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Casey Briggs brings the graphics! It's not 2PP any more, it's a 3-way triangle! #Auspol We've been saying for a fair while now that 2PP just doesn't reflect what's happening. The binary is dead, long live the trinity! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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If you're still using Amazon, stop using Amazon. You don't need to use Amazon. Using Amazon is very directly contributing to the garbage regime currently afflicting the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Every election. Every western country. Same narrative from the right. And somehow* this shit still gets them over the line. *Depressingly low levels of public media literacy, and a complicit commentariat, bound by their employment contracts to billionaire oligarchs...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

So would Albanese. Vote accordingly.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Australia Taxation Office (ATO) has called the oil and gas industry “systemic non-payers” of tax.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck. If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Absolutely extraordinary. No way that project is viable

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Last year I wrote some fragmentary paragraphs for the conclusion of what was to be my first book. I think they hold up unfortunately well "The United States is ultimately a young, fragile democracy. If you start the clock at the Voting Rights act of 1965 the United States is barely 60 years old.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

by 2034 It’s not “now, finally” state schools will be fairly funded - it’s by 2034. Three governments away. Kids born 5 years from now will be the first ones to have a properly funded public school education.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Definitely not a Labor Liberal National Party stitch up though.

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

@louiseadler1.bsky.social joined Fran on the RN Hour for a great discussion on protecting artistic integrity, pertinent in the aftermath of Creative Australia dropping Venice Biennale artist Khaled Sabsabi. ⤵️ Louise's essay "Culture, Money and Morals" features in our new book What's the Big Idea?

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

The clever folks @australiainstitute.org.au commissioned essays on the issues that keep us awake at night and preoccupy our days. For me it’s the ways lobbyists are using their influence to block dissenting artists. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

No one does insults like the French

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

This is how the ABC described Israel committing war crime by denying all aid to Gaza. A compromised and morally bankrupt news organisation.

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

I’d actually forgotten this. Suspect others may have too. Can as many people as possible please share this so we never forget?

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

Had my say for @nybooks.com about the last couple weeks as the convergence of three overlapping political projects and asked about the endgame: a streamlined state, a shackled state, or a shattered state? www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

What a win for democracy.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 76 days ago • 159 comments

This is rather lovely

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

Why are they all doing this? Do they think it's cool? Why would the electorate want to hear that, despite your generous salary and numerous staff, you find it convenient to outsource tasks to a US-built pattern-matching machine built on stolen data? Do you not enjoy or struggle to do your job?

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

this idea that journalists are not allowed to describe objective reality that they see but can only quote what other people believe about things is one of the stupid ideas that has basically destroyed a shared reality

submitted 96 days ago • 37 comments

This is really important for a lot of people to read, specifically in the context of “leftists” who defend Putin and Assad. But it’s also, in my reading, part of the mindless binary adversarialism that infect politics across the board. You’re with us or against us. That’s dead, deadening politics

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

It's so far beneath human dignity to fight weasels like Zuckerberg whose main achievement has been the attempt to privatise sociability at a time when so many structural forces were already making war on it. This is not a smart or powerful man - this is just a worm who won a dismal lottery.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

politicians give our money to cops and prison guards and surveillance industry techbros - all sectors dominated by violent males - and call it DFV funding. Because patriarchy. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

It is like going to the carnival and seeing yourself in the distorted mirrors, only those distortions really exist on the other side of the mirror and they want to get to you so badly.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

“This review measures the magnitude of my frustration with the genre.” To finish the year with a bang, we bring you Scott Robinson's autopsy of Royce Kurmelovs’ SLICK and journalism's approach to the climate crisis. Supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 128 days ago • 2650 comments

My newsletter now has a gift subscription option! Consider giving someone the gift of journalism about Australia and Palestine that isn't spiritually written by patricia karvelas everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/upgrade

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments