Meta is ungovernable. We must stop feeding it images of children. "With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views... half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“As the UN [commission of inquiry] finds that Israel...is committing genocide...the work of Palestine Action could not possibly be more courageous... The least I can do is to make clear that I support them and will go on doing so, no matter the consequences.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Message from a Dr at St Thomas’ hospital:

On hearing that South Australia is expanding classroom AI in all public high schools, I tried not to sink into despair but later I needed to google something fairly simple about The Secret Garden and the AI overview was not just a little off but utterly insane. Sign me up to the Luddite movement.

Yet again, we're seeing horrific reports of the killing of seven children in Gaza this time as they were waiting for water at a distribution site. UNICEF calls for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, aid at scale and release of hostages.

It's nothing short of an outrage that an 'antisemitism adviser' could display such a total lack of fundamental knowledge, curiosity or interest in the very topic they are employed to be an expert on.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Gaza freedom flotilla the Madleen has been intercepted and its crew now in custody, kidnapped by the Israelis. We demand their immediate release!

I wonder if book reviewers in Australia will ever not wield 'young adult fiction' as a pejorative term and, I dunno, frame young adult fiction as masterfully crafted and pitched to its audience instead of automatically calling it simplistic. Not at this rate.

I loved reading this relentless pursuit to answer the question of why a plot-hinging bird in Charlie's Angels (which incidentally I have never watched) is "one of the wrongest birds in the history of cinema". By Forrest Wickman. slate.com/culture/2025...

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Looks like the ABC may have taken this interview off its website. Perhaps we can all re-post this version.

Literally years into this atrocity and the "deadly strikes" are still raining down in the passive voice, like some unfortunate weather

On National Sorry Day, I remember all those who never found their way home. 🖤 Artwork by Beau Motlop

If starving and bombing children to death doesn’t warrant sanctions what will? For 19 months children have born the brunt of the war in Gaza. It is a war on children. There is no excuse for the brutality being inflicted on the innocent lives of Palestinian children & families. It must end 💔

The Israeli government is depraved. It's deliberately starving and murdering children. The world, and Australia, must make a stronger stand with sanctions. The people of Australia demand it.

The Murujuga rock art is one of Australia's most priceless heritage sites. And it's being slowly destroyed. If Environment Minister Murray Watt approves the 50 year extension to the North West Shelf, it will be a death sentence for Murujuga. #savemurujuga #auspol @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social

Fascinated that a teacher stopped reading one of our novels to a class because the character shoplifts in chapter 1, doesn't immediately wrestle with the ethics and isn't caught. It's a novel about crime; clue in the title (Outlaw Girls). Oh well, nothing like stopping to make kids want to read it.

Put on my big girl pants and went for a mammogram yesterday - unfortunately I was also wearing my writer hat, so when the receptionist asked me for the name of my GP I could only remember the name of the fictional GP in my work-in-progress. No good to them apparently.

In case you still haven’t heard, this is the technology people want to use to educate our kids. People are being fired from their jobs because it’s believed this trillion-dollar shit-maker-upper can replace human beings.

Whenever someone tells me they've consulted ChatGPT I think of Dawn and Pete deciding to stay married because "Any Question Answered" told them to (Gavin & Stacey, Series 3, Episode 2)

We'll have to riot if they try this on in Australia. The UK is joining the war on women & girls. Nobody - nobody - should use a period tracker app. Tell daughters, nieces, friends. Some are owned by Catholic anti-abortion extremists, & all app-owners will co-operate with police worldwide.

"The popularity of National Simultaneous Storytime reflects an appetite for shared reading experiences in a turbulent time for literacy rates, with the most recent Naplan results revealing one in three Australian children are not proficient in literacy." Article by Clare Miller.

Sorry but if you a) call yourself an author and b) consider ChatGPT to be your "writing partner", you are a loser so embarrassing that there are not enough toilets in the world to flush your head in

For years the Australian’s arts coverage has been a useful way for it to artwash its appalling hit-jobs on anyone who dares to take a moral stand for humanity. Let this be a reminder - again - that it doesn’t care about the arts community, and it won’t hesitate to attack any one of us.

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

Bear in mind the AI voices will have been ripped off from people like me who, until now, have voiced stories. Our jobs will be diminished or gone, replaced by voices stolen from us without any recompense.

Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians dead; children targeted by IDF snipers; the Israeli government blocking humanitarian aid; imminent threat of famine; a clearly stated intention to seize territory and drive people from their homeland, all so that Netanyahu can cover his arse. Yes I own this T-shirt.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Palestinian children are being deliberately starved to death. We learned at Nuremberg that each individual taking part in attempted genocide is a war criminal.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

I am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere. They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.

In case it’s unclear: products like this strip everyone of consent. It means that one person in a public space wearing these glasses has made a decision for everyone else.

Australian-based authors and artists are donating a range of items for this online auction. Funds go to MSF (Doctors Without Borders), UNRWA, Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Olive Kids. Closes in 7 days. airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...

Horrific

Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare

Voters absolutely love woke. Frothing for it. Achingly fervent love of woke. That's the narrative now. I'm just a witness to truth.

Liberal spokesperson in “other candidates run against us” shock. #abc

Did my bit for democracy in Kooyong today, volunteering for Monique Ryan. Wasn't sure what to expect given the heated lead-up but it was a peaceful & dignified 4 hour slot during which the only stupid comment came from a middle-aged bloke in a... wait for it... Josh Frydenberg shirt. Naturellement.

As someone who helped run/ worked on democracy sausage sizzles for many years, I'd just like to say that even if you've already pre polled, PLEASE drop by your local public school tomorrow and treat yourself to something from the BBQ or cake stall. Your money goes to a good cause.

One of the best 3 minutes of your life will be spent watching this. It's powerful stuff Atlas Network - the subversive people manipulating and controlling public debate and holding Australia back from its full potential. #AusVotes2025 Credit: Regenerators Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqD...

I'm told Peter Dutton is campaigning at the Tower Hotel in Hawthorn right now - a venue whose operator was recently charged with 38 offences for failing to protect people from gambling harm. The fines from the VGCCC for these offences are reported to be up to $2,145,072. /1

50 extra signs, at $500 each per day, for 3 days, equals $75,000, just for Kew alone. Might have to dig into the trust fund, or put up the rent.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o

The bizzare right-wing male supremacy tax-dodgy #Brethren cult who want every woman to be a 'housewife', emboldened for years by the likes of John Howard, is flooding neighbourhoods & polling stations with lobbyists for a Dutton win. Is the LNP paying, supplying or promising them anything?

Next parliament must take on big tech & their algorithms No other industry can create products we consume with ZERO transparency over what’s in them We now know it’s hurting the mental health of young men as well as young women & we must do more. thenightly.com.au/politics/fed...

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.