Read in the park for a couple of hours yesterday.

With Meanjin, my guess is that MUP are just waiting till the fuss blows over. To help keep the fuss going, you could write directly to: -the chair of the MUP board, Warren Bebbington [email protected]. -the Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Melbourne, Emma Johnston - [email protected].

Call me Tally Ho pilled but they're one of the few things left on YouTube that, upon seeing a new video, I find a time to sit and watch it with no distractions. Just sweet, excellent watching.

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

#writesky #writingcommunity #meanjin

It beggars belief that MUP are scrapping Meanjin *entirely*. Could it not even continue as an online journal? And what will happen to the vast and essential archive on its website? The decision is a stunning, appalling act of cultural vandalism which demands complete transparency and accountability.

This is shocking news. Literary magazines - and all the other small orgs now under pressure or closing or gone - are the bedrock of culture and their ongoing costs are barely a blip in any institutional budget. Melbourne University ought to be ashamed www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin. Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution? No. The university council shut it down intentionally.

I go and do one day of work not on the internet and this happens

love to discover even more mould in my house. from memory it's supposed to be quite good for you, right?

do you think i could pull off cowboy boots? (as in, wear them - as far as i can tell they're as easy to remove as other boots)

Can we please leave Team War?

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

more playlists should have a vague air of fem-domination about them.

the internet should all be stuff like this www.in70mm.com/presents/195...

In 2022, the new environment minister Tanya Plibersek made a bold promise to the Australian public: there would be no new extinctions while the Albanese government was in power. Her successor, Murray Watt, is about to break this promise. satpa.pe/kVPIRJx

There’s not much that shakes my agnosticism but the existence of Microsoft’s workplace suite (and therefore of a hell in which it was forged) is right up there.

i think we should go back to everyone having their own text-only blog

rain's been hammering down for a good while now, solid patter on the tin porch roof, car wheels slicing a doppler whoosh through surface runoff. planes trying to land, straining against wind, engine whine and roar while the house is an ensemble of dripping sounds. peace

Any Labour MP, any Labour member, who actually believes in human rights needs to resign or become compicit in several genocides.

You’re telling me a Duck-Chong fried this rice???

made some absolutely slappin fried rice

Came back across this today. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Amed, Michelle Gomez and Cush Jumbo have all announced that every single trans life is worth less than a paycheck.

Old man take a look at my life, and he's eatin' me out, is it casual now

It was absolute lunacy to try and reverse 100,000 people mid-march. It could have gone terribly wrong. But it didn't, because people were calm, respectful of each other, and patient. The protestors avoided this catastrophe, not NSW Police. #MarchForHumanity

We were already most of the way across the bridge (and we were probably around the 25% point of the protest) when we were told to stop. NSW Police created the problem, then in the aftermath are blaming the protestors and organisers. 2/

NSW Police is putting out the story that this powerful event came perilously close to disaster. NSW Police were the ones who made the mid-event decision to block the northern end of the Bridge, instead of having a plan to funnel protestors safely off it and to train stations on the north shore. 1/

Absolutely fkn wild day. From the river to the sea 🇵🇸✊🏻

made a beetroot chocolate cake..... tastes a bit too much like beetroot. deaddove.jpg

back on my bullshit: specifically my "the bourne trilogy is so good" shit.

Baby shoes: transaction denied. Had sex.

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

a beautiful poem to finish your evening, by Nicasio Andres Reed from issue 3 of a magazine I co-edited many years ago x twistedmoon.lizduckchong.com/3/reed.html

I finally have gotten around to turning my google doc of where to buy masks in Aus into a proper page that's sortable and filterable. I'm keen to add more places that sell masks if you have bought from anywhere else! masks.lizduckchong.com

I finally have gotten around to turning my google doc of where to buy masks in Aus into a proper page that's sortable and filterable. I'm keen to add more places that sell masks if you have bought from anywhere else! masks.lizduckchong.com

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Reading through the countless descriptions of trans dudes in the wake of this, talking about how they "lost community" when they transitioned, it seems really clear to me that a lot of transmascs expect women to build and maintain their queer community for them.

i am still screaming about the breast milk pitch. iconic

Something to end your evening: the Nigel Butterley piece on this album is one of my favourite pieces of music. If you've got a spare 25 minutes to put it on, it's well worth it. contemporaryartmusic.bandcamp.com/album/waves-...

Whose idea was it to take estrogen, I’m fkn freezing

It's been a hot minute since I last updated this site but a bit has changed since I did! Now up to date with legislation, fees, and links. birthcertificates.lizduckchong.com

It's been a hot minute since I last updated this site but a bit has changed since I did! Now up to date with legislation, fees, and links. birthcertificates.lizduckchong.com

Saw some youtube video analysing shots of "the great directors" and clicked through purely to see how many of them were men and surprise they all were. Maybe I should spend the rest of the year just watching films directed by women.

Nik is, by the way, one of the single best tech writers in history, and I can think of nobody who nails the actual ways in which software and the world interact like him. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-...

man i really hate brands hey