Margaret Barbalet

This sounds ominous. Best of luck.

Aurora Australis tonight in the ACT.

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave

Hilarious

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

JCO really is one of the finest posters we have. First the toe, now inducing a Musk meltdown? I will forgive every terrible opinion for the sheer internet of the woman

Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again

As the church bell sounded the last deep toll of the eleven, the wet, mizzling rain suddenly stopped and in the silence, a blackbird began to sing in the apple orchard by the memorial. Standing in his old great coat, still flecked with mud, the Doctor remembered another little blackbird calling in a wood where bodies lay. These were songs of God, he thought, longing for a cigarette, of a God who fell in strips of light in cottage parlours when the telegrams were read in trembling hands, in the piping larks who rose above the shelling, of the sudden singing of the Welshmen along the trench, rich and dark and as holy as Christmas night.

Goodness!

Yara, bit by bit you are working magic.

Elon Musk, who is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of $497 billion, is blocking food bank links on Twitter.

Spread the word please!

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Dems should be all over THIS, not caving on a shutdown and healthcare premiums on which the publicly currently clearly blame Trump and the GOP for.

Yes, mine too. Writers gutted and tossed aside.

Yep

Any coverage is at least something, but this article feels like a bit of an opportunity lost http://lithub.com/8-australian-writers-you-should-know/

Poor little boy! Russian War Criminals at it again.

Russian Casualties Rise, Ukraine Strikes Russian Power Facilities and the Battle of Pokrovsk Continues - The Big Five, 9 November edition My regular update on global conflict. This week: the Battle of Pokrovsk, Russian casualties and China's 3rd aircraft carrier commissions, as well as my recommended war and national security reads

I have just published my weekly update on modern war and strategic competition. This week: the Battle of Pokrovsk, Russian casualties, deep-strike campaigns, China's 3rd aircraft carrier commissions, as well as my recommended war and national security reads.
mickryan.substack.com/p/russian-ca...

And now I spy the UK cover, coming in July 26 from Hutchinson Heinemann! www.penguin.co.uk/books/476509...

Absolutely

Of course

Just do it @albomp.bsky.social !

‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...

Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this Jack Edwards fellow…but clearly, not the demographic! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Portrait of Samuel Wagan Watson, Mununjali, Birri-Gubba, Germanic and Gaelic poet, by Helen Kassila

I am no older in the night now than I was when a child; ghosts pepper shadows unevenly.

excerpt from ‘Old Ghost Dogs’ by Birri-Gubba and Mununjali poet Samuel Wagan Watson

portrait 📷 by Helen Kassila

Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...

Another bureaucratic mystery

Good.

On September 10,Anna,a resident of Pokrovsk,Donetsk region,heavily pregnant,left the city by bicycle amid constant Russian shelling.The 25th Sicheslav Airborne Brigade reported that a Russian drone targeted her twice but,fortunately, missed

Soldiers of the brigade met Anna&evacuated her

📹hromadske

Shocking post by #walksydney -
5 pedestrians killed last week.
Look at the types of big vehicles involved
Shrink sizes, slow speeds

Nearly there! Popped in a few other useful things too- notebooks, pens, handbags...
#ItsInTheBag #ShareTheDignity