Barb 😷🌈✍️🐓☕️📷🚴🏻♀️📚🔨
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No DMs. Walker, writer, photographer, actor in Lutruwita/Tasmania. All words mine, no AI. Utas English. Exploring the unwanted & the abandoned. Nerdy introvert. Sunburnable. Perimenopausal & often injured. Tinnitus & hyperacusis. steppingonthecracks.com
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Are you available today?
January 4, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Are you available today?
I got me the start of a #furiousfiction story. I think I’ll let it rest until tomorrow now. #amwriting #writingcommunity
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
I got me the start of a #furiousfiction story. I think I’ll let it rest until tomorrow now. #amwriting #writingcommunity
12 minutes until Stranger Things time
January 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
12 minutes until Stranger Things time
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This is why I am #OneOfTheTwo that Jon Stewart mocked.
Because I value my intelligence and my ability to think clearly and analytically. Because I want to keep learning things.
And because I am afraid of Covid. It’s fucking scary. I’d rather mask forever.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/eve...
Because I value my intelligence and my ability to think clearly and analytically. Because I want to keep learning things.
And because I am afraid of Covid. It’s fucking scary. I’d rather mask forever.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/eve...
Even fully recovered survivors of mild COVID can lose IQ points, study suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is why I am #OneOfTheTwo that Jon Stewart mocked.
Because I value my intelligence and my ability to think clearly and analytically. Because I want to keep learning things.
And because I am afraid of Covid. It’s fucking scary. I’d rather mask forever.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/eve...
Because I value my intelligence and my ability to think clearly and analytically. Because I want to keep learning things.
And because I am afraid of Covid. It’s fucking scary. I’d rather mask forever.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/eve...
I’ve had a lovely few days with my young human person and tomorrow they are going back to their uni world and I’m gonna miss them so much. Again.
December 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’ve had a lovely few days with my young human person and tomorrow they are going back to their uni world and I’m gonna miss them so much. Again.
They donate the stuff to people who actually need it, right?
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
They donate the stuff to people who actually need it, right?
I just watched the news. People sit & wait for the royals outside their church service and then give them Christmas presents. What in hell is that all about?
December 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I just watched the news. People sit & wait for the royals outside their church service and then give them Christmas presents. What in hell is that all about?
I wrote a little thing about my experience participating in AWC's #furiousfiction challenge this month open.substack.com/pub/stepping...
Aussie Gold
Adventures in short stories
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December 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I wrote a little thing about my experience participating in AWC's #furiousfiction challenge this month open.substack.com/pub/stepping...
Wonder if the people on the plane are cheering
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Wonder if the people on the plane are cheering
Sitting in the car tapping the dashboard saying come on, you can do it
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Sitting in the car tapping the dashboard saying come on, you can do it
Switching to visual
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Switching to visual
JQ 707 is over water. Will it land this time? Will my phone battery last until it does?
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
JQ 707 is over water. Will it land this time? Will my phone battery last until it does?
Ohhhh my goodness!! My short story from AWC’s #furiousfiction made the long list! How excitement! Thanks, Canadian food regulator for your stance on Vegemite, which inspired the story 😀 #writingcommunity #taswriters
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ohhhh my goodness!! My short story from AWC’s #furiousfiction made the long list! How excitement! Thanks, Canadian food regulator for your stance on Vegemite, which inspired the story 😀 #writingcommunity #taswriters
JQ 707 update. Still in Launceston
December 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
JQ 707 update. Still in Launceston
When a company emails you to share “exciting news” you just know it’s going to be them introducing some AI shit into their platform.
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When a company emails you to share “exciting news” you just know it’s going to be them introducing some AI shit into their platform.
Anyone waiting on JQ707 from Melbourne to Hobart, it’s in Launceston.
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Anyone waiting on JQ707 from Melbourne to Hobart, it’s in Launceston.
What is more important? People being able to get out of a car park quickly a couple of days a year, or a safer street for everyone else the rest of the year?
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What is more important? People being able to get out of a car park quickly a couple of days a year, or a safer street for everyone else the rest of the year?
That song in every musical that no one likes www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXKU...
That Song In Every Musical That No One Likes - Sarah Smallwood Parsons
YouTube video by CharactersWelcome
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
That song in every musical that no one likes www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXKU...
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
I dreamed I wasn’t going to a school reunion & used my soccer grand final as my excuse, but one of my besties who I hadn’t seen for 30 years came, so I stayed to see them. When I left for the game, John Barrowman was the coach, waiting in the car for the rest of the team. Then Mick Jagger was there
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I dreamed I wasn’t going to a school reunion & used my soccer grand final as my excuse, but one of my besties who I hadn’t seen for 30 years came, so I stayed to see them. When I left for the game, John Barrowman was the coach, waiting in the car for the rest of the team. Then Mick Jagger was there
If governments won’t tax billionaires, and AI replaces all the jobs so the government gets no income tax, where will they get their money from? Or is that the end game here?
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If governments won’t tax billionaires, and AI replaces all the jobs so the government gets no income tax, where will they get their money from? Or is that the end game here?
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It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
I just saw a cat running with a bird in its mouth & another bird chasing the cat screeching and it was so awful and I am so sorry little bird. It was so distressing.
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I just saw a cat running with a bird in its mouth & another bird chasing the cat screeching and it was so awful and I am so sorry little bird. It was so distressing.
I went out to the Bridgewater Bridge last month to make some photos before it gets demolished. I wrote a blog post about it slgimages.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/b...
bridgewater bridge
Exploring the 1946 Bridgewater Bridge before it’s demolished. This was the fourth bridge crossing Timtumili Minanya / River Derwent at this location.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I went out to the Bridgewater Bridge last month to make some photos before it gets demolished. I wrote a blog post about it slgimages.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/b...