Fornication is the perfect word fornication like this.

this is a masterpiece

What with Stephen Colbert’s leave-taking, Thomas Massie’s concession speech, and the Miles Franklin Award longlist, I am more than ever convinced of the pleasing stupidity of people who have never heard of the Streisand Effect.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

I co-wrote a thing! This is my first article for The Conversation @theconversation.com, co-written with my colleague at @utas.edu.au Professor Robyn Cox. Does your child only read graphic novels? That’s OK – it’s helping them build literacy skills theconversation.com/does-your-ch...

I wrote my thoughts on the loss of James Valentine, who I kind of knew, a bit. open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...

I fucking hate these racists. They can all go to hell.

"when you’re in the midst of an email barrage, or getting terrible threatening DMs and the writers are copping it as well. You basically just want it to go away. And I can appreciate the easiest way for that to happen is to just get rid of the writer – but that is never going to be the solution.”

I think I’ve hit my limit. I’m so tired of having Trump in my head. Yesterday, in between meeting work deadlines, I spent the day weeping for James Valentine and wondering why we only seem to lose the good ones. In other news, my beautiful dad would have been 98 today.

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector. Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???

Today I learned my dad was saying "a wigwam for a goose's bridle" not BRIDAL and now I have to rethink everything I have ever held to be true.

Randa Abdel-Fattah. Grace Tame. Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Brittany Higgins. Antoinette Lattouf. Jacinda Ardern. In Opposition, Anthony Albanese offered the Nation a Royal Commission into the Australian media. Now that Albanese is in power, maybe it's all become too difficult. 😑

Harrassment of women is the Oz's raison d'etre, but even by their standards this hate campaign against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is off the charts. I have known Randa for more than 20 years, and I fear deeply for her safety.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

In case you need a reminder that there is still goodness in the world.

#Israel #Lebanon

Alexis sits down with me for a powerful conversation on Indigenous wisdom, trauma, empathy, and staying human in a brutal time. Please watch, like, and share this episode of @thesacredslope.bsky.social : @johnfugelsang.bsky.social makes a special appearance as well. youtu.be/yG_dAhKUYKg?...

I’m really missing my dad right now. Although I am so grateful he’s not around to see this hellhole we’ve made of the world.

Not long after DT first came into power, I had a dream of him letting loose a nuclear bomb. And now here we go. Nice knowing you.

🇱🇧 Lebanese elderly struggle in Beirut's largest shelter Elderly Lebanese people displaced by the conflict with Israel live in tents at Beirut stadium, struggling with reduced access to washing and toilet facilities, and fears over returning home.

Words that a r*pist would use.

“Cruel & selfish white people have always been America’s weakness, since 1492.” — @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Spa Day!

It’s been downhill ever since

Reading a headline on a celebrity man's take on how men can be better. Last time I saw him he was 'joking' to a big corporate gig audience, rating pupils at girls' schools of Melbourne. He said one school's girls were OK to have sex with, another provided girlfriends & one had girls you married.

Yes the world has gone to 💩 but at least there’s this: youtu.be/6flC0y-2iFw?...

Here's the list for march #EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge 1-🚗 2-🎰 3-🤒 4-🪖 5-🇯🇵 6-🙈 7-🔙 8-🐩 9-🎻 10-👠 11-🍕 12-🏝 13-🍁 14-🪩 15-🖕 16-🏠 17-🦆18-☂️ 19-🚮 20-🧠 21-🇬🇧 22-🍒 23-☕️ 24-🧟‍♂️ 25-📺 26-💋 27-🐈 28-🎨 29-🗡 30-🤥 31-☯️ Don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions😉

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶🎧 02/31 - 🎰 Blow Up The Pokies - The Whitlams youtu.be/7B49zI5UrAQ?... "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐼, 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 '𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒"

The Adelaide Writers’ Week saga was about lobby groups, false equivalence and pressure on cultural institutions to bend to political demands, Louise Adler writes. #PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #ArtsIndependence #WritersFestivals #CulturalPolitics #FreeSpeech

Board of Peace? @ledbydonkeys.org

This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.

Oh.

Donald is now killing kids to distract from his raping them.

Well, this is reassuring. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

So, as predicted, misogyny and racism are seeing us hurtling headlong into WWIII. They’d rather kill us all than have the truth about Trump, Barak et al. revealed.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Second row from the front, smack bang in the middle. #thewhitlams #tasmaniansymphonyorchestra #livemusic

I’m off to Hobart tomorrow to see The Whitlams in concert which is a huge relief because I have dreamt about the concert generally and Tim Freedman specifically every night this week. Enough! 😝 youtu.be/sni1jwMauIw?...

Such a mystery why a woman being supervised by this guy might sour on academia.

Appalling comments by @albomp.bsky.social on Radio National this morning re. the children of so-called “ISIS Brides”. Apparently because the parents made poor choices, bad luck kids, not our problem. Imagine if every child abuse mandated reporter took that attitude: we’d lose our job and rightly so.

It has come to this: I no longer know how to post a photo to Instagram.

Notable that this is more plain-spoken than anything @albomp.bsky.social has said about Trump. Hasn’t even publicly refused the invitation to the Board of Grift, which is just embarrassing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I mean, why is this a surprise? Fiscal crimes have always been treated with the greatest of gravity, while SA crimes against women and children never have been. Never. What a time to be alive? Every. Single. Epoch. In. Human. History was like this.