The Tawny Frogmouth named Bird of the Year. We always look for these guys nestled in the gums whenever we're at Edgar's Creek Parkland in Coburg North. I love those little not-owls.

Artificial Intelligence - is it good? Nobody knows but I laughed at this cartoon (which I did myself no robots) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am in fact begging people to signal more virtue. That would slightly raise the net global virtue

Well, this is a bit terrifying. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

Monitoring anyone who isn’t mourning Robert Redford and calling their employer

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device). www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...

If art didn't matter the fascists wouldn't be doing everything in their power to destroy it. Keep making your art, you resistance fighter, you.

Make no mistake. The $100,000pa that the University of Melbourne will save by trashing an intellectual asset like Meanjin will not be spent in the pursuit of cultural and public value. It won’t even cover the VC’s annual lunch expenditure.

It's not an exaggeration to say Meanjin - along with Overland - has been a cornerstone of Australian literary culture for decades. Killing a publication like this for the sake of some loose change just makes it abundantly clear the university doesn't give a shit about literature at all.

Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house. I am disgusted @meanjin.bsky.social

The loss of Meanjin is devastating news for Australian writers and readers. Always meant so much to see my work there. Some of my best experiences of being edited. An entirely avoidable disaster.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Nationwide March for Palestine — Sunday 24 Aug. End genocide & starvation. Impose sanctions. Stop the arms trade with Israel. Join the march in your city. #auspol #IsraelPalestine #Gaza #NationalMarch

Retire and spend time with your grandchildren, both of you. Oh, no, not you, you can’t be around children. Oh, and not you, you can’t be around anyone and a window at the same time.

Although the festival have not replied to my email I can confirm that this article is correct and I am one of the authors who has pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival. I will not comply to any code of conduct that censors my speech on genocide.

I think I speak for all Australian film fans in saying how important David Stratton was in building the foundations of film culture here. Fighting film censorship, the @sydfilmfest.bsky.social, championing Australian cinema and taking film criticism seriously. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Vale the one, the great, the only David Stratton. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Vale David Stratton, whose legendary influence on Australian film culture will endure forever.

Such sad news.

This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza. This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people. Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society. The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide (🎥 Gaza Notice)

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Would an Australian newspaper ever gleefully report that people on unemployment benefits or sickness benefits had found a way to rort our system? The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’

Along with - a deep, epigenetic trauma - unconditional love, and - a passion for mashed potato my beloved holocaust-survivor grandparents passed on to me the clear understanding that #antisemitism flourishes in times of distress. This means that none of us will ever be safe until all are safe. 1/

News of Peter Russell-Clarke’s passing today sent me straight back to the ‘80s. That cheerful jingle and the opening credits of his ABC cooking show seemed to be on every afternoon. Press play and let the opening jingle nostalgia do the rest. RIP.

Good news! Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s artistic team for the 2026 Venice Biennale, following an independent external review of the decision. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today. We really do. chaser.com.au/general-news...

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ALP chooses war-mongers Trump and Netanyahu over intl law and basic morality.

And the US just bombed Iran at the behest of Israel, which has been claiming its at immediate risk of a nuclear strike for 30 years and we’ll all be told Israel has a right to defend itself, but anything Iran does is an act of war and in another 30 years we’ll be told there was no need for any of it

Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.

We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel's attack on Iran is just the latest example. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Would we ask if Russia had a right to “self defence” before it launched unprovoked attacks on Ukraine? Completely insane framing.

It is not an exaggeration to say there are specialists refusing to treat huge swathes of the population. As someone living with a multi systemic condition I have been referred to enough specialists to know some outright refuse to treat ppl with complex conditions beyond an initial consult

'Specialist care is a "postcode lottery" in Australia, according to the report, with people in wealthy communities receiving about a quarter more services than those in poorer communities, despite being healthier.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Boy George letting rip with a reply to Rowling on Twitter

If anyone you know believes this narrative, they're either very racist and totally down with fascism, or they're stupid as shit and need to avoid things like boiling water and sharp objects. Either way, keep your distance.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

SBS’s Insight accused of betraying people living with chronic fatigue syndrome who appeared on program www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS.

Fascinating story about a CSF leak misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease. CSF leaks are a common comorbidity of #MECFS. #MedSky www.thefp.com/p/sean-fisch...

Why are these people so full of hate? They are cruel and myopic.

The Environment Minister Murray Watt will approve the 50-year extension of one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel projects, Woodside's North West Shelf. Along with releasing 4 billion tonnes of emissions, this decision will result in $215 billion worth of gas given away royalty-free. #auspol

Voters getting an early taste of what a newly dominant, centrist, pro-fossil fuel Labor government will deliver www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is: 🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation 🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation 🔴 massacring civilians 🔴 making declarations of genocide A thread:

The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC “two-side” the genocide in Gaza. "You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide". The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary. 2/2

This is essential viewing. A remarkable interview with Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatrician working in Gaza, following the killing of her colleague’s NINE children by Israeli forces. Going to post this video in two clips. Here she responds to ludicrous IDF denials & calls out the genocide. 1/2

Saoirse don Phalaistín. ☘️🍉