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Dr Una McIlvenna
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
No! But Groundhog Day and Caddyshack are - as if they're the best Bill Murray had to offer, when you've got Ghostbusters, Scrooged!, and What About Bob? Just ridiculous.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Of course, you’ll have to now rewrite this post to say ‘grammatically correct’, since no hyphen is required after the -ly suffix. But you knew that, right? 😉
a police car is driving down a road with the word grammar written on it
ALT: a police car is driving down a road with the word grammar written on it
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November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
When we lived in London, we used to do a New Year’s party starting in the early afternoon for all of the Aussies we knew. We put up the world clock on the big screen to count down and thus we discovered how many crazy time zone alterations there are. Like, Kathmandu is 45 minutes out: UTC +05:45. 🤯
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
But they are exactly the kind of thing that should NOT stump a computer
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
That’s hilarious 😆
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Reposted by Dr Una McIlvenna
A local artist traded me some odd objects for some of my art. One was a soup bomb. I assumed ”bomb” meant it was for the bath, maybe a little vegetal. My mom LOVES baths.

Turns out it was soup. In a ball. And my mom had to call for help to get out of the bathtub.
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Fruit salad with marshmallows? I truly will never understand American cuisine...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Yes, I have several close friends with horrific injuries due to malpractice. One won’t even go into detail about it: she’s so mortified about the state of her body
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Right?? Just madness
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In Australia we are not required to show ID for domestic flights. And at Melbourne International airport there are great scanners which mean you don't have to remove laptops, belts, shoes, anything. It's such a joy to travel through.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
53, sorry
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This! The way that fellow scholars depict convents as places full of women abandoned there by their families because they were useless, hard-to-marry-off, etc, instead of places where women chose to go and could live very fulfilling lives, is exhausting.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The skincare industry is the single biggest grift out there. I remain astonished at how it reels women in, generation after generation.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Both of my births were super traumatic in diff ways: 1 with epidural, 1 without. I felt that, bc I didn't hemorrhage, they just abandoned me. One midwife initially refused to give me pain meds until I broke down sobbing in the hallway!
So there's plenty of opportunity for grifting on how bad it is.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The low nonsense skincare is Vaseline, btw :)
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yes, both my births were traumatic and I desperately want reform of natal care, but not its abandonment with the incredible claim that ‘childbirth is not dangerous’! There is little else that is more dangerous, both to mothers and babies.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM