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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Angry responses to author advice, #2: “I would never let an editor tarnish my deathless prose with their comments. My art is pure, and will forever remain unsullied by boorish readers.”

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/05/2026

The massive cuts to the NDIS in this year's budget are going to have devastating consequences for some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. All while big gas continues to get a free ride. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol #Budget2026

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Every time I hear an Australian pronounce 'new' as 'noo', I have to say it again properly to myself so it doesn't itch my brain. (No problem with Americans doing it, I hasten to add.)

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In light of the news about BRS being arrested for his war crimes in Afghanistan, and the sickening attempts from racists to excuse his villainy, this week’s throwback poem is from my third collection, Non-Essential Work.

The Poems I Couldn't Write This Week
The poem about two Afghan boys whose throats were opened by Australian men. The cynical poem about there being no reason. The poem where they still live. The eco poem about the river the cut boys were left in. The enraged poem about the graceless water. The war poem on the devastation of Empire.
The war poem about artists whose taxes paid for the devastation. The family poem about my mother once again not meeting me at the cemetery. The redacted poem using military language like it can be salvaged. The spiritual poem exploding over intended and unintended targets with no effect.
The transactional poem that requires an effect. The bilingual poem that swallows God. The servile that licks the boot of the buyer. The political that invents a moral arc of democracy.
The ancestral that won't let the dead rest. The dark that refuses to kill the poet. The domestic that imagines itself as separate from all the others. The poem that poems. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. The mistranslated: verily we belong, and
verily
we
return.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Israel must be brittle and weak. If they're trying to make it so it's illegal to criticise and protest a genocidal apartheid state in distant colonies far away, that must mean Israel is extremely vulnerable to the truth. And the establishment is choosing fascism to deal with it.

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

There’s something Eastern European novel about having to protest against protest laws. #AusPol #ProtestMore

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Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Narrowly avoiding civilisational collapse by sliding into a Romantic resurgence is, theoretically, possible. Like, that is real. I am choosing to acknowledge that as a real possibility

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"Book polls are bunk but this one did make me wonder whether there is any audience left for Australian literature, good, great or middling" @catrionamp.bsky.social infra-dig.ghost.io/books-in-cri...

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Books in Crisis

On the books we don't need about Bondi

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old” “I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother” This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Australian media is resolutely racist and Zionist in its framing, across the board. It’s utterly grotesque.

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.

Similarly, the potential pitfalls of Albanese's proposal to develop a "narrow" federal offence for "serious" racial vilification depend on how these provisions are cast and what kind of speech can be caught in the net.
There must be no possibility of the threshold for prohibited speech stifling legitimate discussion of sensitive but important subjects that touch on matters of race, such as immigration policy or the connection between radical Islam and terrorism. These are the kind of technical questions that the royal commission into antisemitism proposed by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg could usefully explore.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template

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Letter to NSW MPs: Protect democracy - don't ban protests

In an attempt to exploit the horrific trauma produced by the recent mass shooting that devastated the Jewish community in Bondi, the state NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced that Labor would move to ...

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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 17/12/2025

"There is far too much preciousness about wealth and income – and it benefits those who are doing a lot better than they would like you to know." new from @grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The way we talk about wealth and high incomes is so skewed that, for example, the government’s own advice on superannuation refers to the ASFA line that a “comfortable retirement” involves being able to have:

Top level private health insurance

Fast reliable NBN

A computer and smartphone with good data allowance/streaming services

A reasonable car

Regular leisure activities including club membership, cinema visits and exhibitions

Confidence to use air conditioning in the home and afford all utilities

Occasional restaurant meals

An annual domestic trip to visit family, and

One overseas trip every seven years.

For most, that is not comfortable, that is a dream.

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Thommo67 @thommo67.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

What the fuck has restricting people’s right to protest got to do with the events of the weekend. Fuck these authoritarian cunts. Wake the fuck up Australia!

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 19/11/2025

“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.” Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

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Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte

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Tired Doggo Daddy @imairhorns.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Timeline cleanser

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I respond when I'm damn well good and ready, and if people have a problem with that they're texting the wrong person.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11/10/2025

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Perfect soft-boiled eggs too.

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I see your Canadians and raise you an Australian.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Two high schoolers wrote a love letter about their high school librarian and the banned books club they're part of. This is really moving and thoughtful and a reminder that kids know exactly what the hell is going on right now. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/09/s...

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Why schools need libraries and librarians like Mr. Biddle

How our school library and its book club focused on banned books changed us for the better.

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Save Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It just does not add up. We're aware of at four offers being put to MUP to clear their financial woes @andyhazel.bsky.social @nickfeik.bsky.social

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says [Free NYT article].

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Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Angry and determined to win this time: Dulle Griet leads her army of women through a fiery world to plunder at the gates of Hell. As wonderfully conceived by Pieter Bruegel, whose day is today.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Bram Stoker
1847-1912
A PENGUIN SINCE 1979

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Language Is a Virus for modern times.

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Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

He goes: "We can't switch off fossil fuels overnight". NOONE asked you to. but letting Woodside promote themselves and keep operating until 2070 is a very bad non overnight option. it's like: Let's build Rome "Rome wasn't built in a day" Ah you got me. Let's do nothing.

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee.. #numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social #fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social #leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre #spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I love how the green glaze (celadon?) gives her a fishy, mermaid quality!

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Another Father’s Day in the genocide. 700 days of relentless massacres, bombings, and torture. There has never been a weaker or more evil human population on this earth. We have earned for ourselves that distinction, to have allowed everything we have seen to continue for two goddamn years.

Father's Day in the genocide

People love the poems about my mother,
About mothers, about women and their children.
I know why. Even when my mother wields a blade in a verse,
We remember to ask, who gave her the blade? Who showed her how to swing? How to sharpen Her voice to a point? How to beat the body black? Who redefined for her what is tolerable?
She is no innovator, I tell you.
What of the father behind the father? How far Back in time must you go to land at a kind life or loving
Finale? According to the Prophet, peace be upon him,
Fathers form the middle of your gate to paradise.
Since mine was absent in lite, my gate is not a gate at all
But an arch through which all the winds can travel.
Baba! I still love you, O broken door! Ana Abu Nayirr.
My son, you who changed my name, know this please:
Whenever I should hurt you, I am the only one to blame
And it will fall on me to mourn ever having marred heaven.

Father's Day in the genocide (reprise)

My father, the blade, I wield in verse
To redefine what is tolerable,
To sharpen my voice.
Swing, Baba! Change my name
To love, to who I arch for, the body
I paradise. O broken door!
Remember to ask, what is peace
At the point of a blade?
What is a father absent a mother?
What is a people absent love?
What is a son absent a land?
A hurt wind, a marred finale,
A prophet of blame.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Israel appears to be destroying high-rise buildings as part of its displacement efforts and aims to conquer Gaza city. Israeli law prof Eliav Lieblich comments: "17 years in the field and I haven't seen a 'state of law' that conducts itself like this. There isn't a millimetre of legality here."

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Indrani B. 🌷🐸🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦🕯 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's outrageous to me that universities seem unable to market the humanities—including publications like #Meanjin. People are still buying books, young people are embracing poetry—and we have the internet. Get on Instagram and put these damn things in front of the people! #AusLit #auspol

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RipOffRed @ripoffred.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Practising family therapy skillz on my cats regarding a dispute they've been having, and holy shit if it isn't working.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 30/08/2025

How now? Where’s the King?

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Bhakthi @bhakthi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/08/2025

I love this idea almost more than I can say. (Though it surely helps to have been well copyedited.)

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