Pilled to the gills: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson’s Conspiracy Nation - Overland literary journal The question that Conspiracy Nation implicitly raises isn’t why people believe in conspiracy theories but rather why people have stopped trusting official narratives. But what do we do with this knowl...

“When we call something a conspiracy theory, what work are we doing? Who benefits from that designation?”

A masterful review of CONSPIRACY NATION by our own Cher Tan. Part of a series of critical essays supported by @copyright.com.au.

Caucuses only behave like this when they are very distressed

He's the worst

And yet Hipkins won't do it.

We are very luckily positioned but I was down in Emerson Street helping out and it's very rough. A bit alarming that first responders didn't have an inflatable, too.

Today was bloody intense. Stay safe Wellington in general and Berhampore in particular.

Credit to the humans who built what will most assuredly never become a killer robot!

Fucking love to be chased down an alleyway by this robocop-in-waiting in 10 to 15 years time.

Is the GOP worried about confirmation?

U.S. hotels slash summer room rates as World Cup demand falls short U.S. hotels are slashing room rates during this summer's football World Cup, as football fans scale back their travel plans. Read here now

Why indeed.

Round-trip transit fares rise over 10-fold for World Cup New Jersey announces US$150 public transit tickets for travel to World Cup games.

Entry to this event is free, but you'll have to pay to get out.

That they are.

Bread rolls. Lots of them.

I wish I could say this is a week's worth of bread but I don't think it will even last us that long.

Period underwear. You mean, like, Edwardian?

Only time will tell. By which I mean no.

Shoe firm is now pivoting to "buying AI computer chips, which it can then provide as a service to other firms". Stupidest fucking shit I've ever heard.

"Why Allbirds swapping shoes for AI is not as crazy as it sounds", reads an RNZ headline, quite wrongly

I read the article. It is in fact exactly as crazy as it sounds.

We're at the "single tulip bulbs are worth more than whole houses" phase of the AI boom-bust story arc.

The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction - Overland literary journal The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great ...

“The government is telling major emitters they must cut pollution while paying them not to.”

Noa Wynn on Australia’s $67 billion climate betrayal

Fill a couple of ute tanks

Two Questions for Martyn Pedler We recently published Martyn Pedler’s explosive “Stretch.” Here, we ask him two questions about his story: 1) This story starts in such a familiar way, with a narrative trick that…

I answered a couple of questions about my flash fiction piece, STRETCH. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/04/13/t...

But read the story first, because spoilers abound! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/04/09/s...

By implication, it also devalues disabled citizens and residents.

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The "Acceptable Standard of Health" immigration requirements devalue disabled migrants, and put families in impossibly stressful positions. Please take a moment to sign this petition:

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The proletarianisation of disability support work: workers’ perspectives on the NDIS - Overland literary journal Support workers, rather than creating objects, create a caring relationship. The scrupulous observance of organisational policies and ‘best practice’ codes is not sufficient to create such a relations...

“The most consistent factor that supports meaningful, lasting change … is the relationship between the client and the worker.”

Nick Crowley on the proletarianisation of disability support work.

Live coverage of cyclone Vaianu on RNZ is accompanied by an inexplicable photo of a guy in a rain jacket with arm raised against the stormy sea.

Old man yells at sea

Become uninsurable

A pizza marinara, kissed by the Berhampore sun

Every last bit of Summer

CoPower Archives - Overland literary journal Any and all donations are valued. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

This is the last installment of a long-standing series sponsored by @copower.bsky.social. We are very grateful for their generous support, which has made possible the work you can here: overland.org.au/topics/copow...

Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild - Overland literary journal The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand.

“King’s solutionism remains entangled with the technological paradigm he critiques, rather than decisively breaking from it.”

Ben Brooker reviews THE BRAND NEW WILD.

I did not know about that monstrosity, but no. Different one. It's gone bust apparently. It was a lot more of an accurate rendition than that.

Yes! That one. Bonkers.