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Oh Kathleen!!!

Future of the Fair Go Will Albanese’s election victory mean Labor will finally address wealth inequality?

I've got a piece up today on social policy at the very cool indie mag Kill Your Darlings. I take a look at the recent work of Thomas Piketty, and ask whether Saturday's election result might give the Albanese governemnt more ambition to tackle inequality www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/futu...

Freya I'm obsessed and also the GC (3 doctors and me) has been suffering from my obsession

Hi g :) :) you should move to melbun and do taichi w us

LOVELY, what a treat on a nice day

Tell me everything immediately about this waitperson, i love them

Promise me you'll include this in my obituary

Look, I can barely judge, I definitely eat imported turkish dried apricots

*chidi gif* etc

LIZ

Elizabeth and I will be having words about her imported cherry consumption as soon as she's out of her moon boot

Fatberg weighing 30,000kg is pulled from a sewer in Western Australia The blockage – thought to be the state’s biggest ever – was discovered during routine maintenance

Important fatberg update

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ooh I've heard good things, thanks for the reminder

I've long dreamt of writing a review article for the field of Chinese Australian history. I wanted to trace where it fit (or didn't) within Australian national mythologies & see what happens when we view Australia through Chinese sources. Here it is:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

So anyway as a filthy bisexual on the apps can I tell you I absolutely stand by this assumption. If a bloke lists himself as "not political", chuck a uey immediately

I'm laughing so delightedly

Only defamatory if it's public

DO IT IMMEDIATELY

In double support of @fionathehardy.bsky.social, who has been a bookseller since before I met her in 2009, you should purchase from a small local bookstore!! Keep neighbourhood booksellers in business please! Yes I know it costs more than the bad place DO IT FOR HER

HAPPY NEW BOOK DAY to @fionathehardy.bsky.social for her exquisite new piece of Melbourne-based Yeah Noir fiction, UNBURY THE DEAD. I loved being asked to advise on this book, I can't wait for you all to read it and I hope it gets a sequel. Buy it from your local bookstore THIS WEEK.

Queen Victoria Market traders strike for first time in history Fruit and vegetable traders at Melbourne's famous Queen Victoria Market are accusing the City of Melbourne of financial mismanagement and say they are paying unfair costs.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE FRUIT AND VEG UNCLES providing an immense public service in wellbeing every time any of them asks me “what can I get for you today my lovely” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

It's Aromantic Awareness Week and I love and respect that AND I'm constantly reading it as "aromatic awareness week" sooo are you aware of nice smells also

請不要將食物帶入圖書館 食物殘渣會引來老鼠 老鼠會在圖書館學習知識 考上大學 接著取代你

Lol this sign

"Do not bring food into the library

Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"

😂

‘No artist’ will want to represent Australia at Venice Biennale after Sabsabi dumped, former museum head says Elizabeth Ann Macgregor says Tony Burke has questions to answer after Khaled Sabsabi’s offer was rescinded but the arts minister has denied involvement

“Creative Australia’s executive director, Adrian Collette, told staff at an angry meeting on Monday that the public outcry would have been greater than the one he now finds himself embroiled in, if the Sabsabi exhibition had gone ahead”

He means outcry in The Oz

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I think you'll enjoy them, yay!

6&7. Black Sun and Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse. BS a wonderful and satisfying reread before FS. A fantasy world inspired by pre-Colombian Americas, I find the characters fascinating and the situations challenging. People possessed by gods & deeply annoyed about it. I am eager for the next book.

Blue yarn making the first few rows of a net in construction

Net weaving!!!

Watercolour painting of baicai and locust

I name all my paintings after things my teacher says when teaching the relevant style. This one is called "Is it because they're scared of insects?"

Whale insides

Why wouldn't you

Long shot of a stage with a lit singer in it. The roof of the venue is open. Full moon and 3 seagulls can be seen in the sky.

GIGS OF 2025

1. Aurora. Margaret Court Arena, 11 Feb. I love her. Seagulls, full moon, esoteric witchy vibes, serendipitous run in with pals, nice walk home. High energy.