I’ve been out of action for a few weeks and not able to read much. My main response to the AWW debacle, now that I’m catching up properly, is, is this shit for real? I wrote a newsletter about risk, cancel culture and concussion. infra-dig.ghost.io/hard-surfaces/
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable'
live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...
Nice to hear we have a future with @meanjin.bsky.social in it. Some refreshing news on the shitscape horizon.
Well deserved criticism of Liberals for doing all they could to politically exploit Bondi massacre
‘Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse’
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
The Socialist Party stands against The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill (2026). This bill, which is being rammed through parliament early next week is a significant attack on Australian civil liberties and the right to protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🧵
Brilliant synthesis of where we’re at now from @squigglyrick.bsky.social — 🙏
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term
www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...
Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up
It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation
Garden art
A tipping point has been reached.
Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.
Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.
You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
Heroes ✊👏
'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.'
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...
I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students!
everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising
We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists
So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"
A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
I have tonnes of maggie watch vids from lockdowns when I was cultivating a magpie drop-in centre in my front yard I shall send you some. I feel very supportive of this and hope you will share developments and results as you develop the warble
Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism chng.it/dgdMnVCN via @ChangeAUS
It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment
"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
