Kirsten Alexander
@kirstenalex.bsky.social
Writer & editor in Melbourne
Books, art, politics, dogs🌳
HALF MOON LAKE, RIPTIDES (PRH) AFTER THE FALL (Ultimo)
Preorder https://bit.ly/3Z9bPcr
Books, art, politics, dogs🌳
HALF MOON LAKE, RIPTIDES (PRH) AFTER THE FALL (Ultimo)
Preorder https://bit.ly/3Z9bPcr
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If you’re still staying silent or saying Israel is ‘defending itself’ you’re on the wrong side of history.
Image courtesy @thisispattismith.bsky.social
Image courtesy @thisispattismith.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you’re still staying silent or saying Israel is ‘defending itself’ you’re on the wrong side of history.
Image courtesy @thisispattismith.bsky.social
Image courtesy @thisispattismith.bsky.social
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Fair warning: you're going to read and hear some overtly disgusting stuff from basically all mainstream news publications justifying and normalising Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza. Feeling pre-emptively sick about it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fair warning: you're going to read and hear some overtly disgusting stuff from basically all mainstream news publications justifying and normalising Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza. Feeling pre-emptively sick about it.
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They've given up pretending.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
They've given up pretending.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.
My SMH/The Age cartoon.
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
Print is not for everyone. So here’s to audiobooks 🎉 #afterthefall #audible #ultimopress #wavesound #februarybooks
January 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Print is not for everyone. So here’s to audiobooks 🎉 #afterthefall #audible #ultimopress #wavesound #februarybooks
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Israel is committing genocide in Palestine. Children, women, men, journalists, doctors; 100s of thousands slaughtered. Nearly all Western journalists are lying to you about this. Australia is allied with both the genocidal state and its American funders. Free Palestine. Melbourne. 29 Dec, 2024.
December 29, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Israel is committing genocide in Palestine. Children, women, men, journalists, doctors; 100s of thousands slaughtered. Nearly all Western journalists are lying to you about this. Australia is allied with both the genocidal state and its American funders. Free Palestine. Melbourne. 29 Dec, 2024.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vs Laura Loomer and Ann Coulter
December 28, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vs Laura Loomer and Ann Coulter
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Here's me, @ronnisalt.bsky.social, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social and @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social all together for the end of year wrap.
'The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked'
'The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked'
The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked - The Shot
Rather than publishing five separate articles, which, at this point in the year, I cannot be fucked doing – and...
theshot.net.au
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Here's me, @ronnisalt.bsky.social, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social and @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social all together for the end of year wrap.
'The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked'
'The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked'
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The sad and inevitable truth is in another 10 years, when it is all said and done and it is irrefutable Israel committed a genocide in Palestine, there will be many a handwringing think piece from those who defend Israel's actions now, claiming 'we didn't know'. They know. Remember that they knew.
December 4, 2024 at 1:08 AM
The sad and inevitable truth is in another 10 years, when it is all said and done and it is irrefutable Israel committed a genocide in Palestine, there will be many a handwringing think piece from those who defend Israel's actions now, claiming 'we didn't know'. They know. Remember that they knew.
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“Labor’s capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me” - Felicity Wade, national co-convener of the Labor Environment Action Network
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade
As Australia’s natural environment declines, Labor appears to cave to vested interests, writes Felicity Wade
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
“Labor’s capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me” - Felicity Wade, national co-convener of the Labor Environment Action Network
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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when ur fighting for ur life but no one understands the struggle
November 26, 2024 at 4:39 AM
when ur fighting for ur life but no one understands the struggle
This book, this film, these characters, this story slayed me. If you haven’t read it, do so. It’s complicated and confronting and beautiful. And (no spoiler) horribly topical…
November 26, 2024 at 7:18 AM
This book, this film, these characters, this story slayed me. If you haven’t read it, do so. It’s complicated and confronting and beautiful. And (no spoiler) horribly topical…
JFC☹️
Brb, just going to live in a cave high on a mountain where I never have to see headlines like this ever again
Let's be clear, this is a vanity press that, in my opinion, probably doesn't care how its books perform. At £5k a pop and 8k books next year, it's looking at pulling in £400k from wouldbe authors. Authors are its business, not readers.
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 AM
JFC☹️
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i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between
November 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between
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the tech industry at large is responsible for many crimes and I hate many of them with a passion but there’s something particularly vile about strip mining the collective creative expression of humanity for profit
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
the tech industry at large is responsible for many crimes and I hate many of them with a passion but there’s something particularly vile about strip mining the collective creative expression of humanity for profit
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absolutely wild and heartbreaking that a city with the literary history of San Francisco is to be run as a side project for the man responsible for degrading the meaning of human language and likely immiserating a generation of writers and artists
So is being a weird billionaire now the precondition for *any* role in government? techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/s...
Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie's transition team | TechCrunch
San Francisco's mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of
techcrunch.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:42 AM
absolutely wild and heartbreaking that a city with the literary history of San Francisco is to be run as a side project for the man responsible for degrading the meaning of human language and likely immiserating a generation of writers and artists
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In one place for your convenience:
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 1 (full)
go.bsky.app/AqicagE
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 2 (still growing)
go.bsky.app/Nhxw9CE
Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Let me know if you want to be added
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 1 (full)
go.bsky.app/AqicagE
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 2 (still growing)
go.bsky.app/Nhxw9CE
Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Let me know if you want to be added
November 18, 2024 at 5:21 AM
In one place for your convenience:
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 1 (full)
go.bsky.app/AqicagE
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 2 (still growing)
go.bsky.app/Nhxw9CE
Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Let me know if you want to be added
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 1 (full)
go.bsky.app/AqicagE
Aus writers, publishers et al. pack 2 (still growing)
go.bsky.app/Nhxw9CE
Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Let me know if you want to be added
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Reposted by Kirsten Alexander
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
The jokes write themselves…
President-elect Trump has picked former Democratic congresswoman-turned Trump supporter Tulsi Gabbard to be his director of national intelligence.
Read more: cnn.it/3AHgJDO
Read more: cnn.it/3AHgJDO
November 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
The jokes write themselves…
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Shitler's cabinet picks. OMG. We are living in the dumbest times.
November 13, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Shitler's cabinet picks. OMG. We are living in the dumbest times.
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Well, let's get this over and done with quickly then! Israel is committing genocide in Palestine and the ALP and its hack columnists are horrifically complicit
November 12, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Well, let's get this over and done with quickly then! Israel is committing genocide in Palestine and the ALP and its hack columnists are horrifically complicit