Bethany Keats
@bethanykeats.bsky.social
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Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲 PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓 Also: languages Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷) co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
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Books I read in 2025: a thread
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I really wanted to like this but it fell flat for me 😥
Book: Translations by Jumaana Abu
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Creepily current. Technology discomfort, overstepping human boundaries, ethics. It literally could be written today.
Book: The Breakthrough by Daphne du Maurier
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Kate Mildenhall’s ability to consistently genre-switch is quite something!
Holding a phone showing a book cover on the screen. The book is The Hiding Place by Kate Mildenhall. It’s photographed next to a dandelion
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They usually can as well! Although it’s not guaranteed (and I’ve rudely experienced)
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The very same! They are absolutely wonderful birds (except when one decides to try to kill you. But at all other times, they’re marvellous 😅)
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Such an accurate description 😆
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A magpie! Of the Australian variety.
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Firstly, everyone please try to remember that coercive control is not romantic.
Secondly, I’m so fucking annoyed I can’t see this.
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Saw a lady with a fabulous dog and asked if he was friendly.
She said yes and then I gave Buddy some scritches and it was fabulous.
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Due to Qantas scheduling, I had to fly to Canberra on a Sunday.
But I saw Mr Squiggle, sat with a hot chocolate and read my book, then watched @romgothsam.bsky.social talk about gothic women.
Pretty good Sunday in the end.
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It’s just marvellous 😍
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Taxi driver at Canberra airport: Floriade is still on this afternoon.

Me: nah mate, I’m booking my Mr Squiggle ticket as we speak
Selfie of me looking super cheesy happy with the actual Mr Squiggle puppet (behind glass) Super cheesy happy selfie of me with Backboard (behind glass)
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Self quote because too many of you were asleep when I originally said it.

And I’m still not in Canberra because Qantas has been fucking with flight schedules.
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As I dragged myself out of bed before dawn to take the 6am plane for work I was reminded of when I used to drag myself out of bed before dawn every morning to take the 6am train to work.

And that’s one of the reasons I now live in Townsville.
Only to take the 6am plane.
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Saw this on my morning walk...

Happy Halloween? 😅

🎈🎈🎈
A yellow balloon coming out of a strormdrain
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As I dragged myself out of bed before dawn to take the 6am plane for work I was reminded of when I used to drag myself out of bed before dawn every morning to take the 6am train to work.

And that’s one of the reasons I now live in Townsville.
Only to take the 6am plane.
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Pretty much the only conditions I’d do a marathon in
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Domestic horror story.
Scene: while vacuuming
“Was that kitty litter or an earring” 😱
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Well, my day started with cleaning up cat vomit.
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Lecornu II : Matignon Drift
Lecornu 3
Lecornu 4Ever
Lecornu V Infinite
Lecornu Origins
The Lecornu Tales
Legend of Lecornu
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What’s cycling infrastructure? 🙃
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Got my bike back from its first full mechanic check up in Absolute Yonks.
New chain, new bearings, new cluster.
Shit's going to be so smooooooooth 🔥
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Never forget that Australia went to war with emus in 1932 and the emus won
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“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”