James Macaronas
@jmacaronas.bsky.social
Paranormal investigator, aspiring heretic. He/him.
PhD at Melbourne - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
PhD at Melbourne - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Pinned
James Macaronas
@jmacaronas.bsky.social
· Nov 19
hightailing it to here full stop - still James - still probably a writer.
I don't know if I can adequately or succinctly account for the rest of what I am, and to be honest I'm not sure I want to.
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“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”
On the need for a renewed democratic universalism - Overland literary journal
If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral, in which one form of identitarian chauvinism spurs the next, we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the abili...
overland.org.au
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”
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“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.”
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
Yes, this is what Australia is - Overland literary journal
Imagine though the possibility of a response which was not horrid. Which did not demand more violence be piled up. Which led us to other ways of being together, other horizons of possible futures. Ima...
overland.org.au
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.”
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
@jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
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Mass market paperbacks were always my favourite format. Made the idea and the feel of a book so exciting - a compact self-contained world you could carry round in your pocket. Genuinely sad they’re going. Trade paperbacks are just the ‘cheap’ version of a hardback. Not their own thing at all.
RIP Mass market paperbacks. Always my preferred format.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Mass market paperbacks were always my favourite format. Made the idea and the feel of a book so exciting - a compact self-contained world you could carry round in your pocket. Genuinely sad they’re going. Trade paperbacks are just the ‘cheap’ version of a hardback. Not their own thing at all.
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To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close.
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close.
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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Udo Kier (1944–2025)
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Udo Kier (1944–2025)
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!
Part two of my exhaustive, exhausting piece on Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks, in which Doctor Who and one of his best friends strip off… 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct... #DoctorWho
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, by Terrance Dicks — II
0tralala.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!
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relevant life lesson from comics on this one
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
relevant life lesson from comics on this one
Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.
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White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.
September 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.
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"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished."
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
February 12, 2024 at 5:20 AM
"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished."
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
Boycott DC Comics.
Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC pulling Red Hood after Charlie Kirk comments: ‘I had no regrets’ by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/horror-it-gi...
Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC pulling Red Hood after Charlie Kirk comments: ‘I had no regrets’ - The Comics Journal
As if you've never gotten in trouble at work? Gretchen Felker-Martin dishes on the abrupt cancellation of her new DC series, Red Hood.
www.tcj.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Boycott DC Comics.
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They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing
September 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing
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“Charlie bit me!” - the dust
September 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“Charlie bit me!” - the dust
what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..
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This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.
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"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions"
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
March 31, 2024 at 5:21 AM
"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions"
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
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You don't say?
9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.
August 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You don't say?
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I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.
I was going to post new Sundered Isles this Friday but I got distracted by something else and made a video on that instead and that something else is some fucking awful AI nonsense I’m having thrust upon me.
a man holding a cup of coffee with the words it 's horrible written on his face
Alt: a man holding a cup of coffee with the words it 's horrible written on his face
media.tenor.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.
it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.
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Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵
May 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵