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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · 17d

So it in teams.. so much easier

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · 20d

The idea that ebooks are designed by 'regimes' to be a tool of repression is bonkers.

Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 20d

Under authoritarian regimes, the dictator often reaches out to restrict access to books. That is already happening. The push for years has been to encourage e-books, which can be erased from your devices at any point by those selling them to you. #writingcommunity #booksky #ebooks #writing #books

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · 27d

Calling the new york times a centre left publication requires some pretty extreme recalibration of left wing politics.
It only works if you accept their mainstreaming of proto fascists as traditional conservatives.

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Sep 5

While it's a poor decision of unimaginable cultural barbarity.. finance must have been a factor. Universities are definitely not huge supporters of their presses around the world as a rule.

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Sep 4

I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 31

Overheard at my local pub

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 29

No.. that's an affectation

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am effected by this

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 29

She did you know
open.spotify.com/track/4ekr46...

Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)

open.spotify.com

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 25

Appetite for exemptions still zero in the government Treasury imho

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 25

Who could ever forget the masterful negotiated end to the Vietnam war.
American exceptionalism right down to the last fleeing helicopter and the total capitulation of the South Vietnamese forces.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 24

The surprise symphony could definitely do with more frequent surprises

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Aug 15

Support Bookish in Bendigo, official Bendigo Writers Festival bookseller who would have spent months stocking books for the event and have pulled out in solidarity. Call them for your next book order if you can, or even pay it forward for one of their customers.

+61 3 5406 0596

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 15

Or visit my mum!

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 15

And for Bendigo people please support the Bookish bookshop who cancelled their partnership with the festival at great cost to themselves in support of the authors.

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Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have worked in books and publishing my entire adult life. I am from Bendigo where my love of ideas and reading were born.
The BWF and University I graduated from are acting against a fundamental right.
Denying the right to challenge injustice publicly is unsafe for everyone.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s very sad seeing Australian cultural institutions tear themselves apart trying to prevent people from even talking about massacres and deliberate starvation