Okay when I volunteered to do A/V for Nance’s memorial no-one told me they were using Talkin’ About A Revolution 😭😭😭😭😭

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

A. A. Milne is one of the great English poets.

A bureaucrat for the revolution? IN SPACE?

Monday morning Melbourne?

… the haunting tale is now dismissed as a “modern thriller” (like wtf, who thinks thrillers are higher-class than Gothic romances?!)

Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it

Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?

Aarrrgghhh just finished Mhairi Macfarlane’s COVER STORY and I think it’s her best yet. She is SO GOOD at eroticising/ romanticising good communication, trust, integrity & respect. Like the best Heyers but with more jokes 😍😍😍😍😍

ONE OF THEM IS WEARING A SEVENTH DOCTOR JUMPER THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW

Oh thank God, I have literally been low-key worried about this for weeks, even though the last time I interacted with Simplicity was when my mum made me an awesome cropped double-breasted white jacket with shoulderpads and brass buttons in 1985.

Can I use the phrase "budget permitting lol" in my Head of School newsletter message y/n

I think this might be genius? My brain hurts

Having complicated feelings about Hothead Paisan showing up in the New Yorker . I have been thinking about Hothead CONSTANTLY lately, especially: * "Thank God Thank God Thank GOD I'M QUEER" * the sequences where we see the demons wound around her body * the bit where someone calls her "Hat-Head"

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

ALEXIS WRIGHT FOR THE NOBEL

These are not the only things GoldSF publishes but the very existence of GoldSF dismantles part of the torment nexus mitpress.mit.edu/series/golds...

YESSS misunderstanding IS understanding and this is what teaching is. God I miss teaching

It’s the most wonderful time of year! VOTE TAWNY FROGMOUTH

Carlisle's research/editing skills are so good--I have taken advantage of them multiple times. Hire them! (A message to chairs of search committees too . . . )

Oh good

See this is how I think universities should/can work. We have infrastructure, libraries, buildings, admin support and an absolute fuckton of smart, passionate people in ongoing jobs, being paid to research and teach. We are the epitome of WE CAN JUST DO THINGS underreacted.leaflet.pub/3m23gqakbqs2j

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid (back when the screen was spangled with cigarette smoke):

Looking to the following week, 10/7 we've a public, virtual talk by Anouk Lang combining literary study & critical making: "plotspaces", 3D-fabricated sculptural objects representing the spatial+scalar shifts in a poem. Open to all (register for zoom info):

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Ah the sweet revolutionary taste of Lemsip.

I've posted on Substack about my PhD research. I'm writing about the way White children's writers have worked within the fantasy genre to explore a different relationship to Country than the realist "everything in Australia will kill you" mode allowed. open.substack.com/pub/msmisrul...

oh my god new life plan for my widowhood

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

Okay, my feed is full of US politics at the moment and I have a question, which is: how come it is called both "acetaminophen" and "paracetamol"? I thought drugs were like... species? with a single Latin name? 🤔

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Unimelb is on Bluesky! QUICK LOOK BUSY

Moo Deng is getting do teenager 😍😍😍

OMG there is only one answer and it is D

The media and politicians must recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm SIGN HERE! notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

it's a shame that Disney was allowed to snatch up all the entertainment IP, but on the upside, now that creative folks are deciding not to work with them, we might get cool new stuff that isn't a rehashed marvel story or being shoehorned into Star Wars

They’re only Tim Tams if they come from the Tim Tam region of Australia. Otherwise they’re just:

Oh my God this reminded me that we were talking about the new Spinal Tap movie and I found out that MY GIRLFRIEND HAS NEVER SEEN THIS IS SPINAL TAP! So much joy awaits us

Um @unamccormack.bsky.social ?

Forbidden riff bsky.app/profile/mkir...

Yayy!

I was interviewed in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. You can preorder the collection now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...!

I think a lot about Saruman lately. He claims to join Sauron becuase it’s impossible to resist the might of Mordor, he’s simply powerless against him etc, but then it’s Saruman, not Sauron, who causes almost all the problems for the fellowship in the first two books.

This book sounds amazing

Mine has bookable Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch consoles, a food bank, an exhibition of art by local artists, and three separate apps (one for ebooks, one for audiobooks, one for comics and graphic novels) for instant borrow/download

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Snapshot of middle-aged/middle-manager/ lesbian life: we’ve just heard that my gf’s ex died this week, so I’m driving Q to a mutual friend’s place so they can reminisce while I sit in a corner catching up on work that needs doing before Monday

It was more than 2 seasons but I still don’t understand why Warehouse 13 was not massive. Created by @janeespenson.bsky.social, many Star Trek guest stars, unbelievable chemistry in the ensemble cast, great plotting, CCH Pounder, a gay Buddhist, and the best version of Running Up That Hill