Exciting updates for LGBTQIA+ TTRPG players in Naarm/Melbourne: @melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social is going to be at PortPlay with locally-made TTRPGs for sale and a meet-up ahoy! ALSO other updates!!! Available by kissing your screen with your thumb right here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

#QueerTTRPG #QueerJoy #Naarm #LGBTQIA

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester? Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work
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With demise of Black & Write Fellowships, an invaluable pathway to publishing has been lost for First Nations writers. Replacement program will still create opportunities for First Nations editors, but writer element to be determined by funded industry partner/s. www.slq.qld.gov.au/about/news-a...

The Arts are in crisis Employment in the Arts and Entertainment sector took almost five times as long to return to pre-COVID levels as the rest of the economy

The fed gov is running a hearing on their arts and philanthropy inquiry today, but they're looking in the wrong place.

Philanthropy is a tiny part of overall arts funding and won't help big problems like the post-covid arts recovery. Employment is still way down compared w the rest of the economy

Huge news: Jürgen Habermas was actually still alive until very recently!

We are all watching the US government use AI for their war propaganda, doing military deals directly with some of the largest AI companies. AI is not neutral. Now is not the time to make AI slop for your linkedin post 🫠

Love seeing the work Decoloyarns does out in the blue sky 🦅

It's been a joy to contribute to Constellations/Not Writers Week. Over 100 speakers, 50 events, 20 locations around Adelaide & regional SA locations. Put together by community, bookshops, libraries and SA literature & publishing sector - in under 5 weeks with no prior budget. This is people power! >

Magda posted that she's done with chemotherapy and is in remission 😭 amazing news to kick off mardi gras weekend 😭

Ten Years With Lightbulb Improv Thursday March 26, 7pm - 9pm | Lightbulb is turning 10 and you're invited! Back in 2016, Lightbulb set foot for the first time on the Smith's Alternative stage, bringing their high-energy antics and c...

📯📯📯Lightbulb Improv are doing a 10 year reunion show! March 26 cast & alum are travelling from around the world & the territory for one night at Smiths Alternative in #Canberra

I’ll see you from the stage & the hugs after - it’s going to be epic

Tix: www.smithsalternative.com/events/ten-y...

Last year icon @ashtafelix.bsky.social asked if I’d join the journey of making @melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social eligible for support to make more opportunities happen for the Queer TTRPG community in Naarm & surrounds. I said yes! And we’re INCORPORATED NOW BABY! Cool shit ahoy! #ttrpg #queergaming

Don't forget!!!!! tomorrow is for whimsy and joy

Makunschan, Meeanjan, Miganchan, Meanjan, Magandjin Every tribe … has its own dialect, if not language … stamps their locality much, know every acre of land belonging to their ‘home’… each plant, flower, tree, shrub, grass, bird, beast, insect … eve…

For those interested in where the name Meanjin belongs, here’s a piece by Gaja Kerry Charlton, ed. by Melissa Lucashenko. Great time to remember how meaning is made through an inescapable braid of Indigenous self-determination, colonial violence, and Country. #Meanjin

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QUT - Meanjin QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

Rad news that Meanjin is returning to Yagara Country. What a great transit for this journal. Keen to see First Peoples at the helm, moving the body of the journal as is needed! Can’t wait to subscribe to this next chapter.

www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

QUT - Meanjin QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

I'm as glad as the next person that Meanjin will get a new home, but can we please stop with the knee-jerk cancellations and just have some continuity please?

Thinking reinstatement of Sabsabi, re-issuing of the invite for Abdel-Fattah and now this.

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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.”

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Book now! Free event in Adelaide
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To be clear: if protests didn't work, governments wouldn't try to ban them Today we will find out the ruling from the NSW Supreme Court on whether the planned protest in Sydney’s CBD against Israeli President Isaac Herzog can go ahead legally.

If protests didn't work, then governments wouldn't try to ban them.

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Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse Research suggests surging costs under Morrison government’s job-ready graduate scheme and axing of dozens of subjects largely to blame

What does an "artless country" look like? Attacks on unis and artists have immediate impact—and a long tail. Disturbing new research by the excellent Profs Sandra Gattenhof and John Nicholas Saunders, my former National Advocates for Arts Education colleagues: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s so not fun but it is useful information, and much like a game of social deduction - all information is useful information.

Labor sending out a fundraising email today to stop one nation when the two major parties have created the condition for ON’s rise

Fun Thursday reminder: book in to get your moles checked. We need you here with us. When there are so many ways to die, I’d hate for you to leave this mortal plane because of a freaky mole.

a man and a woman are sitting in a kitchen and the man is holding a can of beer . Alt: Husband and wife, and son are in a kitchen. Father says to his son tell 'em their dreaming

Anyone got a spare free/cheap mid to large venue in Adelaide that's not totally booked out during Festival/Fringe season? Just need it for one day, for an Aboriginal-led writers event. Promise to take good care of it

Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news

A good week to remember our country has also detained children as young as two for being refugees

Hanson has had this literally 2D song stewing on her heart since Pauline Pantsdown produced an actual banger in the 90’s. Also, let’s all imagine Holly Valance in a booth, seriously counting in and singing these syllabically horrific lyrics with the producer being like “That’s the take!!”

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

If you are smart and talented enough to work in IT support for Amazon, or AI for Deloitte, to apply for a job in training LLMs, or speech writing and spinning for politicians - you’re smart and talented enough to be doing something else.