The @asauthors.bsky.social has published guidelines for creators to help you navigate decisions around the use of generative AI. Know your rights and be aware of the risks! www.asauthors.org.au/artificial-i...

Artificial intelligence: ASA guidance for creators - Australian Society of Authors

AI offers new opportunities, but also poses significant risks to the creative industries. The development of AI must be carefully regulated.

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Feels suboptimal to be using the same word to describe the targeted murder of unarmed citizens / endeavours to stop the targeted murder of unarmed citizens - entering contronym territory

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

Arson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’

Huge property for sale in Tasmania in core swift parrot breeding habitat if there’s any philanthropists out there seeking to protect some birds and bush! Lake Leake is an important site for parrots but the broader landscape is being savagely logged www.realestate.com.au/property-lif...

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

Yr union rep heading into bargaining

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Feathered phenom 🐦 Kagus suddenly splay their head crests and wings to make themselves look larger, scaring away predators and defending their territory. Known as the "Ghost of the Forest" for their pale plumage and eerie calls, these flightless birds are actually quite gentle and docile.

Absolutely killer piece from @katydidinoz.bsky.social on the problems in the genre fiction publishing pipeline in Australia.

Tough love

Kate Cuthbert considers the ways that genre fiction is forsaken by the Australian publishing industry.

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Vale and mille mercis Raoul Vaneigem. Everyone should read this book & especially every artist theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raou...

The Revolution of Everyday Life

Raoul Vaneigem The Revolution of Everyday Life 1963–1965 Translated by John Fullerton & Paul Sieveking. The parts “Author’s Preface” and “A Toast to...

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Effective July 1st, we are pleased to announce an increase in contributor rates across all categories, reflecting our ongoing commitment to paying writers and artists fairly for their work.

Productive day, either this book is going well or I’m deluding myself. Fortunately, either counts as success

Very much enjoyed Slow Gods (everyone kept recommending, & I caved). Need a minute to recover

Saw this last night - a very sweet play about friendship and solidarity, and a fascinating history lesson www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/the...

A tale of friendship, survival, and rebellion from Adelaide’s ‘Little Beirut’ - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

A new State Theatre production sees Kaurna and Narungga theatremaker Jacob Boehme unearth the history of Adelaide’s southwest corner, where his family once lived over the fence from the city's small M...

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Horror fan but I was not emotionally prepared for the sight of a grown man in a clown costume waiting for a bus outside the mental health unit at 9am today

People are sleeping in their cars all along the peninsula where this is being built. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".

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Please be encouraged by my office rainbow.

Ette Media is hiring! If you're keen to be part of a female-founder-led, growing independent media company that is collaborative, ethically and socially responsible, and mission-driven, please send your CV + short cover letter addressing all criteria points admin@ettemedia.com

Hey, the court just gave final approval to the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. I'm reading through the order right now. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...

Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #680 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com

Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions

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Good advice! And even if you don’t care about the other writer’s feelings, meanness in place of useful critique actually makes you look like a bit of an insecure dickhead yourself

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 3w ago

When you (an editor or a critique partner or a classmate) comment on someone's writing, you can absolutely deal them a disabling injury if you're thoughtless about it. I'm not saying anyone should be dishonest or refrain from pointing out issues. I'm saying

🚨 Breaking 🚨 Palestinian-Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has lodged a discrimination claim against La Trobe University and Greater Bendigo City Council over the writers festival debacle last year. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Randa Abdel-Fattah lodges discrimination claim against La Trobe and Bendigo council

The battle for free speech enters a new round

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I have so many questions about that half time show and i do not want answers to ANY of them

The horrors

Muppets

From "Markings" by Seamus Heaney "We marked the pitch: four jackets for four goalposts, That was all. The corners and the squares Were there like longitude and latitude Under the bumpy ground, to be Agreed about or disagreed about When the tie came."

Seizing the means of production is extremely satisfying, a thread: So last month I bought a little second hand proof press (a Poco 0). Here she is at the auction house

Did France have a big lunch

We must all admire France's commitment to not work on a weekend.

Almost every sort of writing & cartooning job I've had no longer exists or is disappearing or not being paid, properly or at all. I feel a kinship with manual hay balers in the 1850s.

Andrew Elder@awelder.bsky.social · 3w ago

Traditional media giving up on cartoonists just when we need them

Resisted purchasing this niche publication from the op shop. Great title

Very pleased to hear confirmation today that the Australian govt is standing by creators and not making changes to copyright. It’s time for big tech to accept the facts and come to the table. Our rights as creators must be respected in practice, as well as in principle. @asauthors.bsky.social

Very pleased to hear confirmation today that the Australian govt is standing by creators and not making changes to copyright. It’s time for big tech to accept the facts and come to the table. Our rights as creators must be respected in practice, as well as in principle. @asauthors.bsky.social