I used to be a librarian, but I drifted
Woiwurrung Country
Joined February 2011
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Have you come across a piece of information that changed your life? I’m doing research @RMIT to better understand what information has that impact and why. We’ve a short survey at rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f… if you’d like to tell us more!
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Talented family: a portrait of Missy Higgins by her sister Nicola - a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2024.
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Any home bakers out there have experiences of trying to make a cake based on a favourite character. Whether it was a triumph or failure I’m looking to talk to people about their baking inspiration for a piece I’m writing about Adaptation in the Kitchen. DM if interested. Thanks!
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
Every now and then I take a moment in my day to pause and have a good think about things.
I wouldn’t recommend it.
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Tell a British person that it was cold when you woke up, and they will tell you it was even colder when they were up even earlier than you.
“It was chilly waiting for my train at 6am”
“It was even colder on my run at 5am”
“Well it was absolutely freezing when I was walking the dogs around 4.30am”
“Okay but it was baltic when I was feeding the chickens at 3.45am”
“You should have felt it at 2.50am when I was up sweeping the driveway”
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
There should be a dedicated word to describe the sorrow of when you go to have a sip of tea only to discover it’s all gone, you’ve drank it all and didn’t even realise.
What should that word be?
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
I am here to tell you: do not carve your pumpkin a week before Halloween in the Australian heat.
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"Hi, could you help me? That other person is sitting at the computer that I want to use and I want you to get them to move."
"I'm sorry, sir, I'm one of the librarians. To handle your question you'll need to talk to someone different."
"Who?"
"Your kindergarten teacher."
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
The newe logo of twitter doth looke lyke the logo of a dating site that people do not tell their spouses about.
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Hey museums/curator/art history folks in Melbourne (or willing to move here)... have I got an amazing job opening for you...
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/j…
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
There is nothing new about how AI gets things #wrong. A good warning though to educators about over trusting #AI which can result in falsely accusing students from culturally & linguistically #diverse backgrounds of #cheating.
abc.net.au/news/2023-06-02/i…
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We've conferred with the team here and can advise we all agree the plural of compactus is compactus. One of those wonderful words that remains the plural of itself.
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
How is it that the Venn diagram between people who think libraries have been rendered inconsequential by the digital age, and the ones who think libraries are so dangerous their materials need to be strictly regulated, is so very overlappy?
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
The library has study rooms available for individual and small group use. But when you come in and tell me you want to "rent a room" for a few hours I feel like I've gone to work in an entirely different field
Rebecca Parker (she/her) retweeted
Jane Eyre
Jane Fyre
Jane Water
Jane Erthe
Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...
Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
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If you/your kids are looking for a simply beautiful middle grade read, you must pick up Sea Glass by the delightful Rebecca Fraser
Friends, my cup is full after the launch of ‘Sea Glass’ today. I have so many thanks, but for now I’ll fall in a happy heap & leave you with the posy perfection that arrived on my doorstep this arvo from the lovely & talented @kahmelb A perfect full stop to a perfect celebration
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So many happy memories. So many Prime Ministers trying to ruin them.
Larry the Cat’s 12 Years as Chief Mouser - 19 photos from Larry's term as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street in London, which has seen five Prime Ministers so far. theatln.tc/fNAxKIWi
ALT A cat wearing a red-white-and-blue bow tie walks on a table.
ALT A woman holds up a cat in front of David Cameron and Barack Obama.
ALT Two photographers lie down in a street to take a close photograph of a cat.
ALT A cat runs away from a man who is leading down to pet it.
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12 years ago today I was appointed Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office and moved into Downing Street. I’ve already outlasted four Prime Ministers and have been in charge here longer than Thatcher, Blair, Churchill and Disraeli.
ALT Larry arriving at Downing Street in a cage
ALT Larry bossing it like a boss on Downing Street
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EDITOR: so before we go to print are you *sure* you mean Tennyson
AUTHOR: yes I'm absolutely sure no shadow of a doubt
ALT The quotation page of a book with two lines of poetry. The attribution "Tennyson" has been scratched out in pen and a typewritten slip hastily added reading "ERRATUM: for Tennyson, read Keats"