Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

"For a long time, I thought I had failed when I left academia, but I discovered that I am a librarian, not a professor." This time last year, we published Kasey Butcher Santana's CONTRABAND MARGINALIA. Find this memoir on being a jail librarian here: buff.ly/7GEJcNM

Episode 700 of @thedollop.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Did a CEO draw this

I still think this may be my favourite of the lists l have put together on @letterboxd.social - my favourite genre, white people out of their depth and slowly going crazy in the global south. boxd.it/jO8ei

Experimenting with gouache a bit this week. Was getting frustrated with the slowness required, struggling with it not looking like what I’m used to with watercolor, so I started adding silly creatures til it was fun again. Don’t ask why they all have 1 eye. They just do. 🎨 #art #gouache #creatures

It’s ok, France. We had a period where we had NFI who our prime minister was either.

Umm why would you want to

huh, weird, all the other banky murals get protected and promoted by the authorities, wonder what's different about this one

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

Maybe Meanjin could come home now

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down? It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance? This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

What happened to those clowns from 2016?

Same

Bubble tea shops not opening until the afternoon near me is simultaneously homophobic and also saving my bank account

My friend, telling a story about how she was slightly a jerk to her ex: “In fairness, some bitch had just cut my hair too short.”

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Today my therapist checked that I was still following her direction to not keep up with the news much

Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so). "PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase

Holy shit 🤣 www.reddit.com/r/auscorp/s/...

I slammed the corner of a kitchen cupboard into my forehead so good it was bleeding. Curious to see how ridiculous I look tomorrow.

It seems that under capitalism the only way to value an activity is by categorising it as labour or as recovery from/preparation for performing labour

You can pre-order this sapphic Medusa retelling here: www.katherineshawwrites.com/osas 💙📚👀 🌈📚

Rupert Murdoch being deposed about Donald Trump is quite a concept

I chose to shut down my Itch shop, because I don't want to use a platform that delists queer and trans users, so any reposts of my Ko-Fi shop are greatly appreciated. (Also, if you want a straight romance featuring a disable woman and a mechanical cat, I'm ya girl. 😁) ko-fi.com/helenrosethw...

Imagine being a sane person in Turkmenistan

I turned my book in @scribnerbooks.bsky.social today, and I swear to whoever is running the account, you can add Taco Bell Quarterly next to Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Corporate at Simon and Schuster already said it was already okay to add me in the bio, totally legit

Happy birthday to all the horses (this may be an Australian thing)

I feel like it would make sense for Dexter to want to go to prison. He could stab people to his heart’s content and no one with authority over US prisons would give a single shit

Oh the crescent moon looks like a fingernail clipping? How original what a great simile

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

You don’t need a new angle or fresh reporting. Stop it. Just re-publish it with a short editor’s note at the top.

curious what nine months of Colbert with nothing to lose looks like

@jessicaalice.bsky.social hey lady

So since this latest M365 update it’s impossible to deactivate predicted text in Outlook? It’s destroying my entire train of thought you fucks.

thanks tiny penguin 🐧

it’s called “feminism” you heathens

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

have lived my life in such a way that my mom sent me a Guardian article about a condom from 1830 with an erotic etching on it (she correctly predicted I would love it) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Being kind should not be counterculture

Okay targeted ad algorithm I’m listening

Here she is! The North American cover for Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, in all her glory. The novel is due out in the US and Canada on July 8, published by HarperVia.

Today is #WorldBeeDay which is a great day to grab a copy of my book 'Telling the Bees and other Customs' which examines folklore and rural crafts. There's a whole chapter on bees and beekeeping. You can grab a copy here www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p71/Te...

Criminal Minds is really making the most of being able to say fuck now. Like, most of the characters sound like me now.

What a queen