Stephanie Russo

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Exclusive: Israeli President to Make Official Australian Parliamentary Visit The official parliamentary visit has not been made public by either the Australian or Israeli governments.

Exclusive: Israel's President is set to make an official trip to Australian Parliament next week. It has not been publicised by the Australian or Israeli governments. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-is...

Reminder that the coward zealots were happy to see Adelaide and Bendigo writers festivals burn to the ground and they'll keep doing it. It costs them nothing, they even get to hide their names. They want to enforce their extreme Netanyahu fandom on all Australian cultural events.

They should be free, like mammograms.

The Newcastle Writers Festival organisers can see the rake. They understand how a rake on the ground works. They know what happens when you tread on the rake. They’ve seen the swish-thwack of a trodden rake on other festivals. Can they resist rake-stepping?

The NSW government is a joke

Jo Walton namedrops Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino in all her novels and it is quite charming and random

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

TBS Hall of fame KING

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The Media Forgot How to Cover One Nation Properly Three decades ago, Pauline Hanson’s brand of politics was so shocking, aberrant and dangerous that it made the front page of The Washington Post. This week, Australian journalists gave her the softest...

The coverage of One Nation this week has been some of the softest coverage of any political force, ever. It's been a shocking week.

I think people would be shocked to realise how it compares to what journalists were asking Pauline Hanson 25 years ago.

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Jewish Council calls on Albanese to rescind Herzog invitation The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has confirmed today that he will visit Australia from 8 to 12 February and will meet with members of the Australian Jewish community. The Jewish Council of Australia has expressed outrage that the Albanese Government would fuel the flames of division by inviting Herzog to visit Australia, warning that his trip is completely inappropriate and offensive and will rightly spark mass protests. President Isaac Herzog is directly implicated in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. He has made public statements, including that an “entire nation is responsible” for October 7, which have been cited by the International Court of Justice and other international bodies examining breaches of the Genocide Convention. This should be a moment for collective mourning, reflection and care. It is not a moment to host the head of a state which has been found to have committed a genocide in Gaza. “By inviting Herzog to visit, Albanese is using Jewish grief as a political prop and diplomatic backdrop,” said Sarah Schwartz, Executive Officer of the Jewish Council of Australia. “Inviting a foreign head of state who is implicated in an ongoing genocide as a representative of the Jewish community is deeply offensive and risks entrenching the dangerous and antisemitic conflation between Jewish identity and the actions of the Israeli state. This does not make Jews safer. It does the opposite.” Instead of proceeding with this visit, the Jewish Council urges the Government to pursue concrete actions, supported by over 60,000 Australians who have signed the Jewish Council’s petition, that address the root causes of violence, racism and impunity, and that uphold international law.

the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social calls on Albanese to rescind the initiation to Isaac Herzog

I hate it

Grotesque.

Do they just expect a kiss? 😂

I ask my Popular Fiction students to select their own romance novel to read and their shock and prudishness about the spicy scenes is always so funny.

Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow.

It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

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The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

picture of Alex Pretti

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

"You weren't afraid of tyranny, you were afraid of losing dominance."

Australia's "allies" executing a civilian in cold blood, shamelessly on the street for all to see, shared values huh @albomp.bsky.social

Boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the Olympics.

Sunrae nation! 🌞

Since we're talking about One Nation and their history of providing us with some truly exceptional candidates, this is from the PHON candidate for Macalister in the 2017 State election. One of the top ten twitter exchanges of all time.

Fantastic news!

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.

I always return to: Why in god’s name would you, a wonderfully intelligent, curious, beautiful human being with an infinite capacity for learning and a fathomless depth of interiority give up a single iota of your creativity to a chatbot that can neither think, nor feel, nor create? Have some pride