I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Fucking hell.

I’ve never seen this Van Gogh before… I hate that because it’s 2026 I have to check that it’s not AI…

None at all.

Removed names are Nicholas Linke, a lawyer at Dentons; Daniela Ritorto, former SBS journalist who moved into comms; and Donny Walford, an executive coach.

The best review I've ready of #StarfleetAcademy so far is by @sepinwall.bsky.social (no surprise!) because it makes me look forward to it (!) but also sets my expectations around certain aspects. And it confirms I'm probably going to love episode 5. (subscription required)

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I have been sent a copy of Adelaide Festival's response to the letter raising concerns about Thomas Friedman's participating in Adelaide Writers Week. The response says that Friedman could not participate due to "last minute scheduling issues".

Denton, Garner, FitzSimons, Dalton, de Krester, Hammer, Lette, Zadie Smith... It is very much at the point where the lower risk is actually to drop out. That is the mainstream position. The Festival board (and those who support them) are the extremists.

One day soon the story will be told of how hands on Burke has been purging national arts bodies of people targeted by pro-Israel lobby groups. He isn’t just cowardly and silent, he’s been active in crushing marginalised voices.

Jump scare: getting a Google alert to an article about an old theatre company of mine's page on Grokipedia, xAI's version of Wikipedia.

DO IT

Shit is fucked.

AWW has had to dump its program. If 42+ had pulled out of the 123 that is around a third of the speakers.

Because everything is garbage, Craig McLachlan's girlfriend is releasing a podcast to try to clear his name, retraumatising his victims all over again. Awful stuff. www.mediaweek.com.au/exclusive-ho...

VicEmergency opens a browser tab. You can tap “Locate Me” to see the warnings near you, or browse the list or map. It’s the most accurate and time-sensitive way to get info on #vicfires if you have an internet connection. If you don’t, tune in to ABC local radio

Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking?

Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is our client and we are proud to represent her. This cancellation is unjustifiable, morally and legally.

As promised! Here's my spoiler-light review of the first six episodes of #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy, a show which is overtly following in the footsteps of Discovery, Lower Decks and Prodigy - a show about rebuilding democracy in the wake of institutional failure and imperial collapse.

This spoiler-free review by @jessiegender.bsky.social has excited me for Starfleet Academy because she's had similar issues to me with recent Trek (esp. SNW season 3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HqV...

everyday i feel like i'm fumbling in the dark for the factory reset button of this global timeline

Do you ever wonder what it is about your own legacy that would justify your murder? What about the way you love or live or show up for others can be summed up in a clean, digestible soundbite to validate those looking for an excuse to believe you deserved to die?

Bravo to the writers already pulling out of Writers' Week! I think any show associated with the broader Adelaide Festival should also reconsider their participation in the line-up. Let's not split hairs, it's the AF Board who have done this. They should feel the boycott across the Festival.

It feels pre-ordained. Rigged. The Australian establishment manoeuvring the nation into a subservient fascist surveillance shithole against the will of the informed populace. The newspapers moving in lockstep with conservatives and Zionists; the ALP capitulating wherever it can.

Albanese is mentioning Deborah Conway and the criticise she has faced for her pro-Israel views as an example of why he needed to call this RC. Again, if you needed more proof as to what this was really about.

Bravo to the writers already pulling out of Writers' Week! I think any show associated with the broader Adelaide Festival should also reconsider their participation in the line-up. Let's not split hairs, it's the AF Board who have done this. They should feel the boycott across the Festival.

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

Punishing artists for (alleged) political speech hasn't worked for Creative Australia, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, State Libraries VIC and QLD, Bendigo Writers Fest, and the ABC... but maybe it will work in Adelaide

This is unacceptable. To even mention Randas work in the same paragraph as Bondi is deeply racist and should be liable.

"But what can the Democrats do, they're not in power?" This.

This Adelaide Festival stunt is a way to bully and publicly humiliate Randa Abdel-Fattah for sure, but it’s also to squeeze out Louise Adler for making too much sense in the past. Two birds, one stone. The harassment machine continues apace.

Boycott the racist Adelaide Festival. If you are presenting or performing, withdraw. If you are attending, ask for a refund. If you proceed with your engagement with Adelaide Festival, you have to be taken to mean that you think Arabs should be cancelled for being

The festival seems to have taken down its page with the staff and board names.

It's not culturally sensitive to be publicly Muslim at this time.

They know what it did to Bendigo and they’re doing it anyway

One day we will look back at these unrepentant racists with the same disgust we have for the Confederates, the KKK, the Boer regime. The total elimination of Arabs from public life for “safety” mirrors the very worst racist regimes of history.

I hope this leads to mass cancellations by writers like in Bendigo. This is gutless stuff from the board of the Adelaide Festival. Disgusting.

Actually, strange women lying about in ponds distributing swords as a system of selecting government is starting to sound pretty good right now.

Yes, it would be inscrutable to people who have never seen a moving picture show, you're right.

This is also shocking treatment of Virginia Bell AC, who was one of Australia's finest and fairest judges, known for her dedication to social justice.

Important note with this: Autoplay settings are local to your device. Turning it off on mobile doesn't mean it's off on desktop.

gentle reminder on this horrifying day that you can turn off video autoplay on bluesky settings > content and media > toggle autoplay to off

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

So much fuckery - and they don't seem to know how pyramids work, either.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. But he'd already tried Tinder, Bumble and Hinge? What was left to do?"

Last one to the party, well, to the cottage. Finished #HeatedRivalry. So great.