Thread (👇🏻) about malicious compliance as an effective avenue of resistance.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

I hate that expression "it costs nothing to be kind" it costs everything to be kind. you have no incentive to be compassionate. it will almost certainly inconvenience you, maybe even ruin your life, that's why it's such a swashbuckling way to live

Also galleries and museums. #WeekendGoals

“Everything has two witnesses, one on earth and one in the sky… As you sleep beside the campfire at night you may think you are stiff on one side and turn over; in reality, you are following the Milky Way as it turns around the Earth.” #Wadawurrung country #CafeLife

You know you’re in for a treat when you start reading a new novel and encounter “amusperated” halfway down page one. * amused + exasperated

A new report warns of a massive pollination shortfall in Australia this year as varroa mite wipes out hives and forces beekeepers out.

'IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Yesterday, the Royal Irish Academy officially launched the Waterford’s Transported Convict Women online exhibition, a powerful new resource exploring the lives of women transported from Waterford to Tasmania between 1788 and 1853. Read more about the launch: www.ria.ie/2026/06/03/t...

Why do action epics, horror games, and farming simulators all keep returning to libraries? In our new long read, author Sam Fern takes us on a tour through libraries in videogames, exploring libraries in: 🪝 Tomb Raider: Legend 🦇 Arkham Asylum 🗡️ Assassin's Creed: Mirage 🏰 Skyrim 📚 Animal Crossing

This is a great little story

“Stint” = 2-3 weeks “Gig” = 3-4 weeks “Boondoggle” = 1 month of hotel food and daydreaming at strange buildings

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Last day of autumn, sitting outside with the doors open

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

“…the aesthetics and logistical processes of the warehouse, the distribution center, and the shop floor have been embraced and embedded in the domestic spaces of the pantry and the walk-in closet.” dilettantearmy.com/articles/mer...

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Today, I said, "We have brown bananas. I should make banana bread." And then I DID. And now we have HOT BANANA BREAD. There are still wonders to behold as the world burns, still beautiful moments of mercy, still the unctuous pleasure of butter melting into fibers, of teeth punching into softness.

A library is an access point and sorting mechanism that offers one “as accessible as possible” point of contact with its users, BUT there is an equally important flip-side to this dynamic, and that is librarians themselves who constantly prune and reorganize the library’s resources.

Exploring Victoria's population projections — which drive the housing targets, and thus currently, under BAU, a huge increase in emissions — so many unchecked assumptions. Apparently based solely on extrapolating the past trends, which is already dubious (1/4) www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-r...

Finishing the week by embarking on an epic. #CafeLife #Wadawurrung country

Unlike gastarbeiters, bracero fruit-pickers and Saudi quasi-slaves, AI makes no demands, requires no moral consideration, and does not attempt to germinate a culture, a cuisine, or a language in your sacred soil. This grotesque fantasy has always lurked in the subtext of the automation story. 40/

We can't do 'good' in the economy, without a theory of what 'good' looks like. The how matters as much as the what. How we relate to each other, how we value each other, how we work together, how we govern our economy are not secondary questions. They define if we actually reach collective goals.

An Envelope of Echoes

Papua New Guinea will protect 200,000 km² of its waters. The proposed Western Manus Marine Protected Area will become the largest no-take reserve in this part of the Pacific Ocean, safeguarding coral reefs, grey reef sharks, dolphins and seabirds. buff.ly/IRDvXuI #ShareGoodNewsToo

ping @fionatribe.bsky.social and @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social

Want to read something but it's hosted on Substack? Use Kill Yr Substack jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

#ShareGoodNewsToo (While single intervention can’t fix a complex ecosystem, and solutions must be site-specific, it’s a good start 🐢)

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

Book group, discussing the next novel: She: And, oh, then there’s Beth — *thee* most tragic death in all of literature? Me: Judy in Seven Little Australians. Chorus: omg, yes, read it when I was 7-8-9), still haven’t recovered! Me [thinks]: Not gonna mention Miranda.

There comes a point where you have to step back and say, “I don’t like what tech is doing to people. I don’t want to be part of this.” You need to cultivate an intellectual life. You need to resolve that you won’t be among the many whose minds are destroyed by machines.

Posting this link so I can find it again later… rtyi, @fionatribe.bsky.social …? (tip o’ the hat to @charliejane.bsky.social for citing this in “Never Say You Can’t Survive”) motherofinvention.twelfthplanetpress.com/2018/07/02/a...

Our lovely @tasgamemakers.com president @hey.paris wrote a PHENOMENAL National Cultural Policy submission, and the board has decided to share it on our website for all to read to support national advocacy efforts: tasgamemakers.com/policies-and...

Over afternoon tea my great-aunt would recite the latest news about her (other) miscreant nieces, her tone dripping with disdain and exasperation. Then she’d lean back, take a drag on her Camel rollie, and conclude wryly, “Of course, I know *everything* about raising other people’s children.”

New writing prize! For "an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer" - AUD$10,000 sponsored by Simon & Schuster Australia and ms development with a First Nations editor. www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/BundyiAUPr...

It’s 25 May: grab your towel and let’s go on an adventure 👍 #TowelDay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

“I’m just going to the ladies’ room,” says one barista to the other. The cafe’s playlist today is mostly soul-pop songs of the 2020s. The barista dances unhurriedly between the tables, through the sliding door into the building next door, singing quietly as she goes.

Mrs Mac Florence McKenzie #Australia's 1st woman electrical engineer, founded Women's Emergency Signalling Corps. Promoted tech ed 4 women #WWII campaigned to get women trainees into all-male Navy. 12k servicemen trained @ signal instruction school d #OTD 23 May 1982 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...

Llyfrbryf = bookworm, is such a fabulous word f sounds like v in Welsh, so if you pronounced it llove-re-bruv you wouldn't be *too far* off off the mark <prepares to be rightly roasted by proper speakers of Cymraeg>

The world in a reflection ~ Olga Antonova says that her still-life paintings aim “to catch that moment of solitude, that quiet harmony that people can relate to” olgaantonova.com/biography/

We can't do good in the economy without a new economic theory of what good is. Everything else follows from this. In the old economics, doing good is a correction. In an economics of the common good, it is an objective we design and work on together.

Preparing to attend a (free livestreamed) Sydney Writers Festival session in Geelong. Public libraries ftw📚

YES.

Quietly thrilling (thread 👇🏻)

All but one of the companies researchers studied decided to continue with a four-day work week. And none reported a loss of productivity.

I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this. The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life

For all my love of Williams' earlier scores, i never even knew her name until now.