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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is very sad news for the entire Furneaux Islands community. Aunty Patsy was a wonderful writer, a sharer of culture and a generous supporter of research into Palawa and Pakana stories. She brought everyone into the conversation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Tasmanian Aboriginal elder Aunty Patsy Cameron dies aged 79
Tasmanian elder Aunty Patsy Cameron has died, leaving behind a legacy of improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How would the bit about Doubting Thomas have gone in current times? You're gonna have to do better than bloodied hands, pal. I don't believe that anybody is anybody anymore.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just wrapped up our local writers, festival here in Port Fairy and I’m full up with ideas and admiration for the smart, kind people involved. Two observations: 1. Writers’ festivals work. They’re not just fluff - they’re good for you. 2. Sure it’s dire out there, but decent people abound.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fill the world with Rick Mortons, I beg of you.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sometimes the news throws up incredible juxtapositions. One Nation's vicious nonsense about gay people, right next to Dolly Parton's message of love and empathy. We're always within reach of the light, always falling on our arses.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Kiwi signs are chatty, polite and helpful. But “He got to stand under his own trees” is just an epic piece of historical trolling.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We’re the lucky country because somehow everything went our way despite our apathy. Pfft - usually works out, so why wouldntya? We’re about to test this approach in the scariest way possible - by writing a blank cheque to the AI creeps.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Ryan Butta is quietly building up an important body of work in Aus history: this just arrived, and early indications are it’s extraordinary.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So current understanding of 'Murica, the world's foremost democracy, is that live people are being prevented from voting, but a dead person can be voted for.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Assault is serious and should be taken seriously. But so is mass murder. I wonder why one of these statues is still standing... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Evolve slightly." That was three and half weeks ago.
theguardian.com
Bazball comes full circle with a promise to ‘evolve slightly’ as New Zealand roll into town
Four years to the day after England’s first Test under Brendon McCullum began at Lord’s, England are adopting a fresh approach against the same opposition
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is the shadow of a winter-bare paulownia tree on the side of our house. Or some fiendishly complex musical notation we’re yet to decipher…
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Would it save some bank fees if we skipped the US and just paid our $300-odd billion of AUKUS money straight to Iran?
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Peter Garrett leading the AUKUS inquiry is going to end in tears. He’s already loudly pointing out the obvious fallacies before he’s even started. No federal government is ever going to admit it’s a giant cock-up, which is the only available finding. They’ll go ad hominem, and hard.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
An incendiary critique of the death of print and the destructive effects of screens, coming soon - on e-book and audio.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/05/2026
The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ideally, a book.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Why don’t the LNP ghouls just rename the party, and save us the tedium of watching them defect one by one?
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If graduate programs at big commercial law firms were truly about mentorship, the Minter Ellison announcement would be redundant. The fact they could replace 25% of their grads with AI is proof they were misusing them as grunt labour in the first place.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If you're needing a moment in the sun...how endlessly cool are these two? www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin...
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AN OCEAN , BY HAND : JESS ROWE AND MIRIAM PAYNE ROW THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Patagonia Australia
It’s four o’clock in the morning. South America is 4000 nautical miles behind you and Australia 4000 more ahead. The sea floor is 4000 metres below you and the speckled heavens immeasurably high above...
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Very good from Kos… open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
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The Wall Between Parramatta and Bundaberg
The Demographic Wall: Why One Nation’s wave will break where Labor’s urban vote begins
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
feed juxtaposition: a lineage of armpit-ventilators
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Coming up next, Phillip Noyce discusses his re-make of Rabbit-Proof Fence from the POV of the mounted police.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Remember doing the MS Readathon as a kid? Well here's how I spent my summer: reading 150 books to help judge the fiction category of the NSW Literary Awards. Shortlists are up, and we're so proud of them all - congratulations to all the contenders. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...
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NSW Literary Awards
Content from the State Library of New South Wales.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Quietly confident the ghostwriter here is Tom Gleeson www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Estranged husband of Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson to pen memoir about case
Simon Patterson will tell his story outside a courtroom for first time, in agreed book deal with publication details yet to be released
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"The Bezos’ marriage seems...as much a cultural inflection point as a love story — the moment American money stopped apologizing and decided it might as well enjoy itself." The NYT, wondering why the world hates America, while it produces this garbage. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/b...
nytimes.com
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Easiest sci-fi novel template ever: Trump incinerates the lot of us while Artemis II endlessly orbits a dead planet. Now if I can just get it finished within 24 hours, this could be my big break...
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Or, Farmers Struggling to Fill their 2025 Landcruisers
theguardian.com
Farmers plead for tax breaks, diesel guarantees and help buying fertiliser as national cabinet meets on fuel crisis
State and federal leaders due to discuss assistance for business sectors but petrol rationing not expected to find backing
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/03/2026
Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
That’s Albanese vertebrata, as opposed to the local form, Albanese gelatinus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese
Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There's somethin happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear...
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So right. He’s this covetous Smaug atop a giant pile of political capital. Do one difficult thing, just once, or pipe down.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Okay class, who can give me an example of cognitive dissonance?
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Muppet conquers other muppet for job of Alternative Muppet. #libspill
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The #libspill is educational, like when a grassfire teaches you the names of obscure towns. I had no idea all these people were even on a shadow frontbench.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Marty Robbins knew all about shootin first and askin questions later in El Paso www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5...
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Marty Robbins - El Paso (Audio)
YouTube video by MartyRobbinsVEVO
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great satirists seem to die at a rate that's disproportionate to their odious subjects.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Interesting test for Aus media. Will someone ask our apparent 'friend' Hertzog, to his face, why his military are bulldozing our war dead?
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It says everything about these grubs and their relationship to culture that you pretty much have to be a Pulitzer winner to make forty bucks an hour.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
She may have done all sorts of brilliant things, but Catherine O’Hara will always be Cookie Fleck to me.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Trying to get a sense of what 238 years means in the context of 65,000. This table's 2400mm long. There's a pen balanced at the far end - it's 8.7mm wide. That's the relationship between the two numbers. Colonisation, for all its destructive power, happened moments ago. It's nothing to celebrate.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Aurora Australis over Wybalenna chapel, Flinders island.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Dr Gary Foley, Melbourne/Naarm, Jan 11 "A small group of Zionists demanding a royal commission are the same people cheering on the genocide of Palestine." "Aboriginal people had our own royal commission 30 years ago. Nothing was done. 600 of us have died in prison since"
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Big props to Ch.7 for having a grown-up conversation about Usman and racism. That's reaching all sorts of Australian ears that need to hear it. #Ashes
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Somehow Susssan Ley has managed to combine the confident vacuity of Liz Truss with the wounded spite of Pauline Hanson. That's no small feat.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/12/2025
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“Hi, my name’s Cam, and I signed up for Bonesaw while they were still putting Kashoggi in bags…”
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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Trying to watch the cricket only to have channel 7 force-feed me promos for the ghouls at the Bonesaw Golf. #ashes
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