YES! Hiromi is coming to Australia! youtube.com/watch?v=-hTAdz…

Like many have already said, rest in peace to David Stratton. One of the few people in corporate media to always fight against the Aussie pride in parochial stupidity and anti-intellectualism. He was an unashamed nerd, a deep fountain of specialist knowledge that he never

A prestigious American university is cutting languages? Not the first time cultural influence has gone from Australia to America! We are so back! Wait a minute...

Universities: "although you are moving on, you will always remain a treasured part of our extended family" Also Universities: "your email account will be deactivated in 3 minutes"

From: The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Polygon, 2009). So wide-eyed and dexterous and fresh. One of my favourite writers.

It's ridiculous that academic books cost almost as much as avocado toast. I may be a humanities graduate but not even I'm crazy enough to spend over $200 for a pdf.

I always end up back at Auden, somehow, and this one I had forgotten seems apt for the place in which it is now being posted:

Seeking a nemesis. Applications open.

'I want to be a force for real good.' John Coltrane

Why is everyone worried about male cheerleaders? George W. Bush was one and he was nothing but a force of good for the world.

Cambridge, theology, poetry, Kierkegaard, phenomenology, open access, and an Australian. This might be the greatest tweet of all time.

Can't believe no one thought of this before!

only an Australian treasurer would agree to "make AI a priority" the literal week the AI bubble bursts

Very sad to hear about the death of Brent Hinds. With Mastodon, he made some of the best metal albums of the 2000s. Memory eternal.

Cracker Barrel, sure Still not over this

My therapist said to me, and it hit me like a brick, "perge; decet. forsan miseros meliora sequentur."

Huge book haul today