Many!

I’m reading and watching a lot of vile stuff at the moment, because my PhD project is about settler colonial violence and fear narratives in popular culture, and it seems like I need to read this book from 1997, called “Pauline Hanson-The Truth” (which is a batshit screed attributed to her) BUT

fellas is it gay to unwittingly squeeze your co-labourers’ hands, mistaking them for the gentle globules

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

How many other people at the Ethel Cain show are doing phds about cannibalism do we reckon

my friend @flyingghoti.bsky.social made this & if you’re in the middle of the very specific venn diagram necessary to appreciate it, it’s the funniest thing

Flo is at work and I have had a weed gummy time to do a double feature of The Last Wave and The Cars That Ate Paris

accidentally watched the first ten minutes of L’Enfant Sauvage (1970), about the “wild boy of Aveyron”, before I realized the subtitles were turned off, I’m doing feral child immersion research

My verdict is that while this is not cannibal in the purest sense but it is HIGHLY erotic, it demonstrates the absurdity of human masculine brutality in the face of the natural world, and most importantly it is about dudes experiencing consequences on a boat

Hello from Cape Cod where I am forcing Flo to watch Jaws, neither of us have seen this before, I love men in boats suffering from hubris

As of yesterday I am finally! at last! ABD and approved to get to work on my dissertation! it’s a study of fear, disgust, hunger, and desire in the settler symbolic that I’m calling “cannibal erotics”

✨Look ye✨ whosoever of ye recruits me that same white whale 🐋 into my downline ⛵️, he shall have this gold ounce💰🤑, be your own boss, my boys💕!

we sat down in the sun in prospect park and these girlies came up to us to ask us to move so their friend can do a public proposal here 🙃

I spent one week at an American Antiquarian Society summer school and I joined a pyramid scheme (reading Moby-Dick)

It’s genuinely so beautiful the dumb shit I get to watch in the name of research

I hope Peter Dutton follows the example of his great-great-great-grandfather Charles Christian Dutton and simply vanishes without a trace forever ❤️

intensely stressed, having a bad time, going completely insane and handling it completely normally: obsessing over whether I should use greek (anthropophagos) or latin (anthropophagus), and if/how to make it feminine or neuter

It has been five years of The Whole Picture! It is incredible to me that I wrote this book, and even more so that people have read and enjoyed it. There’s a lot about it that feels naive, looking back, and there are many things I would change or do differently now, but on the whole I stand by it.

I've been really excited to share this. Two and a half years ago, I moved to New York with my girlfriend (now wife), and started obsessively documenting found typography from all over the city. Now I have designed and screen printed a typographic sampler, sort of a speculative typeface of sorts.

Shockingly gutless move here from Creative Australia. Caving in the face of the usual Murdoch/LNP noise is pathetic, but also a grim omen of artistic censorship to come www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

My are doing Prownian analysis in Intro to Visual Culture class tomorrow so it’s time to ransack our apartment

I’m afraid that when I say “my butch,” people, especially straight people, are hearing “my daddy.” That’s fine for many. But when I say “my butch”, what I mean is:

We accidentally adopted a really smart cat except luckily she has whatever the feline version of adhd is so usually she gets halfway through some magnificent scheme and gets distracted and goes off to eat paper

I am so, so excited that Katie Giritlian's Paper Cameras Study Pack is nearing completion - I've been waiting to get hold of a set forever and I know it will be such a joy and privilege to teach with them soon veralistcenter.org/publications...

I went tow thee bifexuality cafe and every boddie knew of thee

I keep having these moments where I’m like, “wow these bushfires are pretty bad for January, usually they pick up in February”? And then I remember it’s winter here and I am thinking of the wrong hemisphere.

queued for an hour in the cold to collect the guineafowl we ordered for Christmas and stopped for pizza before going to the co-op for our groceries and the guys gave us shots of tequila in dipping sauce cups

obsessed with two of my students writing about the hot guys at the restaurant where they did their fieldwork project, remembering they were submitting it to me and attempting to redact it

tuesday, 10:37 pm | wednesday, 7:15 am

Hello I am back doing my favourite thing (complaining for @hyperallergic.com) hyperallergic.com/973736/a-sho...

give me a very small amount of weed and a two week old who weekly episode and I’m ranting at my beautiful wife about nepotism and star wars while they make us a delicious meal

I have been so devoted to this forever and it’s literally the highlight of every other Wednesday it’s so good!!!!!!!!!!

Where did these guys come from! Why are they in my research folder! Would you rather Giant Horseshoe Crab or Giant Possum! I think Big Possum would let me cling on like a baby and be so nice but also I have had 1.75 old fashioneds tonight

something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens

I bought this as a joke and it is actually the best eight dollars I have ever spent?? Slutty honking brass band music

Torching one of the last viable industries in the UK to be racist and also "save money". Real 4D chess stuff here from the grownups who are back in charge.

“Ghosts are easier and more aesthetically rewarding”

I’m teaching the Intro to Visual Culture class in the spring and enrolment opened today and there’s already a wait list aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

it was really great to see Lisa Nandy saying that the new government isn’t interested in culture wars soon after her appointment. It will be interesting to see how much a new government actually does shift the national position away from this: especially when it comes to universities and museums.

I’ve been trying out some ideas for a thesis chapter on the defanging and kitschification of land acknowledgment and Welcome to Country, and unfortunately the media convo around Te Tiriti o Waitangi is turning into an incredible case study

This really fun thing keeps happening to me where Americans find out I’m Australian and start talking about how they don’t know anything about Aus? if you stop going on about how weird it is that you can’t name a single Australian author for literally a second I could give you some names

I love my misogynist wife

✨museums will never love you back✨

An absolute outrage

dissertation prospectus going so well I’ve taken up needlepoint

The Whole Picture is now El Cuadro Completo! My book has been published in a new Spanish edition 🖤 I’m so grateful to @capitanswing.bsky.social, and excited for this work to have a new audience and life

Was extremely ambivalent about this book til I realized it’s a batshit retelling of the French Revolution via teen girls and a sugar factory in c19th Montreal