Bethany Keats

Eternal question.

Far-right ‘gangster morality’ and the search for meaning: why you should read Camus Philosopher and writer Albert Camus defined gangster morality as ‘an inexhaustible round of triumph and revenge, defeat and resentment’. Sound familiar?

One of my reading goals for this year is to actually read L'Etranger, instead of just staring at it on my shelf (and using its opening line when talking about translation theory)
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A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

There is no reason for a third party to care about a kid’s gender beyond what leads to healthy and happy outcomes for that kid

That may actually make me like One Hundred Years of Solitude 😅

we’ve all seen cyclists pull some outrageous shit, but may i suggest that a prevailing sense of entitlement to the streets can interfere with some motorists’ capacity to perceive the manifold and routine abuses they commit?

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Smashing out all the washing now while we have blue skies 😅

Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.

(Yes, I was in the crowd for Ed Sheeran. No, I did not take public transport to get there because, fuck, do you know how long that would have taken?)

Ed Sheeran caught the train to Melbourne to protect the climate. But what about his thousands of fans? Australia hosts hundreds of live performance events each year, drawing about 14 million concertgoers – and their environmental footprints.

"The largest contributor is audience travel."
No shit that an audience of 60,000 people has a bigger footprint than the cast and crew.
Also, if you don't live in a capital city, on a public transport route, then no entertainment for you?
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'They basically stole the word milk': Farmers fight to reclaim 'milk' Australian dairy farmers say the plant-based drinks industry has "stolen" the word milk, and they are pointing to a recent court ruling as an opportunity to claim it back.

No one is confused.
For decades, no one cared about soy milk being called milk.
Don't bother going for peanut butter. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Everyone is too skinny and it is giving me heroin chic ptsd, I cannot do this bullshit again you guys

😂
I’m waiting for Monday morning LinkedIn
“As the jets screamed overhead, suddenly I realised what just-in-time product development could learn from this moment”

We had a holiday to Oman booked in 2020 😭

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Ed Sheeran sitting on the edge of the stage with his guitar across his body. He’s taking into a microphone.

As Saturday nights go, I had a pretty good one.

I just saw a video on instagram of a car making a right turn and hitting a cyclist (in a bike lane!), who was going straight. Naturally, 98% of the comments are blaming the cyclist and even other cyclists are saying “well, he should’ve yielded to the car because we’re at their mercy durrrrr”.

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Robert Aickman and the Art of the Artifice Short Story with Brontë Schiltz

If you haven't seen this last week's talk on short ghost fiction, it is well worth a look. Not only offering a deep dive into Robert Aickman, it looks a theorising the creepy tale in fascinating ways!

youtu.be/xcJ7yf72kpQ

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There’s no male loneliness epidemic.
There’s a “women stopped tolerating mediocrity and misogyny” correction.

I love this film so much.

I’m currently in Canberra 😆

Lunch today was lamb that was so tough I think they killed it, resurrected it just to kill it again, then made sure it was in the final depths of hell before serving it.

My parents taught me this as a kid (possibly to distract me and/or teach me to not fear storms).
And it became such a habit I still do it now.

I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants- And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹 He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff. It’s heart wrenchingly sweet They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it

the AI evangelists are not okay

The entirety of the novel, Frankenstein, is a catalogue of things men will do instead of going to therapy.

“Reverse racism” and “misandry” always boil down to how white/cis-male people *feel* about generalizations made about them rather than any actual harm, and it also manages to minimize the massive effects of racism and misogyny for marginalized groups. And then there are the race/gender comparisons.

Supporting removing Prince Andrew from the line of succession is good but what would be better is removing Australia from an inherited dynasty of wealth and privilege that protected him and his class for far too long

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.