The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

Had a bit of fun with my synthesisers and guitar and made a soundtrack for a fictional horror film - thinking of this as a bit of a tribute to John Carpenter on.soundcloud.com/3q6tUzJ9hb4O...

People need to understand that with global warming, we are not living through natural times. And therefore, you shouldn’t be using natural deodorant.

Tory MP is a fascist, who’d have thought

Was expecting this Grover Washington Jr record to be a bit more chill but it turns out it’s an incredible fusion funk thing that set the vibe for today at the correct pitch for me to not scream at anyone at work

This Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki album is just unbelievable

This morning’s vibe courtesy of Oren Ambarchi, Johann Berthling and Andreas Werliin’s Ghosted album

Shit yeah a new cinema is opening around the corner from my place

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Finished the new Pynchon and it was just okay

It’s fine for great books to be a bit boring

It’s so funny that whenever the billionaire class opens its mouth all you get is absolute dogshit

I’ve been given the coolest cup to drink my beer from

Might have felt a bit crummy leaving but damn if the new Pynchon didn’t take the edge off the trip

Love to be middle aged and have anxiety, I need to put my shoes on and go catch a tram to go play board games and drink beers with my friends but my body and brain think I’m gonna be chased by wild animals if I move off the couch or something

Perfectly normal human interaction on the dating apps

Kinda telling that the guy with brain damage is a fascist innit

Congrats!

Love when something like this happens to a fave

Yessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think Alexis Wright is getting the Nobel prize but I also bought the new Pynchon and a Can Xue today just in case

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

This is Engels’s girlfriend that died and then Marx was sad about that but not as sad about his kids not having shoes for the winter so please can Engels send some money

Finished my public transport book halfway on my way to work. Oh no I’m going to the bookstore at lunch

Nobel prize in Lit is getting announced tomorrow night (Australian time) - who are we feeling folks? Maybe Alexis Wright I reckon

I think the reason they don’t is because everyone knows he doesn’t

Curious tarot pull for the first day back at the office after a week off

Reading a friend's research on neurodiverse people's experience in school, I'm realising that the main reason why I'm a book guy is because a teacher once told me he thought I had a knack for writing, and I made it my whole personality since like 4th grade.

God damn Matsumoto never misses

I fucking love that moment when Columbo reveals to the rich murderer that he was onto them from the beginning and he has already has all the evidence while the murderer is under arrest and has lost everything they so cleverly thought to gain

May have just smashed out a short story, or at least a nice first draft, l over breakfast this morning, nice. I guess I can spend the rest of the day watching the Wire

Maybe I’ll put my cat on a tshirt

The guitar I'm rebuilding is 99% done. I can't wait to show everyone

Locked myself out of the house was a great opportunity to see just how difficult it would be to break into my place

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Werner Herzog voice: “I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love: Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Satantango dir. by Bela Tarr Charlie Parker

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Dissociating! On a peak hour train

Oh shit there's a new Ghosted album orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghoste...

Whoever is responsible for the Collected Works of Kant in English, I just want to talk

Whoever is responsible for the Collected Works of Kant in English, I just want to talk

A lot of people at work asking me questions answered in the very thing they’re replying to

Funny that @damonyoung.com.au would accuse me of gunslinging in a bookstore when it is he who made me buy this

Strolling into the office blasting limp bizkit like I’m a prize fighter about to win a belt

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

At the point in trying to find furniture where I’m considering I could just build shelves on my own instead of buying them

A few pictures from the rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social for their disgraceful axing of Meanjin - permanent shame on those involved in the decision. Melbourne Uni once again committing cultural arson. Thanks to @beneltham.bsky.social for bringing everyone together

Rally to save Meanjin magazine Thursday 11 Sept 9am 715 Swanston St Carlton A number of Australian writers, editors and academics will speak in support of this vital cultural institution