Meredith

Peregrinations of a Comet, JJ Grandville, 1844
#Art #Illustration

Time is Weird Now A facilitated conversation about how time is experienced during times of grief and adaptation.

The world is a state of flux. How do we experience time during this upheaval? Join me for a conversation about experiencing time and urgency while adapting to change and loss.

Online, free, 6-7pm, 23 October AEDT.

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Salvage The last post in my etymologies of shipwrecks series

After the storm has passed and you survey the wreckage of your life you find that you are forced to assign value: What is worth retrieving and what needs to be junked?

My latest post on etymology and making sense of crisis.

dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/salvage

A painting of some kangaroos by John William Lewin from sometime in the 1800s. #Art

Time is Weird Now A facilitated conversation about how time is experienced during times of grief and adaptation.

The world is a state of flux. How do we experience time during this upheaval? Join me for a conversation about experiencing time and urgency while adapting to change and loss. Online, free, 6-7pm, 23 October AEDT.

events.humanitix.com/time-is-weir...

Sustaining effort Embedding resilience in your creative process

A short piece about sustaining effort while working on creative projects.

dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/sustaining...

Bank of Wildflowers, Andrew Nicholl, ca. 1830s #Art

Stag Beetle, Albrecht Durer, 1505

(I see what you did there).

TAG - The Adaptation Game. Hosted by U3A Merri-bek at Brunswick Town Hall TAG enables community members to come together and explore their changing environment, building connection and sharing knowledge through storytelling.

I think there might be a few vacant spots left so hurry and book in if you want to join in a beautiful and imaginative conversation about climate change and community resilience and you can get yourself to Brunswick Town Hall, 10am-2pm, 8 October.

events.humanitix.com/tag-the-adap...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

"The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to." - Cory Doctorow

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A page from the manuscript of Jorge Luis Borges' La Biblioteca de Babel. #Writing #BookSky

@nromanek.bsky.social thanks so much for sharing this.

Time is Weird Now A facilitated conversation about how time is experienced during times of grief and adaptation.

The world is a state of flux. How do we experience time during this upheaval?

Join me for a conversation about experiencing time and urgency while adapting to change and loss. Online, free, 6-7pm, 23 October AEDT.

events.humanitix.com/time-is-weir...

Illustration from Thomas Wright's 'An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe', 1750

Three Medlars with a Butterfly, Adriaen Coorte, #Art

Offerings Things for you

My latest newsletter. It includes details of two free events - The Adaptation Game on the 8 October and my facilitated conversation for Time Use Week on the 23 October, plus a recommended podcast and also a random piece of trivia. Enjoy!

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Collaborations An excerpt from The Right Question

Is hell really other people? Just a short note I wrote about collaborating:

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A portrait of me today.

(No. It’s actually called Yawning Man and it’s by Peter Bruegel). #Art

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

I liked this interview with writer and environmentalist Professor Bill McKibben which seems to be a nice blend of sober realism and realistic hope.

www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Play TAG as part of Victorian Seniors Festival 2025! TAG (The Adaptation Game) is a story-based workshop that simulates how you and your community respond to climate change in your area. U3A Merri-bek in partnership with Merri-bek Council invites you…

The Adaptation Game is a creative, effective, and meaningful way of sparking conversation about community resilience and climate change.

Play TAG as part of Victorian Seniors Festival 2025! climateactionmerribek.org/2025/09/29/p...

Men messing with women's (or gorgon's) heads du jour: Medusa's shrieking head on the shield of Perseus, 1597, by Caravaggio. It's his birthday.

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know
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Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists? The capitalist model of endless economic growth is pushing the limits of our planet. How should future leaders prepare?

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?
theconversation.com/are-business...

Dew on a Blade of Grass, Wilson Bentley, ca. 1910s

#Art #Photography

I have recently been writing posts inspired by the etymologies of words to do with wrecks and salvage and I have had fun finding images to accompany them. This one is of a ship being “devoured by an octopus” by Orra White Hitchcock and created sometime in the 1600s.

#Art

The kraken has been released The latest in my etymologies of wrecks and salvage series

A short piece on adjusting to crisis as well as the fascinating etymology of the word kraken.

#Writing

dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-kraken...

From Seaweeds, Eliza A Jordson, 1848

Portrait of a left eye, unknown artist, ca. 1800

Detail from Blackhawk Restaurant Menu, 1942