Reposted by Jessica AliceNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 6hBREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” 10679368
Reposted by Jessica AliceElias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 14hIt's really crucial to understand the sheer misery behind "absolute affordability limit", the massive, bipartisan failure of policy it represents, and the class benchmark underpinning the assumption. This means that even people with professional jobs have been bled dry. How many were already there? 22811
Reposted by Jessica AliceAnton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/10/2026Yay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!en.sedaily.comTranslator Anton Hur Wins New Park Kyung-ni Prize Special AwardTranslator Anton Hur is the first winner of the Woori Eum Award, a one-time Park Kyung-ni Prize special award with 10 million won. 1625840
Reposted by Jessica AliceRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The show is underway here in Fiji at the Pre-COP meeting. Fiji's climate minister opened events calling for measures to keep 1.5C alive, get climate finance moving and the ocean to be given its "rightful place" in efforts to address climate change. 2178
Reposted by Jessica AliceTim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“The approval of the HVO mine continuing is not just another climate failure among many. It is the failure that finally broke my faith in the capacity of public institutions to serve the public interest.” The brilliant George Woods www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina WoodsThere is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? 611946
Reposted by Jessica AliceJewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re bringing @mollycrabapple.bsky.social to Australia Nov 15-22! Join us in Melbourne or Sydney for a chance to hear Molly dive into her latest book alongside speakers & artists like @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, Louise Adler & more. Tix: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/moll... 67331
Reposted by Jessica AliceBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026theguardian.comAustralia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged againA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent 045
Reposted by Jessica AliceRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Australia is about to co-host COP31 in Turkey but Australia isn't really talking about climate change. To help fix this, Lyndal and I arranged this talk about why the biggest threat to the human species remains the biggest story going. When: 6pm, 29 September. How: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 25932
Reposted by Jessica Alicethe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Probably my favorite detail from this interview. Picture the version of this film where Donnie and Gretchen are watching C.H.U.D. at the movie theater instead of The Evil Dead. 2638
Reposted by Jessica AliceThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Me in 2015 vs. me today 8779108
Reposted by Jessica AliceRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Big Four consulting firm Deloitte has been handed a $2.1m contract to provide “management advisory services” to the Illicit Tobacco and E-Cigarette (ITEC) Commissioner despite a decades-long relationship with the tobacco industry. New from me for @deepcutnews.bsky.social.deepcutnews.comThe government just gave Deloitte $2.1m to help with tobacco crackdown, despite …… the consulting firm’s decades-long history of advising the tobacco industry. 28146
Reposted by Jessica AliceRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New Zealand faces $4bn in damages a year from natural disasters made worse by climate change. When faced with being taken to court, the country's biggest emitters wrote the law to make the claim go away—a tactic borrowed straight from the United States. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social.drilled.mediaNew Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate ChangeBorrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters. 23022
Reposted by Jessica AliceAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Lots of writers (including me) and book stores have been caught up in this - so however you can, support your local book industry. (and thank you to those who have been still trying to buy our books) x www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auBookstores struggle to fill shelves after cyber attack on major publisherA cyber attack on one of Australia's major publishing distributors has left independent bookstores and authors struggling to meet customer demand. 620998
Reposted by Jessica AliceColin James PhD @colinj51.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Every Australian should listen to this powerful explanation of how we fell into our current political swamp. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auKerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan - ABC listenFor decades, ABC journalist and TV presenter Kerry O'Brien made a career of asking the hard questions. Now, in the face of what he calls "the perfect storm" wreaking havoc on our democracies, he's got... 002
Reposted by Jessica AliceCharlie Bell @charlieb0.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I have just listened to the best speech I have heard in many years. Kerry O'brien’s address to the Byron Writers Festival. On ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas. On the failures of western politics and economics over the last 5 decades. Why we have Musk, Bezos, AUKUS and One Nation.abc.net.auKerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan - ABC listenAcclaimed journalist Kerry O'Brien has seen it all, but nothing like right now. And he's not mincing his words. On AI, neoliberalism, education, equality, gutless governments, and more. For over 50 ye... 121
Reposted by Jessica AliceYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/20261. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours. 51746499
Reposted by Jessica AliceLucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Meet South Australia’s algal bloom in action. 76239
Reposted by Jessica AliceABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.abc.net.auNovel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prizeMalaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney. 0163
Reposted by Jessica AliceKill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Held in the heart of the country, Red Dirt Poetry Festival is on again this year: 20-23 August! This celebration of poetry located in Mparntwe features over 50 poets from around Australia with a packed lineup not to be missed. Learn more: www.reddirtpoetryfestival.com 054
Reposted by Jessica AliceAntoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Ette Media is hiring! If you're keen to be part of a female-founder-led, growing independent media company that is collaborative, ethically and socially responsible, and mission-driven, please send your CV + short cover letter addressing all criteria points admin@ettemedia.com 13426
Reposted by Jessica AliceRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026More about antifascism then and now: Jane Fonda recently revived this anti-McCarthyist organization her dad was involved in (Pedro Pascal, Eliot Page, and Jamie Lee Curtis signed on): www.committeeforthefirstamendment.comcommitteeforthefirstamendment.comCommittee for the First Amendment 219524
Reposted by Jessica AliceOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026bring back shame and consequences. no amnesty 138031
Reposted by Jessica AliceJennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/07/2026Another one framing copyright as an obstacle. It’s not complicated. It’s our right as creators not to have our work stolen. You have to ask permission. Licensing is not difficult! We’re all extremely contactable! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...abc.net.auA 60-year-old law could decide if Australia gets billions in AI investmentsTens of billions of dollars in investment, and Australia's ambition to become a global AI power, could hinge on a law written in 1968 for an era of black-and-white television, film and radio. 89740
Reposted by Jessica Alicespringfieldians 2: hyperspringfieldians @springfieldians.bsky.social · 13/07/2026rip sam neill 433168
Reposted by Jessica AliceAlexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke. 1339901150
Reposted by Jessica AliceByron Writers Festival @byronwritersfest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Only one month until Byron Writers Festival 2026 takes over Byron Bay! Held across iconic venues from the beach to the heart of town, experience global literature at Australia's most easterly mainland point. Explore the program and book tickets www.byronwritersfestival.com 094
Reposted by Jessica AliceJessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026In 3 days in Aus, 2 women and 2 girls have been lost to femicide. A man is charged with killing Jana Armstrong, whose baby is 4 mths. A 16yo boy is charged with killing 13yo Layla Jeffery, a 17yo unnamed girl was killed July 6, 39yo mum Lavanya Chappa July 7. Accused killers all known to victims. 713681
Reposted by Jessica AliceDaniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Yesterday’s Conversation Hour.abc.net.auCelebrating NAIDOC week and Fifty Years of Deadly - ABC listenIn this edition of the Conversation Hour Daniel James is joined by Djaran Murray-Jackson, Co-Chair of Gellung Warl, to talk Treaty and what the NAIDOC theme Fifty Years of Deadly means to him. Also i... 0164
Reposted by Jessica AliceThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 10/07/2026Join The Australia Institute co-CEO Leanne Minshull at this year's Byron Writers Festival from 14-16 August! Leanne will appear on two panels: A Time for Bravery and How to Be An Arts Advocate. 🗓️ 14-16 August 2026 📍 Byron Bay, NSW 🎟️ theaus.in/4aDNUqD 1145
Reposted by Jessica AliceNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/07/2026About to go live with these great folks, not to late to join! DeSmog has been taking on climate disinformation for 20 years and it's a great time to support their work. 29220
Reposted by Jessica AliceHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/07/2026Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.hyperallergic.comNYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for CultureThe overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations. 16823
Reposted by Jessica AliceThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/06/2026The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/in-2… 412562
Reposted by Jessica AliceThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 26/06/2026BREAKING: The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/r...thecityreporter.nycRent Freeze Approved By Mamdani-Era Board, Impacting 1 Million NYC ApartmentsThursday’s vote marked the first rent freeze ever for two-year leases. 422379
Reposted by Jessica AliceAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026There is so much money in hate. It's not even a belief system for most of these people - as laid out in the books Nazi Billionaires and Big Business and Hitler (both recommended reads for this moment btw) it was purely 'opportunity' which drove fascist support. Which is what we're seeing again 10261105
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026‘Dr Huggins, who co-chaired the Queensland government's Path to Treaty panel before it was scrapped, said she viewed the Crisafulli government as comparable to the Joh Bjelke-Petersen regime. "They are eradicating, invisibilising us, and destroying our history and culture," Dr Huggins said.’ 041
Reposted by Jessica AliceLen Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis). 520757
Reposted by Jessica AliceYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Alt headline: Endangered herb, Typhonium sp. Cox Peninsula, could save Middle Arm Peninsula from being ecologically vandalised & Darwin Harbour surrounds from being harmed by planned petrochemical and gas industry 37835
Reposted by Jessica AliceDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The Press Gallery's opposition to the government's housing reforms makes perfect sense, because journalism is increasingly the domain of the wealthy, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/behind-the...deepcutnews.comBehind the 'broken promise' frenzy is a privileged press gallery pushing its own agenda – Amy RemeikisThe press gallery is wealthier than most Australians, and its coverage reflects those interests 13524
Reposted by Jessica AliceMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 12769311719
Reposted by Jessica AliceNovember Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026exciting news: there’s a profile of me out in The Needle by @marleywrites.bsky.social if you want to find out why I’m like this theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove...theneedlenews.comNovember Reign“I’m trans in part because I believe in the hope of a better future. It’s why I do this. It’s why I do anything.” 421079178
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I love the details in this story: 'These [eucalypt leaves] ended up determining the slope of the gutter, a system built so that, as leaves collected and were washed away in rain, they oriented themselves to form what looked like a birds’ nest at the base of the downpipe when they hit the ground.' 0144
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social · 15/05/2026'The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comI knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah NathanThe problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words 052
Reposted by Jessica AliceRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Applicants to a $500,000 program offered by Australian petroleum producer Santos to support flood-affected communities across the outback in mid-2025 were told they would only be given financial help if they said good things about the company in the media. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.socialdrilled.mediaAustralian Oil and Gas Company Santos Offered Communities Help in Exchange for Good PRCampaign groups say the company’s disaster-relief fund for outback communities during 2025 flooding came with strings attached. 79573
Reposted by Jessica AliceJames Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Giving this another plug because it seems to be outside the paywall for the moment. 0144
Reposted by Jessica AliceEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026At least we’ll always have this—a perfect summation of right-wing free speech advocacy 213518
Reposted by Jessica AliceBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that. 129127222434
Reposted by Jessica AliceTzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 01/05/2026What we accomplished in Santa Marta is, simply put, historic. We are building a coalition of ambitious countries willing to lead and break the consensus deadlock that has paralysed concrete action on fossil fuels in the UN negotiations. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseoutNearly 60 countries back voluntary roadmaps to wean world off coal, oil and gas, at conference prompted by frustration with UN climate summits 16925
Reposted by Jessica AliceBriony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Front page today. The median rent for a room in a Tasmanian sharehouse is now unaffordable for singles earning the full-time minimum wage. Let me repeat that. *A room in a share house* is now unaffordable on a full-time wage. This is storming the barricades time, people. #auspol #politas 1014787
Reposted by Jessica AliceJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I've been pulling at threads on Palantir's push into Australia for ages. Some of what I found is a previously undeclared new contract with Corrections Victoria for $9m and no evidence that Palantir has been assessed against the federal supplier code of conduct. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comCalls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies 6370207
