Damon Young
@damonyoung.com.au
Philosopher & author. Fourteen books of nonfiction & children’s fiction. New nonfiction: IMMORTAL GESTURES (Scribe). Agents: Zeitgeist & Alex Adsett. www.damonyoung.com.au
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Damon Young
@damonyoung.com.au
· Nov 12
Hey, folks. My name's Damon Young, I'm a philosopher & author.
You can see some of my books below.
I also write short fiction: mostly science-fiction, fantasy, horror. My tales have appeared in magazines & newspapers.
I live in Hobart with my wife Ruth (also a writer) & two kids.
Do say hello.
You can see some of my books below.
I also write short fiction: mostly science-fiction, fantasy, horror. My tales have appeared in magazines & newspapers.
I live in Hobart with my wife Ruth (also a writer) & two kids.
Do say hello.
Hey, nerds. I’ll be taking a social media break until next year.
There’s nothing wrong, I’ve just had enough!
I hope you have a great end of year, folks.
Now here’s a cheesy video repeating much of what I’ve just said:
There’s nothing wrong, I’ve just had enough!
I hope you have a great end of year, folks.
Now here’s a cheesy video repeating much of what I’ve just said:
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey, nerds. I’ll be taking a social media break until next year.
There’s nothing wrong, I’ve just had enough!
I hope you have a great end of year, folks.
Now here’s a cheesy video repeating much of what I’ve just said:
There’s nothing wrong, I’ve just had enough!
I hope you have a great end of year, folks.
Now here’s a cheesy video repeating much of what I’ve just said:
You’re the LEGO underfoot in the dark room.
You're the backwards-facing splinter as we slide down the banister of life.
You’re the last piece of toilet paper after explosive diarrhea
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You’re the LEGO underfoot in the dark room.
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Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.
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Pump up the Jam is definitely one of my top 5 songs about fruit preservation methods though admittedly, introducing pneumatics contravenes most health and safety protocols.
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Pump up the Jam is definitely one of my top 5 songs about fruit preservation methods though admittedly, introducing pneumatics contravenes most health and safety protocols.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.
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The answer to 1 is always Alcibiades.
That brings us to tonight's #HATM questions:
1) Who do you want to see a biopic of?
2) And what is on the menu at your home tonight?
1) Who do you want to see a biopic of?
2) And what is on the menu at your home tonight?
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The answer to 1 is always Alcibiades.
Never buy comics, kids. Just don’t do it.
(I will absolutely buy more comics.)
(I will absolutely buy more comics.)
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Never buy comics, kids. Just don’t do it.
(I will absolutely buy more comics.)
(I will absolutely buy more comics.)
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This is the great dilemma. Leuchtturms are *almost* the perfect notebook. Contents page and page numbers, good line width, fine sizes and colours. Even a page ribbon.
But the paper’s just okay. Better than Moleskine (which isn’t saying much), but nowhere near Clairefontaine or Midori or the like.
But the paper’s just okay. Better than Moleskine (which isn’t saying much), but nowhere near Clairefontaine or Midori or the like.
Since I started getting more into fountain pens I feel like the paper quality of leuchtturm's stuff has just not been enough yeah
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is the great dilemma. Leuchtturms are *almost* the perfect notebook. Contents page and page numbers, good line width, fine sizes and colours. Even a page ribbon.
But the paper’s just okay. Better than Moleskine (which isn’t saying much), but nowhere near Clairefontaine or Midori or the like.
But the paper’s just okay. Better than Moleskine (which isn’t saying much), but nowhere near Clairefontaine or Midori or the like.
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As usual, Muscovy duck is the first to rush over and greet me. By "rush" I mean that he spent about a hundred years walking about four feet to say hello.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
As usual, Muscovy duck is the first to rush over and greet me. By "rush" I mean that he spent about a hundred years walking about four feet to say hello.
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Tonight’s storm was insane! A few pics I got
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Tonight’s storm was insane! A few pics I got
Sometimes on social media, posters make posts that are so characteristic, that there’s pleasure just in the *Platonic Form* of the post (over and above the post itself).
This is one of those posts.
This is one of those posts.
At the end of the semi-autobiographical EMPIRE OF THE SUN, Jim sees, on the horizon, the flash of the atomic detonation at Nagasaki (he thinks it's the departing soul of a dead woman). I wondered if this was possible? Shanghai to Nagasaki seems to be 500 miles, so presumably not.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sometimes on social media, posters make posts that are so characteristic, that there’s pleasure just in the *Platonic Form* of the post (over and above the post itself).
This is one of those posts.
This is one of those posts.
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"I am an Antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passersby"
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passersby"
“When I was little, my father was famous.
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"I am an Antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passersby"
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passersby"
“When I was little, my father was famous.
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“When I was little, my father was famous.
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
“He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shōgun's decapitator.
“He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty one lords.
“It was a bad time for the empire.”
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Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
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My favoured conspiracy theory is that they actually stopped making chiko rolls in 1991 and we’ve just been working through a massive strategic stockpile ever since
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My favoured conspiracy theory is that they actually stopped making chiko rolls in 1991 and we’ve just been working through a massive strategic stockpile ever since
In all seriousness, this is the sort of “deranged” I adore.
Not seamless, AI-assisted cloud workflow that requires five monthly subscriptions to cryptofascists.
Instead, manic analogue writing combined with homemade coding, tailored to the author’s specific anxieties and eccentricities.
Not seamless, AI-assisted cloud workflow that requires five monthly subscriptions to cryptofascists.
Instead, manic analogue writing combined with homemade coding, tailored to the author’s specific anxieties and eccentricities.
To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In all seriousness, this is the sort of “deranged” I adore.
Not seamless, AI-assisted cloud workflow that requires five monthly subscriptions to cryptofascists.
Instead, manic analogue writing combined with homemade coding, tailored to the author’s specific anxieties and eccentricities.
Not seamless, AI-assisted cloud workflow that requires five monthly subscriptions to cryptofascists.
Instead, manic analogue writing combined with homemade coding, tailored to the author’s specific anxieties and eccentricities.
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PERIOD URBAN FANTASY JEEVES:
Bone is rather dusty, sir.
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
PERIOD URBAN FANTASY JEEVES:
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It's wild how "our intellectual elite are a bit morally smug" warrants the same article being pushed out saying as much for a decade, but a global paedophile ring in which many of our richest and most powerful and leading minds all took part is, you know, uncouth to talk about.
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's wild how "our intellectual elite are a bit morally smug" warrants the same article being pushed out saying as much for a decade, but a global paedophile ring in which many of our richest and most powerful and leading minds all took part is, you know, uncouth to talk about.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
I will not apologise for laughing at this.
Top tier comedy.
Top tier comedy.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I will not apologise for laughing at this.
Top tier comedy.
Top tier comedy.
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So obviously the sexy talking bdsm AI teddy is an outrage, disgraceful, shock horror, etc., but I have laughed and laughed and laughed. What's funniest is all the people going, "Oh yeah we did this with Teddy Ruxpin way back time back", changing his cassette so he screamed death metal...
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So obviously the sexy talking bdsm AI teddy is an outrage, disgraceful, shock horror, etc., but I have laughed and laughed and laughed. What's funniest is all the people going, "Oh yeah we did this with Teddy Ruxpin way back time back", changing his cassette so he screamed death metal...
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🪶My silver casts of real flowers & bird necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle posy kits to improve mental health
🌿Limited ed'n art prints
🍁Greetings cards
A smallscale handmade alternative the river website:
🪶My silver casts of real flowers & bird necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle posy kits to improve mental health
🌿Limited ed'n art prints
🍁Greetings cards
A smallscale handmade alternative the river website:
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
As a thankyou for your support you can get 20% off my Etsy till Monday with code TINYOWL20. Incl:
🪶My silver casts of real flowers & bird necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle posy kits to improve mental health
🌿Limited ed'n art prints
🍁Greetings cards
A smallscale handmade alternative the river website:
🪶My silver casts of real flowers & bird necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle posy kits to improve mental health
🌿Limited ed'n art prints
🍁Greetings cards
A smallscale handmade alternative the river website:
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‘[nose twitch, hop, munch]’ - our rabbit, Pepper
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
‘[nose twitch, hop, munch]’ - our rabbit, Pepper
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‘Young uses a depth of research, but with a light touch.’ - Lauren Gawne
‘A compelling, revelatory dive … a text full of surprises and charm.' - Darran Anderson
‘Endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding.’ - James Bradley
‘A compelling, revelatory dive … a text full of surprises and charm.' - Darran Anderson
‘Endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding.’ - James Bradley
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
‘Young uses a depth of research, but with a light touch.’ - Lauren Gawne
‘A compelling, revelatory dive … a text full of surprises and charm.' - Darran Anderson
‘Endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding.’ - James Bradley
‘A compelling, revelatory dive … a text full of surprises and charm.' - Darran Anderson
‘Endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding.’ - James Bradley