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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · 11d

Self-efficacy is a powerful foundation for doing hard things.

But this morning I’d like to give a shout out to all those people every day who don’t have the self-efficacy but still go out and do the hard thing anyway.

RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · 27d

Wait, I just discovered that 1985 was 40 years ago! How did this happen? I remember 1985. It wasn’t that long ago. Can human beings even remember things for 40 years?

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Aug 7

Annabel Crabb makes may good points, including:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

So if we're going to be in the business of asking big questions, let's make sure we ask not just the big economic questions, but the big human ones. Remembering that they're not always the same thing.

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 27

Richard Haass in Foreign Affairs. Almost encouraging…

“The good news is that it is far from inevitable that the world will eventually arrive at a catastrophe; the bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not.”

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/how-wo...

How a World Order Ends

Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed poorly, catastrophe could well follow.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 23

I bought W.E.B. Du Bois’ third autobiography today. Imagine having such a long and interesting life that it required you to write about it three times!

Keen to see what he has to say about his life.

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CommonEndeavour @commonendeavour.bsky.social · Jul 23

There's a new Common Endeavour journal post.

journal.commonendeavour.org/the-act-of-existence/

On a couple of things that political parties ought to consider: that truth is felt and not derived from knowledge or the news, and on the act of existence.

The act of existence

Two ideas that speak to how we understand our lives lived together: we feel truth, we don't get it from knowledge or news; and the sheer act of existence.

journal.commonendeavour.org

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 18

I go to one #BallParkMusic concert and now I’m thinking I need to move back to Queensland. What’s happening to me?!

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · Jul 16

Apropos of nothing, the journal I co-edit, RECEPTION, is looking for guest editors rn and we would love something on reception/reading and pedagogy (we did “academics not having time to read” for our last themed issue… scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/recepti...)

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 16

Australia is flatter than the moon though…

Random fact courtesy of The Daily Aus: www.newsletter.thedailyaus.com.au

Random fact of the day.
Australia is wider than the moon. The moon has a diameter of 3,400km, while Australia’s diameter is almost 4,000km.

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 16

Pair Amanda Gorman’s beautiful words with remembering to breathe and you’re halfway there.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

― Amanda Gorman

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 7

The absolute joy of ripe custard apple!
(Those gigantic avocados are also delicious)

A bowl of fruit with custard apples, avocados and lemons

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 7

The brigadier?

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everaldatlarge.bsky.social @everaldatlarge.bsky.social · Jul 2

PRODUCTIVITY ROUNDTABLE MUST RECOGNISE THAT OLDER AUSTRALIANS ARE OUR NATION'S MOST UNRECOGNISED AND UNUSED ASSET. everaldcompton.com/2025/07/03/p...

PRODUCTIVITY ROUNDTABLE MUST RECOGNISE THAT OLDER AUSTRALIANS ARE OUR NATION'S MOST UNRECOGNISED AND UNUSED ASSET. - Everald Compton

I applaud Jim Chalmers decision to hold a Productivity Roundtable at Parliament in Canberra in August with the aim of creating a plan to increase the productivity of our nation. 25 of Australia’s top ...

everaldcompton.com

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everaldatlarge.bsky.social @everaldatlarge.bsky.social · Jul 5

At Linville school in 1930's two #aborigines were mates of mine. Learned in horror of murder of their people. Decades later I worked for #Yes to #Voice. Visionary partnerships needed not #money.
Yoorrook seeks action on truth www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigen... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Yoorrook’s call for action on truth

The Yoorrook Justice Commission offers the Victorian government the chance to lead the country in acknowledging the truth and full history of First Nations genocide.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jul 7

Looks like the problem isn’t screen time, it’s addictive behaviour on social media.
This requires a whole different regulatory response - with implications for the platforms themselves. Brings a useful focus onto where platforms need to fix their algorithms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 23

In Common Endeavour news!

CommonEndeavour @commonendeavour.bsky.social · Jun 23

It’s an exciting week for Common Endeavour with our first two small group convos in Canberra and southern Queensland.

The topic: ‘Creating trusted space(s) for common sense in political discourse.’

RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 21

Feels like a big week for me. Updating my LinkedIn to put my Common Endeavour work front and centre.
Small beans in the context of all that’s going on but may yet amount to something.
Always happy to talk about the work with anyone who’s interested.

www.linkedin.com/in/remo-osti...

RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 10

Not everyone thinks indexation is important but the question probably deserves a better answer than who is affected right now…

RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 7

Julia Nakamura and colleagues show how volunteering helps you live longer by improving physical health and social connection, with physical health itself appearing to be improved by contact with friends and helping others.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 6

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 6

NORK - too real
So let’s be good to each other

#BPM

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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · Jun 4

“Poetry, for me, is the answer to how does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?” ~Lisel Mueller
#poetry

Lisa Mueller‘s brilliant poem “There are mornings.” Audio file here: https://shows.acast.com/words-that-burn/episodes/there-are-mornings-by-lisel-mueller

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · Jun 3

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some gorgeous thoughts about faith. Not restricted to religious faith.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social

“Faith is the conviction that this world is not tragic but comic. Maybe it gives a person the ability to see whatever joy and beauty and wit flickers in the disorienting darkness. Or maybe it is the result of noticing those flickers. I don’t know.

And how can we know for sure the flickers are clues to how the story will end? We can’t know for sure. Nevertheless, most mornings I wake up believing that we are perennials not annuals—a feeling that itself is a gift. Surely what dies will spring back to life."

― Jeanne Murray Walker, Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poet’s Journey of Faith

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RemoNotRomolo @remoostini.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wonderful piece. Makes me wonder, is Sarah Krasnostein the best non-fiction writer in the country at present?

I’m still haunted by her Train Family Murders piece…

The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · May 31

Sarah Krasnostein: “When Preston’s principal rises and blows great golden circles in the air, the sound has a core – superb and straight and true – that I believe must be a property of the player before it can ever be a property of their playing.”

The clarion call

Inside a community band’s benevolent quest for perfection

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