Stephanie Russo
@drstephr.bsky.social
Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions
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Stephanie Russo
@drstephr.bsky.social
· Apr 16
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethin...
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This is appalling.
Where to start, with a statement like this?
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is appalling.
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A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
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There is no downside
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
There is no downside
Absolutely shockimg but yet entirely unsurprising story
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals
Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Absolutely shockimg but yet entirely unsurprising story
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Imagine trying to position yourself as the victim in this scenario.
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Imagine trying to position yourself as the victim in this scenario.
Taylor revealing exactly who she is now.
Look, maybe she is just really chill about her songs being used by others and doesn’t get all worked up about copyright or .. oh.. errr… yeesh.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Taylor revealing exactly who she is now.
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Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
John Laws was an odious bigot with odious views 🤷♀️
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
John Laws was an odious bigot with odious views 🤷♀️
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No one quite as ridiculous, uncritical and filled with tech FOMO as university administrators
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
No one quite as ridiculous, uncritical and filled with tech FOMO as university administrators
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Don't forget to join us for Friday's online lecture. Catherine Padmore, Stephanie Downes and Kelly Gardiner (University of La Trobe) will be talking about historical novels in Australia. You can register here: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-lectu...
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Don't forget to join us for Friday's online lecture. Catherine Padmore, Stephanie Downes and Kelly Gardiner (University of La Trobe) will be talking about historical novels in Australia. You can register here: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-lectu...
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
Cheney dead, Mamdani wins, good things are still possible!
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Cheney dead, Mamdani wins, good things are still possible!
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
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It’s bad enough the idiot right wing gets 1984 wrong, now they’re doing g LOTR?
Have any of these tools ever understood a book they read?
It’s like the dopey royals who thought Gatsby and Daisy was this marvellous romance.
Have any of these tools ever understood a book they read?
It’s like the dopey royals who thought Gatsby and Daisy was this marvellous romance.
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It’s bad enough the idiot right wing gets 1984 wrong, now they’re doing g LOTR?
Have any of these tools ever understood a book they read?
It’s like the dopey royals who thought Gatsby and Daisy was this marvellous romance.
Have any of these tools ever understood a book they read?
It’s like the dopey royals who thought Gatsby and Daisy was this marvellous romance.
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Lol, hard for young 'uns to understand maybe but post-war, "anti-Nazi" was as close to a universal view as you might ever see. It's why so many are STILL in denial about what Donny is doing. It feels impossible.
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Lol, hard for young 'uns to understand maybe but post-war, "anti-Nazi" was as close to a universal view as you might ever see. It's why so many are STILL in denial about what Donny is doing. It feels impossible.
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Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests
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"We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility."
HOW ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE SO UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING DUMB
HOW ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE SO UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING DUMB
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
🎁link
🎁link
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility."
HOW ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE SO UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING DUMB
HOW ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE SO UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING DUMB
I have read 42 of these books and can confirm that many are excellent (Hamnet, Never Let Me Go etc), many of them are terrible (Rowling etc), and many are overrated (Doerr etc): www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National
Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I have read 42 of these books and can confirm that many are excellent (Hamnet, Never Let Me Go etc), many of them are terrible (Rowling etc), and many are overrated (Doerr etc): www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
I agree with this in theory
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
New adaptations of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights explore slavery, pervy nuns and death in childbirth. Count me in, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I agree with this in theory
Conduct befitting his high office
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Conduct befitting his high office
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If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.