Thank you, @nytimes.com for featuring How Flowers Made our World
Pre-orders are open if you want to get yours hot off the press.
Huge thank you, too, to the great team @vikingbooks.bsky.social whose work causes the book to germinate and bloom.
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For people who would like to follow Lucy Hamilton and her findings. Important work for a fascist free Australia #auspol
@lucyham.bsky.social
Just disgraceful. Regardless what you think of Maduro's government, the US has just kicked open a door to a tacit normalisation of conquest. That's the issue to address, @albomp.bsky.social, and on that front all we're getting from you is complicity. Embarrassing
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This is about all protest and all free expression, from here on out. Our establishment knows social discontent will only grow as the climate worsens, the slaughters continue, and the rich extract harder. They're not fixing anything, and they don't want you to be able to resist.
Parliament is back and so is the blog
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#auspol
So, what are the chances that Australia is also on the hook due to similar “arbitration clauses” with say… Woodside… or other fossil fuel and mining corporations?
Any journos want to investigate this?
The catastrophic National Climate Risk Assessment isn't a warning — it's a promise of what Australia will look like under Labor's policies, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
The shuttering of Meanjin is a further reminder of how hard it is to find spaces for left-of-centre voices. Getting such stuff published was never easy & even in the era of new media there are enormous barriers. Solidarity is needed to stand against the endless attempts to muzzle progressive writing
Cover of the Album "Kentucky" by Panopticon. A forested mountain, rocky, at dawn or dusk. Superimposed is a transparent image of a man and young boy, who appear to be coal miners
And also, discovering Panopticon was amazing. *Kentucky* is an incredible album. Blackened Bluegrass, huh?
#Panopticon
Pete's Tidal top artists for August: Bonnie Prince Billy, Panopticon, Black Sabbath, Palace Music, Pixies
Slow month, not much listening time. But *quality*.
#BonniePrinceBilly #Panopticon #BlackSabbath #Pixies #Tidal
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#enshittification #fascism #conservatism
A magazine-style card for a Guardian Australia article titled "Bumper whale carving season a 'sign of hope' for South Australia's oceans"; the image is a while leaping from the ocean, with fins in the air. The fins look like ears and the mouth is in the right place to strongly resemble an alpaca.
Took me a moment . . . was absolutely sure I was looking at an alpaca . . .
#alpaca #whales #guardian #auspol
Every issue we face is a consequence of a highly flawed and corrupted decision making process - where this 👇 plays a major role.
More here #auspol > newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Bad news days for AI and everyone who slops it. 'If your incredible business idea – key word here, business – is to bake cakes for sale and then you complain that you have to pay for eggs and flour then I have some terrible news about your business idea and also quite possibly your soul and brain.'
Haven't read it, but appears this *Abundance* thing is equivalent to tobacco industry dodgy research on the health benefits of cigarettes. That the legacy parties of the left are all over such obvious bollocks is . . . sigh
#auspol #abundance #shitfuckery
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Large pink orchid in center of book cover with text: How Flowers Made Our World. The story of nature's revolutionaries. David George Haskell
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
he’s biting the heads off angels now
So many of the "rusted ons" here (aka ALP social media) betray themselves by hammering the idea that the quality of a policy is determined by the vote it's proponent party got. Did not hear them sprout this rubbish during the LNP years.
Real people argue ideas. Party hacks see only numbers.
#auspol #STOPtheGenocide #FreePalestine
Our PBS may become a battlefront. Be prepared to defend it!
#auspol #measles #publichealth
When reporting Israel's attacks on Iran it's important journalists remember Israel is a genocidal state, whose armed forces in the past 2yrs have murdered tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom were children and babies.
So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity
If the Americans come for the Australian PBS you’ll get riots. If you touch our Ventolin inhalers we’ll be out in the streets, well walking slowly and breathing shallowly anyway
There is neither merit nor consistency to any of our systems except for the rule that the rich and powerful will be rewarded no matter what. They can only fail upward.
The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.
He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.
Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
*NB: The Nightmare Sequence is included in this photo of my five published books (with two international editions) purely for completion's sake. Purchasing the book does not directly support me as author royalties will be donated to Palestinian charities. Which is more important than supporting me.
Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell by Michael Lavine (1993)
