Amanda Joy

Endangered Baudins Cockatoos drinking from a still river. A couple of weeks back. Murray River, Western Australia.

26.01.2025 00:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.

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Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation. It’s a funny time to think about national reading habits. I’ve been looking for escape pods, personally. Books that take me far from this particular time and zip code. Perhaps riding th…

What books should you read this year? Try books in translation.

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The Other Others

13.01.2025 11:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024 In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…

Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free.

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Suddenly Summer. ♥️

12.12.2024 03:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).

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An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next

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19.11.2024 23:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this:

The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.

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Moorditj Mag - RTRFM

Great interview with Fiona Stanley by Jim Morrison on RTRFM atm.

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14.11.2024 03:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What an achievement! 🤣✨

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a haiku

under cover of cloud
all day sun orchids
remain closed

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Christmas spider orchids and spiders: Perth Hills and in the garden. Antidotes to current news.

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