Our book came out! 🌈 Does this mean I can go back to bed for the rest of 2026? It's open access, it's about stories in/for geography - link.springer.com/book/10.1007... I'm so grateful to the Storying Geography Collective, who have offered me rare moments of joy-in-the-job in the last few years 🥰

news: today capitalist AI did something fucking terrible, just like yesterday some lefties: what the fuck, this capitalist bullshit sucks AI pushers: can't believe the left hates technology

america (2026) www.404media.co/man-opposing...

the dollar value of labour is in freefall and the global economy is being dramatically reconfigured to even more egregiously favour of the rich over people who work for a living, everything is becoming faker and the last dregs of joy are being sucked from existence. why doesn’t the left support this

On today's @radioreversal.bsky.social we borrowed an interview recorded by Alice of the @3crmelbourne.bsky.social Thurs brekky crew with antifascist writer @tomtanuki.bsky.social on how the current wave of hate speech laws may feed into the accelerationism of the far right - links below!

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Not necessarily the thumbnail I would've chosen but I get it

The Albanese Government just approved another huge coal mine- that will make Australia hotter, drier and cause more frequent and extreme disasters. 236 million tonnes of emissions over its life = double Australia's annual emissions, 1200x Vanuatu. www.lockthegate.org.au/middlemount-...

"The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves" Poster seen in Sydney denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on Palestine protesters this week, justified under the totalitarian mantra of "Social Cohesion". via @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

I don't want to socially cohere with fascists, hbu?

"social cohesion" is the "climate wars are over" of the late 2020s. Labor doesn't want peace, or cohesion or actual societal improvement. It wants everyone to stop yelling at them. It worked for the climate movement but it won't work for the anti-genocide movement.

Australia formally joins the UK and US as a member of Smol Bean Fascist Alliance

Tomorrow on @radioreversal.bsky.social we will be playing recordings from Monday's protest against Herzog in Magan-djin, and giving this a spin gurridyula.bandcamp.com/track/from-t...

Up to 2 years in prison for saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - that’s the legislation currently before Queensland Parliament under the Crisafulli government. They’re going to have to build more prisons before we choose to be silent about genocide.

THIS NEWS WILL PLEASE A FEW PEOPLE: “QUT will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne.” www.qut.edu.au/meanjin

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square "There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

When we speak up against injustice we are being ‘divisive’. When they want ‘social cohesion’ they employ state violence.

Vale Jon Kudelka; not many better at summing up the issues of the day with great brevity and wit, but also with such vivid, arresting images. A true master of his art.

fascist creep speeds up to fascist jog

I feel like I should preface the quote with something but all I can say is both major parties in Australia are complicit in genocide. At least there's a protest tomorrow against the Israeli PM's visit, that is itself in response to our supposedly left wing PM inviting him

So apparently soon I could face up to TWO YEARS in jail for political art that says “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” if someone "takes offence". This is what Crisafulli is proposing in QLD. Acceptable speech is narrowing in real time. And it's fckn terrifying.

From the river to the sea... Fuck David Chrisafulli!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free This slogan defies genocide & calls for liberation from apartheid & settler colonial violence across the lands of Israel/Palestine. The QLD Gov is seeking to criminalise it because they don't want colonised people calling for their freedom...

From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer. (maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).

In case you missed it: a white man threw a bomb at an indigenous Elder on Invasion Day. He has not been charged with terrorism.

Yesterday, a man threw an explosive device into the Invasion Day / Survival Day rally here in Boorloo (Perth). His intent was to commit an act of terrorism against Aboriginal people and their many supporters, on January 26. For those who don't know, Jan 26 is the date the British invaded NSW.

Last night my partner and I both had awful dreams. I woke up to find a brush tail possum perched on the window sill, above my bedside table. Watching. I don't know how we angered the possum but I am sorry i am sorry I am sorry

Tidying up my desktop, filing the dozen or so submissions I bothered writing on various university governance/strategic planning/change proposals over the last year or so into a folder titled, "screaming into the void"

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

When's the next full moon? I was bitten by a child and am concerned I may shrink and become wild and sticky

Using a corn chip to scoop up polenta and corn salsa, the kids call it maize maxxing

The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social " urges pause on rushed and dangerous hate speech Bill"

Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means "cutting off a lifeline for over two million people," says Rahma Worldwide's Dr. Shadi Zazzah. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra... #Palestine #Israel

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

"the centre cannot hold" I scoff, as I storm out of my tuesday morning pilates class

A reminder for academic workers starting back - set aside a few minutes today to set up your copy of @brkeogh.bsky.social's great spreadsheet. Using this tracker the last few years has made it much easier for me to understand where my time goes & how much I am over-working

This goes out to all of you who have a log-jam of deadlines before the holiday season hits. Good luck, colleagues! #academicsky #acwri #resdevmemes

Are you disabled in a sharehouse?

@benjaminpope.bsky.social Congratulations on the discovery, comrade!!

impossibly good sale here. everything is $2

In the new TMK, I chat with @alybatt.bsky.social about her excellent new book — Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature — and we get into capitalism’s strange relationship to the natural world: one defined by brutal extraction but also strategic neglect. www.patreon.com/posts/142206...

eagerly awaiting the results of the most important election of 2025 (the Brisbane Free University Radical Reading Group's selection of our book list for 2026)

the storm last night was hectic, and today, half an hour after I got to work, we were advised that all who can work from home, should, given the high fire danger affecting our campus today (it is SO HOT and incredibly windy). I'm not sure 'spring' still exists as a season in Magan-djin*

Thinking is an embodied process. Understanding is fleshy. Insight is visceral. GenAI's creators imagine consciousness as a kind of computational output instead of an emergent activity of situated bodies in relation - but ofc they do, capitalists hate bodies & the west loves a body/mind dualism

Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :) Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!! ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/

You can listen back to the show here - 4zzz.org.au/program/radi...

on Mon I arrived at work to find I'd left my laptop at home, had to go back & get it. I'd planned to be in the office on Wed so left my laptop there on Tues, but wound up being pretty unwell & wanted to WFH, so had to go in & fetch it. Today there's a huntsman in my laptop bag, what's the move?