Not really selling the country lifestyle by the final equation

Could be both but Google translated it as "pain points"!

Arrived today, Chinese edition of my book, Design: The Key Concepts, aka Design: Pain Points.

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

@evelynaraluen.bsky.social you are the best. “I do not recommend drinking wine in the bath and listening to Mitski and crying and calling that a writing practice.”

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about honey — Blood+Honey by D.J. Huppatz “Cruising back to Nassau after my arrest and subsequent release for obstructing a bulldozer in the last Irish rainforest, my thoughts turned to the fate of the high-vis goons who sma...

Fiction "About Honey" by D.J. Huppatz

“Cruising back to Nassau after my arrest and subsequent release for obstructing a bulldozer in the last Irish rainforest, my thoughts turned to the fate of the high-vis goons who smashed the forest’s fairy ring.”

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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism And how to stop them

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

An eclectic stack of books

Summer reading stack. So good so far...

"Please stop being mean about AI"

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Sounds like a future State Premier

Hoping the dog is going to start running writers festivals.

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He:

Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion.

Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

Australia’s Arts Institutions Are Not Worth Saving Adelaide Writer’s Week Deserves to Die

On Adelaide Writers Festival and their decision to be racist shits:

“They want to apply the Mormon soaking method to thought and imagination. Anything more than that ruins the bedsheets, and sends these people into a tizzy.”

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I think the latter. The Malley poems proved more popular in the end than McAuley & Stewart's other work.

1924 group photo of the Surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Gala and Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, René Crevel, Robert Desnos and Benjamin Péret

'into the voluminous abyss' — poetry by D.J. Huppatz WEAR A MASK They only had one victory, and that was over a rabbit. It was up to me – the double person – to appease the restless ancestors, ensure the blueberries ripen, bury freedom in the moun...

New poems up at Luna Luna:
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My book on design and consumerism - featuring critical accounts of Apple, IKEA, Nike, Zara and more. Learn how they seduce and distract you. Marxist and woke! You'll never shop again...

Can't get past a book titled Mateship With Birds

Built for Inequity How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage

Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...

FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable.
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
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(Typos are fine if you are an academic with fat fingers)

"a consortium of Jewish academics" = if you are an academic your job is to privide evidence, develop arguments and engage in reasoned debate

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Pew pew pew, that's how we knock down the bad guy rockets

Haiku pencil

The architectural-imperial complex A conversation with Aaron Cayer about how AECOM rose from humble SoCal roots to become a powerful, secretive player in global politics

Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy

A very large, very white and gold ballroom with Baroque-style arched windows, coved ceilings, and gold chandeliers obviously meant to invoke comparisons to Versailles. Completely inappropriate to the architectural style of the White House.

Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.

When i wrote "moon" in my poem i obviously meant the small one. Yeah the fresh, new one, not Shelley's or Dickinson's old 19th century moon.