Some astute and highly readable reviews here!

Too many celebrity deaths lately. Can't keep up. I'm still getting over Christine McVie and Gilbert Gottfried.

This is beyond shameful: more First Nations people have died in custody in New South Wales so far this year than ever before.

Great case here for doing an arts degree

magpies do not swoop me because i am pure of heart. now noisy miners on the other hand

Lovely review of a play I wrote - which has two more shows tonight and tomorrow 👀

In my classroom, there is always a delay. Between question and answer. That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where actual teaching happens. Not in the bullet points or the Google Doc comments, but in the moment someone says, “I don’t know if this makes sense, but—” and suddenly it does.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat. www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

Yoda Latino

I love Snoopy in a different, more profound way to the way everyone else loves Snoopy

The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde set serums back years. Everyone was afraid to ingest serums that summer. Even tinctures saw a dip in sales

I was going to say that I consider people like these my personal enemies, but in fact, they are enemies of society, humanity and God.

Mans really said "What if I made a cute comic about an entire universe dedicated to absolutely shitting on one kid so hard he went bald at 7"

Even limiting my choices to full-length novels originally written in English, this was tough

After drinking a Slurpee and a Big M every single day for the last fourteen years, my doctor tells me my blood has the consistency and flavour of maple syrup.

Me when I see esoteric memes about Melbourne suburbs: I'm so proud to live in a thriving cosmopolis with an identity all its own 😍😇 When I see esoteric memes about Sydney suburbs: parochial garbage for lackwits who spend too much time in the sun 😤🧐

THE MEME IS REAL

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

The thing about Ranke is that his ideas about history were good. Unfortunately, they were also wrong. Good but wrong.

History Student: (500 years from now) I don’t understand why their society collapsed. They had just invented 3D Doritos, everything was going fine Professor: Some think the fall was caused by 3D Doritos

The Emus did nothing wrong

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

This is the rogue state that so many of our national institutions - among them Creative Australia, State Library Victoria, the ABC, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute - have bent over backwards to appease.

They're out here reinventing historical materialism

Counterpoint: The Lucksmiths

Why were we collectively successful in fighting this tendency c. 1980s-2000s?

Two things here that are simply unbelievable: (1) that our own Prime Minister, who spent months maligning the Palestine protests, told the nation that there were "good people" at the Nazi rally, (2) our antisemitism envoy still won't comment on the Hilter Glorification Parade.

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

New balkanisation map just dropped

When I was radicalised c. 2016-17, I spent a lot of energy being angry at liberals - me and my leftier friends would conjure up dark fantasies about how our closer-to-centre friends would inevitably betray us to the fascists. Then for a while that all started to seem pretty silly. But lately...

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

Here's the thing. Any decent society needs to find ways for people to disagree with each other - publicly and vehemently - without killing each other. It's also true that no decent society would make any room for misogynists and racists.

No words.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Blood leaking from my ears and eye sockets as I am forced to 'fairly' mark essays that were obviously written with ChatGPT because the detection software hasn't flagged it.

A shadowy cabal should pay me dark money to make leftist propaganda

When I reflect on ~7 years of researching, writing and speaking about Australian history, one of my big takeaways is that there are many acceptable and even interesting ways for white settlers to relate to this country, but unfortunately, a lot of us are selfish racist creeps.

I loved reading this book!!! Bird history forever!!!

A lot of thoughts to process from today - easily one of the most violent and chaotic protests I've been to in a long career - but it really seems like the three-way fight (cops vs fascists vs anti-fascists) might be making a comeback

If Switzerland hadn't already existed, James C Scott would have invented it.

Hmm

Once again, desperately seeking etc

Let's make something good happen for once

Finished the first season of Homicide: Life on the Street recently and it's some of the best TV I've ever watched. Now I'm finding out that the series falls off pretty much immediately afterwards. I'm so sad! Is this how people felt in 1994???