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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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.

Photo of a crowd outside Flinders Street station. An Aboriginal flag is being waved overhead.

Photo of a crowd marching north on Swanston Street. A sign in the lower left reads "Solidarity with Camp Sovereignty".

Photo of the top of a crowd on Spring Street. A sign being carried overhead reads "Always was always will be."

Photo of a crowd marching outside Melbourne Town Hall. A banner held overhead reads "Readers and Writers Against the Genocide".

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

although this was the first illustration I saw - the frontispiece in a Heinemann edition - still arrested by the way the heat ray resembles a camera ..

Black and white illustration from a mid-century edition of War of the Worlds, depicting the Martian tripods marauding across London.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.

Painting by Michael Trim, depicting a Martian tripod standing in the sea, melting the prow of a steamship with its heat ray.

Painting by Peter Goodfellow, depicting a parson holding up a cross to ward off the Martian tripods that tower over him.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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.

Photo tile from Unimelb for Palestine, which reads "We need your solidarity! The University's new Vice Chancellor Emma Johnston still needs to sign off on these expulsions and suspensions. This could happen at any point within the next few days. We are urgently calling on all groups and individuals to email/call her office demanding that these unprecedented sanctions be revoked, and support our calls for the University to cut ties with universities in Israel once and for all." Below this statement is a text box that reads "Contact VC Emma Johnston. Email: vc@unimelb.edu.au. CC: cboles@unimelb.edu.au. Phone: +61 3 8344 6134. Please share the photos/videos of you contacting Emma Johnston so we can reach as many people as possible and show the university that the community stands with students."

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

coming round to the feeling that John Blanche is right on the money here - (from White Dwarf #97) -

Screenshot of a White Dwarf interview with John Blanche. The text reads "While we're on the subject, surface detail can work two ways. If your figure is covered in surface detail, it's easy to paint up. Sometimes though, it's nice to clean most of this off and leave yourself a smooth painting surface. That way. it's all down to the detail you paint on with the brush. That can be more delicate than anything done in the casting process. Exercise your skills."

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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...

Photo of a figure wearing a pilot's helmet. The image of a nebula is reflected in the eye lenses.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Land back and treaty now.

Photo of the Invasion Day rally outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne. A large crowd fills the street, with two Aboriginal flags prominently displayed in the middle of the crowd.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

And we're done, so once more with feeling - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20. #bookchallenge

Photo of a paperback book, 'Bloodchild' by Octavia E. Butler.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

And talking about Jack Kirby at the incredible Figurements symposium on Friday -

Photo of James, standing at a lectern, looking down and reading with his right hand held out in a gesture. Behind him, a PowerPoint slide projected on the wall displays sections of comics art by Jack Kirby.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Vigil for scholasticide in Gaza on Thursday -

Photo of the Palestinian flag held aloft in a public garden. A crowd is gathered at the right side of the picture.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

wilfully disdain publishers putting out new books in taller editions that don't match -

Photo of a shelf in a bookshop - lined along the shelf are copies of the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer, with the most recent volume, 'Absolution', noticeably taller than the others.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Melbourne/Naarm academics, staff, students - vigil for scholasticide in Palestine this Thursday 👇

Poster for a vigil for scholasticide in Palestine, to be held Thursday 28 November at 6pm, at Carlton Gardens. The details are printed over an illustration of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, with one archway structure standing amid the rubble.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

From Naarm to Palestine, occupation is a crime.

Photo of a march for Palestine gathered in front of the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne. Someone in the middle of the crowd is flying the Palestinian flag.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

one day I'll finish writing this into existence..

Screenshot of the top of a Word document. The text reads: "And the heavy metal arm swoops down, picks up Patrick the intern and batters him repeatedly into the printer until at least some of him slips through its mechanisms. Pages of manuscript, now stained pink, keep coming through printers, copiers, fax machines, Facebook feeds, instant messages, telegrams – page after page after page of the new novel – or is it a manifesto? A parting riposte from our plastic pals. Arrow blown diode for thistle rattling sufficiently."

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I mean, it definitely helps that the covers look this good -

Photo of a paperback copy of 'The Invisible Man' by H. G. Wells. The cover painting depicts a man in a brown suit and fedora, smoking a cigar, but his face is invisible, except for the eyes behind his glasses.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. (But also roughly chronological, how tf else do I keep track?) No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (But also no thesis texts, sorry kids.) *ahem* Day 1. #bookchallenge

Photo of a paperback book. It is a copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First mini painted in the new place (same wonky backdrop)

Close-up photo of a painted miniature. The figure is a sci-fi dwarf figure, with a bionic eye, and a blue bionic left hand.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Reading these fkn books in this fkn moment continues to be a real trip.

Photo of the Hours Heresy novel, Know No Fear.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

David Jonsson's performance is far and away the best part of the movie.

Still of David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Seen this getting some short shrift - it's alright I reckon, although a smear of nostalgia obscures its most interesting ideas.

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

leaving these notes for myself and becoming my own nemesis -

Screenshot of some writing. Written in the break between two paragraphs is the question "This critique connects to later work because -?"

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Interrogator Harrow chuckled. "I'm in danger."

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

might actually be time to sit down and revise this old thing -

Screenshot of a PDF file. The cover page reads "Kirk Dangerous Kills The Prime Minister".

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James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

This crowd gathered outside Melbourne East Police Station, asking for an apology after officers, having detained a member of the Free Palestine march under false pretenses, responded to attempts to get this person legal representation with physical force and pepper spray.

Photo of a crowd outside a police station. People are waving the Palestinian flag. Someone to the right is holding a sign that reads "Free Palestine, ceasefire now."

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