Libraries, books, and digital literacy, with an occasional side-serving of performing arts. She/her. Living on Wurundjeri country.

Joined November 2010
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At #AdelaideWritersWeek —first time I’ve heard @omarsakrpoet read his poems aloud. An absolute highlight of the week 🙏
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went to the library, found a receipt with a borrowed list in a book and thought "wow!! i need to meet this person, they seem right up my alley-" and then saw it was me. 3 years ago. so that's fun.
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Who the fuck is CLSOPDTRD
Israeli actress Gal Gadot to play Egyptian Queen Cleopatra in new film greekcitytimes.com/2023/07/1…
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3 Jul 2023
A recent cartoon for @newscientist #science #scifi
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This is the loveliest thing
Today is #InternationalArchivesDay so we're going to share the story one of our favourite collections from the Orkney Archive. It's a collection of very special, handmade books which were created by three young #Orkney girls in the 1860s. An #Archive 🧵
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Which books have you read because of a TikTok recommendation so far? ow.ly/VzWq50Oum1T

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I know a lot of folks who read my books can’t afford to buy them, or prefer to borrow, and might feel bad about it. I was just notified of my public lending royalties this period, and they will pay 4 entire months rent. So thank you, to all of you!🙏🏾🙏🏾🥰
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'Last night I dreamt I went to Orkney Library again.' Happy Birthday to Daphne Du Maurier, born on this day 116 years ago in 1907. 🎂 #bookface #onthisday #otd
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A small act of resistance from the female indexer of the 1980 edition of Williams Obstetrics.
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When I see how rarely cultural orgs post online (for good reason, there's too much shit to do), I'd like to see an experiment where somebody employs a terminally online person who knows their topic who's allowed to focus on pure posting
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Bruce Petty was a political cartooning legend and amazingly also a very nice person.
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Saw this and genuinely thought it was an advert for choral music.
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Free books. Get your trans authors and characters while they’re hot. romancebookworms.com/
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Much excitement in the family whatsapp group this morning at the prospect of an Indian and a Pakistani bringing about the partition of Britain
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I like KJ’s thread about removing racial slurs from Agatha Christie, and Aidan Turner in a towel.
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