@gentleanne.bsky.social
Writer, poet and educator. Language, learning & access. Interested in clarity over performance.
Nationwide. Get to it folks. I’ll see you there.
03.02.2026 06:13 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
26.01.2026 02:47 — 👍 15184 🔁 5017 💬 843 📌 322
I constantly remind myself of what a Hitler scholar identified as the biggest similarity between Hitler and Trump: Going from one defeat, from one catastrophe, to another and declaring them all victories.
26.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 132 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 1
No pain, no gain, they say.
That was certainly the case last evening when I went above and beyond to put up with the extreme heat.
Anyway, here's one of the resulting photos.
Sunset over Menindee Lake, New South Wales.
Been thinking of Magda Szubanski today
Wondering how she is doing
I've seldom felt compelled to block people on BlueSky. But the hunger strike has mobilised some people's worst instincts: "Let them die! It's all their fault!" etc etc. It appears to trigger a deep, and deeply disturbing, inhumanity. I must have blocked 20 of them by now.
13.01.2026 12:30 — 👍 520 🔁 131 💬 38 📌 1Good advice.
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The first female crash test dummy for women
https://www.byteseu.com/1709861/
It is the year 2026 and the world is finally starting to realize that women’s bodies are not shrunken men. They have different organs, different body structure, different movements. And that it would be nice to include …
Actually‼️‼️‼️
THIS wins the Internet 😂😂😂
Bloody priceless 😎
Yes they could. I know of one man in northern NSW who accidentally poisoned himself by eating 1 or 2 punnets of blueberries daily on a health kick trying to get healthy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Wallaby shenanigans:
11.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0Yes.
13.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s my bin night, maybe it’s your bin night too?
12.01.2026 08:39 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 12 📌 0Jane Caro’s Lyrebird look good. I’ve added it to my list.
13.01.2026 11:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0God but we miss her and need her more every single day
13.01.2026 11:30 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#Galway
11.01.2026 08:23 — 👍 103 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0Yep. This is a very sad outcome. Adelaide Writers Week was a truly joyous event. Wide range of authors, great sessions, beautiful setting.
11.01.2026 11:00 — 👍 135 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0traditional is not better than digital and digital is not better than traditional. you can use traditional methods via a digital platform or you can learn how to carve marble with your bare hands. both can coexist
11.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 63 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0creativity is everywhere, don’t let another artist or another person in general tell you what art is or is not
11.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 144 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 1Art doesn't have to be 'good' to be valid
11.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Me a grey haired, mid forties white woman taking a mirror selfie. I wear a slim fit peach knit and white boyfriend cut jeans
This side angle shows a drawing of a girl in blue dancing up the thigh
Simple on the front
Special on the back
My Dad used to tell me the best and the worst comes out of America
But gee wizz the scales have tipped haven't they
Absolute negligence by all involved in the decision.
www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
"Literary festivals provide an important opportunity for authors to reach new readers & earn an income. The decision to withdraw from a literary festival is not one taken lightly. You can support local & international authors by buying their books and by borrowing them from your library"
12.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Its not just that the rest of world is watching you, we are kind if depending on you
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