Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 02/10/2026Look how pretty the sprayed edges on Jaclyn Moriarty's Time Travel for Beginners are. 020
Reposted by KylieAlice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hilary McPhee, a true trailblazer of Auslit, passed away yesterday. My tribute is up on @theconversation.com. With thanks to editor extraordinaire @jocaseau.bsky.socialtheconversation.comLiterary pioneer Hilary McPhee launched Helen Garner, published Cloudstreet – and inspired meHilary McPhee co-founded McPhee Gribble, the legendary Australian publishing house responsible for Monkey Grip, Puberty Blues and Cloudstreet. 0149
Reposted by KylieFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nice work as always from @brocklesnitch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMargot Robbie changing her name to her husband’s hurts my beautiful lesbian brain. Here's why | Rebecca ShawI don’t flip a table every time this happens – but I actually do mind when it’s the default decision with no discussion 7188
Reposted by KylieIva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 01/10/2026OCTOBER CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2026/10/read... #AmEditingivacheung.comRead 'em and reap - Iva Cheung 95720
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 01/10/2026Just a quiet word for inveterate secondhand book buyers: Vinted is quite a useful app. 010
Reposted by KyliePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind. 21541170
Reposted by KylieNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally. 81109210
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 23/09/2026I have become the kind of person who has a knitting project kept in the kitchen (lace scarf) and a knitting project kept in the lounge room (my first attempt at Fair Isle knitting.) Just in time for summer. 👍 020
Reposted by KylieAlice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Non-Canberrans may not recognise this as a National Library. Great work from David Pope 092
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 22/09/2026Would love to know what it is about my face and demeanour that makes people think I'm either a teacher or a nurse. 010
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 19/09/2026I hate how every time this is discussed, one of the underlying outcomes society/the economy apparently wants is for women to work more paid hours. I reject that. Everyone should work less paid hours. 030
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 19/09/2026The answer not explored here, because it's inconvenient for a capitalist society, is having a Universal Basic Income. Parents could reduce hours to focus on their kids and themselves without worrying about affording modern life. 140
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 18/09/2026I am already That Parent at the 9yo's school, so I guess they wouldn't be surprised if I rocked up with a printout about the evils of AI and plastered it over the top of every AI-generated poster on the school's walls. Even the poster for the freaking lunchtime Art Club was made by AI. ART CLUB. 120
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 17/09/2026I've been watching The Traitors. Thank god I'm not playing a drinking game where I take a shot every time someone says, 'One hundred per cent.' I'd need a liver transplant by October. 000
Reposted by KylieChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music 244129862236
Reposted by KylieNewtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Read our special Friday extract from Sue Woolfe's new novel The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves – an intimate account of the life of Frances, a composer, and her relationship with her beautiful, dangerous mother. newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/sue-woolfe-t... #BookExtract #AustralianFiction #BookSky 💙 📚️ 0112
Reposted by KylieABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 07/09/2026Spinning mill feasibility blueprint could provide path to manufacturing revivalabc.net.auSpinning mill blueprint could provide path to manufacturing revivalCompanies can use a blueprint created by the country's chief science agency about how to re-establish spinning mills, a vital link missing in Australia's clothing supply, but the fashion industry says it will need significant investment. 0105
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 06/09/2026I binge watched the first series of Patience and was on board with the whole thing until a character's boyfriend was named 'Peter Venkman' and I got the ick. Then the second series introduced a terrible female DI and I haven't bothered watching the rest. 010
Reposted by KylieBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026DON'T WEAR THE EATING DISORDER SURVEILLANCE JEWELRY 12677161
Reposted by KylieSarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is possibly the greatest AMA of all time www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...reddit.comFrom the movies community on Reddit: Hi reddit! I'm Wile E. Coyote. I'm taking on ACME. AMA!Explore this post and more from the movies community 021
Reposted by KylieJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn. 6979541450
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 01/09/2026Being the climate doom person at school pickup when everyone else is celebrating 25 degrees on 1st September sure puts a spring in my step. 100
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 30/08/2026Names of two sportspeople in the news today: Storm Hunter and Harry Potter. Sports parents are a different kind of something, aren't they. 000
Reposted by KyliePearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/08/2026Australia’s Asian-language capability has been declining for decades. Labor’s new language program offers a chance to rebuild it – as Pauline Hanson and One Nation push in the opposite direction. Australia cannot afford to lose another generation of Asia-literacy, Alison Broinowski writes. #Auspol…pearlsandirritations.comAustralia must rebuild its Asian language capabilityAustralia’s Asian-language capability has declined for decades, weakening our ability to understand and engage with our neighbours. Labor’s new language program may make a difference. 33915
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 20/08/2026Just declared a very loud, 'Get fucked!' to this mother, quoted in the SMH article about gender quotas being introduced for NSW selective high schools and opportunity classes. I love the journo's fact-based dig at the quote that ends the article. 120
Reposted by KylieJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19/08/202639 years ago, in hardback, my first novel was priced at £9.99 (£36 in today's money). My new one will be £20 if you pay full price. Books have become such a ridiculous bargain, really. (Thought prompted by visiting the booking site for a West End play where the few remaining tickets are £215 each.) 613015
Reposted by KylieTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 19/08/2026As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it. 213795
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 13/08/2026I know this is probably old advice for most editors, but I really cannot recommend enough keeping a document of praise you receive from authors about your edits - it comes in handy when you have a crisis of confidence. Think of it as a list of cover blurbs for your career. 010
Reposted by KylieErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Anyway the trans community has to deal with enough shit and it’s deeply deeply fucked up that they had to spend a day being traumatized by a thing that wasn’t even real. Fuck everyone involved in spreading this bullshit. 253856
Reposted by KylieErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way. 2245461954
Reposted by KylieAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 09/08/2026Read all those weird columns about people expressing opinions on other people's behaviour that's not harming them in the least (canes, headphones) and clearly I should pitch a column "the hill I will die on: leave people live their lives however is easier for them so long as they do others no harm" 736477
Reposted by KylieTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 09/08/2026it’s honestly paradise to go in grocery stores in other countries 2453041
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 09/08/2026Workin' on another novel about sheep, shearing and woollen yarn. Four books is definitely a trend, right? 010
Reposted by KylieAlice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026How come we're still taxing the winners of arts prizes and not the winners of The Block?thepoint.com.auMiles Franklin winners are taxed but winners on The Block aren't. How's that fair?Last night, Queanbeyan local Omar Musa won the 2026 Miles Franklin award for the 'novel with the highest literary merit which presents Australian life.' He received a $60,000 prize, only he won’t get ... 313249
Reposted by KyliePenny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 05/08/2026Something that’s been lost in the NAPLAN reporting today: the equity gap in our school system is growing. First Nations kids, kids living in poverty, and those in regional, rural and remote communities are falling further behind. Most of them attend an underfunded public school. 18447
Reposted by KylieDr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics. 829889
Reposted by KylieSciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie @scieditor.ca · 04/08/2026The truth is, many editorial queries are actually "polite directions," not questions. The "what are queries" post continues to be a top hit on the site. Pros talk queries a lot, but there are few definitions! (And they're not the "proposal" type of writer's query.) scieditor.ca/2026/02/qa-w...scieditor.caQ&A: What are “queries”? [in editing & proofreading] – Right Angels and Polo Bears 142
Reposted by KylieNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17170852923
Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 03/08/2026I see the guy who angered the Australian kids' publishing community last week for saying stupid and wrong things is this week attempting some PR damage control by pivoting to talking about another subject altogether, one hardly anyone will get angry about. 000
Reposted by KylieHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/08/2026For a while now my policy across all media has been I Don’t Want To Pay Money To Feel Bad and it’s been pretty great. Plenty of feeling bad for free/getting paid to feel bad for my job to be found elsewhere. 1016611