Today I was on hold for what seemed a long time. But I was prepared. I played with a compass for the first time since I was at school and then did some painting. Islamist forgot why I’d rung when they picked up! (Data sharing in case you are wondering).

Better late than never right? Got some $2 seedlings a few weeks ago and last night’s rain gave them a huge boost. Im enjoying nibbling on the tomatoes whenever I go outside.

My favorite local street tree. A Fairy Floss’ Flowering Gum, (cultivar of Corymbia ficifolia).

Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.

Please go if you can.

Gosh they are gorgeous!

This is heartbreaking.

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

"If we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe."

What a world.

"ICE has inked at least $25 million in contracts with Big Tech for the latest in spy technology, including social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, and remote hacking ... For years [under both major US parties] ICE has been accused of violating human rights."

The board’s statement cites community cohesion, an oft-referenced anxiety which should be treated with scepticism. This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking. Who, after all, would argue in favour of social division? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This.

What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.

“AWW is the canary in the coalmine. Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you”

“art in the service of social cohesion is propaganda”: Louise Adler standing tall as always. What a legend✊🏼❤️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australian Adelaide Writers Week cancelling a writer for the crime of being anti-genocide and anti-land theft, site opens with a statement acknowledging the festival taking place on stolen land for bonus irony. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival. I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.

Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.

This just makes me so sad.

This is familiar!

The precarity and perils of temporary migration and the need for protection.

@emilywrites.co.nz is awesome. Use your pen or keyboard power.

Love this from @jessharwoodart.bsky.social

Fruit seems the best thing for me to eat when it’s hot. Enjoyed some mango and raspberry for brekky. Nectarine and tomato salad for lunch.

Don’t forget to leave water out for animals and to blame fossil fuel companies. #heatwave #bushfires #Exxon #Shell #BP #SaudiAramco #Woodside #Santos

Definitely worth a read considering the AI creep in academia.

Love this!

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

"I am experiencing profound alienation. In the art world you become accustomed to cognitive dissonance, but I am running up against my limits. At the fair, everything is proceeding as normal – invitations to dinners & parties, the rich swapping stories and resources. Almost no one speaks about Gaza"

'Multicultural' communities also! "I do not yet know of any iwi that doesn’t have individuals/ whānau who have navigated colonial systems by securing proximity to power, & aggressively maintaining it". @tinangata.bsky.social tinangata.com/2026/01/01/d...?

Chilling but powerful analysis from @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Really worth a watch. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social listens to 142 New Yorkers about their concerns. I cried when the Pakistani woman walked in, and they spoke in Urdu. "Please continue to be our light and hope during this difficult time" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj89...

“Osama bin Laden had the insight that only America truly had the power to undermine and destroy America. The attacks on the Israeli state on 7 October 2023 seemed to depart from a similar principle” www.equator.org/articles/we-...

Writing an article about nursing and AI, and this is so good.

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

When the people who make AI seem trustworthy are those who trust it the least, however, experts believe it signals a much larger issue. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“the problem is not AI itself, but the fact that we live in a fundamentally careless society, one that leaves millions psychically unmoored, vulnerable to a particular kind of breakdown”psychosis? howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...

I still really love this piece about intersectionality, beautifully put together by @jordanas.bsky.social and bringing together some of my favorite thinkers www.auswhn.com.au/blog/interse...

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

Mamdani wins! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Rights are not a zero-sum game. First Nations rights are often painted that way. If we give you native title, I will lose my backyard. If I give you a greater say about things that affect you — a voice — my rights to tell you how to live your life will be diminished www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

If you know anyone suitable please pass it on!

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

“The transition of human activities on to surveillance platforms means that truth and falsehood, fact and rumour, become mere data points of equal value.”https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oct/02/critique-pure-stupidity-understanding-donald-trump-2

“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire).” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...