Glossy Black-Cockatoo

Long thread, but worth a read

Had a chance to chat to the wonderful Mama Alto today about her upcoming show at Midsumma.

Sooty Oystercatcher trying to take a nap (if you'd just get the nosy photographer to go away)

Constellations is going live! I am so proud of and impressed by the strength of this community www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Lovely Fairywren

Streaked Spiderhunter

Musk Lorikeet

A new #kākāpō record: the youngest female to mate. Previously the youngest we'd recorded a female mating was just under 5 years old. Yesterday, Ongaonga (📸 as a chick) mated on Anchor, aged 3 years 10 months. It might be the first of many records broken in #kakapo2026. #conservation #birds

Red-capped Robin

Heck of a third set by Comesana

Carney's speech at Davos is certainly making waves

Eastern Curlew - flying near the shore in Cairns

New year, new show - but starting off with a story that feels all too familiar: Why was Gabrielle Goliath cancelled as South Africa's representative to the Venice Biennale?

I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Hooded Plover

Pulp have shared a statement on Adelaide Festival. They told organisers they would be withdrawing, were asked to delay their announcement, and are now satisfied that they will participate in this year's Festival.

British indie band Pulp agree to play Adelaide festival after boycott u-turn

Whiskered Tern

The new board has also apologised to Louise Adler & pointedly ended their statement "We also appreciate the Premier’s consistent position that the curatorial choices of Adelaide Festival, including Adelaide Writers’ Week, are at the discretion of the organisation" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bandcamp bans AI music

The Venice Biennale back in the headlines again, unfortunately

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

AWW looks like its cancelled and the whole AF board has now stepped down. Unprecendented. Will be interesting to see the composition of the new board - given the main festival is still happening and is coming up soon, you'd think they'd need to sort this out asap.

More daily birds (give or take) that I've enjoyed seeing. Starting with a Saffron Finch

Powerful statement from Louise Adler and a huge loss to see her go from AWW.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

They did, and they did it anyway

📢 SBS News can confirm three board members have now resigned from the Adelaide Festival, amid growing controversy over a decision to drop a Palestinian Australian author and academic.

I have been sent a copy of Adelaide Festival's response to the letter raising concerns about Thomas Friedman's participating in Adelaide Writers Week. The response says that Friedman could not participate due to "last minute scheduling issues".

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Former leaders of the Adelaide Festival have written to the board. They call it a grave mistake which brings the Festival and Writers Week into disrepute and which may have far-reaching consequences for both the Festival and Writers Week well into the future."

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

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

InDaily reports Zadie Smith, M. Gessen, Peter Greste and Yanis Varoufakis have all pulled out of Adelaide Writers Week www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Good summary on the current state of play from Hannah Story. Looks like Adelaide is set to be a repeat of Bendigo at this rate.

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

I am stunned and saddened by this announcement. Adelaide Writers Week has been an important platform for Arab and Palestinian voices these past few years. I greatly admire director Louise Adler and her fearless advocacy for freedom of speech. There will be more to come on this story, I’m sure.

On leave til Monday but again asking why politicians, government agencies and journalists are continuing to post on a site that has weaponised nudifying people, including children. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper. New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live

Kendrick Lamar is as good live as you'd imagine. Stadium crowds are a younger man's game though.

For the final Arts in 30 (news version) we spoke to Sarah Hanson-Young about the local content quotas passing the parliament and arts priorities for next year. And Gideon Haigh takes aim at proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria.

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