Reading the Magic Mountain. Can’t stand reading it can’t stop reading it. Unlike anything else.

Perspectives by Laurent Binet is such a fun read

Just posting music for a bit like the old man I am

The important difference between a committed nazi and someone who just likes to troll people by acting like a Nazi is that there is none.

Please for the love of god read about how “efficiency” anti-regulation drives explicitly led to robodebt. I know that’s kind of the point for some people, but then there are those who might want to oppose that who assume this shit is just harmless populism.

They get to live in a world where what you did - accusing them of being A racist - is ALWAYS worse, wronger, and more damaging than whatever racist bullshit they got up to with a bad-widdle-boy smirk on their faces.

In Australia, more people work in arts and recreation (254,000) than the mining industry (220,000). While there is plenty of money to subsidise fuel for mining companies, cultural institutions have suffered from funding scarcities for decades, writes @alicektg.bsky.social in the Canberra Times.

www.ebay.com.au/itm/25357117... ( I personally enjoyed this period of the V People’s career)

Vale

Alexander Isak is on fire! 🔥 🔥🔥 ⚽️ v Liverpool ⚽️ v Brentford ⚽️ v Leicester ⚽️⚽️⚽️v Ipswich ⚽️ v Villa ⚽️ v Man Utd ⚽️ v Spurs ⚽️⚽️ v Wolves A new Newcastle United Premier League record whoop! 🖤🤍🖤🤍 ⚽️

Strange times at the Circle K. Auckland

It’s a weird empty feeling when you write something and get no feedback or audience response. No one is obliged to watch things we make but it’s a peculiar feeling for a series to come out to almost silence

really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school

So shocked and sad to hear about Brenda Walkers death. Stunning writer. Australian literature has suffered a huge loss. Thoughts with her family

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.

Oh, fantastic news. Homicide: Life on The Street is streaming in Australia on SBS On Demand from mid January. www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/homicide-l...

I know you're all thinking it.

In Auckland. Really visually interesting city. Would love to paint it one day when I get good enough to paint it

Aglow by Vasily Kandinsky, 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137229

Strand Bookstore workers are going on strike starting tomorrow. And take it from someone who had a stint at the Strand…these workers deserve what they’re asking for and more

Pretty disappointed House of Gods didn’t receive a single acting nomination at AACTA awards despite winning at Series Mania in France this year. Hard news for our incredible cast and director Fadia Aboud

Bit stressed at work and just sent a message to my mum Regards Blake. I need sleep

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

‘Treating workers like robots’: Woolworths blamed for empty supermarket shelves as warehouse strikes continue

DON'T CROSS THE PICKET LINE

Everyone knows by now that what they taught us in school about Thanksgiving was bullshit, right? A lie, because the truth was so horrific we’d question EVERYTHING about the founding of this country. Book banning is real now, but whitewashing history was always real.

www.asauthors.org.au/news/2024-bl... congratulations Mireille Juchau

‘I felt ashamed’ – How a dream summer transfer became one footballer’s nightmare

I work in Financial Plan Management for NDIS participants So many depend on art and music therapy as it is the only way they can safely and confidently go out in the community This is such a shame and a disappointment

Announcing our new unit of study on Universal Basic Income - to be offered for the first time at the University of Sydney in 2025! www.ppesydney.net/study-univer...

images.app.goo.gl/SZ55JjMsm83q.... I’m Blake. Been a working writer for almost twenty years. Every time I write I feel like I know absolutely nothing , which is good I suppose. Solidarity to all fellow writers working, not working, dreaming of working, or in that dream state that is working

"Shame must change sides." Gisèle Pelicot graces the cover of vogue germany, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵