If you want to support all the writers boycotting Bendigo Writers Festival, borrow their books from your library. They get paid and libraries buy more of their books.

Exactly!! If news of a boycott reaches a magnitude more folks that could fit in a festival room, why would showing up be the preferable course of action? (Ironically, if the authors followed the commenter's advice, the commenter would likely never heard anything about it)

If you need something genuinely lovely to read today 💜

The Fight to Save Murujuga YouTube video by The Australia Institute

In light of the terrible decision by the govt to approve the NWS extension, watch this doco on Murujuga Rock Art by @stephenlongaus.bsky.social and @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9V...

‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she accepted the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice.

Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser:

“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”

I call on the State Library of Queensland to do their duty and award the peer selected black&write! fellowships to the winners the judges selected. You are custodians of the award, make sure you look after it properly

KYD commissioned me to take a look back on The Book Club (2006 - 2017) and what I found was a long storied history of film, book and cultural criticism on ABC TV, but a complete dearth of that sort of coverage today, when it should be easier and cheaper to make than ever.

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.

Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.

Here's me on loving my suburb and its little library 📚❤️

as soon as I saw posts like that on here I knew that twitter was done, this site's got all i need

I realised it was totally done when I clicked on the replies to an account exclusively posting funny music notation and it was 100+ anime avatars calling them a communist

Water for the Skull: On River Tubing in Laos — Kill Your Darlings On the Nam Song River, I had refused the shots of Lao-Lao, the backyard rice whiskey served free in the water, and taken only a solitary sip of beer. I... Read more

Over a decade ago I wrote about the risks of travelling to Vang Vien. Seems little has changed. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/wate...

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ooh, fun!!

Such a total nonsense that rewilded land, ie wild nature, "doesn't produce anything".

How about, for starters, the stable biosphere that farming depends on more than ANYTHING ELSE?
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after only using instagram for the past year, it's nice to know that everyone I follow is still actually a freaky little goblin

your pepper comes from... multiple origins? disgusting

“we silence the song of the Earth. We live in a much quieter world than even 50 years ago, there is 60% less buzzing, croaking, roaring, scuttling, blooming, singing and erupting life. Planet Earth is increasingly threadbare; it seems E. O. Wilson was right.” [We live in the Age of Loneliness.]

displaying my pepper as a status symbol as though I'm a late Roman Empire noble who has somehow wound up in Brunswick east

Notes on a disappearance Urban spaces, camouflage and the fate of the plains-wanderer

lots of new faces in my follower list so might share some pieces I've worked on recently(ish). here's one I loved writing, using a century-old map from a polymathic environmentalist to trace the old haunts of the Plains Wanderer across Victoria: www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/f...

if the federal government extends the youth social media ban to under 37s, it's so over for bluesky

In one place for your convenience:

Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 1 (full)
go.bsky.app/AqicagE

Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 2 (still growing)
go.bsky.app/Nhxw9CE

Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Let me know if you want to be added

I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

the Kat Muscat Fellowship for young writers and editors of an underrepresented gender is open once again, now in its tenth year. get around it! www.expressmedia.org.au/the-kat-musc...

Submissions Griffith Review is a literary and current affairs journal that’s aimed at a general readership – although we’re part of a university, we’re not an academic publication. We publish work by established ...

Aus and NZ writers! These lit journals have submissions open. x
Griffith Review: Culture Vultures edition www.griffithreview.com/for-writers/
2025 Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship www.liminalmag.com/prizes-fello...
Overland: poetry overland.org.au/submit/poetr...

No, it's lovely though! Might start posting design work I've done for enviro orgs on here now that you mention it :-)

Someone suggested we simply turn off the internet and go back to the woods. Much to consider

my joker moment is melbourne airport trying to distract people from their plan to destroy native forest for a runway by funding bob brown to give a lecture on native forest conservation