Vale our beautiful Lady Penelope - Queen of the Cats hereabouts. kchisholm.vivaldi.net/2026/05/29/l...

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the KAA Gold Dagger ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Congratulations to Mark Billingham, the winner of the 2026 Diamond Dagger, Sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin 💎⚔️📚 Celebrate with us at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the 2026 Emerging Author Dagger Sponsored by Fiction Feedback! ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/x03SOR2 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the 2026 CWA Dagger in the Library! ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/x03SOR2 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted publishers for the 2026 CWA Dagger for the Best Crime & Mystery Publisher ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the 2026 CWA Short Story Dagger! ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors and translators for the 2026 Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation sponsored in Honour of Dolores Jakubowski ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheDaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the 2026 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the 2026 Historical Dagger sponsored in Honour of Dr Marilyn Livingstone ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the CWA Whodunnit Dagger ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Please join us in congratulating all the shortlisted authors for the CWA Twisted Dagger ⚔️📚 The winner will be announced at the Daggers’ Dinner on 2nd July… get your ticket here: buff.ly/VSa31bZ 🎟️ #TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

Thursday Temptations post on AustCrime: www.austcrimefiction.org/posts/thursd... #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

May Newsletter from AusCrime with a list of new releases and recent acquisitions: www.austcrimefiction.org/simplenews-n... #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Your regular reminder that when they say Victoria they don't mean here. Hasn't rained a drop, not expected to. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Baragwanath takes a deep dive into the nature of insider and outsider communities in Lucky Thing." Karen Chisholm reviews Tom Baragwanath's latest crime novel, Lucky Thing: newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/tom-baragwan... @austcrimefiction.org #BookSky 💙 📚️

Don't Panic! Remember, you are safe in this Galaxy, as long as you know exactly where your towel is. Happy Towel Day! ⏰📚💙🪐📚🎧 #TowelDay #onthisday #HitchhikersGuide #novel #DouglasAdams #scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature #today #Towel #Galaxy #dontpanic #reading #fiction #readers

It's Friday and I'm #currentlyreading tinyl.co/4ZhB and the last fortnight on AustCrime: tinyl.io/BoNl #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Did my first hour run to pick up the mail. Not a lot of traffic about

Today's Thursday Temptations: #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir www.austcrimefiction.org/posts/thursd...

Well she made it to her 16th birthday, despite numerous attempts at making herself desperately ill. Deaf and nearly blind now, the wheels are wobbling but she's still here. Lovely Laverne, it's been a hell of a too few years with you so far.

One more blatantly ignored ceasefire, one second at Eurovision. Thankfully there are countries with principles who boycotted this year

Squeaking in on Friday afternoon - today I'm reviewing Honey by Imani Thompson tinyl.co/4You I loved it. Why is complicated. #Books #Review #CrimeFiction

Yesterday was World Cocktail Day and we probably should have taken a photo or something but Frangelico Sour's may be the drink that gets us through the current chaos: eatnik.com.au/frangelico-s...

#BookSky 💙📚⚡ Thursday Temptations on AustCrime www.austcrimefiction.org/posts/thursd...

Today is Daphne du Maurier’s #birthday Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned. ⏰📚💙🎧📚🩸🖋️📚⚡️ #DaphneduMaurier #books

#BookSky 💙⚡📚 Brilliant series!

Note to self, if your pet pig takes a dramatic downward health turn and it turns out she's constipated. Cranberry juice. Not out of the woods yet and definitely living life on the 2 steps forward, 1 step back carousel, but she's had a snack this morning and is moving around a little bit.

Farrer results weren't all that surprising - for a heap of reasons as far as I can tell: kchisholm.vivaldi.net/2026/05/11/f... The view from a regional dweller in a regional seat in the middle of a never ending shitshow.

To solve our postal problems I've now spent around $500 and will be driving an hour a week to Maryborough because the contractor now hands us a piece of paper at the front gate telling us there are parcels to be collected out of a PO that's completely inaccessible 1/3

Strange week this, should be preparing for our annual #eurovision party but we'll not be participating this year.

I promise you won’t see anything more gorgeous today. Karter makes his AFL debut. Video via AFL Play.

In case anyone is feeling lost, here is a handy guide.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

I know city people complain about having to go collect parcels that auspost haven't tried to deliver, but I reckon the 600k round trip they're expecting me to do is a bit bloody much. St Arnaud, Sunshine West, Melbourne... And back to Avoca to find the one missing there...

#Booksky 💙📚

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

It looks like the weather has "broken" a little. We're getting a small amount of rain but best of all - the heat has partially backed off. Still too warm overnight but we'll take at least this reprieve. Last month was very nearly the straw that broke the back of this old, decrepit warhorse. 1/4

It's Friday so #currentlyreading time: tinyurl.com/5n983h9v including the last fortnight's updates: tinyl.io/BoNl #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

End of April (well nearly) Newsletter went out yesterday: tinyurl.com/26xerndw #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Listening to a dire situation unfolding on Mt Arapiles. Awful thing for those people to experience - thinking of the person who is in real trouble there. Thoughts also with the local Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung people.

What he said. What the fuck is wrong with people.

Friday's #currentlyreading tinyl.co/4Y1M and The last fortnight's activity tinyl.io/BoNl #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Re-upped in Crikey! For everyone - @thedeadlynewt.com -who simply can’t come at the idea of following a SUBSTACK link.

Thank you to Mr Birmingham for a) reading this and b) saying everything that needs to be said about this tripe. We LIVE in the middle of nowhere & effortlessly drive an EV, have done for nearly 5 years now. Wonder why I don't believe a word the ABC comes up with anymore.

Wait until they notice each other...

Love @squigglyrick.bsky.social (rick-morton.ghost.io) newsletter but in describing the menace's idiotic reaction to the Pope we got this gem: "..., as per, took the whole thing about as well as one of his cognitive tests and started posting like a livestock auctioneer going through a divorce."