Let them eat nuclear submarines

My god that is BLEAK

Hope he's going okay with it, I will continue to shout about your excellent book when I have the opportunity, and I hope your big brain unfries soon.

Michael Winkler: Griefdogg Join us for a conversation about a new novel set in Mildura, written by Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Michael Winkler, interviewed by Donata Carrazza.

Taking Griefdogg to where it was written and set. Tell your Mallee mates! Raising bucks for the mighty Mildura Writers Festival.
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I love this!

Cover of Barbara Hanrahan's Michael and Me and the Sun

Loved this book. Best known as a printmaker, but what a perceptive, stylish writer. For books about Aussies in 1960s London, I'll take this over Clive James any day.

We should all write a novel called something like “The Invisible Metallurgist of Accidental Regrets” or “The Afternoon Society of Disconsolate Ferrymen” and retire to a vineyard in Crete.

Thanks so much for posting that Darcy. The review is a beaut. A privilege to be read well.

DAIRY FARMER: do you have a milkmaid

OTHER DAIRY FARMER: yes but you don’t know her she goes to an udder stool

Spent Light is breathtaking. Get on that one first!

The ‘Trump as Jesus’ AI image, but I have inserted Tony Abbott in speedos with Angus Taylor’s face and John Howard as the man being healed I did the post with Procreate software by hand

BREAKING
Angus Taylor deletes AI generated post of himself as Tony Abbott resurrecting John Howard’s immigration policy.
“I thought it just depicted me as a racist”
#auspol

The anti-migrant sentiment being expressed by a terrifyingly large number of people across the political spectrum has, ultimately, very little to do with the behaviour of actual migrants, and everything to do with anxieties around defending and maintaining white supremacy in the settler colony.

Loved the chance to chat to two of the sharpest brains around. Many thanks, Pat and Tim

Headline: Gina Rinehart says I don't understand arrest of BRS over alleged war crimes.

Also has trouble with fair pay and poetry

Assistant Foreign Minister Matt Thistlethwaite reiterated that Australia wanted a de-escalation in hostilities but declined to directly comment on the remarks. "That's why Australia has been involved in diplomatic efforts with like-minded nations internationally to call on Iran to stop weaponising the Strait of Hormuz, to stop attacking their neighbouring countries and try and de-escalate this," he told ABC's Radio National Breakfast. Asked if Trump's remarks were helpful, he said "all parties to this conflict need to ensure that they are abiding by international law".

Nationals leader Matt Canavan has urged Anthony Albanese to make it clear he doesn't support Donald Trump's latest Iran threat. The US president has claimed on social media "a whole civilisation will die" if the US and Iran do not reach a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 10am AEST. Speaking with ABC's Radio National Breakfast, Canavan says he doesn't support Trump's rhetoric. "I think now's the time for Australia to, and the prime minister to, make it very clear that we can't support this type of approach to any kind of conflict," he said.

If Matt fucking Canavan makes you look like a simp for genocide maybe it's time you fuck the fuck off

If you're in Canberra or know someone else who is, love to say gidday on Friday.

The Bangles really didn't land the follow-up.

Has the president suggested injecting bleach into the strait of Hormuz yet

Under a proposed gambling shakeup, children will only be able to access their Sportsbet accounts at recess and after school.

Ahab spots Trump

🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈

In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript.

📅 Applications close 24 April 2026

👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4tjK50s

Thank you fine fella.

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

Intrigued by this ambitious novel by Johanna Bell. Elastic, innovative approach to storytelling. And Jo Hunt should win all the book design awards. (Transit Lounge)

A description of Abbé Nollet’s electrifying monk experiment.

Join a monastery they said.
Quiet contemplation they said.

Now we know where Douglas Adams’s Electric Monk came from.

hank hill smoking a cig

when you get up to the short story the collection is named after

Wish we could have teleported you in, Kate.

Well we could have done with a guitar virtuoso at the launch Maks - as well as the most insightful of readers. Safe travels!

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I had the time of my life at the Griefdogg launch. Thanks everyone who braved the rain to attend. Thanks to my mates who performed a song we wrote for the night, Michael Heyward and Robert Skinner who spoke, MC Silas Moir and my choir buddies. Now going to hide away a while and think about it all.