Hannah Forsyth 🍉
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social
Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
If you can’t be bothered writing it, I can’t be bothered reading it. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it.
The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market.
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For high school history teachers, "autonomy has been increasingly undermined, class sizes ever larger, and workloads impossible - and dominated by f**king forms," writes @hannahforsyth.bsky.social in her latest substack. hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-future...
The future depends on excited, passionate, well-trained history teachers.
Conditions for enabling this have never been more difficult.
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Enjoying a temporary staycation with some unseasonable not-winter warmth.
Almost every sort of writing & cartooning job I've had no longer exists or is disappearing or not being paid, properly or at all. I feel a kinship with manual hay balers in the 1850s.
Andrew Elder@awelder.bsky.social · 3w agoTraditional media giving up on cartoonists just when we need them
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked
Surprising how much a bird called rainbow is actually not all that visible in nature.
I’ve said this so many times because it’s absolutely true.
Raja Dasgupta@rajadasgupta.bsky.social · 3w agoIn Australia, I do think it is more taboo to accuse a racist of being racist than it is to actually be racist
Am confused by that blurb sentence, but reading the whole review, it seems to mean there's a personal, narrow, blokey choice of books stored in a rich man's very beautiful library. More JP Morgan than Dolly Parton.
The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 3w agoA distinctly rational, masculine curiosity is at play in David Walsh’s new, private library. And ditching the Dewey system for the digital brings surprises.
Tonight i learned that dolphins get high. Intentionally. By gently biting puffer fish to release the toxins. And then they pass the puffer fish to their dolphin friends so they can all get high together, after which they just float around near the surface. I. SHIT. YOU. NOT.
Say Cheese
ALT: Say Cheese
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In proper news. This, by any standards, is a very cool photo. From BBC report on Iran popping shots off at USA military and their bases.
Ever felt like your corporate job is quietly killing you? At Words on the Waves, we sat down with @hannahforsyth.bsky.social, author of ‘Virtue Capitalists’, to unpack class, capitalism, and why corporate morality can feel like a contradiction. Search Not Quite Write Interviews to listen now.
Ok I get that there’s a heatwave in the northern hemisphere and that’s very hot and widespread. But it kinda pisses us southern hemisphere ppl off when you use ‘global’ in a way that literally excludes half the world. RN I’m sitting in front of the fire and it’s fucking cold outside. 🥶
Jeff Spencer@revjss.bsky.social · last mo.
Another absolute cracker from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social: "Universities are not safe places to work" Academics and professional staff need to remember that we ARE the university. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky
Universities are not safe places to work
Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.
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Can I introduce you to a Leaf Sheep…a type of sea slug about the size of a grain of rice. 🙂
40 straight years of budgets geared towards them, and one year the (rich) boomers are not at the forefront of the politics and you get this.
Tim Richards@timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo agoLOL really. Yes they are a most neglected and forgotten generation. ;)
Even if it were right-hand drive it'd be illegal to put a Cybertruck on public road in Australia (etc) due to decent safety rules covering drivers, pedestrians & children. If you put it on a private/dirt road or across a creek in Australia it would become a stationary pot plant very quickly.
PandaMom@pandamom.bsky.social · 2mo agoI never cease to be amazed at how absolutely hideous the cybertruck is and that people actually buy them…
Male hummingbird dancing for a female: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
My column: what is the median income for Australians. And what puts you in the top 10% @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
ATO tax data shows that when politicians talk about 'average Australians', they’re not talking about most Australians
It might surprise people to realise just how little a majority of Australians earn. We are often told about average earnings and even average full-time earnings. But averages are not “the middle”. The...
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Hey, Channel 9 newspapers, SMH & The Age how about fact-check One Nation lies about abortions, eg Hanson's lie that people 'abort the day before due date'. Absolute rubbish. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Pauline Hanson spoke for 90 minutes. We fact-checked her key claims
We break down the major talking points from the One Nation leader’s speech and fiery Q&A.
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Flying fish gliding above the surface of the water. Original post
My favorite thing is when animals feel the need to show human moms their little babies 😭😭 TT: @hayleydavo99
I am very pro quant and materialism and empiricism and grounded scientific practice but the key thing with doing any of them good is you need a bunch of humanities and qual stuff to avoid fucking up and there are a lot of 20th century ideological hangovers that are built on denying this.
Wouldn’t it have been great to go with the headline “Small group of racist agitators overwhelmed by enormous demonstration of community spirit”. This is the alternative narrative up and down the country. Eight arrests at anti-immigration and counter protest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Eight arrests at anti-immigration and counter protest in Brighton
An estimated 300 people took part in a Stop The Boats protest, with about 4,000 at a counter protest.
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Juliet Lamont was raped and tortured by Israeli soldiers. this is her story, told by Andrew Brown. #gaza #flotilla #auspol #IDF michaelwest.com.au/israeli-sold...
Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her - Michael West
Gaza flotilla participant raped and tortured by a foreign military, while her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop.
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I tried briefly in post academia to retrain as a library technician. I didn’t because I was too busy. But it is probably the best job in the world.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo words. #BookSky
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
