Donโt they have Habeas corpus in the USA
19.08.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@michaeljongen.bsky.social
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Donโt they have Habeas corpus in the USA
19.08.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Internet was a godsend as a queer teen in late 90s Australia.
19.08.2025 09:31 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When HR bring in a mediator and set up a process between you and your bully
19.08.2025 09:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Butcher of Gaza says what
19.08.2025 09:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photograph of a book entitled How not to be a grumpy old bugger sitting on a coffee table besides a remote control
If you donโt know what to give the grumpy old bugger in your life, you canโt go wrong with this, itโs funny and informative
19.08.2025 09:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฅฐ
18.08.2025 12:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Enjoy Katabasis - Iโm looking forward to it
Iโm reading The Tainted Cup and itโs a very fresh read www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
'The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard'
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@nathanhobby.bsky.social
Jillian Segal is not Australia's Kultural Kommissar, and unlikely to become so. Universities need to stop bowing down
17.08.2025 22:57 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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Homeward bound and a lovely Jonathan Coe piece on Erik Satie to get stuck into.
@lrb.co.uk
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So beautiful ๐คฉ
17.08.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on winning the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel! #booksky @thehugoawards.bsky.social
17.08.2025 10:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0What a shemozzle. Hard to predict what happens next: will other writers fests and cultural events have learned that pre-emptive censorship is a disaster, or will Bendigo-style speech-limiting contracts become the norm?
17.08.2025 08:30 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0As good a summary of whatโs going on in modern school libraries as you will find - and a very good primer on why well resourced and well staffed libraries are essential
17.08.2025 09:45 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ugh thatโs the worst thing
17.08.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I loved that song but it was the Liv Maessen version I remember
17.08.2025 09:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldnโt Shazam it. You couldnโt Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
16.08.2025 23:07 โ ๐ 23859 ๐ 2428 ๐ฌ 1370 ๐ 319It blows my mind that the same people who have been trying to falsely paint pro-Palestine protests around the country as being antisemitic have said nothing about the explicitly antisemitic rally being organised for August 31. Instead doing the opposite; offering to promote, support and endorse it.
16.08.2025 02:46 โ ๐ 259 ๐ 77 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 4Iโve been looking forward to Enid Blytonโs latest
17.08.2025 04:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It's been a while #WQuers Wordle 1,520 2/6
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They've tried book challenges and bans in Australia but it hasn't worked. Conservative forces will pivot now but as my 14yo son has exclaimed this morning: "Books don't need a classification system!" More on this in my blog. #books #libraries #freedomtoread
17.08.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Nobody in their right mind would want to go to Taliban America
An interesting deep dive into the data www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
17.08.2025 00:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Universities Australia must reverse its decision to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which includes criticism of Israel, & define antisemitism simply, in accordance with the ruling of the Federal Court, & consistently with other definitions of racism.
Ditto all universities.
#Auspol
Did you know 85% of Kiwis say libraries improve their happiness and wellbeing?
The results are in from PLNZโs latest Community Impact Survey โ and the data confirms public #libraries uplift us all #impact
Anti-transgender rights activist Kirralie Smith loses appeal against apprehended violence order www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
16.08.2025 02:23 โ ๐ 87 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3No I was too young, I didnโt start going to see bands until a few years later - missed out on Led Zeppelin at Kooyong - my biggest musical regret
16.08.2025 03:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Lots of talk around #Bendigo that La Trobe University have hung Bendigo Council and the beautiful regional city of Bendigo out to dry, while supplying pithy statements to the media and not doing interviews, leaving it to council employees to cop front up and cop it.
16.08.2025 01:09 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0