“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” So pathetic. Backbenchers scared of taking a moral position, Albanese scared of any reform.

hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit

I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill. #art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI

Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests

One month to go until this banger of an event. Get your tickets now. www.trybooking.com/DGYGO

Just how I always pictured it

Can’t wait for the next election so we can vote out the Morrison government #Auspol

Most daring novel I've read in months. Published 1969.

Thank you, forced-on-us google AI overview. 140145kmh is very fast indeed.

No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.

I somehow missed the alert when this went up yesterday but I’m very proud of this review, of a moving and extremely strange new book by Carol Tyler.

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system. thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

A lot to like here. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

There's scum, there's sludge, and then somewhere way down below that there's these rotten bastards.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Great moments in courtroom art

Not now, widening gyre

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳

Someone needs to take this guy down a peg

Got into the one bit of the faux outrage over Albanese’s Joy Division shirt that I do find interesting -- the ideas behind early Punk's flirtation with the symbols of extreme right politics, and the battles over racism in rock at the time: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...

What's the best thing to do when you're still whirring from Jen Calleja's book on translation? Reread this mighty collection from poet-translator Chris Andrews. It deserves all the awards.

The inventive, antic, justice-fighting spirit of Jen Calleja is something to behold, bent here to an exploration of translation and the role of the literary translator. A ripper.

This is going to be a heck of a night. See you there! www.trybooking.com/DGYGO

Save the date - 6th December - if you can get to Coburg RSL, a riotous evening dedicated to restoring the razzle dazzle to the great Robert Skinner. It's going to be fab, just like him. Will post booking link etc once available.

Great story (by my brother) about the remarkable people running a displaced Ukrainian university, sometimes from bomb shelters. futurecampus.com.au/home/inside-...

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

'wily lyricism' where ' rhythm and cadence never falter' Enjoyed this perceptive review of a worthwhile, hard-to-pin-down novella.

Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon

If you stopped bank robbers it would kill the whole robbery industry

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

That tells you everything you need to know.

Sanctimonious nonsense from the publishers of the hate peddling Murdoch trash rags who pursue people, including teenagers, they don’t like with extreme prejudice

Great news for Traditional Owners who always said it was the wrong site, NTG will be happy not to spend money on culture, Feds don't need to stump up for a diminished project certain to have cost overruns. But $15m spent, all for nothing, due to political expediency. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Wanted to be sure Spent Light by @larapawson.bsky.social is the best book I've read this year so I read it for a third time to check and it turns out Spent Light by @larapawson.bsky.social is indeed the best book I've read this year.

Mad Monday, 1901 style. (Brunswick Football Club outing to Whittlesea)

A special friend died yesterday morning. The night before, a painting of hers fell off the wall beside my desk. Yeah, I dunno.

Imagine if anyone in power in Australia was ever held responsible for any wrongdoing ever. Imagine if we had a national anti-corruption commission or something like that.

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

Looking forward to chatting with Konrad Muller about his exceptional debut novel. www.readings.com.au/events/konra...

sittin on the dock of the bay

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin. www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Just remembered something I should have added to this yesterday: the response from someone on Twitter when I first posted it there

Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

What a shemozzle. Hard to predict what happens next: will other writers fests and cultural events have learned that pre-emptive censorship is a disaster, or will Bendigo-style speech-limiting contracts become the norm?

Grandparenting = Aussie boxing and a hammer 🔨

Many thanks Roland! A privilege to be read by you.

Hey, it's the launch of my first book of poetry at Fullers Bookshop with Tassie legend Pete Hay! If you come along, there'll be somebody there at least. www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/lithos...

Support Bookish in Bendigo, official Bendigo Writers Festival bookseller who would have spent months stocking books for the event and have pulled out in solidarity. Call them for your next book order if you can, or even pay it forward for one of their customers. +61 3 5406 0596

www.theguardian.com/environment/... I love the tone of bewilderment: what? They turned out to be crooks? Did anyone seriously think they were here to do the right thing?