Michael Winkler
@micwink.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg. michaelwinkler.com.au
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Nick Feik
2 days ago
When do you think Albanese will realise there’s no placating these people? News Corp pays no tax and adds nothing to Aus society apart from hate, but Labor acts as if it owns them. Instead of fighting back or standing up for themselves, Albanese and co are like “please sir can I have some more?”
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Jo to the Wyld 🎄
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Erik Satie predicts:
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www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
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In 2026, can we please have fewer books published in Australia?
Publisher and all-round book lover Terri-ann White thinks too many books are published and rails against the cult of the author.
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/in-2026-can-we-please-have-fewer-books-published-in-australia-2834889/
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Caustic Cover Critic
10 days ago
The very fact that you enjoy the idea of shooting a living thing with a gun should automatically disqualify you from ever being allowed to have one.
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about 1 month ago
The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid is also available in BOOKSHOPS, where you can not only buy and own it immediately, but also support the dwindling, Amazon-ravaged bookstore ecosystem.
#booksky
#art
#bookshops
#Brisbane
#Sydney
#Melbourne
#Dublin
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Kaz Cooke
18 days ago
Calling all Melbourne & Victoria
#bookgroups
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#readinggroups
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of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.)
#StateLibraryofVictoria
#ReadingMakesFriends
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For those playing along at home - delighted to report that, after last night, Robert Skinner has indeed got his razzle dazzle back. Thanks to all the big-hearted folks who came together to send love (and a few bucks) towards the people's champ.
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Slow Down Arthur
21 days ago
Ah, the famous Christmas tradition of right wing men drinking cum.
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Jock Serong
21 days ago
I had all this stuff I was going to get done, but the skydivers are on strike, so...
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Yeah I've mentioned this a lot but if you're in Melbourne and you like dancing or you like music or you like weird games or you like hearing great writing, and you want to support one of the good guys, this is tomorrow night and it's gonna be sublime.
www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
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The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project
Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident! With readings from Andy...
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1492778
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Ben Walter
23 days ago
Really nice to read from Lithosphere for Radio National's Line Break series today - always such a privilege to have your work broadcast to unsuspecting ears.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The Oysters Roar by Benjamin Walter - ABC listen
This poem explores the experience of walking among the oyster bursting from the tidal flats around Cygnet. Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer, and the author of the recent poetry collection Lithosphere...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/line-break/benjamin-walter-line-break/105872964
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Jan Carson
26 days ago
I really wish there was a way to dial down the book hype. It feels like the industry has forced us all into a corner where we have to be constantly screaming ‘read my book, it is brilliant’ or books don’t sell and now it’s just super noisy out there and hard to tell what’s actually worth reading.
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Jen Calleja
about 2 months ago
Now the FAIR and GOBLINHOOD tours are over, I wanted to share this essay I wrote for
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
about writing both books.
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
@roughtradebooks.bsky.social
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Essay | Evading Capture: On Writing Two Experimental Memoirs by Jen Calleja - The London Magazine
From our December / January 2025 issue, Jen Calleja on writing experimental memoir and the freedom of experimental forms.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-evading-capture-on-writing-two-experimental-memoirs-by-jen-calleja/
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
“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.
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'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-08/albanese-government-free-vote-gambling-ad-reform-andrew-wilkie/105969714
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CAMERON WILSON
about 2 months ago
hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit
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A.Valliard
about 2 months ago
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
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests
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One month to go until this banger of an event. Get your tickets now.
www.trybooking.com/DGYGO
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The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project
Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident! With readings from Andy...
https://www.trybooking.com/DGYGO
about 2 months ago
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Caustic Cover Critic
about 2 months ago
Just how I always pictured it
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Michael Bell
about 2 months ago
Can’t wait for the next election so we can vote out the Morrison government
#Auspol
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Most daring novel I've read in months. Published 1969.
about 2 months ago
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Thank you, forced-on-us google AI overview. 140145kmh is very fast indeed.
about 2 months ago
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
about 2 months ago
No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
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CHOAM for the holidays
about 2 months ago
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.
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Turning Grief Into Art With Unusual Wit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/books/review/the-ephemerata-carol-tyler.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.NjH5.nFs05XubWnd2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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A lot to like here.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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The Australian moment is now
History, it could be convincingly argued, is a series of pivot points. It is rarely a progression of a sequence of events, but rather a series of critical moments where multiple pathways are made avai...
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/the-australian-moment-is-now/
about 2 months ago
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There's scum, there's sludge, and then somewhere way down below that there's these rotten bastards.
about 2 months ago
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Eli Erlick
2 months ago
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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Great moments in courtroom art
about 2 months ago
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Sarah Welch-Larson
5 months ago
Not now, widening gyre
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benjamin
about 2 months ago
Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳
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Patrick Monahan
about 2 months ago
Someone needs to take this guy down a peg
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Charlie Lewis
about 2 months ago
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...
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This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
The faux outrage over Albanese's band shirt calls to mind the early battles for the soul (and politics) of punk music.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/albanese-joy-division-t-shirt-sussan-ley-nazi-references/
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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.
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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This is going to be a heck of a night. See you there!
www.trybooking.com/DGYGO
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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.
2 months ago
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Great story (by my brother) about the remarkable people running a displaced Ukrainian university, sometimes from bomb shelters.
futurecampus.com.au/home/inside-...
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- Future Campus
After being invaded, hunted by Russians, and forced to flee, Ukrainian academic Yana Sychikova is helping rebuild her workplace as a University Without Walls.
https://futurecampus.com.au/home/inside-ukraines-phoenix-universities/
2 months ago
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nightylamp (twice as festive as you)
2 months ago
"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
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'wily lyricism' where ' rhythm and cadence never falter' Enjoyed this perceptive review of a worthwhile, hard-to-pin-down novella.
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3 months ago
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
3 months ago
Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
If you stopped bank robbers it would kill the whole robbery industry
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
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 …
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Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/watt-coalition-near-deal-epbc-environment-laws/105865472
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Ebony Bennett
3 months ago
That tells you everything you need to know.
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Michael J
3 months ago
Sanctimonious nonsense from the publishers of the hate peddling Murdoch trash rags who pursue people, including teenagers, they don’t like with extreme prejudice
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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...
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Federal support for national Aboriginal art gallery in Alice Springs in doubt
The Northern Territory treasurer says the federal government will not support the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art gallery in Alice Springs in its current form.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/federal-government-pulls-support-art-gallery-alice-springs/105864926
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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.
3 months ago
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Mad Monday, 1901 style. (Brunswick Football Club outing to Whittlesea)
3 months ago
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A special friend died yesterday morning. The night before, a painting of hers fell off the wall beside my desk. Yeah, I dunno.
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
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.
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