“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

That she's cool as fuck?

Yesssss Brisbane domination continues #NRLW

When the Scrivener app updates and is now purple instead of black and white: crying, screaming, throwing up I'm a Taurean and allergic to change; please spare a thought for me in this trying time

If Stephen is pronounced Steven shouldn’t Stephanie be pronounced Stevenie? Ok have a good day everyone

“This is where Zionists and liberals love to remain: in conversation, doing nothing, going nowhere, talking for the sake of talking and loving how good and necessary the discussion is”

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza. Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection. Please watch and share widely. youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be

A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg. -Why the sudden irreversible decision? -Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)? -Why the secrecy? -Why use the financial viability argument now? As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.

FYI MEAA Rally: Save Meanjin! Thursday 11 September, 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

The horrors continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The closure of Meanjin is real blow to the Australian literary community. We're sad to see the loss of another place where writers, thinkers, and culture-makers have a voice and platform. Our thoughts are with staff and contributors.

This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin: An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world! Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

If only there was something we could do

Leave them alone guys, they can only count up to ten thousand 🥺

Oh boy, oh boy, can't wait to tune in to ABC at 7pm and see them give a ridiculously low estimate of the crowd numbers today!

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Heartbroken, disgusted, enraged by this brutal cowardice. Never silenced by it.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

"We don't sell the death beam energy, so it doesn't count." Read more: chaser.com.au/national/won...

the plan has always been flatten gaza now, worry about the war crimes tribunals later now gaza’s flat

It was just as possible then as it is now.

Blame me, I totally voted Untouched by The Veronicas. And I'd do it again. #Hottest100

#hottest100 im seeing a lot of people who do not know how much Untouched means to a lot of people.

ALL RISE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM #Hottest100 #Untouched

no way get fucked fuck off! etc (shouting into the internet void to get my jollies because I live with a toddler who is in his mimic era) #Hottest100

This country doesn't even DESERVE Amiel and that's all I'll say on the travesty that is Love Song's (presumed at this point) omission #Hottest100

If Strawberry Kisses doesn't make the #Hottest100 there's going to be violence (from me)

Just in case you missed this, this was the first week back in Parliament. It’s revealing to see what motivates @albomp.bsky.social’s government to act. The PM has released yet another statement today about Israel, but again no actual sanctions. The last panel was harrowing to draw. #auspol

A pregnant woman was one of two Palestinian journalists killed overnight. The media death toll in Gaza now exceeds 200. In this episode of We Used To Be Journos we question the silence among many Western journalists given the unprecedented attacks on our peers. Follow @ettemedia.bsky.social

Labor do not give a shit about the environment or taking action to preserve it. In fact they actively seek to destroy it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

My close friend died suddenly last week. It was a shock and is really awful. She's was a writer and a poet and an artist and a disability advocate and a punk and a hater and friend and a mother to her cat and a comedian and partner to Leong Funerals are expensive www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

apolitical nature writers suck

Maribyrnong council voted to commercialise a longstanding not-for-profit childcare centre. Please sign the petition to keep it community based and affordable.

"The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it." - Amiri Baraka

Judge: "I infer that Mr Oliver-Taylor sought to mitigate the anticipated deluge of complaints [...] In that sense, the decision was made to appease pro-Israel lobbyists who would inevitably escalate the complaints about the ABC." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

"We have to pull back on palestine support" "we have to pull back on trans rights" "Dems should be more centrist" EAT HOT ASPHALT YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!!

This is so frequent it's almost impossible to keep track of which articles are which, every day you check the news it's happened again - is this the same article as yesterday? Nope, a new one. How the fuck are we letting this happen.

You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.

The "number of people normally cited as killed" (~50k atm) is the number which Gazan health officials have confirmed killed by violence. To be part of this number, an identifiable body or a witness must be brought to a hospital and issued a death certificate. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed.