There's no cheeses for us meeces

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Choose compassion and love today. And please, I beg of you, stay away from AI for your news.

Just horrifying

The club scene in ep4 of Heated Rivalry is pure art, the best representation of conflict ever, it is perfect, a master-class, Spielberg, Scorsese take fucking notes

Got Whamageddoned vi an instagram reel, as if I needed more reasons to despise Zuckerberg

Just learned that the horse in Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter visuals is named Chardonneigh and it made my day better so I'm hoping it makes yours better too

Good thing today: every single one of my scheduled in-person things have been cancelled. Bad thing today: surprise in-person encounter with a huntsman spider in my laundry basket

This year, once again, I ask how people can post their 'best of the year' lists before they have enjoyed the prime reading time of Dec 26 - Jan 2.

Last night, I went to see Whitefella Yella Tree at UMAC and it was extraordinary. A two-person show about colonisation, told through monthly meetings over several years, it is nuanced and kind, taking familiar history and making it raw and personal and intimate. all to say go see it if you can!

Watching The Haunting of Hill House with eldest daughter and just got to 'Bent-Neck Lady' episode and she reacted *exactly* the way she was supposed to and I don't often feel like a good parent, but at this moment, I knew I'd done something really right.

Really struggling with the 'first nice weather day of spring euphoria' and the 'calm down it's still Melbourne practicality' dressing decisions

It's just that insomnia makes no sense in the current climate. If anything, the existential horror should keep me from wanting to *ever* be awake

so numb with this news www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

Hello, I'm sorry I can't come to work today, I have to solve the mystery of the 7th covenant of good business in my Tiny Bookshop neighbourhood? I'll probably be out for at least a week *cough cough*

Also I met Sarah Maclean and held a normal person conversation, which is 100% personal growth

Hobart is really turning it on for the #RWAUS25 conference. I just opened the windows in my hotel room?!?

Publishing assistant looking after my copyedits always addresses me as Dr Cuthbert, so I told her to call me Kate and now she calls me Dr Kate 😂

Watched two movie while sewing this year's book week costume. Will now be listening to the KPop Demon Hunter soundtrack on repeat forever and also I see why the fuss over Conclave, loved watching the gossipy lil' red guys gossip

Copyedit win: they let me keep my Oxford comma

Finally getting around to watching Wolf Hall s2 with my husband, the man who, in s1, said, 'I like this Anne Boleyn character. I hope everything turns out okay for her.'

Is there a gender-neutral term for in-law? My spouse's parents, for example – parent-in-law? or siblings? or for a child's spouse – child-in-law? Someone smarter than me probably has a good solution for this?

Just got the copyedits for my book? I wasn't sure what I'd feel, having been on the other side for so long, but I'm really excited. Mind you, I haven't *opened* them yet, so it's possible that this excitement will turn into horror, defensiveness, and depression. So I guess stay tuned?

my daughter is currently studying WWI by assigning countries to Mean Girls characters: Germany - Regina George, Austro-Hungary – Gretchen Weiner, Ottoman – Karen, Italy – Regina's mom Britain – Ms Norbury, France - Damien, Russia - Janice. Kady is absolutely the US.

The kids on Tumblr know what's what

Been laughing at this video for almost an hour

obviously little empathy for the Aus Liberal Party, but isn't this just another case of promoting a woman into an impossible situation so that she will fail (and therefore prove that women can't hold leadership positions)?

If I could bottle that fresh sheets feeling, I could afford all the books I want to buy

RIP to the actual best Batman, my first celeb crush, co-star in the best Christmas movie, the maddest of Martigans, the true Top Gun

Caught up in the LibGen piracy? In Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand? Here are things you can do right now:

Absolutely wild obit for LJ Smith (Vale...I loved vampire diaries as a teenager)...survived by 'longtime friend'? Really?https://locusmag.com/2025/03/l-j-smith-1958-2025/

You can send things to me and I'll work to factcheck during the election campaign (which, for my sins, I will be live blogging) 🫠

The thing about Naomi Novik is that I really just really love her books

Lovely night for a festival program! #mwf

Quote of the night at the VPLAs: 'I just want to say that Mum lives in Queensland, but Victoria is celebrating her. So maybe Qld...[trails off, shrugs]' – Bruce, son of Wanda Gibson winner of 2025 Book of the Year. [My] quote of the night: 'I just love Canadians. You're all so *not* American.'

no parenting books prepared me for how much 'Mum!' said by other children sounds like 'Mum!' from my children, and therefore how often I would find myself yelling 'WHAT!' to other people's kids

Now THIS is the kind of BTS info I'm desperate for 😂 LitHub about picking which books characters read on screen (specifically #whitelotus and #andjustlikethat): lithub.com/how-are-the-...

I know it should be world peace, but honestly if given the chance to fix one thing in the world, it would be parental parking around schools and in quick-drop zones at school pick-up and drop-off

the irritating thing to me is how every romantasy book is dismissed as some version of fairy p0rn when the vast majority of them are about how to fight fascism

What's this? A new episode? With the luminescent @littleredwrites.bsky.social? Get it in your ears! And then tell us about it: #wwddpod

Petition EN7076 - End Partner Income Tests in Welfare Payments. This is an important petition against unfair tests that keeps many people from living the lives they would like. If you agree, I encourage you to sign it. Also, because the gov't is tricksy, please don't forget to confirm via email!

Monday evening reading party

Loving the first day in weeks that walking to school pick-up is a pleasure and not an expedition directly into the sun 🥵🥵

In excellent news, I have regained my bluejays cap!

Me: Did you take my bluejays cap? Dad: yes, because I have one Me: ok, so why did you take mine? Dad: because I have one Me: okay, but why take mine if you have one? Dad: because I have one so I thought yours was mine Me: so only one person in can have a bluejays cap at a time? Dad: apparently

Wish me luck, friends. I'm about to go into a sporting goods store with a piece of equipment I own that I use in a sport I play for which I will have to speak to someone. Will today be: A) ignored completely B) condescended to C) disbelief D) seen as a soft sell

Helloooooo cool change

I'm reading a book and every third! sentence! ends with an! exclamation mark! and it is so distracting! I have to keep re-reading sentences to get the right inflection in my head. Elmore Leonard said no more than 2–3 per 100k words. I say no more than one. Maybe. And only in dialogue.