Mike Lim
@liminalcat.bsky.social
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Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
January 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
Reposted by Mike Lim
It's a good moment to become more familiar with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author whose cancellation led to Adelaide Writers' Week imploding.
This interview from December feels even more urgent given the events of the past week.
This interview from December feels even more urgent given the events of the past week.
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline
Podcast Episode · Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · 13/12/2025 · 1h 57m
podcasts.apple.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:52 AM
It's a good moment to become more familiar with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author whose cancellation led to Adelaide Writers' Week imploding.
This interview from December feels even more urgent given the events of the past week.
This interview from December feels even more urgent given the events of the past week.
Reposted by Mike Lim
Would be nice to commemorate some of the artists who died lonely deaths during the early days of AIDS bc of the stigma, large parts of it were due to the Reagan administration. I’ll start.
This is Peter Hujar, a brilliant photographer who finally is getting his real due. Look him up!
This is Peter Hujar, a brilliant photographer who finally is getting his real due. Look him up!
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Would be nice to commemorate some of the artists who died lonely deaths during the early days of AIDS bc of the stigma, large parts of it were due to the Reagan administration. I’ll start.
This is Peter Hujar, a brilliant photographer who finally is getting his real due. Look him up!
This is Peter Hujar, a brilliant photographer who finally is getting his real due. Look him up!
Just barrelled through the last few pages of @antonhur.com’s Toward Eternity. The archive as bulwark, the notebook as dna, poetry as life-force. Sorry I missed him on a panel in Adelaide last year!
![Book text: […] weight of that difference, really? Those who have no shame have no honor. Whether a life ends happily or sadly, what does it matter but the weight of the emotions one felt, the weight of the clarity of all the meaningful moments one possessed while living on this Earth, whether they have been good or bad? Is it not the weight, in the end, that really makes us human after all?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:afdcwuj5oamnrfskgm6jr7b7/bafkreibbk2cld7odg2vdxmc3pzmc6zk7vzac6hx2hwiuobkoanrg3y5s4y@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Just barrelled through the last few pages of @antonhur.com’s Toward Eternity. The archive as bulwark, the notebook as dna, poetry as life-force. Sorry I missed him on a panel in Adelaide last year!
I wonder if going back to sleep for that final stretch brings more vivid dreams as a reward for not lying awake and doomscrolling (written as i doomscroll after waking from that final stretch)
April 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I wonder if going back to sleep for that final stretch brings more vivid dreams as a reward for not lying awake and doomscrolling (written as i doomscroll after waking from that final stretch)
I never really thought about why a ‘conveyancer’ was called that.
You might well want to follow this 🧵 for a full understanding of this oddball (to me, at least today: I live, I learn) use of the verb "convey."
I'm going to hope @bcdreyer.social weighs in on this non-transitive use of "conveys"
March 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I never really thought about why a ‘conveyancer’ was called that.
Instant alt-insta
OK so Bluesky's sister app Pinksky looks kind of amazing? It converts your Bluesky image posts to something that might better suit those of you who prefer insta (am I missing something here?!)
pinksky.app
pinksky.app
January 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Instant alt-insta
Bluesky is a real neko chamber.
November 24, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Bluesky is a real neko chamber.
'All we imagine as light' - quietly magical. Just caught some elements of that in Payal Kapadia's early short film 'Afternoon clouds', now on lecinemaclub.com (you might need a VPN)
For TIME: A profile of Payal Kapadia, the gentle radical whose Cannes Grand Prix winner "All We Imagine as Light" is in cinemas today. A radiant drama of sisterhood, it emerges from an incendiary political backdrop, with which she has a tumultuous history
time.com/7173857/paya...
time.com/7173857/paya...
Payal Kapadia on the Gently Radical Drama 'All We Imagine as Light'
The filmmaker on her Cannes award-winning drama and challenging the status quo in India through her work.
time.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:53 AM
'All we imagine as light' - quietly magical. Just caught some elements of that in Payal Kapadia's early short film 'Afternoon clouds', now on lecinemaclub.com (you might need a VPN)
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Just remember the first g is like the g in gif and you'll be fine.
The other day, I learned that I’ve been saying “hagiography” wrong this whole time. But then I forgot what I learned but I learned something! So I’m just gonna avoid saying it. Not that it comes up often. Anyway—
September 4, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Just remember the first g is like the g in gif and you'll be fine.
A recent interview with Kate Crawford (who cofounded the AI Now Institute w Meredith Whittaker) on the material impacts of AI www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
AI doesn't appear by magic, its impacts on the material world are massive - ABC listen
Professor Kate Crawford has mapped every aspect of A.I to better understand the political, social and financial costs on the physical world.
www.abc.net.au
August 31, 2024 at 10:59 PM
A recent interview with Kate Crawford (who cofounded the AI Now Institute w Meredith Whittaker) on the material impacts of AI www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Just when oppressive tech seems more and more the norm, along comes this interview with Signal’s Meredith Whittaker. Touches on issues I’ve been mulling like IA, CrowdStrike & Gaza. Great photos by a fav editorial photographer Dina Litovsky. And Whittaker’s originally a rhetoric and English major!
For the 10th birthday of Signal, I did a Big Interview with its president Meredith Whittaker.
We ended up talking about how her focus for Signal goes beyond encryption or privacy, to creating an alternative to surveillance capitalism—or even capitalism, period.
www.wired.com/story/meredi...
We ended up talking about how her focus for Signal goes beyond encryption or privacy, to creating an alternative to surveillance capitalism—or even capitalism, period.
www.wired.com/story/meredi...
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engin...
www.wired.com
August 31, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Just when oppressive tech seems more and more the norm, along comes this interview with Signal’s Meredith Whittaker. Touches on issues I’ve been mulling like IA, CrowdStrike & Gaza. Great photos by a fav editorial photographer Dina Litovsky. And Whittaker’s originally a rhetoric and English major!
We’ve got 2 weeks to catch SHERMAN’S MARCH, a doco classic i kept reading about in film class but never got to see www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
SHERMAN’S MARCH
This cult classic retraces an infamous Civil War path as the filmmaker looks for love in the wake of a bad break-up.
www.lecinemaclub.com
August 10, 2024 at 1:29 AM
We’ve got 2 weeks to catch SHERMAN’S MARCH, a doco classic i kept reading about in film class but never got to see www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
Lordy
😍 👇
The Secret DJ @SecretDJBook via Twitter:
"You see this, THIS is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets.
On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem.
Everyone else is there to stop them.
THIS is England."
The Secret DJ @SecretDJBook via Twitter:
"You see this, THIS is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets.
On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem.
Everyone else is there to stop them.
THIS is England."
August 8, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Lordy
Such a good essay on the crackdown on the US protests
I wrote about what the panicked and violent response to this protest movement has revealed about the weakness and fatuity of the people behind it, and the wonder-working power of telling bad-faith actors to fuck off. defector.com/they-are-ins...
They Are Insecure For A Reason | Defector
You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss’s newsletter, which I bel...
defector.com
May 1, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Such a good essay on the crackdown on the US protests
Today’s rally in Adelaide #FreePalestine
February 11, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Today’s rally in Adelaide #FreePalestine
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Rubble From Bone by Tom Stevenson for the London Review of Books. “The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.” [lrb.co.uk]
February 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Rubble From Bone by Tom Stevenson for the London Review of Books. “The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.” [lrb.co.uk]
“FORAGERS a film by JUMANA MANNA. 2022. France. 64 min. A Palestinian community’s love of collecting wild plants becomes a gesture of resistance.” Free on www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/... for a week.
January 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM
“FORAGERS a film by JUMANA MANNA. 2022. France. 64 min. A Palestinian community’s love of collecting wild plants becomes a gesture of resistance.” Free on www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/... for a week.
Adelaide this afternoon
January 7, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Adelaide this afternoon
The Nan Goldin doco ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is on SBS On Demand!
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Rare footage and intimate interviews provide insight into the life and work of renowned photographer and activist Nan Goldin.
www.sbs.com.au
November 10, 2023 at 10:27 PM
The Nan Goldin doco ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is on SBS On Demand!
I have no idea what this note I wrote two days ago means.
October 10, 2023 at 12:36 PM
I have no idea what this note I wrote two days ago means.
Just adding forensic taphonomy to my list of alternative careers
September 27, 2023 at 2:34 AM
Just adding forensic taphonomy to my list of alternative careers
It was only a matter of time before someone published a book on the topic of my abandoned dissertation i suppose 😭
September 7, 2023 at 8:40 AM
It was only a matter of time before someone published a book on the topic of my abandoned dissertation i suppose 😭