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?

If AI tools are so amazing why are all these companies trying to force their use? The regular search bar sometimes become a chatbot bar? The power button on my phone now opens an "assistant"? Adobe reader has 3 separate bits of the screen devoted to encouraging use of their stupid summary tool?

The trees are covered with mango blossoms, more than I have ever seen in the 5 years I have lived beneath them. I am worried this means they're dying?

but, like, actually

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM. Hope this helps

My friend Debbi has been through the absolute ringer and she's not out of it yet - if you can spare a few bucks to support her recovery from a bone marrow transplant, every cent would be gratefully received - gofund.me/9128ed59b

Rank the macerated remains of our university system from 1 to 10

So glad to have friend-of-the-show Dr Anastasia Kanjere back on to help us think through expressions of fascism here in the settler-colony - this is part of our ongoing series on fascist affects, politics, and expressions in the streets and pop culture

Anyone looking to hire a Brisbane/remote Australian data scientist? Asking on behalf of an extremely good student! DM if you have something coming up!

As we face down daylight savings time and the annoyance of being in slightly different timezones from colleagues, and the annual 'should QLD have daylight savings? should anyone?' discourse, I propose a solution: 4 hour work day as standard. More hours for morning and evening leisure for all

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

went to request 1 day off and accidentally requested 145 hours off. I probably should've run with it

I need to keep track of the books I have already pre-ordered 😅

I've been producing community radio for about 9 years. I still have radio-related nightmares on the reg the night before a show. Reflecting how my usual cycling route has been unavailable (since MARCH), last night's nightmare featured multi-modal mishaps, a lost car, a lost bike, a lost laptop

A 21yo just told me I looked like a retired pirate who now worked at a library and who Knew Too Much. I don't know how to feel.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

oh my god NOTHING works

Any higher ed workers have a good clause in your EA you could share? One that gave you a bit of leverage where needed, that improved conditions, or gave staff more say over change management or workload? I am helping run some log of claims meetings this week and would love some examples to share

We hope not!

Happy Indexation is not an increase day! #RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty

Doctors Without Borders reports that Israel fired upon a clearly marked MSF water truck. This was deliberate. How many times do we need to go through the same cycle: Israel targets humanitarian vehicles and aid workers, and then says: “Whoopsie! It was an accident, believe us!”

The last? second last? time one of these arrives in my mailbox 😭

There's video online of one my Uncle's best friend, along with 9 other people, being murdered at a grocery store for being Black.

Israeli attacks kill dozens more Palestinians in Gaza City alone as the death toll surges during its ground invasion.

Total staff headcount at my workplace is down 10% from last year. 47 redundancies but nearly 700 people no longer employed. Doesn't get as much bad press when it's "targeted attrition" but that's pretty staggering, right?

I think that just about covers it. What will tomorrow bring???

Pass the Mic is a free community radio training program for First Nations folks run by 4ZZZ and the CMTO. For more information, head to: 4zzz.org.au/training

Very excited about this morning's @radioreversal.bsky.social, a recording of a keynote by the incredible Dr Emmy Rākete (Ngāpuhi) from People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz on queerness in prison & police abolition spaces, class struggle, & collective liberation

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

It's okay fucking aquaman will buy them

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Who killed Meanjin?  www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...

"The State of Israel has committed genocide." Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.

oh my god did you forget your dril?!?!! You simply do NOT have to hand it to him, ffs

Those citing graphene as the thinnest known material are sleeping on white dude skin

Chasing an academic career is optimizing for the narrowest imaginable market that is liable to simply implode at any given time and has no transferable skills or accolades.

The fkg hypocrisy is galling. They extend Woodside by 50 years, open more mines and today they sombrely declare ‘we have to be honest with the Australian ppl’. Mfg, your govt has ensured our demise with your support for the mining industry 😡😡😡

A fully grown bush turkey came into my house this morning, happy Sunday

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...