savage garden: "animals and children tell the truth, they never lie" me: ok sure "which one is more human, there's a thought now you decide" wait what

beautiful essay

going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Bitter fruit: the dark underside of the booming NSW blueberry industry

On language "learning," Duolingo, A.I., and travel; many beautiful and comical reflections by @annamerlan.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-407/#a...

did a bit of reverse image searching at work

holy hell. awful

Targeting journalists is a war crime. As colleagues, we remember them. meaa.io/45A4vZ5

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands

MEAA supports the Palestine Action Group’s bid to March for Humanity across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. meaa.io/4laIpSL

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

In a time when big conglomerates are absorbing small publishers, there’s a new indie on the scene! We spoke with Emily Hart and Margot Lloyd about why they packed in their jobs at established publishing houses to start Pink Shorts Press from scratch.

wrote something very silly about one of the less soul-crushing ways to spend time online

Editors share what they've learned on the job in our latest What I Wish I'd Known. Read more: buff.ly/xPdduvA

I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

i love da movies

Art can’t stop genocide, but this is an incredible moment

Today in KYD, Jess Scully, former deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, on why Creative Australia's failure to uphold artistic freedoms is an issue for all Australians—not just the arts community. https://buff.ly/4klIiEH

Creative Australia only terminated Khaled Sabsabi’s Venice contract *today* and only sought legal advice on it three days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.

Arts Minister Tony Burke made some remarks earlier this week about Creative Australia’s decision to ditch Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as the pick for the 61st Venice Biennale. They didn’t get much coverage but I can’t get them out of my head. So here you go.

can't wait for some consultant to be paid 500k to add a single dot point to the selection criteria that factors in how long the murdoch press would relentlessly attack an artist

congrats in advance to whoever gets the call from creative aus telling them their art has been deemed sufficiently non-controversial

Actual quote from Creative Australia about dropping a Lebanese-Australian artist due to pressure caused by his past statements in support of Palestinians: “Creative Australia is an advocate for freedom of artistic expression and is not an adjudicator on the interpretation of art. However,”

hard agree with this from @catrionamp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/infradig...

I am often accused of being too emotional when reporting on politics - but I would rather have a human emotional response than pretend this is just 'reshaping US policy in the Middle East'. It's ethnic cleansing and the end of the rule of law. And the Australian government has said nothing

“Deepseek won’t talk about Tiananmen Square” Is a bit of an empty gotcha given the entire western world has been doing McCarthyism to any who has dared to say that genocide is bad over the past 18 months

This is cancel culture. www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

I wrote about PRH's acquisition of Text Publishing and my skepticism about the reach of Charters of Independence and such like. And yet again, I express despair at the ALP's reluctance to put their money where their mouth is on funding AU arts and culture. www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/30/t...

Garden of Earthly Delights

Putricia is the one piece of good news at the moment and i am holding on to it for dear life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Decades after conglomeration swept through American publishing, is it Australia's turn? Some thoughts on the Text / PRHA merger in @theconversation.com today theconversation.com/the-acquisit...

Text's chirpy press release about this is a classic of the 'only good news, nothing to see here' genre. I agree with Ben, it's a tremendous shame to see a true indie, a publisher that has made a huge contribution to Ozlit, get absorbed by PRH. www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/text-pu...

dutch wasn’t originally all cutesy like “weer petten de leetel raabbet”, but they changed it so they could i’m-just-a-little-guy their way out of being in trouble for the east india company

Jeremiroquai #goldenglobes

within the last 24 hours on my instagram a dutch-teacher influencer has launched an AI voice clone and a cute talking parrot account announced a memecoin. it’s grim out there

It's ridiculous that Luigi Mangione can just plead "not guilty" to a murder when we all know he did it, say the people who are supporting Benjamin Netanyahu x

If you want to know, you know. #gazagenocide

“Social cohesion” is starting to sound a lot like “social control” huh

"It felt like a punchline to a sick joke: A world leader funding Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza finally got around to wondering exactly who was being cleansed."

Guardian Australia’s MEAA members, both staff and freelance, stand in solidarity with our UK Guardian and Observer colleagues undertaking strike action over concerns regarding the planned sale of The Observer by the Guardian Media Group (GMG). #MEAAmedia

Guardian style guide:

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

Every Sunday Melbourne marches for a free Palestine