Reposted by Mike LimJennifer Dudley-Nicholson @jendn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart. I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up. 20306136
Reposted by Mike LimFernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 13/01/2026It's a good moment to become more familiar with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author whose cancellation led to Adelaide Writers' Week imploding. This interview from December feels even more urgent given the events of the past week.podcasts.apple.comRanda Abdel-Fattah : DisciplinePodcast Episode · Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · 13/12/2025 · 1h 57m 064
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Just barrelled through the last few pages of @antonhur.com’s Toward Eternity. The archive as bulwark, the notebook as dna, poetry as life-force. Sorry I missed him on a panel in Adelaide last year! 020
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I wonder if going back to sleep for that final stretch brings more vivid dreams as a reward for not lying awake and doomscrolling (written as i doomscroll after waking from that final stretch) 020
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I never really thought about why a ‘conveyancer’ was called that. 010
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 23/11/2024'All we imagine as light' - quietly magical. Just caught some elements of that in Payal Kapadia's early short film 'Afternoon clouds', now on lecinemaclub.com (you might need a VPN) 041
Reposted by Mike LimGregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Just remember the first g is like the g in gif and you'll be fine. 68011
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 31/08/2024A recent interview with Kate Crawford (who cofounded the AI Now Institute w Meredith Whittaker) on the material impacts of AI www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auAI doesn't appear by magic, its impacts on the material world are massive - ABC listenProfessor Kate Crawford has mapped every aspect of A.I to better understand the political, social and financial costs on the physical world. 000
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 31/08/2024Just when oppressive tech seems more and more the norm, along comes this interview with Signal’s Meredith Whittaker. Touches on issues I’ve been mulling like IA, CrowdStrike & Gaza. Great photos by a fav editorial photographer Dina Litovsky. And Whittaker’s originally a rhetoric and English major! 000
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 10/08/2024We’ve got 2 weeks to catch SHERMAN’S MARCH, a doco classic i kept reading about in film class but never got to see www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...lecinemaclub.comSHERMAN’S MARCHThis cult classic retraces an infamous Civil War path as the filmmaker looks for love in the wake of a bad break-up. 000
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 01/05/2024Such a good essay on the crackdown on the US protests 000
Reposted by Mike Limkottke.org @kottke.org · 07/02/2024Rubble From Bone by Tom Stevenson for the London Review of Books. “The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.” [lrb.co.uk] 252
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 19/01/2024“FORAGERS a film by JUMANA MANNA. 2022. France. 64 min. A Palestinian community’s love of collecting wild plants becomes a gesture of resistance.” Free on www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/... for a week. 000
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 10/11/2023The Nan Goldin doco ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is on SBS On Demand!sbs.com.auAll the Beauty and the BloodshedRare footage and intimate interviews provide insight into the life and work of renowned photographer and activist Nan Goldin. 121
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 10/10/2023I have no idea what this note I wrote two days ago means. 230
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Just adding forensic taphonomy to my list of alternative careers 020
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 07/09/2023It was only a matter of time before someone published a book on the topic of my abandoned dissertation i suppose 😭 100
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 23/08/2023This clock is lit literature-clock.jenevoldsen.comliterature-clock.jenevoldsen.comLiterature Clock 110
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2023ok I’ll let you do some artspeak if you put your gallery open times and address in your socials 010
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 15/08/2023I’m not usually bothered by different styles (CMOS, MLA, whatever) but APA italicising journal vol nos and not issue nos is just perverse. It’s like they made an error the first time they did it and decided to hold firm as if they always meant to do it that way. 121
Reposted by Mike LimRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/07/2023This is one of my favorite comics because I’ve heard from several people who successfully put out oil fires because of it xkcd.com/1890 342183541
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 12/07/2023A little tango to celebrate Kunderayoutu.beThe Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988, The Dance Scene, Amazing 010
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 08/07/2023Tired: reading the book before the movie comes out Wired: watching the first 6 Mission Impossible movies before Dead Reckoning 000
Mike Lim @liminalcat.bsky.social · 07/07/2023Just been listening to Jenny Odell talk about the ideas of her How to Do Nothing book. Escaping consumer-defined identity, becoming more grounded in the contexts that enrich you, paying more attention to birds…forthewild.worldJENNY ODELL on the Attention Economy [ENCORE] /330 — FOR THE WILDWe look at how the attention economy takes on a new meaning in the digital age and the anxiety we experience in a consumer-driven society. Jenny Odell shares the brilliance of doing “nothing”, t... 040