Malinauskas about to appear on 7.30. Which way will he dig?

please send me your stupidest planes

There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination. Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...

This is astonishingly good - the live view looks to me like how I normally view ice hockey (fast, hard to track) but then stick around for the close-up slo-mo to appreciate what she actually did with the puck and the skill involved

I have no idea about the structure and who’s responsible when most of the board appear to have quit. But whoever’s now in charge, I would observe that it’s just as well that the Premier, who isn’t supposed to direct decisions about the Festival, hasn’t involved himself in the process at all. Wait,

In response to Victoria’s awful fire conditions, the Age ACTUALLY references climate change and Howard’s decision to ignore expert advice … www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

A good reminder that cultural power - like all power in any area - is exercised by those who do it if they choose to, and not by those who presume to police and administer it.

The solidarity of writers in response to the Adelaide Writers’ Week debacle is excellent to witness. These scary times are going to be a lot better if we all respond with solidarity and care for each other.

😱 Feedly is down. These truly are the last days. 🫨

ABC News tonight: First story: horrific, out of control bushfires Second story: intense heatwaves Third story: cyclone Mentions of climate change: 0

Five stars from me but brace yourself - it’s extremely confronting - using footage from an era when photojournalists were allowed far more access to war zones | The Vietnam War streaming now on SBS On Demand www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

Imagine the Australian government sending the army to fight in a war in which they, the Australian government, were enthusiastically funding the enemy. And asking them to fight for free. To risk their lives and mental health. That would be mind boggling, and yet…

We have professional military but mostly volunteer emergency services, despite the latter being of more use. They’re called on to protect Australians more & they will be required to do it more frequently & in more extreme conditions because our government’s actively making climate change worse

More than 100 buildings destroyed and 300,000 hectares burned as Victoria’s bushfires rage. Thankfully three missing people have been found safe.

JONATHAN ROSS THREAD: 🧵 I think a certain # of women have seen the video from Ross’s cellphone showing the taunts that led to Renee’s murder. And we feel in our bones that we’ve left immigration officer territory and entered domestic violence territory very quickly. Here’s why: 👇🧵

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

2025 marked thirty years of Thomas Friedman as the New York Times’ foreign affairs columnist. Belén Fernández surveys the wreckage.

Sit Rep: 3pm Shit is worse, it is going to get worse. Rapidly evolving situation across all of Victoria. In addition to the Longwood and Walwa fires 3 New Emergency Warnings have been issued for new fires. Major Towns are in impact maps. #VicFires

‘Toughest conditions imaginable’: Victorians urged to shelter inside from heatwave as tropical cyclone heads for Queensland

First withdrawal from the Adelaide Festival proper, DJ Haram www.indailysa.com.au/citymag/cult...

We think we finally cleared out the root cause of the delayed search indexer. It will take some time to finish catching up. It has a lot of events to get through. Here’s a video of Kit as compensation

Bruce Fein, that’s a name I haven’t heard in years. Former Reagan guy who rebooted during Iraq War as an “impeach Bush” libertarian. Repeatedly said he was representing people who removed him as counsel bc they considered him a kook.

Until various other chores kept me from doing so, was planning to do a Mercator-based substack post yesterday. Planned opening image is below. We were in Greenland for a week last year. This is the flat-out stupidest thing Trump has yet proposed. Not most evil, but stupidest.

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

So we have: * Brutal, live-streamed genocide that no-ones doing anything about * Racist censoring of the victims of genocide and their supporters * Apocalyptic climate change weather that we're hardly doing anything about * Our biggest "security" partner rapidly backsliding into fascism Happy '26

“It should be crystal clear to everyone that the real threat to community safety is the ICE agents harassing, targeting, detaining — and in some tragic cases — killing our neighbors. This violence is unacceptable, it is criminal, and it is against the constitution of the United States.”

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

Adelaide Writers Week is one of my most loved events every year, where I've had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Dennis & Yanis Varoufakis. The brave expression of free & open ideas is the DNA of this festival. I won't be participating this year unless the decision is reversed.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it (generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).

Tonight's fire briefing was grim. 'The 2 major fires – at Longwood & Walwa – are spreading uncontrollably & cannot be contained despite the best efforts of hundreds of firefighters. The fires are demonstrating pyro-convective behaviour, generating their own weather systems'.

“What makes this so egregiously racist is that the Adelaide Writers Festival Board [sic] has stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears…” Institutions censor Palestinians. Antisemitism is not defeated with more racism.

Weighing evidence is fine but it’s wild how US media never starts from the presumption that cops should never shoot citizens dead

Baking the IHRA definition of antisemitism into the terms of the Royal Commission. Cool, cool www.ag.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

Intriguing reporting from Nine here - the objection to former High Court justice Virginia Bell to lead the royal commission apparently relates to a previous decision where she upheld the democratic right to protest www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

Randa Abdel-Fattah uninvited from Adelaide Writers’ Week, because of Bondi, even though they "do not suggest in any way that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s or her writings have any connection with the tragedy at Bondi." She just can't come anymore. Because Bondi. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Journalists for the big pubs will never embed the premise that the people who lie about everything every day are just liars.

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

. @mprnews.org was on the ground in Minneapolis right away this morning, and we have been covering ICE immigration actions since they announced a surge in December. Follow our live feed here as we confirm details of today's killing of an observer by a federal agent: share.google/iJp6yRVFbHfT...

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

Welcome back to 2003. Some of us have been writing for a decade that MAGA & neoconservatism were united in supremacist militarism with the differences being a struggle for internal power and if you want to know more I can recommend a pretty good book:

How long until they panic over losing at trial and send him to Guantanamo

Watching YouTube performances of artists I thoroughly enjoy but thinking at some stage we should probably start pointing out all-male bands the same way we do conference panels

Seems I picked quite a time to start watching the Ken Burns Vietnam War doco series a couple of weeks ago - which is due to expire later this month from SBS On Demand btw, if anyone else wants to catch it. Powerful, informative, infuriating and depressing.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions