OPINION: 'Young people whinging about rising HECS debts should have been more prepared and done uni in the 1970s when it was free'

theshovel.com.au/2023/06/02/you…

“If shit hits the fan, it’ll be survival of the co-operative,” Jake Cassar says. Only people who know how to work together will thrive, is his message...

Great article by Antony Lowenstein about the mainstreaming of prepper culture and ideas in Australia: watoday.com.au/national/you-r…

“Having escaped the lion’s den Mr #Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat.” Kind of sums up the whole thing.

real excited to watch everyone online fail to recognize that when one bad state attacks another bad state, that doesn't make either state good

Audrey Young ⁦nzherald⁩: Peter’s/Blinken statement “suggests NZ is already embracing the prospect of engagement with #Aukus - without the public knowing what it involves & without Cabinet having agreed to it.” Who is running NZ foreign policy? nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/wi…

Have just finished a draft of The Demon Wall that is now in a state to be shown to another living human. Hurrah!

Read the first quarter of this essay by Stephen Charles AO KC and me at this link: theaimn.com/the-meanjin-es… You will need a subscription to Meanjin Quarterly for a paltry $5 per month (or $50pa) to read the rest. #auspol #democracy #integrity

'Stop increasing rent!'
Sticker spotted in Taringa, Meanjin/Brisbane

Oh well. I tried to make a professional advertisement for my tour this month but this happened instead.

Sincere apologies to everyone involved.

why are right wing christians complaining about easter falling on trans day of visibility?

jesus didn't have a human dad which means he had XX chromosomes. canonically trans-masc.

Had a dream that someone was in a lecture theatre, asking students for draft stories to workshop.
Silence.
A young woman reluctantly says, 'You can read mine, if you want to examine vomit.'
Lecturer: 'I'm sure it's not that bad.'
Student: 'It's about me throwing up on a plane.'

The incredible Tom Doig in the latest Meanjin Quarterly on the Hazelwood mine disaster! meanjin.com.au/essays/ten-yea…

A critical look at the 7 October attacks, what really happened, the likely #Israel i killing of some of their own civilians and then the mountain of lies told by #Israel and its supporters to justify the attack on #Gaza .
Sober, necessary journalism:

'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it'
- Alberto Brandolini

Brandolini's law, aka the bullshit asymmetry principle

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