Katie Purvis
@katiemelb.bsky.social
Editor, proofreader, feminist, optimist, radio presenter, Melbourne Demons tragic. My enduring loves are words and music.
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I’ve nominated THE TERRIBLE UNDERPANTS by @kazcooke.bsky.social as my favourite Australian children’s picture book in the poll at @australia.theguardian.com - how about you? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time
A good picture book is pure magic – and Australia has produced some of the best. Nominate your favourite here
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I’ve nominated THE TERRIBLE UNDERPANTS by @kazcooke.bsky.social as my favourite Australian children’s picture book in the poll at @australia.theguardian.com - how about you? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Head spinning (in a good way) after seeing playwright Suzie Miller in conversation with ABC journo @natashamitchell.bsky.social at a Monash Alumni event tonight. What a smart, compassionate, engaged and engaging woman Miller is. Her play Prima Facie destroyed me, and I loved ‘meeting’ its creator
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Head spinning (in a good way) after seeing playwright Suzie Miller in conversation with ABC journo @natashamitchell.bsky.social at a Monash Alumni event tonight. What a smart, compassionate, engaged and engaging woman Miller is. Her play Prima Facie destroyed me, and I loved ‘meeting’ its creator
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If you need a mental cleanse, this is a 100% real picture from Sept 2024 when we spotted a tiny wild floof in our garden and we adopted TWO sibling fluffs and this thread (pinned to my account) is full of pictures of them 😻
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If you need a mental cleanse, this is a 100% real picture from Sept 2024 when we spotted a tiny wild floof in our garden and we adopted TWO sibling fluffs and this thread (pinned to my account) is full of pictures of them 😻
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muppetized book covers: thread
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
muppetized book covers: thread
We still can’t turn off re-posts by individual accounts on Bluesky, right?
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We still can’t turn off re-posts by individual accounts on Bluesky, right?
“Possibly one of the worst productions of Wagner I’ve ever seen. Dear God. The Valkyrie were all dressed in scuba gear.” - Hugh Laurie as MI-6’s Jools Siviter in [spooks] s01 ep05
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“Possibly one of the worst productions of Wagner I’ve ever seen. Dear God. The Valkyrie were all dressed in scuba gear.” - Hugh Laurie as MI-6’s Jools Siviter in [spooks] s01 ep05
So [spooks] season 1 continues to deliver. Episode 4 has Anthony Stewart Head as a spy gone wrong and Hugh Laurie as a snarky, snooty MI-6 boss. Awesome!
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So [spooks] season 1 continues to deliver. Episode 4 has Anthony Stewart Head as a spy gone wrong and Hugh Laurie as a snarky, snooty MI-6 boss. Awesome!
Continuing my [spooks] TV adventure: s01ep02 (2000) had a depressingly relevant plot about a racist middle-aged white man (played by Kevin McNally) exploiting asylum seekers to foment racial tension in Britain Plus ça change …
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Continuing my [spooks] TV adventure: s01ep02 (2000) had a depressingly relevant plot about a racist middle-aged white man (played by Kevin McNally) exploiting asylum seekers to foment racial tension in Britain Plus ça change …
Watching episode 1 of season 1 of the BBC series Spooks (known as MI-5 in the US) (2002). Baby Matthew McFadyen! Baby Keeley Hawes!
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Watching episode 1 of season 1 of the BBC series Spooks (known as MI-5 in the US) (2002). Baby Matthew McFadyen! Baby Keeley Hawes!
It’s raining so hard in Melbourne’s inner north that I can’t hear the TV even on maximum volume 😯#MelbourneWeather
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It’s raining so hard in Melbourne’s inner north that I can’t hear the TV even on maximum volume 😯#MelbourneWeather
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yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
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And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...
October 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM
And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social Check out Paris Paloma’s new music video ‘Good Boy’ on YT: it has Emma Thompson saying your quote at the start, and you are listed under SPECIAL THANKS in the notes 🤩
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social Check out Paris Paloma’s new music video ‘Good Boy’ on YT: it has Emma Thompson saying your quote at the start, and you are listed under SPECIAL THANKS in the notes 🤩
The wee cars that bring the javelins back to the start line after a throw! #kawaii #WorldAthleticsChamps
September 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The wee cars that bring the javelins back to the start line after a throw! #kawaii #WorldAthleticsChamps
Outstanding piece by the great Alan Sepinwall
Wrote about some TV roles that bookended Robert Redford's career, and some of my favorite Redford movies:
When the Sundance Kid played Death himself
A look back at an early TV role for the late, great Robert Redford
alansepinwall.ghost.io
September 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Outstanding piece by the great Alan Sepinwall
At hospital for a day procedure. Forgot to bring a book. FML 😫
September 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
At hospital for a day procedure. Forgot to bring a book. FML 😫
MONDO! Worth staying up late to witness that world record #WorldAthleticsChamps
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
MONDO! Worth staying up late to witness that world record #WorldAthleticsChamps
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Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
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social media gold
September 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
social media gold
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loading this post into the chamber
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
loading this post into the chamber
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Whatever you're doing today is fine, so long as it makes things slightly less bad for you or someone else. That's it. That's the trick. And you're doing fine. I hope your today is better than that but it doesn't have to be. Just so long as somehow, it is a net good in some way.
August 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Whatever you're doing today is fine, so long as it makes things slightly less bad for you or someone else. That's it. That's the trick. And you're doing fine. I hope your today is better than that but it doesn't have to be. Just so long as somehow, it is a net good in some way.
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The march for Australia on August 31 is a Nazi rally, organised by Nazis. If you’re planning on going to this, you’re planning on going to a Nazi rally.
August 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The march for Australia on August 31 is a Nazi rally, organised by Nazis. If you’re planning on going to this, you’re planning on going to a Nazi rally.
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Amyl and the Sniffers for the AFL GF or nobody imo
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Amyl and the Sniffers for the AFL GF or nobody imo