This is so good. Look at that parrot hop! I had no idea that’s how they got around! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Absolutely hate that every time I see a cool or funny or compelling photo on the internet now I have to ask myself “Is that AI?” Absolutely hate that every waking moment we’re all online now degrades our sense of reality. Absolutely fucking hate that nobody has asked any of us if we want this

#bds #boycott #israel #palestine Recently reunited shoegazers My Bloody Valentine are among the latest wave of artists to join the “No Music for Genocide” boycott, geo-blocking their music from streaming platforms in Israel. The campaign, now includes over 1,000 artists and labels.

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21

Here, again, is the human cost of the government's unlawful system of payment suspensions Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Absolutely hectic frog action at one of the local wetlands tonight, I reckon there’s at least half a dozen different species calling in this recording I made (sound up, obviously)

And just yesterday data was published that revealed the rate of searches and use of force against Aboriginal people is "getting worse, not getting better" ...

Oh no, Jimmy Cliff ☹️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS the cops have 'Designated' Melbourne's CBD & all nearby parkland a 'Zone' where you have to let them search you, empty your bags & pockets, & remove "headwear, jackets, scarves" 🤔 🇵🇸 & any "face covering" that protects you from injurious "crowd-controlling substances" ACAB

The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year. With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this

Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.

"It is located 5km from the town of Deniliquin, but none of that town’s population of more than 2,700 people objected to it. All 66 objections came from more than 50 kms away, with 60 of them from people located more than 100kms away, and 26 from interstate" reneweconomy.com.au/long-distanc...

In case you missed the saga of us quickly opening a little vintage shop and ebay Ireland promptly closing it & suspending us forever, here is our new shop on Etsy. Free shipping in Ireland, cheap shipping in the EU (sorry UK you should have remained 😩) vintagehabibi.etsy.com

I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Rules meant to protect endangered gliders increase risk of localised extinction, scientists say www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Anyone wanna see this cool stick insect I saw yesterday? (Helpful bods on iNaturalist tell me it’s a Children’s stick insect, Tropidoderus childrenii, and Wikipedia tells me the blue wings spots are diagnostic and the body colour and structure mean it’s a male)

Ethnic cleansing, torture, oppression, dispossession, slavery will continue, as it has since 1948. Palestine is not the threat…Isreal is the threat.

A reminder, the GoFindMe page is still there. www.gofundme.com/f/aatux2

I’m not a Dick Gaughan superfan, but Handful of Earth is a touchstone album for me - a work of shining brilliance. For all of Spotify’s parasitism, the behaviour of Celtic Music described in this article is in some ways worse to me. The BBC live album is terrific. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Not great footage but check out this Leadbeater’s possum I saw last night! Fastest thing I’ve ever seen in the trees, so good

how does this constitute giving money away if you in fact just gave it to yourself

Another reason for regular mammograms... They pick up more than just breast cancer. Quite a few of our lymphoma pts had their disease found on mammogram

🔴 BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike has killed 11 people and injured 4 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh in Saida. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, which reported the death toll, called it “the bloodiest massacre since the announcement of the ceasefire." The Israeli army's Arabic...

The Americans seem fascinated by Olivia Nuzzi as a celebrity figure whose sole talent is a shameless willingness to debase herself in the presence of power, and the coarsening effects such a person’s success has on media culture. But the flags on the Harbour Bridge are at half mast for Lawsy

Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell? We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night. Try it for yourself here oilwell.app

So now Australia will be making F35 fighter jet parts for Saudi Arabia. A country that Amnesty says ignores people’s basic human rights, restricts their freedoms and inflicts severe punishment. The regime also kills dissenters. No one even asked us.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Disgraceful & tragic what governments have done to this once science powerhouse! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... "Federal Science Minister...Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing the efforts of the CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel...in Australia."

A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry

We have all been repeating: we need to see real seriousness right now before winter arrives. Last winter, exposure to cold killed dozens of children in their tents. This is what these six families—mostly kids—are facing RIGHT NOW. Shelter, winter clothes, blankets: chuffed.org/project/hope...

🙃🙃🙃 cannot believe how short sighted this government is, honestly. Now is the time to be POURING money into research, not cutting it.

There is no downside

Congratulations Victorian Liberal Party on replacing a leader whose name I honestly can’t recall ever hearing prior to this week with a new leader who has the most generic Anglo name imaginable. Shan’t bother learning who any of you are

I can only speak for myself but although I haven’t had much input on the covers of my books, my publisher has always at least shown me the options well before time. The artists’ works have been so beautiful and have helped sell the books so much and I’d be horrified if my publisher used AI covers.

The situation in Palestine is still an ongoing genocide. The situation in Sudan is still an ongoing genocide.

So many dickheads and outright misogynists in these replies and it’s far from the worst one, but I can’t get past “in academic circles nobody takes anyone seriously with a PhD if they ask or expect to be called ‘doctor’. That is reserved for MDs only.” Sir what the FUCK are you talking about

It’s legal to seek asylum. Alas, it’s also legal to seek votes by vilifying, harassing, and punishing refugees. Shameful stuff. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We’re back! After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’. Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...

This 🧵. "Friends don’t let friends eat Tasmanian salmon."

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

My least popular food opinion is that I would eat a Brazil nut over a cashew any day of the week

Dear Americans, even if your current rapist president did fellate your former sexual harasser-in-chief, one gay consensual blow job is not scandalous - the genocide these creeps are running and their pedophile rape island shenanigans easily top the rotten shit cake you lot call the status quo.

Got on a plane this morning and the name of the plane was Seaspray which I feel is a bad name for a plane