Dr Laini Burton

Senior Lecturer @QCAGriffith. Convenor of Higher Degree Research Programs. Art/Fashion | Masks & Masquerade | Body Politics. Views are my own. She/her.

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@ferrengipson I thought the red ones were Correa - the pink look like carnation or chrysanthemum maybe 🤔

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@andrea_bubenik @QAGOMA @UQCom_Arts Sounds fascinating!

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@ferrengipson Ferren, I got fixated on the flowers! What about red Correa bells?

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@KateSo_ @DrLindseyFitz Currently reading The Illustrated Man which has a series of short stories that gives different perspectives on an event. Very easy to digest!

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@ferrengipson Snap dragons?

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@AnnebellaPollen This tweet is the best! And gave me a solid strategy for my next outing!

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@saruzza @forarthistory My exact thought when I saw the appointment! Very exciting 👏🏼👏🏼

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@msnicolaholly Can’t wait - Friday night is for #BarbieWorld 💗

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@KatiePennick @DrLindseyFitz Katie, this isn’t just your best Twitter thread, it’s possibly the best #Barbie tweet out there! Also, would love to hear your take on whether Barbie’s fashion here is suitably adaptable for a Wheelchair user 🤔 #adaptivefashion #WheelchairBarbie

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@VFinnishProbs Dental Floss

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It was wonderful to see the excellent #3MT #HigherDegreeResearch pitches at the Arts, Education and Law Group Heat this evening! Congratulations to all heat winners and participants @AEL_DeanR @Griffith_Uni

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@Enezator That bear is just in the first stage of tenderizing his meat 😳

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@dog_rates This tweet gave me life today 😂 Thanks Barney.

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@pepin_neff Tres sharp 🙌🏽 - ignore the insecurity of your colleague who isn’t bold enough to step into their own style. They’ll get there … one day, maybe 😏

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@JFLhere Yabbie

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@MrJonCryer Freddie Kruger 😳

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

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@k8_lister I have no idea what is going on here but it gave me joy and many chuckles! 🐔🐔

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@UTSFass @tracy__ellis @AustBookReview Congratulations! I hope it leads to many more opportunities ☺️

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@murrigellas If it’s hot Nanna Gella, I’m putting my order in over the fence! 😂 Ahm, with a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg too, please?! 🤤