Kate Littlejohn

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One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

This is a good point and I definitely think it's a key element in why there is such a constant stream of 'new thing that will save education' that never ends. There's money and status associated with the cycle.

The Government justified a clamp down on freedom of information requests by claiming an increase in malicious and automated FOI attempts. Only problem is, there's no evidence of such a thing.

Our research showed that the number of FOI requests has not increased, but processing time has. 🔗⤵️ #auspol

@jvdallimore.bsky.social I feel like we've had this conversation many times

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

What could possibly go wrong?

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

It is *lovely*. Very void like. I never really liked black pens until I started using fountain pens and now black inks call to me in a totally new way. Gorgeous.

i think we all deserve a little libspill. as a treat.

last week, I wrote about how the rushed/bizarre teen social media ban policy process could lead to bad outcomes for Australians.

One scenario? Platforms forced to check users ages leak private data. Anyway, there's now a leak of some Discord user's passports

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/a...

Definitely jump into this one if you loved The Book of Doors!

It's beautiful! I hope you'll share some fancy ink shots when you use it

Book cover of The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown

I just finished The Society of Unknowable Objects by @garethjohnbrown.bsky.social and it was an absolutely cracking read. I loved The Book of Doors and enjoyed this one just as much. I hope there will be another one coming! #BookSky 💙📚

Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll

#PhD research callout!

I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.

forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb

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The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

Ooof I just read it and you are not wrong!

This can't be real though. I refuse to believe it - "But Noah is the most hardboiled of them all: “A good story is like a good Sunday roast: you smell it first … ” he tells us. “You smell it first and then you feel it in your problematic balls.”

I'm almost scared to read it haha. I read Dalton's first book and it was fine/forgettable so I never really understood the hype, and none of his subsequent offerings drew me in enough in the blurb to go any further. This review, on the other hand, is screaming to be read.

Wow that headline packs a mighty punch 😳

Social media has spoiled us because occasionally you were able to get a celebrity to engage with you or perhaps cause the world's richest man to throw a tantrum. Now people think they can have a theological debate with the Pope.

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

"Look what you made us do" - consistent abuser language

But if you joke about Trump or say something we don't like about Charlie Kirk it's curtains for you.

We don't make the rules. Oh wait, we do.