Mal Neil

It should read marrry

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As a New Texas Law Clamps Down on School Libraries, 'Librotraficantes' Fight Back - Reporting Texas Just two months after a new Texas law expanded parents’ power to challenge school library books, authors gathered at the Texas Book Festival’s Banned Book Bash to read from titles that have been banne...

“Teachers and librarians are scared to get fired. So we make sure these books are still accessible. Some of our book smugglers can’t tell you who they are, but they’re out there.” - Tony Diaz, founder of Librotraficantes (Reporting Texas)

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Fortnum and Mason Christmas decoration of a fig that looks exactly like a human anus

Expertly crafted from mouth-blown glass

So it in teams.. so much easier

The idea that ebooks are designed by 'regimes' to be a tool of repression is bonkers.

Calling the new york times a centre left publication requires some pretty extreme recalibration of left wing politics.
It only works if you accept their mainstreaming of proto fascists as traditional conservatives.

While it's a poor decision of unimaginable cultural barbarity.. finance must have been a factor. Universities are definitely not huge supporters of their presses around the world as a rule.

I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.

Overheard at my local pub

No.. that's an affectation

I am effected by this

Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)

She did you know
open.spotify.com/track/4ekr46...

Appetite for exemptions still zero in the government Treasury imho

Who could ever forget the masterful negotiated end to the Vietnam war.
American exceptionalism right down to the last fleeing helicopter and the total capitulation of the South Vietnamese forces.

The surprise symphony could definitely do with more frequent surprises

Support Bookish in Bendigo, official Bendigo Writers Festival bookseller who would have spent months stocking books for the event and have pulled out in solidarity. Call them for your next book order if you can, or even pay it forward for one of their customers.

+61 3 5406 0596

Or visit my mum!

And for Bendigo people please support the Bookish bookshop who cancelled their partnership with the festival at great cost to themselves in support of the authors.

I have worked in books and publishing my entire adult life. I am from Bendigo where my love of ideas and reading were born.
The BWF and University I graduated from are acting against a fundamental right.
Denying the right to challenge injustice publicly is unsafe for everyone.

It’s very sad seeing Australian cultural institutions tear themselves apart trying to prevent people from even talking about massacres and deliberate starvation

The impact effect

Well that's my Xmas presents sorted for creche!

Medicine adjacent scamming venture capitalists sounds almost honorable

Tim Winton's photo in today's guardian reminds me of someone.. a woman.
But according to AI HE DOESN'T!!

So removing my brain now obvs don't need it

I like them sarcastically

I fully expected this to be one post.. and was here for it.
The commitment to the bit is sublime

I think the word distancing has respectfully retired after being used to do too much work in this sentence

I wonder whether the ABC will run anything on this outrage.