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Turn it off and turn it on again. 🤞
A very Australian development is getting a fairly good op-ed raising awareness about rising insurance premiums from "extreme weather" but no mention of climate change or the underlying cause of this crisis.
Moreover, even in times of lawlessness, or periods where the ability to enforce law is strained, being able to object to an action and having a baseline on which it is possible to judge it when things stabilise is important. At the Nuremberg trials, the ability to hold Nazi war criminals...
to account when there was no written law outlawing their actions was partly the existence of people, even peers, who objected or set a standard against which their actions could be measured. Law and the exercise of law is important even in times of apparent lawlessness.
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.
Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
Rob and Michele Reiner are posing for a photo. A headline reads: "‘Apparent Homicide’ Under Investigation After Rob and Michele Reiner Are Found Dead." Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision, via Associated Press.
The actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, have died. The police are investigating what they described as an apparent homicide at the Reiners’ home. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
The definitive stories of some of the astonishing travesties at the State Library of Victoria in recent years, from its former Chief Curator. I witnessed some of it first hand. Rally 12.30 today at the Library. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
Just gunna repost this everyday until the rally to save the State Library of Victoria. Do try to come. I will draw you a Hermoine the Modern Girl if you ask me nicely at the rally. For ID purposes, this is a photo of me:
Every day this government is more of a disappointment thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Photo of Sean Kelly and Amy Remeikis at a meet the author event
Listening to @amyremeikis.bsky.social talk to @seankelly.bsky.social about how Albanese pretty much prevents cabinet ministers from doing anything he doesn’t want…. And pondering how long they will allow that to keep happening
Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
In August a workshop for @byronwritersfestival couldn’t go ahead. We’re trying again this Saturday and spots still available. Great advice for prepping your submission over summer! shorturl.at/CylkH #amwriting
He was quite fun on stage!
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.
‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee)
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The numbers speak volumes.
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What’s all that noise? 💥🎧
Ah, I know: it’s the whirring of printers and riffling of pages for a final edit before submitting when our window reopens on 15 August. Got to website, check requirements & use Query portal. Looking forward to some quality reading! 📚📖
To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor: I was quoted in your publication: https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/ Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies. "They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said. The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution. However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks. d.
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
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Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋
Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.
Are you working on a manuscript and unsure what comes next?🤔 Live around Byron? Maybe come to my workshop, a fortnight away today, at #ByronBayWritersFestival for guidance on editing and pitching to agents and publishers. #amwriting
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In all serious, this moment is more profound than the invasion of Iraq. What we appear to be watching is the end of a commitment by these nations, even token, to the "rules based international order" and an embrace of "might makes right" in defence of an illegal act of aggression.
Photo of the cover of the reprint of Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship With Big Oil, including a fancy new sticker noting it was short-listed in the non-fiction category at the New South Wales Literary awards.
Slick has been given a reprint --now with a fancy sticker on the cover. If you want to understand Why We Are Like This on climate change, or read about things like that one time the oil and gas industry spied on the son of a prime minister, and you haven't picked up a copy, now's your chance!
Aviva Tuffield is my publisher. She commissioned both Just Money and Slick. She is a mensch. I stand by her without reservation or qualification.
