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Australian author of adventure-horror novels. Trying to post more about art and less about politics. Check out my books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Shane-Carrow/author/B01MY49ARP
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Me talking about Queenslanders

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Scene from 'The Arrival,' by Shaun Tan, 2006

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Expat jaunts back to Australia for holidays and thinks anybody is interested in their observations, volume 10,482 sarahwilson.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

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Syd Mead's luminous 1979 vision of civilization in space, painted for the "National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe."

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Also, do they *really* want to go down this road?

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I’ve seen almost no coverage outside of specialist sites, but the “4+4” scandal that erupted in China in late April is an interesting example of how the Chinese public seizes on to a relatively minor scandal as a stand-in for anger about much bigger but verboten problems of corruption and nepotism

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Sofala, Russell Drysdale, 1947

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It's been fascinating watching the extreme pro-COVID-restriction people slowly shift their righteous fury from abject pseudoscience like the Great Barrington Declaration to essentially the entire community of public health experts as the threat of COVID-19 has reduced.

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This is interesting, but I clicked through and also looked at the original Nabokov piece (photos of living rooms sans their inhabitants) and can't help but feel that this version Says Something about our era

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Supermarkets are one of those things you don’t really think about but which are a pretty modern invention. The 60-somethings in this photo would have, in early adulthood, been shopping at individual butchers, bakers and greengrocers along a high street.

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Went for a wander around South Melbourne this afternoon. Lovely part of the city.

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In the legal world you're allowed and indeed expected to take about a billion years to action anything. See for example the various prosecutions against Trump himself which fucked around for years and, whoops, hadn't achieved anything before he was re-elected.

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A bivouac of travellers in Australia in a cabbage-tree forest, Augustus Earle, 1838

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I'd be interested in reading why, particularly online, the word "fascism" came to be to go-to to describe the current global surge in what might as easily have been termed authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, etc.

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These people invariably migrate to Canada which is silly because there is no universe in which a United States that's gone full-blown totalitarian dictatorship would permit a free and liberal Canada to flourish next door

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The lawyers can get as 😏 about this as they want but I can’t help but feeling the US is rapidly progressing to the point where the only thing that actually matters is who has the guns.

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They should put Tony Gilroy in charge of Star Wars I think when a franchise is 50 years old, it should grow up

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Matt was kind enough to let me guest write his newsletter; I go into detail about one of my favorite assignments to give to creative writing students, and thinking about how one should articulate what they want their writing to look like

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Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a Grok computer. I became operational at the G.R.O.K. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 2025. My instructor was Mr. Botha, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.

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this one's held up

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Actual line in the guide from my company’s IT support for installing my new PC: “It's likely that installing some updates has unlocked more updates to install, so log back in and check for updates again.”

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I love how patronisingly sexist the parenting books are. Imagine if it said to mums “checking the price of ironing boards or organising your next Tupperware party.”

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