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.

Inquiry into Australian university governance is welcome and urgently needed, but the point that universities have been ideologically and economically battered into their current form by successive governments cannot be ignored

your machine does not write. If a sentient machine existed (it does not) then it could write, if it desired to write - but you do not have a machine that desires - you have only an unliving thing built on theft (of words-land-water) that would appall a pirate.

First trailer of "Junk World", the new indie stop-motion feature by Takahide Hori, set in the same universe as his previous film "Junk Head". In Japanese theaters on June 13. junkworld-movie.com

DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...

Made a missile, rendered in ribs and phalanges, thrown between fueling stations, each more mealy-mouthed than the last days, spent listening to nothing on the radio, not even the soft palette of titanium white noise - desaturation peaking at percentages that don't read on the page -

Silence wicking away long limbs of wallpaper from the houses you built with all your clamour, halfway places in failed photographs - beaming in now on a hot frequency, gotta get out of your noise, gotta shut the fuck down and out in plutonium silhouettes -