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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Read yourself a poem

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 2d

“I remember the human parts.

And the human error is the point.”

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to read my poem at the Verge launch at Monash today, with a bonus appearance on a panel about the future of Australian lit mags

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 3d

“I was wearing the knit sweater with the purple whales and I was warm. A woman screamed: Your hair! Your sweater! A texture paradise! // Someone told me they’re calling the other Sasha at work White Sasha.” —Sasha Debevec-McKenney @triquarterlymag.bsky.social www.triquarterly.org/issue-160/i-...

I FEEL LIKE IF I'M NOT WRITING POLITICAL POEMS I'M WASTING MY TIME SO I MADE THIS CONTAINER FOR MYSELF IN WHICH NOT TO BE POLITICAL — TriQuarterly

The first thing I thought this morning was mayonnaise would be a good name for a dog. I could scream Mayonnaise! Mayonnaise, Mayonnaise ! into the dark of my backyard.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 3d

Consider the humble but powerful owl, silently turning your possums inside out

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 5d

Aesthetically, spiritually, and practically I want whatever the exact opposite of these AI tradwife times is. Analogue queer goth? DIY polyamorous fisherman? I need to figure this out

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 7d

This

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7d

May I never hear "Wood" ever again, tho.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 9d

This is such a good read from @nicksturm.bsky.social on the end of The Best of The Best American Poetry, reflecting on elitism, poetry publishing, and the rottenness of the belief poetry can exist outside of the political defector.com/good-riddanc...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for writing this. As a hapless Australian who has read these anthologies, I had no idea!

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 9d

Love this reflection from Emi Yagi on writing (full interview here: www.booknerdtokyo.com/post/convers...)

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 9d

This story in Jung’s “Synchronicity” 🙇🏻‍♂️

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 11d

Why do our universities cave to the AI push when it represents such fundamental wrongs — labour exploitation, environmental catastrophe, access issues, bias, censorship, plagiarism, the list goes on 😭😭😭

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11d

An extensive set of links about the many and legion problems with generative AI, now updated with more on labor issues, incorrect outputs, and a new section on ways in which the bubble may burst catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 11d

Just delighted that Geraldine Fela won in the history category. Her postdoc ends next year. Hire this historian people!!!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2025: Michelle de Kretser wins $80,000 for Theory & Practice

The Stella prize-winning author used her acceptance speech to call out the Australian government’s response to the war in Gaza, in a ceremony marked by pointed political commentary from the podium

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 11d

the first thing they teach you in advanced stats class is “numbers lie”

dr mo 🇵🇸 @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 11d

i do kind of wonder how much maths illiteracy plays into the fallacy of LLMs as truth generators. the idea that the average of data is the absolute truth and not an arbitrary output makes more sense if you don't know how maths works at all

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 13d

There will be business school case studies written about this period of ‘reform’ across our university sector.

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 13d

Exclusive: After months of denial, the University of Technology Sydney has been forced to hand over a “master excel spreadsheet ... of academic staff members that are not meeting research expectations” created by KPMG as part of a $100 million restructure. satpa.pe/XRmHHZ9

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet

The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 17d

Happy bi visibility day, from above the clouds 🩷💜💙

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 20d

Rigid control of gender and sexuality: always an effective little back door into fascism and reactionary paranoia

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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 20d

More top #highered reporting ⁦‪from Julie Hare AFR.

www.afr.com/policy/healt...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 20d

Absolutely horrific concepts for the university sector from Bill Shorten, now VC of the University of Canberra. A vision for the utter decimation of higher education

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 22d

The fatal problem facing America and the West is that most people still seem to think they can op-ed their way out of this white supremacist fascist hell. You cannot commentate your way out of structural oppression. For the billionth time: organise, strike, and take action. Now

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 22d

I grew up in a single parent family, but back then we had access to public housing and the single parent payment (that Julia Gillard later slashed). It was very hard then, but it must be so hard, impossible, now www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nearly one in three single-parent households in Australia live in poverty, Hilda report shows

Group nearly three times more likely to be in poverty than two-parent households, statistical report finds

www.theguardian.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 22d

The march.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Title: Exodus. Trail of humanity bearing their belongings streams from distant left to foreground right, across wasteland with smoke puffs in the distance. Road sign mid-way pointing in both directions of the human procession: GENOCIDE ; GENOCIDE.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 22d

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 23d

I feel like — of all the art forms — poetry is totally safe from an AI takeover, simply because it makes no money ☺️

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 23d

"Under the genocide convention, states must not only punish genocide but prevent it. That threshold has now been crossed. To continue with symbolic sanctions is not just morally indefensible - it is complicity."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on the UN’s genocide finding: Britain – and the world – can no longer look away | Editorial

Editorial: A UN commission has found Israel’s war in Gaza ranks among history’s greatest crimes. The UK government must stop hiding behind legal fictions and recognise the reality

www.theguardian.com

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