Reupping coz climate. Also weather.

Exhibiting at Women of the Badlands, alongside many friends from Dunmoochin and Montsalvat is my sister, Grace Garton, who took on my Dunmoochin residency when I returned o/s for some months. I'm so proud of Grace & her exquisite, multi-faceted paintings, illustrations and intricate soft-sculptures.

Three more journalists murdered in Gaza by the government that cannot be associated with such acts for fear of upsetting supporters of said govt and their well documented crimes against humanity. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Bidayuh elder, Padawan, Sarawak. One of few women left in the region who wear brass rings around their arms and ankles, applied to them at an early age. No one seems to know when the practice commenced or why. Ian Urquhart filmed these same women in 1962/63, 40 yrs prior to the portraits I'd taken.

Dredging in Port Phillip Bay is changing the coast line around French Island, already suffering significant erosion due to the removal of mangroves.

Yes! It is! Although my music making is not a secret life, however, it's less public than it had been in former times. The joy of making music for the sake of the experience of conceiving a complete work, not as product but as an experience, is immense. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

A few weeks back I interviewed famed forest protector, educator, songwriter and poet, John Seed about his pre-web activism on the internet and his vision - and hope - for the present and not so distant future for us all. youtu.be/c90SGUb318I

so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built

Ukraine has been under Russian attack for several hours🚨‼️ Another explosion just shook Kharkiv. Explosions reported in Kyiv. Multiple explosions have also been reported in Chernihiv, where the city is experiencing power outages.

FFS!!! The President of Peace's dark blood magic on display again.

The last time I saw Ash was a good many years ago at an exhibition opening in Prahran. We chatted briefly about the intervening years, PhDs and teaching. We spent a lot of time together thru the 90s. He gave people like me a leg up no matter how indifferent our work was to conventions of the day.

Hello 2026. I baked a cake, cleaned the house, admired my roses and read the latest from Chris Hedges and Francesca Albanese. Perhaps the last bastion of hope is love and resistance. Somehow this both calms and excites me.

Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them. The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful. Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble. >>

A few months ago I got my turntable & records back from my ex & started buying vinyl again. I've moved all my music off streaming platforms, going all in on Bandcamp. Gave my cassettes away to eager aficionados. Sad about the amazing woman who had been in my life but happy about slow listening.

”There is no going back to where we were before Dec 14. Not only was Aust’s shaky sense of safety irrevocably shattered, the social contract Australians relied on their politicians to uphold, to place the nation’s needs above politics, has been destroyed by the Coalition.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social

"There's basically an economy around disinformation now" Maybe now could be the right time to start asking politicians and your organisation's social teams why they're actively assisting monetised disinformation schemes by retaining their accounts at X and doing free volunteer work by posting there

@ronnisalt.bsky.social making sense of the shambolic nonsense cleaving headline seeking outrage from tragedy and mourning. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

“Large language models are quietly reshaping the way people write research papers—& scientists are catching colleagues using #AI to do their work.” It’s very corrosive of the research & communication of it & our trust in #science. Generative AI & its rapid, unregulated evolution? flip.it/H6ayt6

2025's last #SundayShot is approaching and it is a good one. @zoedaniel.bsky.social & @dncameron.bsky.social join the panel & there are cameos from SO MANY MORE! Plus our ace Summer merch from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social is now on sale - a top Xmas gift for your favourite people. theshot.store

Who could've known that Flea's first solo release is a plea for love, peace and humanity. youtu.be/TmyjzvQv5bA?...

Screenshots from This Choirs Sings Carols produced in collab with First Impressions Youth Theatre, screening at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard, Sat 6 December, Cottles Bridge, Victoria. Details in 🔗tree!

Open invitation to a one-off free screening of my films KNOW ME and THIS CHOIR SINGS CAROLS on Saturday 6 December 2025. Details below: www.facebook.com/events/17977...

Surveillance in Ethiopia has evolved beyond a mere function of the state (and deployed against women, its effects, writes genderit.org, are particularly devastating).

What if we got raising kids all wrong? youtu.be/fAXgXP9JRDA

We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss. 🧵 1/2 ⬇️

IMHO, teachers too have become tireless filters of said AI use. This last batch of marking I did lead me through strange, weird territory, one student arguing prior to submitting an assignment that genAI was here to help them. All it would do is aid them in achieving a lower grade.

It's hard to not see this country sliding into chaos... it may take longer than others, but political timidity, incrementalism and cowardice is creating such a vacuum it beggars belief that Labour does not see it. They appear so removed from the lives of everyday people.

Balance mag invites journalists, writers, researchers, and storytellers to pitch thoughtful pieces on how technology will shape our lives and our planet in 2026. . balance.commonedge.asia/opening-2026...

A new recording studio has emerged from the rubble of a once derelict warehouse in Ascot Vale, Melbourne where I'll be collaborating with sound engineer and pianist, Rob Rolfe, as producer on various in-house projects. Much of the studio he built himself, his mother's drop-jaw paintings everywhere.

This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us "The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-al...

No where will be spared. That's the grim reality many of us have been living with for decades. I saw this coming at the UN Conf on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992. We had a chance to turn this around, it was possible but drastically irresponsible efforts have been made to push back since.

Join me at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard in Cottles Bridge, Victoria, for a free, dinner screening of KNOW ME and my unexpectedly controversial 2015 film, This Choir Sings Carols, on Saturday 6 December. RSVP essential. Let me know below, or visit the FB event page from the LinkTree in bio.

From water birth to a wet death! Extraordinary! I really should make a plan for the end of one's days. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The language of Ukraine is of ancient origins. It has survived purges & much worse. @daryazorka.bsky.social shares insights into its origins & how it is revered & respected by its speakers at home & abroad. The Ukrainian song from 1571 tells us a great deal of a language some claim never existed.

Seriously, I'm seeing more and more folks are using ChatGPT to fact check generative AI posts and images! Thirty-six years since modems became widely accessible in Australia, the paucity of digital literacy in this country is bewildering.

It was quite the day out the front of St Mary's.

Renewable energy and community owned is such a no brainer. reasonstobecheerful.world/moldova-citi...

"Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good." @timothysnyder.bsky.social, On Freedom, 2025

I had my bag checked by security at Melbourne Airport. This came up in the scan. No one but an older security officer knew what it was.

Against all odds, my first website, coded in 1994, is still online and much of it still works. Unfortunately, the RealAudio streams do not. toysatellite.org/bh/

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Never ever dreamed I'd end up in an Insta Frame, but Meera from Eltham Bookshop is marvellously persuasive. Diwali celebrations in Eltham were joyous & a welcome break from the worlds I inhabit in my work. I was hanging out with author, Neil Grant & members of the Diamond Creek Tough Guys Book Club.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, is seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia. More people are getting info that’s on Wikipedia via AI chatbots trained on its articles and search engines posing a risk to the sustainability of Wikipedia.

1993, when the internet was fractals we couldn't see but described in text. Perhaps the first video I can recall describing some of the work we did way back then. youtu.be/d16go7hA7a4?...

With Bandcamp sold twice within a couple of years and Spotify on the nose, Subvert.fm is tackling the idea of an artist owned internet, or rather, an artist run, collectively owned music marketplace. Interested? It's easy to become a supporter or artist/label founding member. #subvertfm

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/olPGmsjCE8LTa

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed." Everything is cool and normal. www.wired.com/story/satell...

I so immerse myself in this album, headphones on, sat outside of an evening, under the stars in rural Victoria, remembering such nights playing guitar in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, and actually in the Sudwala Caves with the late, most sincerely great, Roy MacGregor. newcape.bandcamp.com/album/lost-t...

Before folks get too excited by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, take care to note what Venezuelan's write about Maria Corina Machado. It's hard to know if the opinion piece is spin or not. They certainly took great pains to find a photo that sells the headline. www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...