When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

“Staff at several hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

It really is. youtu.be/1ATJhCIeaqo?...

Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard

The decision to silence a Palestinian Australian author goes well beyond the standards of the Racial Discrimination Act and ordinary standards of free speech.

Drennon Davis & Newt Fuck ICE

Where’s the Royal Commission into 45°C becoming a “normal” temperature across multiple states at once?

What are the odds this fucker has DV charges on him?

The perpetrators of the attack were not Palestinian. These harassment mobs are trying to conflate ISIS-affiliated madmen with Palestine and we can’t stand for it. The perpetrators of the attack were not Palestinian. Keep saying it. The perpetrators of the attack were not Palestinian!

The point is that, while criminal proceedings are on foot, a royal commission can't look at anything to do with the Bondi shootings or the shooters, including why and how they did it, that is it can't touch on the subject that is its sole reason for being established. It will achieve nothing.

Kyle Rittenhouse was an honored guest at a 2024 gathering of Oregon Republican activists. This is the monstrously depraved tweet he sent tonight. These are the people who claim to be defending Christianity and “western civilization.”

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Anyone else kind of yearning for the days when we thought the most pressing existential question was, what happened to the girls on Hanging Rock?

Fuck I hate being right.

Reading on Boxing Day is my personal lifelong tradition, but this year I am frozen by indecision. So many unread books in the house. Where to start?

Someone should ask Josh who was in Government when asio dismissed the younger shooter as a person of concern. Or who pushed to make it harder to prosecute antisemitic speech by trying to change Section 18C of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act against the wishes of the Jewish community.

In the latest series of Who Do You Think You Are Australia? three prominent Australians discover shocking revelations about their past selves, including that they opposed strengthening measures against racial vilification #auspol

Reminder that pearl clutching Pauline Hanson's One Nation party secretly sought millions of dollars in political donations from the NRA to weaken Australia’s strict gun laws.

For academic friends researching fantasy and mythic/folkloric literature:

I suppose if I posted what I really thought about Reynolds she’d sue me into bankruptcy too. And they wonder why women don’t report SA.

I'm such an idiot. I posted this last week and neglected to inlcude the link to the Atlantic podcast. It's been a long year, and I am very tired. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

TERFs are taking over Substack. Sigh.

Predictably, News Corp have ignored teachers’ pleas for them to stop pitting schools against each other by publishing uncontextualised rankings. Since they’ve ignored this, I’m sharing the list of Australia’s most untrusted brands. News Corp number 8 - should be higher! A toxic stain on Australia.

Just listened to this podcast from @hannarosin.bsky.social @theatlantic.com in Australia’s under 16 social media ban. It’s really worth listening to, but I’m disappointed that the impact of the ban on marginalised and isolated kids was not even mentioned. I also happened to have spent the day with

OK, I am sure this is not an original thought, but I haven’t seen/heard anyone in response to the whole “Virginia Giuffre said Drumpf never touched her” thing question what might possibly have motivated her to lie about it if he had? 🤔

Timeline Cleanse: Please watch this video for a demonstration on the correct method for weighing your baby King Penguins

Hooray! It's #MichaelRosenDay! What a beautiful day! Head over to his website right now for a FREE event and loads of your other favourite poems, videos and resources michaelrosen.co.uk #funnyfood @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @readforgood.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

Think of the quote in the photo below as you listen to this young man.

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable. Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Good morning! It's the second-last day of our Subscriberthon, and the prizes don't stop coming. Head to overland.org.au/shop today to support us and go into the draw to win!

Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Fellow Aussies, imagine how exhausted poor Antony Green would be feeling if he’s been covering the 5000+ elections happening in the US today! #auspol

I wonder why so many people are feeling aggrieved and becoming radicalised. Could it be the breathtaking wholesale betrayal of our values, while lying about it, on a daily basis?

Lawrence O’Donnell Has No Fucks Left To Give. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Hi Bluesky. Can anyone please recommend a really great To Do List/personal organiser app! I have a heap of things coming up I need to keep track of and what I suspect is my ADHD brain cannot keep a diary. Halp. Thanks!

Brace for another wave of x refuges

Apparently Bluesky doesn’t allow for group chats? Rats!

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.

The consensus from our US friends seems to be we should not engage with the US government accounts which have been opened her so here is a link to a handy block list

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

It’s taken me most of this year to write it, but I think I have a finished draft WITH AN ACTUAL CONCLUSION to a pivotal chapter of my thesis. Imma go and lie down now.

Washington Post v. Democracy Docket on today's Bolton news. I cannot express how dangerous it is that legacy media is normalizing Trump's targeting of his political opponents. I don't like Bolton. But what is happening here is dangerous and wrong. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0