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

[author of six critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels]: tough writing day today haha [bluesky reply from guy who has never completed a project]: Just hang in there. I always find going for a walk helps get those creative juices flowing again. Do you have a writing group?

dudes rock

when you hit your mid-30s you develop a new sense of what material will go off in the group chat

does anyone have any leads on Australian literary agents who are 1) young 2) hip 3) alternative 4) (most important) have a sense of humour/like funny prose? or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?

elon musk has listened to more llm-generated book summaries at 2.5x speed than joyce carol oates ever will. his meaning of life multiplier is literally insane compared to hers lmao

are there any pop economics authors from the mid-2010s whose brains are not now totally fried

can't believe Mamdani followed up his win by releasing a font meme generator that has instantly turned BlueSky into 2016 Twitter

attaching this to all literary agent queries

damn i wish australia had mayors

Once more, for old times’ sake

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I love to read the news

the right is starting to get better at UI design and it's making lefties nervous

i hate how right the elders are about this but i feel so much better since i stopped reciting the dark incantations. this sucks. i love reading the dark incantations with my boys

Sleeping on the office floor so my oligarch boss can get his propaganda firehose online faster

wonderful to confirm the boding is actually worse than I could have imagined

this is great news. finally we can a/b test our way, frame by frame, to the perfect movie. then cinema will be complete

yes google I am going to go AI mode: [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]

Boy Swallows Universe at #1 was inevitable. Lola In The Mirror at #29 has me busting out the red string and cork board

some personal news

the castle sequel when

glad everyone agreed on this

hey chat does this bode well? how's the boding on this one?

this is so embarrassing. not sure how i'd go about trying to claw back subscribers but would probably try something other than petty whining about mainstream media getting criticised too much www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

sorry but tron: ares isn't real. that's not a movie that exists

real britain is things that only happen in the background of postman pat

will never get over how much this stuff emulates the last 50+ years of dystopian satire. this used to be shorthand for 'bleak future'! how did we steer right into it!

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

I'm in The Big Issue this fortnight reviewing The Bad Guys 2 in possibly my final contribution, as TBI has cut the review sections to save money and lower printing costs. It's sad and frustrating. I've loved being part of it for the past five years, and hope one day I'll write for them again.

dezi freeman will be found six months from now taking part in a sky news panel discussion

turning a big dial taht says "emissions target" on it and constantly looking back at the mining and resources sector for approval like a contestant on the price is right

funniest possible target. what are you talking about man

Elon Musk's Aussie boss Robyn Denholm — who has sold $820m Tesla shares since 2020 — is graciously forgoing a salary for chairing Australia's R&D review. The media shy business leader has been in the media recently spruiking an offer to pay Musk AU$1.5 trillion to focus on Tesla

investors love it when I tell them I'm planning to debut my film at Cannes

seeking a can-do bubbly positive rockstar incredible human go-getter superstar legend to be part of our minimum wage family

brutal of the guardian to slap this headline on the only decent article I've read on this weird trend. rip freelance writer sam wolfson

Mariana Enríquez has moved to Tasmania and given us this quote. 2028 Miles Franklin let's go

sure, the outcomes may be bad. but there are worse things, for example, the reasons behind those outcomes

excited to hear about all the financial strategies that must have been developed and implemented to make sure this outcome was a last resort

If indie/alt writing in Australia has ever had a great champion, it’s Dan Hogan, one of the best Australian poets of all time. To have them review and love Nock Loose so brilliantly means the absolute world to me. Check it out! overland.org.au/2025/09/prou...

This caliper-wielding sentence should be condemned by every journalist out there The Press Council, MEAA and Media Watch should all come out with full throated disgust, condemning the publication of this as reprehensible and wholly unacceptable

CRISIS ACTOR is a cutting-edge combination of digital media and live art and theatre. It's overwhelming in the way the world is overwhelming. Nobody makes work like @vidyarajan.bsky.social and the whole team have created a show I hope has a longer life.

incredible things happening on instagram

just finished an article on whether young men are reading less. now clicking on a piece about young men pretending to be young men who pretend to read. also apparently all the young male novelists have been killed. I'm very excited to synthesise this knowledge

genuinely what are we doing here

Ruby's interaction& visual design for this work is next level. Literally built a system from scratch. Live performance + u get to be on ur phone all the time...how can u miss this?? <3

the ABC is world class. imagine another organisation running a program to develop young talent and reach new viewers, giving feedback and notes over the course of a year, then reviewing the final docs, saying 'this doesn't appeal enough to an older audience' and picking up zero projects

"AI can improve the process. From a global perspective AI has not been used much in this process. It remains unknown how it will be useful in this process. This is why we believe investing in AI will help this process" 👍👍

we used to have real websites. you're the man now dog was its own website. it was a meme and was a website and we didn't know how good we had it. everything crumbles into dust