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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 3d

AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of #ChrisLynnHedges appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made. #auspol #NPC #media

Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia

AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 3d

Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’ open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...

Can we talk about your silence?

before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 4d

Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.

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Laurent Gisel @laurentgisel.bsky.social · Aug 9

Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in #Nagazaki in 1945 when the #atomic #bomb destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of #NihonHidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

www.nytimes.com

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 18d

Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.

Even wars have limits. #IHL

Parties to conflicts cannot deprive people of food or water.

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Cordula Droege @corduladroege.bsky.social · 20d

In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the #GenevaConevntions

www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...

World leaders united in defence of international humanitarian law to uphold humanity in war (21 September 2025)

Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human (…)

www.diplomatie.gouv.fr

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Cordula Droege @corduladroege.bsky.social · 19d

You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for #IHL at www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation, including
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations

Humanity in War

www.upholdhumanityinwar.org

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 17d

Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid. open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/...

Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid

Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 18d

@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process. #innercritic #recycle #art . open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

The liberating potential of trash

On recycling as creative process

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 18d

open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...

Introducing the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist!

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist has been revealed. Find out which six books are in the running for the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19d

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

www.theguardian.com

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 19d

“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042641/when... #emergingartists

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”

If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

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Dr Anita Heiss @dranitaheiss.bsky.social · 26d

Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors.

I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).

www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...

The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

Congratulations to the 2025 finalists! The winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award is determined by public vote. Click the buttons below to vote for…

www.slq.qld.gov.au

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 25d

Treaty: This is how we get over it @mrdtjames.bsky.social on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history " firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso... "This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... " open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...

Treaty: This is how we get over it

Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 26d

New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Who killed Meanjin?

And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

www.crikey.com.au

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · 26d

Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if @cloudappsoc.bsky.social on @bsky.app #cloudappreciation

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Sep 10

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest

It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel

Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · Sep 9

‘You and I are Earth’ Inscribed earthenware plate via @londonmuseum.bsky.social Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century substack.com/@thesynchron...

Dianne Masri (@thesynchronicityofthings)

‘You and I are Earth’ A note to ourselves everyday. Thoughts on the olive trees and the air we breathe. Inscribed ceramic - Post-Medieval — 1661; 17th century ‘A tin-glazed earthenware plate with...

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · Mar 8

“Firmament.” [Jeu de tarot de fantaisie “égyptien” à enseignes italiennes, dit “Grand Etteilla”, c.1850–1875]
@gallicabnf.bsky.social gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · Sep 8

An Australian billionaire (who loves Elon Musk of course) wants to destroy a world beneath the oceans before we even come close to understanding it. There are no limits to this ultra capitalist strip mining of our one and only planet.

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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jacinta Parsons on the fall of another literary institution- Meanjin.

The day the music died

The death of an institution

www.thespencerstreetend.com.au

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Dianne Masri @mediapixel.bsky.social · Sep 4

On Vernon Ah Kee’s statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’s award winning image for the 2025 Australian National Portrait Gallery prize. “Firstly, I wish to make clear that this is an Aboriginal led project.
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#art #photography

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Vernon Ah Kee is a contemporary Australian artist and a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. Here’s his statement on “misconceptions circulating around Hoda Afshar’...

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · Aug 15

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Winner

Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024
Hoda Afshar

Sherry Quiambao received the First Time Finalist Award, and George Fetting won the Art Handlers' Award.

#photography #photocontest
www.portrait.gov.au/npppphoto/10...

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Dr Dani Netherclift @dani-netherclift.bsky.social · Aug 28

My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...

Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND

The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...

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Dr Dani Netherclift @dani-netherclift.bsky.social · Sep 4

Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

openletter.earth

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