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Damon Young

@damonyoung.com.au

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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.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 5h

Huge fan of the nonexistent playbook

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 8h

Unsolicited Roadside Picnic pics

The cover of roadside picnic showing a digger inside a pit,

The cover of roadside picnic showing a bright light between two discs over barbed wire and an industrial landscape

The cover of roadside picnic showing a man standing in what looks like snow with two men behind him

The cover of roadside picnic, showing a man with dark hair looking into a shiny yellow sphere

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 12h

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 12h

Morning all.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 12h

Me, after I visited Oxfordshire twenty years ago as a tourist: Dr Young, Oxford University (vis.)

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 22h

And if not minds, then certainly consciences

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23h

‘Pico della Mirandola’s 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think of the Renaissance this way partly because of a centuries-long misreading of it.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the philosopher: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 23h

www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...

Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support

More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity...

www.thebookseller.com

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

I have that exact feeling while watching our government or the UK’s discuss Palestine.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

Yep

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

Source: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

AM I LOSING MY MIND???!!!

Gilbert: In relation to the United States and its approach to this, Donald Trump, there's some talk of him getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Would you support that? Do you think that would be a good move?
Foreign Minister: Well, certainly this peace plan is historically unprecedented. And, you know, this has been the biggest contribution to peace that we have seen in a very long time.
Gilbert: So, you wouldn't be opposed to that idea?
Foreign Minister: Obviously, it's a matter for the committee. But this has been the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East for a generation or more.
And, you know, I think if we see the hostages, when we see the hostages returned and aid flowing into Gaza, what peace enables, I think will come home to all of us.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

Excellent!

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

This is the way 🫖

Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 1d

Today unpacked new Twinings Earl Grey tea inserts for books 📚

A newly opened box of Twinings Earl Grey teabags with three cardboard inserts ready to use as bookmarks with their distinctive aroma as recently recommended on bluesky

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

Magnificent ratio

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

My new book, available in good stores and online in Australia, the UK and USA.

It’s a philosophy of the body and history.

An off white book with blue hands on the cover. The title is immortal gestures

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

I updated this photo with some more of my books.

Please buy my new book so I can [checks teleprompter] keep writing more books.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 1d

taylor swift is a classic example of the stupid person’s idea of a smart person

“watching obscure movies” and “talking to novelists” are smarts signifiers in this little walnut brain

jordan peterson for the chaotic feminine

Government Spookdown @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 1d

Still laughing at this take. “Taylor, stop riding Travis and watch Salo.”

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Okay but unironically that meathead is going to kill the artist in her. She should be seeing obscure films and talking to novelists, not wearing booty shorts to football games where no one knows how to spell. A muse has to be deeper than the artist! You cannot get good art from being around shallow, empty people!

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

i wrote a book about a small press getting cursed with an unsolicited manuscript submission. it's very scary. you should read it.

buy a signed & personalized copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/i-be...

the jacket art for i believe in mister bones

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

sure, will do

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 2d

Many scholars have connected this text with other things. But the connection I am going to make in this paper will shock you

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Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social · 1d

I was awarded a Ditmar for Best Short Story of 2025 for BELLOW OF THE STEAMSHIP COW and another for LET THE CAT IN, the podcast I co-host with Kaaron Warren and J. Ashley-Smith. Ditmars have been awarded annually since 1969, and are basically the Australian Hugos. Congrats all. Deeply honoured.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

You absolute champion, thank you. Now that I’ve followed you, you might be able to chat properly.

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