Hi @grogsgamut.bsky.social I have withdrawn on Friday morning . Pls amend your list

Forget brat summer, the vibe shift is here and it's terrifying From the rise of misinformation and AI to escalating political tensions, vast economic disparity, and the erosion of social bonds, the vibe shift is now understood as a deep, unsettling change in our ...

Long read for the ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Bondi beach’s golden light can never be extinguished. It has always returned from its darkest days | Brigid Delaney Bondi has long been a stage for some of Australia’s best – and worst – moments. As it continues to reel from the Hanukah mass shooting, it’ll always be a place for everyone

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“2020 wasn’t a gradual transition into a digital dystopia. It is what happens when the real world becomes deleted, and all you are left with is the app version”
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Help - my brain is FRIED! Why are so many of us tired and burnt out? Why is it so hard to rest? What is behind the fear of switching off?

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It’s never too late !

Bali's Breaking Point Smoothies and selfies - is Bali being eaten alive by the algorithm?

I’m on Substack - with so many other great people . Just published my latest essay on how the algorithm is hurting Bali . Subscribe !

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‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant The long read: I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill me

Great piece ‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

Everything’s stored in the Cloud

Very proud to announce my new book. Out in October
A journalist is given a strange assignment - travel to a cut off kingdom and see whether this community has the secret to happiness. What follows is a story like no other .
#stoicism
Preorder here
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Just arrived ! The portugese , Brazilian and Japanese translations of Reasons not to worry

590nm infrared on a cloudy day, shot with my lovely ltm voigtlander color skopar 35/2.5

Just been signing at kinokuniya in Sydney CBD, if anyone wants a signed copy of Reasons Not to Worry

Thanks so much ! An oldie but a goodie

Congrats everyone in Labor family for a great result - especially all that volunteered on the day and leading up to campaign

I learned a new word today: dunkleflaute. Dunkelflaute, translated to "dark lull" in English, refers to a period of reduced wind and solar power generation, often coinciding with winter months and increased electricity demand.

Hard to believe ……Ten years today since Myuran and Andrew were executed #mercycampaign

The invisible man: Bryan died in an accident in 2015. Why did it take 10 years to identify him?

Big full moon tonight , like a searchlight

Thanks lady liberty !

@brigidwd.bsky.social great read for all! Highly recommended‼️
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The film fans who remade Jurassic Park​: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’ Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux is a shot-for-shot labour of love made with amateur actors, beanbag dinosaurs and an army of volunteers. Three years later it is finished – and ‘bigger than Ben-Hur’

The most Castlemaine thing ever !
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Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

Rip iceman

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Hello new order 💯💯💯

Thanks so much ! Glad you find it calming 🙏

First chapter in and I can ‘feel’ the neural pathways beginning to calm. A gently encouraging re-framing and taming for our whirling mind, with an interesting historical perspective. Perfect for this epoch, if you’re post loss and/or looking for reflection time. Thank you @brigidwd.bsky.social

So many great books - particularly in translation - are out right now. Highly recommend this one

Thanks so much Andrew . Stoicism is awesome !