Colonial desire for a connection to Country.

An overview of research towards my PhD in Children's Literature through the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

open.substack.com

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 26d

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Margot Robbie American? Shrieks in Australian!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27d

A few days after Brian Kilmeade suggested “involuntary lethal injection,” two separate mass shootings targeted homeless encampments in Minnesota, injuring at least a dozen people. Yet Jimmy Kimmel is indefinitely suspended.

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 29d

You were lovely, Hubble.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89

Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-win...

www.theguardian.com

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · 29d

Good lord, did anyone just hear Matt Canavan on Radio National? Shouting down Sally Sara, arrogant, scathing of science, gobsmackingly rude.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 14

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · Sep 12

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 14

"The Professor Watchlist is a straightforward intimidation campaign, and you can draw a line directly from Kirk’s work attacking academics to the Trump administration's all-out war on American higher education, an assault on the right to speak freely and dissent." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · Sep 12

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

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Letter in support of Meanjin’s future

As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940.

We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage.

We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves.

Signed by:

Sybil Nolan
Tim Coronel
Matt Holden
LJ Maher
Fiannuala Morgan
Sharon Mullins
Beth Driscoll
Claire Parnell
Nicola Redhouse
Hollen Singleton
Bec Kavanagh

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Judith Ridge @msmisrule.bsky.social · Sep 11

Planning an essay on the Whitlams. Bigger than my head.

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Fierce Audacity @mine4me.bsky.social · Sep 11

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie."

THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

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