A piece on the ‘audit’ of higher education overland.org.au/2026/05/behi...

Great piece on experiencing Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’ live. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Just a reminder - you only pay 47% tax on income earned *above* $190,000. If you earn $200,000 you pay an average tax rate of around 30%.

Support @insidestory.bsky.social with a tax-deductible donation! artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...

Sport is bad.

How the fuck does he keep convincing himself of this shit?

Either you are professionally required to be on social media all the time or you are on social media all the time because something else in your life is missing. That's it. Nothing's "important" about it. It's work or it's therapy. Have a little self-awareness.

Some of you would surprise yourselves if you really thought out the timeline and realized just how recent an idea it is that social media is Important. If Twitter makes you feel like you're engaging in something Important, that's like a depression symptom. You're doing too much social media.

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The idea of Pauline Hanson being part of a coalition is so incredibly funny.

👏👏👏 www.theage.com.au/national/goo...

This is excellent.

Remember when the media used to constantly tell us how much Tony respected Aboriginal people and culture.

Published in 2003. 🥴

Gawenda has responded to this in the comments section. So has Jeff in turn. Hoo boy.

Brilliant as ever from James. Essential reading.

Anyway, you can read Jeff's response to this ridiculous and inflammatory piece of nonsense here: overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

Interesting, thoughtful essay by Paul Strangio.

Good stuff from Kevin Bell. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Read the whole thing, it’s good. I swear. www.patreon.com/posts/adject...

Um, in what way was one of our most prominent writers an éminence grise?

Great ad. Publishers please take note.

Wow, sandwiches AND slides!

Even The Australian, with all its baked-in biases, has better coverage of EVs than this.

We go on about the lack of efficiency and productivity in the workforce, meanwhile someone is paid to produce this fucking slop.

One of my absolute pet peeves in Footscray and West Footscray is land banking. It’s so prevalent, this is a current listing for a block next to the old Franco Cozzo building, literally in the heart of Footscray.

Anyway if you ever find yourself reminiscing about Pizza Hut and Sizzler, throw your phone into the ocean and then walk into the ocean after it. The experience of nearly drowning might trigger some mammalian reflex that snaps you out of it and makes you normal.

The Karl Stefanovic Show recently posted an AI-generated video featuring a soft-focus, late-20th-century Australia that Stefanovic says he grew up in. It's all part of the nostalgia factory of modern politics. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/n...

They also lost their shit when Francis dared to talk about caring for the earth. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great analysis of Orban's defeat from Ivan Krastev c.o. @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the...

Sam Altman isn't another bullshit artist, writes Séamas O'Reilly

Western liberal imperialists saw the Balkan wars of the 1990s as archaic: nationalist feuds that could be chalked up to “ancient ethnic hatred.” But these were thoroughly modern conflicts, and presaged the ones to come.

Not a peep from Quadrant about Hungary. I guess John O’Sullivan is busy shredding.

In his new book, Noam Scheiber identifies a combination of structural and psychological factors that explain younger generations’ transformation into central players of a resurgent labor movement. @maxkiefel.bsky.social reviews “Mutiny.” thebaffler.com/latest/froth...

Quite the coincidence that the photographer in question is the same guy who used to constantly glamorise certain politicians. Certain politicians who’ve gone on to become university chancellors, for example.

Sounds like an extremely legitimate business.

The moment my employer tries to force me to use AI is the moment I quit, or at the very least demand an exemption on ethical grounds.

Datacentres are a menace. Don’t approve them. We can cope without AI generated slop. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I reviewed Amy Remeikis's Where It All Went Wrong for @austbookreview.bsky.social. Fair to say I wasn't impressed. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Politely asking the Iranians to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until all the monster ute fuckwits go bankrupt.

I reviewed Amy Remeikis's Where It All Went Wrong for @austbookreview.bsky.social. Fair to say I wasn't impressed. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Love to read Bernard Keane’s expert takes on Victorian politics.

Lol, the Abbott/Credlin Midas touch once again.

Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Great thread.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities