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Michael J
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Librarian and reader 🌈
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Late contender for best news quote of 2025: "At the end of the day, most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet."
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The author is right: X has become a perversion of what the internet was meant to be. But the deeper question is why people remain so captivated by a platform that has turned into a hall of poisoned mirrors — and why serious newspapers still participate in it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
How to 'hack' a library website – a video tutorial by Tim Sherratt | SLV LAB
Learn how to hack a web browser to view and access online collections in different ways
lab.slv.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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This makes up for yesterday #WQuers as I start all over on my streak
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Some great photography to cheer us all up!

The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures
The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures
A preening brush turkey, a wise cassowary and some hungry terns are among the winning and shortlisted photos in this year’s prize
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What a fucking disgrace
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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By putting them on?
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Lost my streak in the corridor of doom #WQuers 😩
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Paywalled but you get the picture. Management does not necessarily have a background in Libraries
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Let’s take one as an example. 9.3% U.S. adults identified as LGBTQ+, highest since 2012 when Gallup started measuring it. The number is low. Gallup said that “85.7% say they are straight…[and] five percent of respondents decline[d] to answer the question.” news.gallup.com/poll/656708/... (51/?)
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%
LGBTQ+ identification among U.S. adults has increased to 9.3%.
news.gallup.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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One day, a god appeared to me in a vision and said “it is your destiny to become a mid tier bureaucrat”.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Bad start but a good guess on line four #WQuers

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November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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"Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants his day in court."
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West
Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F@#* Israel t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants a court battle.
michaelwest.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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these legal principles could and should protect the nurses who are charged for words about an imaginary Israeli patient that were made public in a similar (at least allegorically) way to Brown being paraded around by NSW Police and amplified by pro-Israel media outlets.
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Social media- what's happening in your brain and how to prepare for the ban for under 16s kidshelpline.info/3X34SYf
Social media under 16s ban | The good, the bad and your brain
Arguments for and against the ban, the pros and cons of social media, and how socials affects teen mental health.
kidshelpline.info
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I have been putting off doing a big clean out of my pantry for weeks and weeks and I finally decided to do it today and I'm less than half way done and am entirely made of regret at this point. My name is misery and I may die at the bottom of this pile of randomly assorted pantry items
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM