Remember doing the MS Readathon as a kid? Well here's how I spent my summer: reading 150 books to help judge the fiction category of the NSW Literary Awards. Shortlists are up, and we're so proud of them all - congratulations to all the contenders.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...
I tried ringing them about you but the number’s disconnected.
A work of genius, Harry.
Migrants built the nation and continue to improve it. As Westley once said, anyone who says differently is selling something.
The NYT was, once upon a time, a serious newspaper:
"...as one half of a couple whose reach rivals that of a nation-state. She wants to spread happiness into every room she enters, but happiness can’t scale. Happiness can’t pay the rent."
The hits keep coming -
"Mr. Bezos and Mrs. Sánchez Bezos can seem more allied with the rising class of billionaires who, frustrated with the glacial pace of nonprofits, want to improve the world with privately funded ventures, like their space company or their A.I. explorations."
"The Bezos’ marriage seems...as much a cultural inflection point as a love story — the moment American money stopped apologizing and decided it might as well enjoy itself."
The NYT, wondering why the world hates America, while it produces this garbage.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/b...
Band from the bathroom
Hairy Tiles
Garlic is a thing that crude people douse their food in to pretend they’re sophisticated.
Easiest sci-fi novel template ever: Trump incinerates the lot of us while Artemis II endlessly orbits a dead planet. Now if I can just get it finished within 24 hours, this could be my big break...
It's a good point. I live in the Western District, home of the adage 'privatise the profits and socialise the losses.' Abundant evidence here, but it wouldn't be universal.
Will it scoot around Brisbane sucking up dog hair?
Oh for god's sake just clean your room
Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)
And I thought it was bad when it was just stealing novels.
That’s Albanese vertebrata, as opposed to the local form, Albanese gelatinus
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
There's somethin happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear...
So right. He’s this covetous Smaug atop a giant pile of political capital. Do one difficult thing, just once, or pipe down.
Okay class, who can give me an example of cognitive dissonance?
I have a feeling Clarke would have made merry hell with the idea of redactions.
Amazing how it just erupted.
The cultural persistence of Devo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaY5...
Muppet conquers other muppet for job of Alternative Muppet.
#libspill
The #libspill is educational, like when a grassfire teaches you the names of obscure towns. I had no idea all these people were even on a shadow frontbench.
Marty Robbins knew all about shootin first and askin questions later in El Paso www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5...
Great satirists seem to die at a rate that's disproportionate to their odious subjects.
