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Non lethal f35 parts my ass

Get, and I say this sincerely, absolutely wrecked with this. Fully-comprehending populations have been marching in their millions about this whilst ABC has been a significant launderer of Israel's genocidal campaign

The Greens must radicalise, or perish 'If we stop talking about Gaza, we stop demanding racial justice, we stop demanding economic justice, and we just try and be like some centrist climate movement — then what separates us from the teals...

The Greens must radicalise or perish. Me in crikey:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/16/t...

Vandalism works!

From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.

AI “art” is an insult to life itself. i also think it’s an insult to the machine. the first stirrings of machine art would not be recognisable to us as art. we might not see it at all. who’s to say what computers get up to when they talk to each other? not my business!

My life would be over if I got a 3d printer

don’t trust anyone who has an opinion about public toilets, but never talks about really needing to piss. that’s not a person who remembers what it’s like to be human. failed CAPTCHA verification

so close. It’s because they’re scared of running into the BPD one from their ex’s polycule.

Have students do it then put it in this meme

Out of curiosity: do you think the avoidance is idealistic ("teaching has an ideal form that will weather out or transcend any specific working conditions") or very explicitly tied to a (dated) concept of what those conditions are ("this was what the industry was 30 years ago")? Both?

Misread this as "I love foreign goods and must go after them" & briefly thought this was some timely selection of tariff related biblical allegory 10/10 would misread again

Australian weapon trialled by Israel's military ahead of potential sale The Defence Department told the ABC that “Australia has not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel” since the Gaza war began in 2023.

The Israeli military has completed trials of an advanced weapon designed and built by Australian company Electro Optic Systems (EOS). It can strike targets up to 2km away. Albo is still claiming Australia doesn't export weapons to Israel
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

This called "my apartment when the bf and i are hit bad by seasonal affective disorder". I am open to monetizing it. will be in touch

what I'm saying is that they could put some hobbits in there and I reckon a lot of folks would be down with that

reading Austen I have to fight reading it pleasurably as something akin to speculative fiction - enjoying its surface, its complex "lore" (about proprieties), letting it flatten culture & history into a set of markers and generic tropes/opportunities I can consume like the little romcom piggy I am

shocked to discover, teaching Austen adaptations this week, that the term "Austenpunk" doesn't seem to exist in any substantive sense

Having a ciggie break from planning a lesson on oulipo writing focused on n+7, open up reddit for some roguelike reccs, stumble on this fortuitously... I too lay in need at night, random redditor

worst part of uni teaching is having taught high school - weird sense of having gotten students who are having trouble writing essays "too late". If I had had you in a year 9 class we could've spent a whole year going over x or y element of your writing, etc. Trouble writing compounds profoundly

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

Nothing gets me taking a big sippy of the formalist kool aid quite as much as marking. Someone, please, I've read so many essays on this poem - please, someone, describe its form!!

“@timmwinto I learned to write by dunking my head into a big bucket of ice water, and look at me now, seven books under my hat and each one of them a bestseller. This is why it's okay if they defund universities.”

occasionally, one reads a novel so staggeringly bad - so earnest in an adolescent philosophy allowed to determine plot, so void of any ear for the sentence, so wrongly sure it is saying something - that you really do just have to thank god for bad poets, who waste less of everyone's time

emily rodda was what I sulkily read in my primary school library when I got sick of pretending to enjoy soccer and craved a dose of anime, utterly unshocked to hear she's popular in japan

If students are paying for a degree they are owed something of long term value to themselves (whatever that is). This might be the only exposure to literature in higher ed they get. Not saying I should call the shots but I do think there should be meatier spaghetti thrown at the wall

This isn't a complaint about dumbing down or even parochialism per se simply that i don't know how an 18 year old is being equipped to explore and be interested in the potentiality of poetry in any way that wouldn't also be achievable through casual attendance at a writers festival

Also: the only way to reckon artistically with any kind of oppression is in the form of quasi biographical lyric

There are also no movements. There are individuated writers to be observed at the level of form as it manifests in discrete poems