Lauren Pikó

I have no money but will somehow personally pay you to do this

The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

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It's like if Montresor walled himself in and then wondered how he got there and why nobody listens to him

Isn't it wonderful that there's always something new to read!

Truly it was a treat, and always happy to evangelise for contingency as much as I wholly agree that I wish we didn't need to quite so much 😑

Any time! 💪

4 & 5. @emmashortis.bsky.social 's Our Exceptional Friend* and After America, on policy as contingency (things do *not* have to be the way they are.)
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*Full disclosure, I fact-checked this book; it was immense fun.

3. Cruel Care by @jordanas.bsky.social . Often recommended on writing quality alone; also recommended as a means of grasping how government workers think, including how they think about the institutional horrors they tend to. publishing.monash.edu/product/crue...

No Power Greater, Liam Byrne Unions are making a comeback. Labour disputes around the world have hit the headlines as unions take action to challenge inequality. But while media coverage has increased, understanding of unions has not. In this lively history of Australian unionism Liam Byrne seeks to illuminate what unionism means, exploring why successive generations of working people organised unions and nurtured them f...

2. No Power Greater, by @liamj47.bsky.social . An introduction to what's possible, and to the concept of standing for things and fighting for them. www.mup.com.au/books/no-pow...

🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember:

1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...

That's awful! I wish there was a redistribution option where you could take some of my constant intrusive napping which I could very much get rid of :/

It creates a second infrastructural front bypassing Victoria, therefore helping to either contribute to or prevent Vicxit (please select preferred option)

Fun point, with my eyesight being nonsense today I initially read this as Sydney-Christchurch, which I think would be a bold infrastructural move you may possibly support

This rules, so hard. Top tier example of how Sandifer is quietly doing some of the most genuinely thrilling intellectual-cultural history work around, in ways that connect so many fascinating disparate threads that cut across disciplines, genres, and many other boundaries besides.

I feel like you would enjoy my sleep specialist, who manages to turn up in most Aus media pieces on these sorts of topics saying the usual things, but also is deeply pragmatic about my near-absence of sun exposure... I wonder if there's a goth-friendly accreditation program for sleep physicians

Another area identified where we are dopplegangering; solidarity from your much less successful and functional southern-states shadow

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You'd think I'd have clocked that but I also got my own age wrong today

Was just about to post this and saw you'd gotten there first, great minds think alike (i.e. think about @michellearrow.bsky.social 's work)

One thing that we found in our research is that there was one individual who sought to join the National Front of Australia (and donated a sum of money) who was a 60 yo plantation manager in Papua New Guinea. ASIO noted that he had previously been a donor to the Australian Nazi Party.

My instinct is to start calling myself the Autism Creep and purchase a cape

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reposting this from @DisVisibility on twitter.

Zotero is my favourite (designed by historians!). Very customisable, open source, won't sell your data or use it for nefarious ends, great community to help you solve any specific needs you have, and you may be able to work with your library staff to work with the basics too.

This is difficult because it's All About Lennie, which does not narrow things down

definitely can be a thing for those in our wheelhouse -- in the past have been used as a teaching aid by nurses wanting to explain hyperadrenergic POTS presentations to their colleagues when I unexpectedly crashed during a cool change

Me too, truly. if it wasn't for me actively embracing crone energy, I'd be really annoyed by it

Gotta love cycling through all the emotional and logical levers available, hoping that the next one will trigger any decent response in the enshittification enthusiast, and yet

I like this one. FWIW compared to the fascism/environment points which people are super comfortable with not caring about, I have had some success with "I have spent thousands of dollars/ years of my life trying to shore up my failing cognition, please don't inflict deskilling machines on me"

now is the time of grumbling (by which I mean I am become monstrous)