marklawrence
banner
marklawrence.bsky.social
marklawrence
@marklawrence.bsky.social
Be brave. Be nice.
Single dad. Cat dad. Plant dad. Bad Asian. Anti racist. Some interests: food, cooking, cats, ceramics, tea, plants, social and climate justice, anti-racism, the beautiful in everyday life. Join your union.
Melbourne, Australia
Welcoming any suggestions for what poetry to read in 2026. Please.
January 19, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Happy birthday Dolly!! Thank you for the music and the Dolly Juice 💉🦠
January 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Don’t want to gym but will gym anyway.
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations.
Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Efter pres fra USA: Danmark er nu begyndt at sende militære forstærkninger til Grønland
En fortrop fra Forsvaret er ankommet til Grønland, erfarer DR.
www.dr.dk
January 14, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Seems a good a night as any to start watching season 3 of The Diplomat.
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
This is Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social at her most brilliant best.

Jo is a former Adelaide Writers' Week director, and this article beautifully sums up her fury at the needless destruction of one of Australia's most world famous arts events.

@theshot.net.au

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Why is a Labor Premier silencing a writer?  - The Shot
For many Adelaideans, Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) is the highlight of their year. A glorious six days when the Pioneer...
theshot.net.au
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by marklawrence
It’s my bin night, maybe it’s your bin night too?
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Ardern withdraws from Writers' Week; Adelaide Festival board faces fresh questions
Ardern withdraws from Writers' Week; Adelaide Festival board faces fresh questions
Former NZ prime minister pulls out of event. Meanwhile, a past Writers' Week director has questioned the Adelaide Festival board's viability after resignations.
www.sbs.com.au
January 12, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
It is so blatant that right-wing forces are calling for this royal commission because they want a few months of viciously xenophobic anti-immigration headlines - something that directly contributes to worse safety for everyone, surely including Australia's Jewish community.

Fully support Cathy
Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.
January 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
‘And, whatever the Board’s protestations that the two are not linked, how telling, how grim, is the dog whistle connecting Dr Abdel-Fattah’s name with the Bondi massacre.’
January 10, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
David Bowie died ten years ago today so here is a photo of him in Japan looking cool as the current Berlin winter.
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Denton, Garner, FitzSimons, Dalton, de Krester, Hammer, Lette, Zadie Smith...

It is very much at the point where the lower risk is actually to drop out. That is the mainstream position.

The Festival board (and those who support them) are the extremists.
Final update tonight. Andrew Denton is also out. Have also crossed out Michael Veitch & Tracey Lee Holmes as they were part of Better Off Said, which is out.

Remember the list is a not final. Don't assume those not crossed out are going

Others to be found here www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
January 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Reposted by marklawrence
Hard to believe that a former SDA official would do something like this eh.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
SA premier denies pressuring Adelaide festival to drop Randa Abdel-Fattah
Letter from 11 South Australian cultural leaders labels cancellation of Palestinian-Australian’s participation a ‘grave mistake’ which brought festival into disrepute
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Several parts of Australia are likely to face the worst heatwaves since the 2019/2020 bushfires.

Volunteers and underpaid frontline workers will step up to help communities.

Meanwhile, in just one year, the Australian government gave $14.9 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and users.
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car tax exemption which incentivises people to buy megautes instead of safer, cleaner smaller cars and SUVs.
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by marklawrence
5/ And I dunn0 about you, but investing NSW Police with the legal authority to 'ban protests' just weeks after it gave The Big Tick 😀👍 to neo-Nazis occupying the steps of the NSW state parliament while holding a banner declaring 'Abolish The Jewish Lobby' is bad taste, at best.
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Call me nuts, but I think arming vigilante groups is a bad idea, and I'm troubled that not only is it on the list of options, it seems to be near the top.
We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Men…so emotional
December 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
Welfare check for the Member for Riverina please.
Sussan Ley: I’m going to give the most opportunistic, unhinged press conference to try and get political gain from the tragedy that is the Bondi shooting. I’m even going to Criticise Penny Wong for not crying enough.

Michael McCormack: most unhinged? Hold my beer.
December 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by marklawrence
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”

Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM