Volunteering is not unethical. It's not exploitation to willingly give your labour and your love to something that gives you back all of it and more - connection, celebration, opportunities, a platform, created by you, for you. We need to reexamine this idea, this fear, that every time we do something for free, it means we've been robbed, and every time we ask someone to do something, it's manipulation. I know how it feels to be in this position, but it's killing our communities. It's killing our relationships. We are not businesses, we are people, and the things we want to give and receive are numerous. I hope we can change how we view this, because if we can only get things done with money, we let the people with capital dictate everything that happens.

one more thing about freeplay, and an issue that's been on my mind for a while (alt text available):

is this going to be similar in set-up and scale to last year? have some immuno compromised mates who wanna come along but just need to suss the covid safety situtation!

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up

Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social‬ writes.

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN

Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
meaa.io/45A4vZ5

confession: i am a dupe. my parents could NOT afford the real thing. but tbh in online pics you can hardly tell the difference!!!

What a fantastic piece of storytelling

‘Does Gen Z really prefer Discord watch parties while wearing pyjamas and getting turnt at frozen-yoghurt shops instead? It would be reductive to flatten an entire generation into a single, generalised wet blanket, and it’s certainly misleading to discuss ‘the nightclub’ as a monolith. If clubs have anything going for them, it’s that they’ve always been on the pulse of changing tastes and times.’

Adolfo Aranjuez on the decline of nightclub culture.

Read more: bit.ly/4onD4KC

shout out to Series Mania in 2019 when they said they "didn't do comedy because they want to tell important cultural stories" as though the two were mutually exclusive

every australian tv development process ever

The ABC spent millions defending this Lattouf case. The Creative Australia chair resigned. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had its worst financial result in a long time. The SLV and SLQ are still dealing with the fallout from their cowardice.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.

joining the anti nostalgia club!!! i said to my partner at parallels last year 'sick of all this nostalgia for the past, where is the nostalgia for the future?' i have since been informed that is called "hope"

Should we take care of each other?

To me, this is the central question underpinning pretty much every current major sociopolitical issue.

i love this series purely for Liu's myriad asymmetrical tops

Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

she should go on Australian Idol!!

About 12 years ago I loaned Geoffrey Rush some change to use a payphone in Carlton one night, think his wife had kicked him out. Also while working at Boost Juice I sold Lady Gaga a smoothie. She was visiting a radio station nearby to promote Just Dance.

one of my best friends over drinks the other night spent an hour telling me the detailed plot of 2 (fanfic) episodes of Supernatural she is writing. I do not know anything about this show but she cared about it so much that I didn't wanna stop listening. that's love baby

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

"it's not that deep" oh my friend yes it is. it's mariana trench deep. it's warm bed on a winter's morning deep. it's lounge room couch high at kick-ons deep. it's two am dj set dance floor deep. it's lovers eyes deep. dive in!!

If Shakespeare were writing for games today he would have been laid off six months ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_c...

babes dont threaten me with a good time!

video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group

a redacted interview of a person talking about a manifesto

a winding piece of text with a polaroid of... something

a snippet of a poem

a description of a polaroid image and its context

< portrait on imagined horizon >

a mysterious interactive story, made for DOMINO CLUB's 9th jam: DECLASSIFIED.

📑 ~15-20 min, runs on desktop AND mobile
📁 dominoclub.itch.io/portrait-on-...

really love this, what a cool beautiful mysterious ride ♥︎

If want to send a message to the major parties that you want real, progressive change in this election, you should vote 1 @vicsocialists.bsky.social

Some cute close ups of the work I showed at ALT: FEATURES over the weekend about Videogames as People 💾📀📂

love these!