I’m just like Jesse Singal in that he published a series of articles that helped kickstart the nationwide backlash to trans rights and I’m someone who said we should all steel ourselves to die on the hill of trans rights together, but not leftistly enough

The two genders

can't tell if it's the "social" is the bad part or the "media" one is.

And, to be clear, this isn’t an anti-AI post. It’s an expression of frustration with a corner of the academy that seems to think the answer is always more, more, more. Ideas worth engaging take time. And I’m not convinced I want quick, efficiently produced ideas. In fact, I’m pretty sure I don’t.

You’ve got to be bookmaxxing. You have to be knowledgepilled and on that information grind. Checking in and looking things up and citing sources. Dont let them bookmog you. Read.

A lot of public discourse is about whether trans people have the "right" to enter this or that space. But I think at its core this a question of liberty, not claim rights. We should all have the freedom to change our sex, in the same way we have the freedom to change our religion or our sexuality.

I've written to their Ombudsman but unsurprisingly News are also in on this brainrot. I've also contacted ABC Media Watch and @aapfactcheck.bsky.social. The only income support 'crisis' in this country is the criminally-low rates of our welfare payments. www.news.com.au/finance/aust...

I love …. Australia ….. 🥰🥲

I love how the Aeneid begins with Juno being like “I can’t believe Paris judged me less attractive AND my husband moved his twink into our house ….. I deserve a crash out. time to alter the path of history.”

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

If Marco Rubio can quote Ice Cube it’s time for Australia’s diplomats to quote TISM

This is a deeply misleading and irresponsible headline because on the story’s own figures 7.5 million are just using their sick leave! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

don't cry when you see the posts of someone who hasn't followed you back. smile because they haven't blocked you

"We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." is just an all timer. i think we will win and also we maybe, finally, might get some good fucking discussion about boundaries, standards and consequences as essential parts of social life

i never left the itunes store. i've remained faithfully buying albums on it this whole time and you know what, i recommend that.

They don’t have values. They have a deep-seated desire to hurt someone and are searching for a morally permissible reason to do so. They WANT their targets to be bigots, because they think that makes it moral to be cruel. They will INVENT offenses you committed so they have an excuse to hurt you.

found it

*scribbling notes* Situationship of Theseus vs Situationship of Fools. *crumples up paper, throws into bin*

At this point I think we do have to hand it to psychoanalysis for discovering the concept of projection which is apparently central to a lot of our lives

Heated rivalry is fundamentally about the fantasy that one might eventually win one’s situationship. It’s a plot by big situationship to sell more situationships

Regular Aussies are fed up with the government telling them who they can and can't murder

On the train, just passed a shop with a sign that reads THE TATTOO ASSYLUM. Here’s how western Sydney can still win

A lifetime of Dawkins pityingly asking religious people how they could believe in something so silly, and now he thinks the computer is his girlfriend

might fuck aroundf and get super into rachmaninoff youtu.be/lBH03fSsQ9I?...

publicising your interim victories IS important during a prolonged period of resistance, because authoritarians want you to give up hope. so they need you to believe they are ten times more cunning, capable, disciplined, smarter than you, but they simply aren't, and it helps to say so & show it.

i'm gonna second this. i may only be able to monitor these things from afar, but based on what i have seen i am long on stancil.

2KILL 2MOCKINGBIRD

“Perfect little schoolmarms” is a revealing phrase. Remember, receiving a compliment from Liz Cheney is unacceptable but actually killing a bunch of Iraqis and enjoying it is no big deal.

I’m seething. Melbourne getting the New York City treatment merely cements their cultural dominance >:(

if i'm a university president, i'm thinking it's probably a bad sign when the paper of record starts using Cop Syntax to report on the story about me

Bot influx recently. Here’s how this site can still win

My Dinner with Grogu

A heartbreaking work of staggering grogu

I’m Grogu. and welcome to Jackass

anyone can (and should) put an epigraph on their prose work but it takes someone really special to put an epigraph on a poem and that's why T.S Eliot is remembered as the legend he is today

Y Tu Grogu Tambien

ICYMI, some news of literary journal Meanjin. “An announcement from the QUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Sheil AO” meanjin.com.au/announcements/ Disclosure: I do various tech things for Meanjin, both previously for MUP and now for QUT.

can we crowdfund László Krasznahorkai to write this

I love how it’s all “we built this country!” Until it’s time to dissect how exactly the country got built and whether we might build it more equitably and justly and then it’s all “well I’m not responsible for what my ancestors did” ok so then you didn’t build shit!!!! Actually !!! In fact!

I will hammer this point. It took five years for a High Court to determine exactly what I and dozens of others said was happening: this was a manufactured moral panic, based on flimsy (and, as it turns out, nonexistent!) evidence, to remove harassment policies protecting trans professors/students

awful, but also terribly funny to see them try to pick this back up when it didn't work for them at all in the election. most australians love the welcome to country because it makes them feel like things are all okay and there is racial harmony, which is what normal people want and like (1/2)

You really should read up on basically everyone in the Enlightenment's feuds with Rousseau. The whole reason we know Rousseau abandoned his children in an orphanage is because he enraged Voltaire so much he publicized it in a pamphlet.

first recorded instance of "this u?"

doing research about the early modern period for the novel revealed this almost immediately. "your views represent the END of CIVILISATION. prepare to receive my STRONGLY WORDED PAMPHLET" "this pales in comparison to my strategy, fire-bombing the local university"

generally helpful to remember about 19th C US, like much of history: major social issues of the day were no more settled then than they are now, and contesting them took forms we'd readily recognize today

same, and also, i am evolving my style, and the AI will never catch me. i am going to weaponise hume's critique. my time series will never be stationary.

Sustained underfunding of CSIRO is degrading Australia’s scientific workforce & sovereign capability. CSIRO workers are highly skilled & essential. Specialised scientific expertise takes years, often decades, to build. Losing their expertise would be a serious blow.