@evelynaraluen.bsky.social you are the best. “I do not recommend drinking wine in the bath and listening to Mitski and crying and calling that a writing practice.”
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Fiction "About Honey" by D.J. Huppatz
“Cruising back to Nassau after my arrest and subsequent release for obstructing a bulldozer in the last Irish rainforest, my thoughts turned to the fate of the high-vis goons who smashed the forest’s fairy ring.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/abou...
With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism
An eclectic stack of books
Summer reading stack. So good so far...
"Please stop being mean about AI"
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
Sounds like a future State Premier
Hoping the dog is going to start running writers festivals.
This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.
Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He:
Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion.
Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/
On Adelaide Writers Festival and their decision to be racist shits:
“They want to apply the Mormon soaking method to thought and imagination. Anything more than that ruins the bedsheets, and sends these people into a tizzy.”
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I think the latter. The Malley poems proved more popular in the end than McAuley & Stewart's other work.
1924 group photo of the Surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Gala and Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, René Crevel, Robert Desnos and Benjamin Péret
New poems up at Luna Luna:
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
My book on design and consumerism - featuring critical accounts of Apple, IKEA, Nike, Zara and more. Learn how they seduce and distract you. Marxist and woke! You'll never shop again...
Can't get past a book titled Mateship With Birds
Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable.
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
(Typos are fine if you are an academic with fat fingers)
"a consortium of Jewish academics" = if you are an academic your job is to privide evidence, develop arguments and engage in reasoned debate
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Pew pew pew, that's how we knock down the bad guy rockets
Haiku pencil
Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy
A very large, very white and gold ballroom with Baroque-style arched windows, coved ceilings, and gold chandeliers obviously meant to invoke comparisons to Versailles. Completely inappropriate to the architectural style of the White House.
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
When i wrote "moon" in my poem i obviously meant the small one. Yeah the fresh, new one, not Shelley's or Dickinson's old 19th century moon.
Which one did they land on?
@versobooks.bsky.social's series "Harvey at 90" continues with recently posted pieces by Trevor J. Barnes, Helga Leitner and Richard A. Walker.
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Great analysis by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social here who cuts through all the — sorry — bullshit and gets to the inevitable point of the absolute triumph of marketing over design. We start from here (if we even care anymore). Must read
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