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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How many of these people are there? I swear this guy has died at least a dozen times already.

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks Dr Sally! Kind of you to say so.

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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...

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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

Big props to the Guardian for using 'inhabited' rather than the usual 'infested.' It's the humans that will be the infestation.

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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 · 13/09/2026

Thanks Dave! Very kind of you. Feelin the love…

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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 · 08/09/2026

The guide to any such controversy: What Would Winky Do?

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just open an AI company and steal the lot. Simple.

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At moments like these he so resembles Kim Beazley: apparently born and raised Labor, the kindly avuncular persona, and an absolute willingness to sell out the vulnerable to appease the hard right.

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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 · 12/08/2026

*concerned face* how many more deaths should we expect?

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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 · 24/07/2026

Australian system: federal government pays writers a royalty based on library borrowings, both print and electronic. No apologies needed.

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What a fascinating combination of exhausted and shifty

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Burnham wood, hey. I wonder where that might be headed…

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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 · 13/07/2026

So give them certainty on copyright. Tell them to fuck off. Thieves.

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Feels like the diabolical tendency for the good to die young and the bastards to hang in there forever is slowly starting to tip the other way...

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sigh. Not enough cameras, perhaps.

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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 · 10/07/2026

As a sidenote, if that’s the face of ultimate wealth, you can keep the money.

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Always important to read the attachments. This is not nine-year-old Karl.

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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 · 07/07/2026

People, people. There is a third way…

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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I wonder if sending home a supremely skilled ref out of straight-up racism might play into that?

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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 · 30/06/2026

Alternative headline: One Nation announce new Victorian senate candidate

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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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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

That "available in all good bookshops" schtick is an entry-level book tour gag. How he managed to make that sound so leaden is almost miraculous.

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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

Remarkable how often this happens: famous people wait to admit the truth until they're ready to monetise it via a book launch.

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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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Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Must be gutting when you faithfully lie for the company, only to have the company lie about you. Lie down with dogs…

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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 · 18/05/2026

“Observe my statues” - really, the golden one?

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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 · 14/05/2026

It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that you alone are right and thousands of independent experts - comprising an entire sector of the economy - have all failed the highly contestable standard you're policing.

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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

It's never time to be a racist.

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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 · 10/05/2026

1. As a ‘former political staffer’, she IS the establishment she deplores 2. ‘Reinvent the wheel’ means repeating something that’s already been done, and 3. This thing will swing hard right in the blink of an eye.

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