Phizz
@phizz.bsky.social
Special Collections Librarian; curator; lapsed D&D warlock; copyright law enthusiast; runner 5.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Today I learned there are AT LEAST 29 active antique bottle clubs across Australia. At a previous online auction this sealed bottle of Tasmanian Fanta sold for AU$45.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Today I learned there are AT LEAST 29 active antique bottle clubs across Australia. At a previous online auction this sealed bottle of Tasmanian Fanta sold for AU$45.
A colleague shared their favourite artwork in our little library with me today and I just adore it: Onions [art original] by Caroline Peebles, [ca. 1870-ca. 1910], H2010.77/18. We don't know much about Peebles' life but she passed away in 1911, making all her watercolours out of copyright.
August 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A colleague shared their favourite artwork in our little library with me today and I just adore it: Onions [art original] by Caroline Peebles, [ca. 1870-ca. 1910], H2010.77/18. We don't know much about Peebles' life but she passed away in 1911, making all her watercolours out of copyright.
Thank you, Netflix. Yes, I am wonderful; I'm a librarian.
July 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Thank you, Netflix. Yes, I am wonderful; I'm a librarian.
My librarian career is over, folks: I've finally been recruited by the Illuminati.
#dreamsdocometrue #spam
#dreamsdocometrue #spam
July 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
My librarian career is over, folks: I've finally been recruited by the Illuminati.
#dreamsdocometrue #spam
#dreamsdocometrue #spam
The London Museum exhibited THE sweetest handmade dolls in 2019 and you have to do the Buzzfeed-esque quiz t find out which Vegetable Kingdom doll you are: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/una-maw...
Inside 'The Vegetable Kingdom': From India to London
www.londonmuseum.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The London Museum exhibited THE sweetest handmade dolls in 2019 and you have to do the Buzzfeed-esque quiz t find out which Vegetable Kingdom doll you are: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/una-maw...
Further proof of the tyranny of stamp addictions.
Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749.
#librarian
Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749.
#librarian
July 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Further proof of the tyranny of stamp addictions.
Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749.
#librarian
Yarralumlah, 1952, Argus Ltd H2002.199/749.
#librarian
Shocked and saddened for our NSW neighbours in the cultural sector after 18 regional art galleries have lost their 4-year government funding share.google/K1lphf4k7FEo...
Regional galleries 'not sexy enough' for funding
Disproportionate funding discriminates against regional access to the arts in NSW.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Shocked and saddened for our NSW neighbours in the cultural sector after 18 regional art galleries have lost their 4-year government funding share.google/K1lphf4k7FEo...
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If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄
July 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄
I assisted a reference librarian on a VERY important deep dive this morning, finding pictures of giant animals in our collection. This is Goliath, H2004.100/1087, Argus via Acme Newspictures, 1936.
#librarian #gooddog
#librarian #gooddog
June 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I assisted a reference librarian on a VERY important deep dive this morning, finding pictures of giant animals in our collection. This is Goliath, H2004.100/1087, Argus via Acme Newspictures, 1936.
#librarian #gooddog
#librarian #gooddog
Updated list of nazis in the Melbourne area (June). Please share with your community.
June 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Updated list of nazis in the Melbourne area (June). Please share with your community.
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Best reason to go off the record.
October 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Best reason to go off the record.
June 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress. apnews.com/article/copy...
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress
The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter. The move comes days after the abrupt termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U....
apnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress. apnews.com/article/copy...
From the late 1850s until the mid 1990s, this gong was struck to signal the closing of the library for the day. I was allowed to give it a little practice bash today and it's LOUD.
H98.208/1, LTRE262.
#librarian
H98.208/1, LTRE262.
#librarian
May 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
From the late 1850s until the mid 1990s, this gong was struck to signal the closing of the library for the day. I was allowed to give it a little practice bash today and it's LOUD.
H98.208/1, LTRE262.
#librarian
H98.208/1, LTRE262.
#librarian
I'm trying to support a Wikimedia researcher at my library but the Wiki moderators we're arguing with have names like DoctorWholock9486 and JediMasterKoth29 and the Tumblr flashbacks are killing me.
May 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm trying to support a Wikimedia researcher at my library but the Wiki moderators we're arguing with have names like DoctorWholock9486 and JediMasterKoth29 and the Tumblr flashbacks are killing me.
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It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide.
Shame on #QLDGovernment
It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide.
Shame on #QLDGovernment
First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet
Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide.
Shame on #QLDGovernment
It's fucking amazing to me that an author can be stripped of their prize money for *checks notes* tweeting against a genocide.
Shame on #QLDGovernment
I spent the morning ferrying around little clumps of matted hair. My job is so glamorous. They're apparently from the camels that carried Burke and Wills on their great ill-fated expedition. H31978.
#burkeandwills #librarian
#burkeandwills #librarian
May 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I spent the morning ferrying around little clumps of matted hair. My job is so glamorous. They're apparently from the camels that carried Burke and Wills on their great ill-fated expedition. H31978.
#burkeandwills #librarian
#burkeandwills #librarian
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
After listening to the @ologies.bsky.social episode on Weird Mediaeval Art, I rushed to my teammate and friend, our principal rare books curator, and asked about marginalia snails in our collection. She was so happy to show me this sweet snail wearing a hat ☺️ in a Book of Hours, RARES 096 R66HF.
May 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
After listening to the @ologies.bsky.social episode on Weird Mediaeval Art, I rushed to my teammate and friend, our principal rare books curator, and asked about marginalia snails in our collection. She was so happy to show me this sweet snail wearing a hat ☺️ in a Book of Hours, RARES 096 R66HF.
Our friends at the Old Treasury Building have just launched a great new exhibition Making Modern Melbourne, which I encourage everyone to go see (and not just because yours truly has his name on the acknowledgements wall.) www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/making-moder...
Making Modern Melbourne – Old Treasury Building
Princes Bridge, 1900 Reproduced courtesy Royal Historical Society Victoria In 1900 Melbourne was the largest city in Australia, a distinction it would hold for just one more year before Sydney […]
www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au
April 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Our friends at the Old Treasury Building have just launched a great new exhibition Making Modern Melbourne, which I encourage everyone to go see (and not just because yours truly has his name on the acknowledgements wall.) www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/making-moder...
This fascinating cultural heritage was discovered by our Digital Preservationist on a USB stick. It dates back to 2008 when the internet was all sharp corners and serif fonts, but is still functioning Trojan malware which put our forensic acquisition workstation into lockdown for a day.
#FRED
#FRED
April 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This fascinating cultural heritage was discovered by our Digital Preservationist on a USB stick. It dates back to 2008 when the internet was all sharp corners and serif fonts, but is still functioning Trojan malware which put our forensic acquisition workstation into lockdown for a day.
#FRED
#FRED
21 US States are suing Trump over attacks on museums and libraries:
hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s...
#library #trump
hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s...
#library #trump
21 States Sue Trump Over Attacks on Museums and Libraries
Trump’s move to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which was established by Congress, is “illegal several times over,” says a new lawsuit.
hyperallergic.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
21 US States are suing Trump over attacks on museums and libraries:
hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s...
#library #trump
hyperallergic.com/1002017/21-s...
#library #trump