Bethany Keats

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I’m waiting for Monday morning LinkedIn
“As the jets screamed overhead, suddenly I realised what just-in-time product development could learn from this moment”

We had a holiday to Oman booked in 2020 😭

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Ed Sheeran sitting on the edge of the stage with his guitar across his body. He’s taking into a microphone.

As Saturday nights go, I had a pretty good one.

I just saw a video on instagram of a car making a right turn and hitting a cyclist (in a bike lane!), who was going straight. Naturally, 98% of the comments are blaming the cyclist and even other cyclists are saying “well, he should’ve yielded to the car because we’re at their mercy durrrrr”.

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Robert Aickman and the Art of the Artifice Short Story with Brontë Schiltz

If you haven't seen this last week's talk on short ghost fiction, it is well worth a look. Not only offering a deep dive into Robert Aickman, it looks a theorising the creepy tale in fascinating ways!

youtu.be/xcJ7yf72kpQ

You know studying at degree level is not compulsory right? If you don’t want to study you can just not do higher education. You don’t need a little robot called Einstein to destroy the planet for you not to learn anything.

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There’s no male loneliness epidemic.
There’s a “women stopped tolerating mediocrity and misogyny” correction.

I love this film so much.

I’m currently in Canberra 😆

Lunch today was lamb that was so tough I think they killed it, resurrected it just to kill it again, then made sure it was in the final depths of hell before serving it.

My parents taught me this as a kid (possibly to distract me and/or teach me to not fear storms).
And it became such a habit I still do it now.

I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants- And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹 He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff. It’s heart wrenchingly sweet They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it

the AI evangelists are not okay

The entirety of the novel, Frankenstein, is a catalogue of things men will do instead of going to therapy.

“Reverse racism” and “misandry” always boil down to how white/cis-male people *feel* about generalizations made about them rather than any actual harm, and it also manages to minimize the massive effects of racism and misogyny for marginalized groups. And then there are the race/gender comparisons.

Supporting removing Prince Andrew from the line of succession is good but what would be better is removing Australia from an inherited dynasty of wealth and privilege that protected him and his class for far too long

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Great thread - see how far you can read

When a young woman is raped by two friends, her small town turns against her A local footy star and his mate are convicted of raping their friend. In the tiny town of Balmoral, where the footy club reigns, the town makes it clear whose story they believe.

For all the mythology around small town Australia, all of the narrative of this piece strike true. It is not limited to small towns and football clubs. It is the same kind of attitude that underpins institutional abuse.

CW for the linked piece. It is harrowing
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Today I learned that Perth people have a distinctive coffee order and the barista at the Qantas lounge in Melbourne knows to check for geography before pouring long macchiatos.

A purrfect anniversary: Larry the Cat marks 15 years at number 10 in London

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Looking out a plane window that’s got drips through the condensation

Good morning from the row in front of an old bloke who doesn’t realise he’s playing his music loud enough for half the plane to hear. Someone told him but he still didn’t get the message 🤦‍♀️ (mercifully, it’s good music)

Tinker, Tailor, Shitposter, Spy

Holding up a hardcover book without a dust jacket to show the title and author on the side: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat.

Gorgeous prose. You can absolutely feel the madness but I also feel it needs a few reads to actually understand it fully.

Cover of a book on a mobile phone. The phone is posed next to a loaf of bread and on top of a tea towel. The book is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Natalie is a complex character but was hard to suspend disbelief that a character could have such shithouse self awareness. But then I’d see something outrageous on social media that reminded me these people exist.
Thank you to @netgalley.bsky.social for the review copy.

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When a young woman is raped by two friends, her small town turns against her A local footy star and his mate are convicted of raping their friend. In the tiny town of Balmoral, where the footy club reigns, the town makes it clear whose story they believe.

A harrowing story. Atrocious for Lisa, a medical professional, to intervene so completely to help reduce jail time for two rapists.

Son is working at the Lakemba night markets setting up the stalls etc. He was talking to woman on a stall who said it was very quiet this year and some commercial media are turning up asking people about their views on terrorism.
Where's the outcry about the effects of Islamophobia?