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“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”

“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.” @jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.

The press has an important role to play in stabilising the nation, by, eg., highlighting examples of unity and cooperation between the Jewish and Muslim communities. As it stands, they all seem to be beating the drums of racial tension. It is irresponsible and it must stop.

Mass market paperbacks were always my favourite format. Made the idea and the feel of a book so exciting - a compact self-contained world you could carry round in your pocket. Genuinely sad they’re going. Trade paperbacks are just the ‘cheap’ version of a hardback. Not their own thing at all.

To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close. We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately. Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

Udo Kier (1944–2025)

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.

White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.

"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished." - William Burroughs to Truman Capote

Boycott DC Comics.

They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing

“Charlie bit me!” - the dust

what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..

This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.

"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions" - William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'

You don't say?

I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.

it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.

Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵

John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good

That thing SWs have been warning everyone about for years is here and it's gonna get a lot worse real quick.

Let's hope Interzone magazine & its editor haven't been dogpiled off Bsky for good. They did good work, were kind to people, boosted others & other mags constantly, & were keeping one of the oldest sff mags alive.

still really dig this essay -

Essential reading -

Unimelb for Palestine are calling for people to phone/email the Vice Chancellor's office - staff and alumni must be vociferous in our rejection of this.

Oh fuck man 😩

As Palestinians continue to starve between bombings, Labor will remain complicit in genocide until they sanction Israel, end the arms trade, and join global action.

cry havoc

of course, OF COURSE after a decade of ludicrous hand-wringing over "great" works of literature being disappeared, it's living, working writers who are the targets of state censorship and suddenly there's no problem.

They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy

Grace: 1999 (1965)

Recent effort from yours truly in the Sydney Review of Books 👇 responding to Jordan Prosser's 'Big Time' ..

All fired up to run one of the winter school seminars at the Melbourne School of Literature - we'll be looking at what I'm calling "weird bodies" in 20th century anglophone science fiction - tell your friends - tell your deadly enemies - para-academia is go -- msl.org.au/msl-winter-s...

This test, even if done ethically and with renewable energies, just looks like hundreds of other AI videos I've seen over the last two years. It looks like everything, so it looks like nothing. My Star Wars Field Guide is far, far away.

a lot of folks chiming in to say "people don't appreciate serious drama" - tbh I think it's a factor that the hype around Andor can sound like gloating from people who've just discovered books.

Beast 🐂

Correlate all its malcontents.

tbh the notion that Andor's politics make it more legitimate/worthy than all the other faff goes out the window given the majority of its audience remains patently non-radical.

It is the 3rd millennium. For more than five hundred years, the Universities of Mankind have stood immobile on the firmament of Earth. They are the masters of knowledge by the will of forgotten cultures, hollow corpses writhing with power from the Dark Age of Theology.