It's nearly a year since @australiainstitute.org.au report on the state of firearm ownership in Australia came out. Horrified at the reason it's getting attention, but perhaps there will be some movement to make our community safer in the coming weeks and months

I duno guys, Cyber Monday still just sounds like everyone’s going to the teenchat.com forums all day and a/s/ling their way into cybersex with a grown man thinly veiled by the claim they’re 15/m/AZ. Stay safe out there, and don’t put your cam on this Cyber Monday.

Recently MUP quietly released First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today. Co-editors Jeanine Leane & Dan Bourchier selected First Nations pieces published in Meanjin that represented "Writing about us, by us". Meanjin is gone but we're still writing/storytelling www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...

The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year. With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

If you're feeling despondent about the world right now, this is the antidote. New from Australia Institute Press, a book on what it looks like when Australians are brave with contributions from @amythunig.bsky.social, @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Amy Coopes, and lots of people who aren't called Amy.

Big news for me: many of you don’t know that my sisters and I are blessed with the “I love a little bowl to put stones, broken mosaic tiles and marbles in” gene - and the #IFCCONF25 have DELIVERED on the merch! Blak makers like chaboo.com.au know where it’s at!!! LITTLE BOWLS FOR LIFE, PEOPLE.

Happy Halloween: the carpets in our new rental are long-infested with moths & fleas, so we are living in the back room of our townhouse with all our worldly belongings! What’s scarier than landlords “taking a few extra days to pick the new carpet colour” when they could have gone with floorboards?!

The man in this repost’s name is Quinn Haberl and you can donate to his GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo... Focus on the actors of violence, focus on following the victim’s story, focus on keeping protestors safe and financing recovery.

It’s the very last day of the Sabby Garage Sale 😭 🌧️ This is your last chance to snag some deals (and help us out). And your very last chance to check out the old building before we move. 🏠📦 FREE RSVP~ events.humanitix.com/sabby-garage...

I just announced the dates of my LAST THREE short humor workshops of 2025! The first is on Wednesday afternoons in Nov. Write three drafts in 4 weeks and practice giving notes and feedback to others. Writing from previous classes has gone on to be published by the New Yorker, McSweeney's, & more!

My highlight of #loveisblind S9 was watching a woman in the bleakest heterosexual love triangle I’ve ever seen say she wouldn’t be thrilled if her kids were gay, and she’d ask them “Do you really know what you’re getting into here?” And that being gay is a fad now. On Love Is Blind. Season Nine.

Autistic Woman Not Going To Let Anything Get In Way Of Special Interest

“Herein lies the question: if not to sustain ANU’s once diverse range of courses and degrees, and if not to retain the knowledge and skills of its academics, then what is that $232.4 million revenue for?” www.woroni.com.au/news/austral...

Landlord? You’ve chosen a business that turns the right to live into a commodity, and you’re profiting from poverty. Don’t like it? Become a comrade. Break the cycle that taught you, you worked hard enough - you shouldn’t have had to. You deserved security in the first place. We all do.

I’m making a short trip to ANU (yes, in the midst of the shittest time - woo) to run a workshop on audio-documenting, at the BEST school there - CHL. Today they’ve published a sweet story about my work. chl.anu.edu.au/news/reverbe... #podcasting #audioresearch #audiodocumentary

I guess it’s time to pull Apple, the platform starring white supremacy, from its subscription schedule. 💸

‘A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time.’

My wife is showing me Star Trek. I DELIGHT in finding 90% of Next Gen Season 1 consists of the following: No1 - “I’ll form an away team.” Capt - “This smells like a trap.” No1 - “I agree. Let’s go!” *Smoke machine, lycra & prosthetics- fuelled conflict & trickery ensue.* 💖 #StarTrek

A big shid off to racism here in Melbourne/Naarm today. The rally was chant-ready, moisturised and vibrant. #Naarm #AntiRacism #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #RacistsArentWelcome

Best games deal ever???!!!

Last night we hosted dinner with our queer family and we, collectively, had the single-handedly biggest, loudest fight we’ve ever had, and it was about JOJO SIWA. And I will NOT get into it here but this is to say that so long as we have tables, gay culture is alive and well folks.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

One option for the future of Meanjin is for Uni Melb to reinstate its support. And here's one idea for how to fund it.

True that, where is our special envoy to tackle racism against Indigenous people?

I did not know this and it is NOT a fun or interesting fact for the day!!!

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

I am one of the staff members impacted by this. I truly thought when I first read the email that it might mean my job is safe because I have not yet been made redundant, but, no, I am still facing the axe. It was a maliciously cruel email to send.

“The impacts of … Renew ANU … on us are not abstract – they are deeply personal and profoundly damaging … The erosion of one-on-one teaching, the gutting of performance and competition and the casualisation of elite staff have left us feeling abandoned and misled,” www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Hey #ANU folks - the Fenner Circle are hosting a panel to organise protecting the Environment Studio at the School of Art and Design - tomorrow (Wed 20 August). Free food, excellent yarns. Please share and go along!!! #Canberra #NgunawalCountry #SaveANU

in Australia principled writers have pulled out of Bendigo Writers Festival after concerns of being censored about the genocide occurring in Palestine, while in the UK we have heroic authors withdrawing from the LGBTQIA+ focused Polari prize after it shortlisted a proud anti-trans "terf" author

This list of authors from @deepcutnews.bsky.social newsletter deserve a standing ovation. The action they have taken withdrawing from Bendigo Writers Festival will have impacts across the whole sector. Boards and staff of festivals will need to consider the reputational risk of silencing artists.

This, my friends, is my favourite world, campaign, and collaborative story, on this whole planet. And I cannot wait to listen to what happens next.

If your business model doesn't function without stealing other people's work, then you don't have a business model: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Another day, another highly clickable headline from the Scottish Wildcat folks.

It takes a lot of determination to describe this psychologically terrifying atmosphere at ANU. @drdemography.com is a legend. Bishop should resign - and honestly, exec should wear the restructure, take pay cuts and head out. Like decent leaders would. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles

This paper is 🔥 - precisely because in reading, it demands us to demonstrate understanding by doing differently. My fav academic work always does. #DecolonizationIsNotAMetaphor #DecolonizeYourMind

The Productivity Commission has floated an idea to expand the fair use provision, which would make the kind of scraping AI companies do to train ChatGPT et al legal. Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged. NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

"You might feel powerless. That it is too late. It is way too late for way too many. But way too late is going to have to be soon enough." 'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

PSA: They’re just called tweets. This is a Tweet. I’m tweeting into the BlueSky. The other platform is X now, not Twitter. You aren’t “tweeting” on X. You’re screaming on X. We’re reclaiming tweet. That’s it. That’s the Tweet. #BlueSky #Twitter #Tweeting #Skeets

“Community and how we care for it is a weapon, and Aus/NZ devs are bloody good at wielding it.” - @lucymute.bsky.social at @free-play.bsky.social #GameDev #GamesIndustry #ANZGames

It’s a cooked time to be making games, says @lucymute.bsky.social at @free-play.bsky.social - BUT: “We carried hope working on the @frostygamesfest.com showcase. The Aus/Aotearoa community is strong & caring. We will survive bc ppl love games, we rally together, we figure out how to get through.”

Tips for folks submitting to showcases from @frostygamesfest.com: it’s different to an elevator pitch - make clear what the action is. Do you have a kickstarter, a key announcement, a demo to download? Make it clear how the platform of the showcase will benefit you because you have a specific CTA.

At Angels today and @frostygamesfest.com team are opening the day reflecting on their inaugural success running a games showcase for Australian and Aotearoa games. Here’s some cool stuff they’ve said about coordinating events, showcases, and the games community. #gamingindustry #ANZgames

In these times of relentless and rightfully urgent emails from resistance movements and fundraisers, it is the Scottish Wildcat conservationists of the Clashindarroch who have mastered baiting the click.

See, I was always told this Cthulhu was helping Hildegard see what a fringe might look like while she repaired a convent radiator, but this makes way more sense.

Want to see some of the best comedy since that time you were the only person with a disability on your work’s Diversity Committee? @thesqueakywheel.bsky.social have an ONLINE show that folks around the world can access! Tix and deets in link below. 💕

It's not only the multiple & manifest horrors that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. It's also what they are doing to themselves.They are turning their young men & women into monsters who video themselves inflicting massive destruction & cruelty on fellow human beings & laugh as they do it.