✒️ Friedrich Nietzsche is everyone’s favourite aphorist. But read as a whole, the German writer lauds a sinister ideal: the Übermensch.

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#philosophy #philosophers #nietzsche

📢 On Sunday the 23rd of November at 3pm, PEN Sydney in collaboration with @gleebooks.bsky.social will host an event marking the Day of the Imprisoned Writer.

🔗 BOOK TICKETS: gleebooks.com.au/.../cheng-le...

#sydney #australia #books #writers

📌Responding to a post by a user on Substack that criticised non-academic philosophers on the platform for being 'impervious to correction'. I detected a tone of anti-intellectualism and decided to address it.

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#freespeech #philosophy #academia #university

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza 🌍 Mahmoud Darwish was a writer regarded as Palestine’s national poet.

Darwish was active in the Middle East peace process. While critical of Israeli and Palestinian leadership, he still believed peace was possible. He wrote Palestine's 1988 Declaration of Independence.

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#Australia 🇦🇺 📢 Join PEN Sydney and support the freedom to write and the freedom to read in Australia and around the world.

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#australia #auspol #freespeech #freedomofspeech

#Egypt 🇪🇬 ⛓️‍💥 Alaa Abd El-Fattah is free! After nearly 12 years of imprisonment, the Egyptian-British democracy activist Alaa has been released following a pardon by Egyptian president Sisi.

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@peninternational.bsky.social

#freealaa

🌏 Free Jimmy Lai.

#FreeJimmyLai #China #HongKong #freespeech

#Egypt ‼️Egyptian President al-Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.

🌹I'm so happy to be apart of Aôthen. It has been a couple of years now (a bit longer?) and time has flown by. Thank you guys.

If you're in the online literary community, I encourage you to take the initiative and reach out to somebody. They might need your help! You'll meet some wonderful people! 😎

📌 The Death of Charlie Kirk has brought into focus the divide between traditional conservatism and radical regressivism. The former is embodied by Russell Kirk, and the latter, Charlie Kirk.

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#politics #usa #america #kirk #conservative #philosophy

🏺 This week on Columns, we have an interview with Garrett Dome from Contubernales Books! Garrett speaks to us about the communal #Aeneid translation project he is working on, the nature of #translation, and building community in the classical field.

🔗 Read now via our profile!

📢 The Hope Prize celebrates the power of storytelling to spark empathy and action. This international competition invites both emerging and established writers to share stories of resilience, courage, and hope.

Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com

#thehopeprize #writers

📌 Movement conservatives are right. Universities indoctrinate. But indoctrination is part of education. Still, conservative ideas need more airtime on campus…only so we can suffocate them afterwards.

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#conservative #liberal #university #freespeech

Hey, you! We'd love it if we saw your name on your newsletter list... 👀 🤎

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#amwriting #writingcommunity #indielit #classicalstudies

Media outlets have been called out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for inflating their data ahead of anti-immigration 'March for Australia' rallies.
~ Dr Abul Rizvi

Media misuses migration statistics to promote anti-immigration rallies
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Voltaire, because of his work ethic and compact style.

Who is your favourite writer, and why? 🖋️

#writers #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration #writingquotes

More like Net Zero seats in parliament. 😎👉👉

Wow. This is wild. #classics #ancient #rome #greece

📢 🌏 #WORLD Writing Against Silencing: @penmelbourne.bsky.social Workshop is an online event that will explore tensions between creative expression and censorship in the Asia-Pacific region.

🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish.

emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...

@youngwriterspen.bsky.social

✒️ Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and a Vice President of PEN International, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has written novels, essays, and screenplays.

#writing #writingcommunity #writers

#auspol 📢 Australians, if you’re looking for digestible, fact-driven, and free online news, follow @thoughtdigestmedia.news on Bluesky and their other socials (including IG, FB, and X!).

Do it for me at least because I am one of their writers 😎.

📌An essay about the Parthenon and Lord Elgin’s confiscation. Contemporaneous legal and moral attitudes anathematised the carnage he wrought on Classical Athens’ great marvel.

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#reunitetheparthenonmarbles #parthenon #parthenonmarbles #history

#Asia #Pacific 🌏 @peninternational.bsky.social's Asia-Pacific regional overview shows that freedom of expression is increasingly under pressure in the Asia-Pacific region.

For more information: www.pen-international.org/asia-pacific...

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#freedryang