Belinda Rule

24 May

new poems in TEXT journal, which takes metatextual/reflexive creative work. the 2nd has one of my better titles, ha - 'After the poetry reading, the dark' - 'I am going to write a poem that will make everyone want to have sex with me' - 'The real poem' textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1614...

theguardian.comOutback kaleidoscope: Australia’s fabled desert lake bursts to life in rare sightA prodigiously wet monsoon season has brought damaging floods to parts of Australia, but transformed Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in a way not seen in decades

would anyone like to give me a lift to the Sturt desert real quick www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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tidbits: Anna Creek cattle station is 'bigger than Wales' Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary is 'larger than Tasmania'

clearly we need a plane for an optimum visit, has anyone got a plane

would anyone like to give me a lift to the Sturt desert real quick www.theguardian.com/environment/...

damn filling my eyeballs with this made me feel tingly

update on the Brighton Coles experience: a full 40% of people in peak times e.g. Saturday pre-dinner are wearing those built-in-wedgie bike shorts

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they can be highly optimised inner butt cheeks, and often are (this being Brighton), that is not the problem

'other's people's' lol deranged by butt cheek overload

update on the Brighton Coles experience: a full 40% of people in peak times e.g. Saturday pre-dinner are wearing those built-in-wedgie bike shorts

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

I don't consider that I am the boss of other's people's clothing choices, but also don't feel like I want to have an encounter with the inner butt cheek of persons I am not banging, I am just saying

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Michael Hobbes

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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Lauren Rosewarne

@laurenrosewarne.bsky.social

"... We don't just plonk a LORD JIM on your head. We match it perfectly for colour and texture. We shape and style it so it goes great with your whole body, your whole way of lite. No one will ever know!..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Lord Jim. Australasian Post, 1974.

the 'what I eat in a day' meme is still going strong on cooking youtube and I do not love it, I feel like it's covert eating disorder content, am I wrong?

like it just never includes grabbing a sleazy pizza because you're tired, it's always aspirational eating, a virtue performance in the health=morality mental universe

why are you telling us what you eat unless you're seeking social approval for your eating or implying other people need your approval for their eating eating is not by committee, free yourself -signed, a fat person

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

I've been told the "freelance pie advisor" is a famous chef who wrote a book about pies. I did not know. I also learned that he models for a friend's clothing store, Anglo Italian in London.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Things in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.

question marks indicating the tone when spoken, I think

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot@egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social

<I am> the Ram, I am primeval(?), my phallus is primeval(?), my seed is that of the Bull of the sun-folk. (CTF3)

new reply meme just dropped, pass it on

Lauren Rosewarne@laurenrosewarne.bsky.social

"... Use this cassette to HELP YOU get into scientific meditation easily in the privacy of your own home!..." Amazing Color Meditation. Australasian Post, 1977.

my alt text is wrong!! 70s not 80s.

I would also like to comment on the sheer madness of the kerning and type compression here, perhaps foreshadowing that some parts of the mind will be expanded more than others

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Possum Every Hour

@possumeveryhour.io

btw when I was five and my mum told me the new prime minister was Bob Hawke, I asked why it wasn't Dad

never really satisfied with the answer to be frank

not my unemployed butt being mad I'm only owed $4 from my tax return, only to twig that's because I haven't *paid* any tax... because I'm... unemployed...

the $4 was a franking credit from before I liquidated the last dregs of my investments lol thanks Paul Keating

copyediting a fine art book and a minor infuriation: I am not allowed to restyle or correct anything in painting titles because it might have artistic purpose ... but I've never edited writing by a painter that wasn't full of non-intentional errors (can't ask the dude cos he's dead)

have been obliged to move, discovered that not only do the Brighton Coles trolleys not have anti theft devices a la western suburbs, they actually have cup holders

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did a cool subject taught by Brotherhood of St Lawrence about their program for pathways out of youth homelessness into employment, they said that when they provide housing it needs to be high-quality and attractive because that psychologically produces the experience of being an employable person

cf out of home care/youth group homes are often dirty, broken down and run like a quasi prison, communicating 'you have no value to society', 'our default stance towards you is hostility', also 'your expected next life stage is going to prison'

have been obliged to move, discovered that not only do the Brighton Coles trolleys not have anti theft devices a la western suburbs, they actually have cup holders

msilverstar fandom account

thinking about how this stuff actually psychologically produces the experience of high/low class position in the trolley user, like the supermarket will say it's in reaction to who the local clientele are, but it also has the effect of *telling* the local clientele who they are

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@msilverstar.bsky.social

20 Aug

Now's the time for this gay WWII spy movie

Andrew@generalising.bsky.social

Today's remarkable biography en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Rake * ten years as a child acrobat * affair with Greek prince * career in musical comedies * radio operator in occupied France * taken prisoner, escaped, moved in with German officer in Paris while on the run * later ... Hollywood butler?

victoriancollections.net.auEphemera - Ticket - MMTB 4d with Bushells Tea advert, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), late 1940sFrom the collection of Melbourne Tram Museum . Conditions of Use: Public domain. Please refer to source page for full media reuse details.

12 Aug

A delightful thing that happened: found an old tram ticket in a handbag of my grandmother's and now it's in the Melbourne Tram Museum collection Estimated date 1949 to early 1950s victoriancollections.net.au/items/6a7bb0...

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Lauren Rosewarne

@laurenrosewarne.bsky.social

10 Aug

"is your husband a FAGGED OUT FATHER?..." (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Parke-Davis Myadec Capsules. Woman's Day with Woman, 1964.

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Lauren Rosewarne

@laurenrosewarne.bsky.social

11 Aug

"A Census will be taken of all persons in the Commonwealth on the Night of Wednesday, 30th June, and all such persons are required to furnish the particulars specified in the Census Form..." Commonwealth of Australia. Australasian Post, 1954.

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John Self

@john-self.bsky.social

8 Aug

Manuscript page for Anita Brookner’s 1988 novel Latecomers, as featured in Hermione Lee’s forthcoming biography.

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Alan Burns

@alanburns.bsky.social

8 Aug

1. Never thought leopards would eat my face 2. Moving big dial that says racism 3. Would've killed ET with hammers 4. Them slags... freaks my nut out 5. Grover real fuckin sexy

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7 Aug

these fat little roast chickens

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Deerposts

@deerposts.bsky.social

30 July

#deer 🦌

25 July

can't seem to capture the full extremity of the judgement in this fac

25 July

*face, though fac communicates something of its tone