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Crazy how as soon as the weather is a lil warm in naarm life seems beautiful again
October 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Wish I could teach a class on my excellent taste in music
September 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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clembastow.bsky.social
A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!
University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on Meanjin Closure 11 September 2025 The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia's oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international reputation carries Australian stories and voices to the world. For 85 years, Meanjin has supported, elevated and launched the careers of a staggering number of writers, including many of our own staff and students; it's also an important resource for all teachers and students of Australian literature. The Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, Professor Tony Birch, says, 'Meanjin has been a major supporter of Blak writers and artists in Australia. Without the support of such a significant literary and cultural journal, many of us would not have been able to publish as emerging writers and may not have gone on to have a publishing life at all. We must ensure that such support continues. If Australian society is genuinely committed to truth-telling, these truths will be told by Blak artists.' As writers and creative writing academics, we know how precious journals like Meanjin are to the continuing development of Australian literature, although of course its scope goes far beyond that. While we hope new literary journals continue to emerge, Meanjin is irreplaceable. It has survived for almost a century, through the Second World War, the Cold War and numerous budget crises, and has retained its undeniable significance as part of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne University Press. It continues to publish vital, timely work that, to paraphrase Sylvia Martin, keeps the intellectual and aesthetic fires of this continent alight. We continue to hear from our students and will be sharing more of their responses. From two: "Meanjin has and will always be the one literary magazine I look up to when I think of literary perfection." "Meanjin was my dream publication. I feel that yet another opportunity has been taken from me before I can even get my foot in the door." These students are completing their degrees while our industry is in crisis. Now is the moment that we, the University of Melbourne, must step up. The cost of maintaining Meanjin to the University is minimal, but the value is enormous. As the University of Melbourne Public Humanities initiative puts it 'culture is something that we care for, just as it cares for us.' We call on the University of Melbourne to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly and housing this important journal within its Community and Cultural Partnerships portfolio and resourcing it appropriately for the long term. Meanjin is vital to each and every member of the creative writing program and we can't imagine our future without it. Dr Romy Ash, Dr Clem Bastow, Dr Quinn Eades, Dr Rachel Hennessy, Dr Andy Jackson, Dr Odette Kelada, Bec Kavanagh, Dr Emma Marie Jones, Dr Liz MacFarlane, Dr Helen Milte, Dr Cath Moore, Dr Nadia Niaz, Dr Radha O'Meara, Associate Professor Eddie Paterson, Dr Hayley Singer, Dr Soren Tae Smith, Associate Professor Maria Tumarkin, Associate Professor Julienne van Loon, Dr Jessica Zhan Mei Yu.
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The cost cutting decisions of Uni melb are certainly interesting/ stupid
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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andyhazel.bsky.social
A good time to remind people that Bob Katter is a cousin-once-removed of articulate pacifist Khalil Gibran:

parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...
andyhazel.bsky.social Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · Aug 28
Absolutely the most efficient way to let millions of people know that you have Lebanese heritage is to loudly deny it at a press conference and threaten violence against the person suggesting it.
Bob Katter threatens to punch Nine journalist over ‘Lebanese heritage’ comment
Queensland MP says he ‘punches blokes in the mouth’ for comments on his heritage as he backs anti-immigration March for Australia protests at Brisbane press conference
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
lugggs.bsky.social
Sorry I can’t hear you I’m in the bath
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
lugggs.bsky.social
Anyone else addicted to the news
August 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Up late looking at my beautiful boyfriends fashion tumblr
July 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Nothing more beautiful than seeing a grown man frolicking with a dog. Just two friends enjoying each other’s company.
July 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Don’t want to know about cuties coming to the event only want to know about esteemed colleagues in attendance
July 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Just saw an older woman do a sign of the cross before eating a slice of pizza
July 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Left a party to go stare at the moon and sigh for 3 hours
July 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Driving life’s highway in a lowered commodore
July 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Obsessed with her
June 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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gregpak.net
"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
June 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This beautiful chode of a candle
June 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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As a tutor when a give a 79 I give it with so much love and that’s what makes me so annoying as a tutor
June 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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lilly-brown.bsky.social
Like Kumanjayi Walker who was shot by Zachery Rolfe, this young person is from Yuendumu too. Imagine the sadness, anger and fatigue this community is experiencing in the face of ongoing police brutality and violence. #stopBlakdeathsincustody
May 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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marketforces.org.au
Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions.

And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
May 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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mckenziewark.bsky.social
Art exists only in relation to the inevitability of death. There is no “AI art.”
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 19
This gets at like my favorite philosophical question raised by AI which is does human experience matter or is everything about human experience reducible to information
Humans have spent hundreds of thousands of years developing our own “emotional simulator,” instincts that help us understand each other, says Kimmel. AI does not have that emotional experience. What it does have, Kimmel says, is “an extremely powerful predictive engine” that can interpret patterns and language. “Therein lies the limitation of the AI: All that it can operate on is words,” Kimmel says. “Our model is built on something that is not words. It is ineffable.”
May 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The situation
A woman in bed next to her dog, curled up with her head on a pillow
May 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Shoutout to this yogurt for keeping my house high in protein
May 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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thetigers.bsky.social
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock
With his lifelong bowl cut, the musician was a totem of punk style and sound, drumming in Hoodoo Gurus, Beasts of Bourbon, the Scientists and others
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
lugggs.bsky.social
Mazzy Star’s Fade into you playing at the Uni pharmacy while I buy more pseudoephedrine
May 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM