Michelle Watson

Pretty sure some of the stuff about the witchcraft prosecutions is also incorrect.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Detail of a print of 18th-century ball; a woman in the foreground wears a red dress and absolutely necks a large glass of wine

We've all been there

Mohamed Semra, elected mayor of Maribyrnong, getting his mayoral bling attached by council execs

Mamdani schmamdami, the actual news is Mohamed Semra being elected mayor of Maribyrnong

Thrift is good except when it becomes a trend to buy large size clothes to cut/ recycle down to a cute outfit for a standard size person on what is an already very small selection of plus size clothing. I’m all for recycle or buy good quality but at least acknowledge that is not an option for all.

It’s more you think the average person can afford bespoke clothes.

I don’t support Shein but I’d also like everyone commenting to support mandatory/legislated inclusive sizing for all clothing manufacture and sales.

Just by bespoke? Are you kidding?

How is this not fraud??

Two weeks ago I gave a talk at Australian National Uni that included a list of things I would do with an Sands & Mac volume (1910) and .... THIS WAS ONE OF THEM
Love this so much

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

My residency at State Library Victoria LAB is wrapping up in a few weeks! Here's a blog post that pulls together links to the things I've been working on, and gives a peek at what's coming. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/11/19/counting-down-to-the-end.html #GLAM #libraries #OpenGLAM […]

Works best if you can get a few people going at once.

You can make a laughing sound into a kazoo. Just saying.

So that’s going to inevitably end in a law suit and probably some sort of prosecution under the tax code.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

Sharpie Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

Love g 🗃️

When did it ever stop?

NewsWire headline: Man's 24 beers a day before MP threat. Photo: Federal MP Fatima Payman.

52yo Sean Sharman sent a death threat to 30yo Federal MP Fatima Payman. The judge: Payman was targeted bc of her gender, race & religion, it was offensive, hateful & racist. No jail time. Media: he'd been drinking. Now imagine if a Muslim man had sent a death threat to an MP. #auspol #justice

Ours is slightly different being the movement funds resulting from the post-abolition payments to slave owners being invested in Australia.

Attention friends! As a Cyber Sec Specialist, I feel a need to share this. If you receive an email from Ao3, alerting you to a password reset attempt, DO NOT click on the links! This is a scam to get you to provide your current password. Absolutely terrible. Safe cyber smart! #ao3 #scamalert

An issue that Australia is only beginning to reckon with.

Why is it important to include references to slavery on blue plaques, National Trust properties, etc? Because otherwise people are convinced that somehow those lovely houses were gifted to certain British families by the fairies, and don't think about where the money came from.

Yeah, it’s like

Me: “well it sort of makes sense to hold the interviews in breakout rooms at the conference hotel.”

America: “No, the interviews are in the hotel rooms.”

Me: WTAF!?!

When these CEO’s complain about this they should be asked how many apprentices they are training.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.