Signe Dean

I'm so sorry, this truly is heartbreaking. I'm sure you did absolutely everything you could before it came to this.

Are there any ways to support the studio materially right now?

just one of many things I'm so sick of in the media at the moment

get it right

"To help parents and other buyers, we should distinguish between street-legal pedal-assisted e-bikes capped at 25km/h, and illegal electric motorcycles with a throttle and much higher top speeds."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That e-bike you bought your teen might be an illegal electric motorbike – and the risks are real From serious injuries to thrill-seeking rideouts, teens on overpowered e-bikes have provoked a media frenzy. But the risks of these vehicles is very real.

what have I been SAYING?!!!!111one theconversation.com/that-e-bike-...

Tarring all "bicycle with an electric motor" looking things with the same moral panic brush is incredibly unfair.

Ebikes are great. They get more people to cycle, which means fewer cars, fewer emissions.

Ebikes are not the problem.

What's sending people to hospital are illegal motorbikes that can go as fast as a car, have throttles, and you often don't even have to pedal. Not "ebikes".

Broken ribs, ruptured bowels: ebike injuries double at major Sydney hospital in one year More than half of the cases presenting to the St Vincent’s emergency department in Sydney had self-reported speeds of more than 25km/h

The conflation of road-legal ebikes and souped-up illegal motorbikes HAS TO STOP.

I have a road-legal ebike. It's heavy. I still have to pedal. I can only go faster than 25km/h if I'm going downhill.

Regular cyclists on sports bikes pass me all the time! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

I'm angry every time I think about how the Queensland government keeps ignoring the First Nations people who know exactly how K'gari should be managed.

Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ‘unmistakably male’ David.

Read more: theconversation.com/the-pen...

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"

😂

Lol what's a "real" game then

So you can make the yoghurt biscoff cheesecake hack!

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

Why continue to make art?

Making art is an act of rebellion.
Loving yourself is an act of rebellion.
Loving other people is an act of rebellion.
Caring about people, community, nature, is an act of rebellion.

Don’t let the apathy sink in. Don’t let the cynicism sink in.

Don’t be like them.

I don't know how to do this But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.

And here's a small but encouraging pep talk for those who need it right now. heated.world/p/i-dont-kno...

P.S. Oh, and if your response to an outpouring of helpless grief is to tell me to read up on climate change to understand it better, then, sincerely, fuck you too.

Ehh, I don't think it's even being virtuous, you know? Just doing the bare minimum existing as an informed citizen in this world? Ugh

😂😂😂 this is actually genius

Traditional owners heartbroken by dingo cull after Piper James's death The Queensland government euthanises six dingoes involved in Piper James's death on K'gari, and is expected to cull more in the coming days.

Another totally messed-up act in colonial Australia.
First Nations peoples disregarded and sidelined, again.
Wongari (dingoes) murdered.
Shame on all responsible.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Thank you that's exactly it

I don't know guys. What's the fucking point? What do people on the right side of history do when the people on the wrong side of history are so obviously winning?

There's an autocrat establishing a dictatorship in the world's most powerful country right now. People dying in the streets.

Absolutely nothing I can do to help.

Bushfires are destroying swathes of wilderness in my state as yet another 'unprecedented' heatwave batters us all.

Nothing I've done to help fight climate change has helped to prevent this.

The war in Ukraine has been continuing for 1,432 days.

There is nothing I can do to make it stop.

this has to be satire?

so fucked

I'm just so fucking angry right now. About the fires. About the heatwave. About the wars.

I vote. I go to protests. I boycott. I reduce, reuse, mend, recycle. I pay my taxes. I set aside a portion of my income for charities.

None of this is enough. None of this is working.

Fucking hell.

Complains about what?