Margaret L Ruwoldt
@emelaarghh.bsky.social
Bibliophibian. Dilettante. Free-range nerd. She/her. Living on unceded Wadawurrung country.
Everyone who has been a castaway counts the number of days — they all know their number and account for those days, that time of being not-here. – Yann Martel, in conversation with Claire Nichols at the Sydney Writers Festival, 2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia.
The joy of song: where songbirds came from and why we should listen to them
theconversation.com
He, preparing to leave: Is there anything at the supermarket you’ve forgotten? She: Well, I forgot Clive of India yesterday. #CafeLife
New EP forthcoming, with three songs by written and recorded by Chrissy and Tim Finn; Charley Drayton on drums. squee!
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoThe lost songs of Divinyls legend Chrissy Amphlett
Caitlan Charles offers a succinct analysis of where — and why — our funding, prevention and response efforts need better coordination and integration.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4d agoWhy domestic and family violence offenders often aren't known to police
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
The AFL Grand Final is the 2nd most dangerous day of the year for women in Australia. That’s a fact. Victoria Police & police everywhere preparing for up to a 20% rise in male violence against women on Saturday
At 24, she discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her male supervisor. Jocelyn Bell Burnell spotted the signals that changed astronomy. Decades later, she received a $3 million physics prize. She gave it all away to help underrepresented students become scientists. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Me, chatting with aunt Val who runs two book clubs: “My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”
Today’s update from the crisant crisossant croissant cafe.
Margaret L Ruwoldt@emelaarghh.bsky.social · 5mo agoLook, they’re somewhat consistent. Dunno why I’m so fascinated by this cafe’s spelling variants for ‘croissant.’ The pastries are delicious, the coffee well-made, the staff lovely, and that’s the important stuff. bsky.app/profile/emel...
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
‘I once heard Aunt Emily and Aunt Sadie talking about it… Aunt Sadie said: "How does she manage it?" and Aunt Emily said: "Skiing, or hunting, or just jumping off the kitchen table."’ 'You are so lucky, having wicked parents.’ — Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
Pen and ink well, from Cartier’s Japanese period. Shown with a ring and clock, for scale (no bananas allowed in the gallery).
apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last wk.TIL: The word "novel" is actually derived from "novella," which was used by Boccaccio to mean "new little stories." English took the term later and applied it to longer fictional narratives as "novels."
Thirty evening gowns + a dozen antique sewing machines + original paintings by local artists. A dreamy day out in Skipton, Victoria. #McFarlaneCollection #MechanicsInstitute
“The ASRC described it as a "dark day for multicultural Australia", arguing the reforms would significantly expand Australia's immigration enforcement and detention system and warning it would have serious consequences for asylum seekers and refugees.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
ICE enforcement in Australia? Burke quizzed over US-style detention concerns
Labor was accused of following in Donald Trump's footsteps, but the home affairs minister says that's a misrepresentation.
sbs.com.au
Hey everyone! It's International Talk Like a SPACE PIRATE Day! Who's your favourite space pirate? #TalkLikeASpacePirateDay
"No matter who is in power, rounding people up, locking people up in detention centres is brutal," he said. "Why would you be building that sort of capacity if you weren't also considering detaining whole families?" www.naroomanewsonline.com.au/story/935264...
Labor on thin ICE with plan to detain visa over-stayers
A crackdown on unlawful non-residents as part of a broader migration overhaul will not resemble US-style immigration enforcement,...
naroomanewsonline.com.au
"A new report ... has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities across the country were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines at least once over the past two years" www.wsaa.asn.au/Web/News%20i...
New report calls out the gap in safe drinking water standards in First Nations communities
A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities across the country were supplied with water that did not ...
wsaa.asn.au
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% In the 70 years after the British invaded.
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
theconversation.com
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
The Albanese Gov is considering ending the Refugee Convention by legislating a world first 30 day time limit for families to apply for asylum. If this becomes law it’s the end of the Refugee Convention here. Help us stop this by emailing your Labor MP 👉🏼action.asrc.org.au/email_alp
We’ve created a revolution And the country bloody needs one The Westerman Jilya Institute Indigenous Child Suicide Prevention Gala is approaching Pay It Forward with any amount to fund seats for Indigenous bereaved families Click “Get Tickets”→ “Pay It Forward” events.humanitix.com/jilyagala2026
6 poets. 6 crises. One argument: literature is humanity's archive of shared struggle, poetry is its most concentrated form. Hughes, Owen, Angelou, Darwish, Lorde & Dickinson turn private pain into public empathy — & why that only works if we teach people to read it blakandblack.com/2025/05/26/l...
Literature, Poetry and Empathy: A Tapestry of Human Connection Through Crisis
The importance of literacy is in the sharing of experiences, fostering empathy and understanding between people and cultures.
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