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(ex-Twtr aka caldron_baidu) Curious reader, flâneur, humanist We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars: Wilde Meanjin, Brisbane Australia (formerly of Omelas) festina lente
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld Marked As: Read (11/52 '25) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld reading progress: p 589 (92%)

From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."

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youtube.com/watch?v=4d_M... "just to be a part of it, is astonishing to me " (oh song of my heart) and today it goes out to my fellow tightrope walkers ~ especially those of us doing it blind-folded and shaking Vale Bill Fay

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld reading progress: p 488 (76%)

www.goodreads.com/book/show/30... Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre reading progress: 81%

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/30... Wild Quiet by Roisín O’Donnell reading progress: p 22 (11%) f*ck me if that isn't the most perfect piece of writing I've seen in a long time, that first story..

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Humanity: this is a computing machine. It was originally developed by women and gays. It runs entirely on mathematics, and can solve problems at such a rate that it can be used to process any kind of information. Tech bros: sure but what if instead, we made one that just GUESSED things

theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part... ‘The Albanese Government, which was swept to power in 2022 on a platform of “accountability” and “transparency”, refused to implement truth in political advertising laws…’ Bet they regret that now.

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan reading progress: p 49 (7%)

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/30... Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre reading progress: 57%

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn Marked As: Read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

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Roses are redde Lightsabers glowe Carbon-freeze chamber "I love thee," "I knowe"

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You can read it here, no paywall. 😁😊😅

Birmingham, on point, as usual open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

David Pope in Canberra Times

It says something that there is no public clamour for a government response to the Daily Telegraph’s ‘undercoverjew’ operation. This is because the only source of public clamour in this country is news corp.

Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2007-09 #WomensArt

Politicians should be made to recognise how unacceptable this sort of provocation is. The Telegraph should be held to account. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Do not let the bastardes grind historye downe

Figures out this week show AGL is charging more to households for electricity and gas than it does businesses. If households got the deal businesses did AGL: customers would save on average $840 a year in gas and $957 on electricity - $1,797 a year. How is this fair? #auspol

Just reupping this article because it got a bit buried below the other post. It deserves to be read so we can understand the obscenity of what was attempted.

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Two Murdoch editorials exactly 12 months apart. Barnaby might be a 'drunken idiot' but he's our drunken idiot.

Hello! We’ve officially migrated. In case you’re unfamiliar, you can subscribe to Meanjin—Australia’s literary journal of record—for as little as $5 a month here! meanjin.com.au/subscribe/ Watch this space for more updates—we’ve got a big year planned.