Kerrie McCure

Hollywood is in a flap! AI ‘actors’ are ‘trained’ on real actors who will never be paid for it | First Dog on the Moon Soon we won’t be able to tell the difference. That still won’t make it OK

Artificial Intelligence - is it good? Nobody knows but I laughed at this cartoon (which I did myself no robots) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am in fact begging people to signal more virtue. That would slightly raise the net global virtue

A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’ The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. And distant Australia, far from being immune, is uniquely vulnerable

Well, this is a bit terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

a man is writing on a piece of paper with the word veed.io on the bottom right Alt: a man is taking notes on a notepad

Monitoring anyone who isn’t mourning Robert Redford and calling their employer

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Surprised they didn't include the most effective tip: bring a man with you to the appointment.

After 180 Years of Pain, Dutch Women Engineers Reimagine the Speculum with ‘Lilium’ Dutch engineers redesign the speculum with Lilium; a soft, sustainable, patient-centered innovation set to transform women’s healthcare.

It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device).

www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...

If art didn't matter the fascists wouldn't be doing everything in their power to destroy it. Keep making your art, you resistance fighter, you.

Make no mistake. The $100,000pa that the University of Melbourne will save by trashing an intellectual asset like Meanjin will not be spent in the pursuit of cultural and public value. It won’t even cover the VC’s annual lunch expenditure.

It's not an exaggeration to say Meanjin - along with Overland - has been a cornerstone of Australian literary culture for decades. Killing a publication like this for the sake of some loose change just makes it abundantly clear the university doesn't give a shit about literature at all.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.

I am disgusted

@meanjin.bsky.social

A stack of Meanjin issues that contain my fiction and non-fiction

The loss of Meanjin is devastating news for Australian writers and readers. Always meant so much to see my work there. Some of my best experiences of being edited. An entirely avoidable disaster.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Nationwide March for Palestine — Sunday 24 Aug.
End genocide & starvation. Impose sanctions. Stop the arms trade with Israel.

Join the march in your city.

#auspol #IsraelPalestine #Gaza #NationalMarch

Trump, Putin, red carpet, puke, shaking hands, doing body language acting, pathetic. Reuters photograph from the BBC News site.

Retire and spend time with your grandchildren, both of you.

Oh, no, not you, you can’t be around children.

Oh, and not you, you can’t be around anyone and a window at the same time.

Although the festival have not replied to my email I can confirm that this article is correct and I am one of the authors who has pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival. I will not comply to any code of conduct that censors my speech on genocide.

Film critic David Stratton dies aged 85 His family announced his death on Thursday afternoon, saying he died peacefully in hospital near his home in the Blue Mountains.

I think I speak for all Australian film fans in saying how important David Stratton was in building the foundations of film culture here. Fighting film censorship, the @sydfilmfest.bsky.social, championing Australian cinema and taking film criticism seriously. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Film critic David Stratton dies aged 85 His family announced his death on Thursday afternoon, saying he died peacefully in hospital near his home in the Blue Mountains.

Vale the one, the great, the only David Stratton.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Vale David Stratton, whose legendary influence on Australian film culture will endure forever.

David Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85 The international cinema expert was beloved for his film reviews, particularly on television with Margaret Pomeranz

Such sad news.

This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza.

This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people.

Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society.

The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide

(🎥 Gaza Notice)

Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Would an Australian newspaper ever gleefully report that people on unemployment benefits or sickness benefits had found a way to rort our system?

The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’

Along with
- a deep, epigenetic trauma
- unconditional love, and
- a passion for mashed potato
my beloved holocaust-survivor grandparents passed on to me the clear understanding that #antisemitism flourishes in times of distress.

This means that none of us will ever be safe until all are safe.

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News of Peter Russell-Clarke’s passing today sent me straight back to the ‘80s.

That cheerful jingle and the opening credits of his ABC cooking show seemed to be on every afternoon.

Press play and let the opening jingle nostalgia do the rest.

RIP.

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping Artist says Creative Australia’s decision renews his confidence in integrity of body’s selection process

Good news! Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s artistic team for the 2026 Venice Biennale, following an independent external review of the decision.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today – The Chaser There's always some shit going on with old mate.

Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today.

We really do.

chaser.com.au/general-news...

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ALP chooses war-mongers Trump and Netanyahu over intl law and basic morality.