Jessie L
@jessielilley.bsky.social
Creative Director, Writer, Broadcaster - host Spin Cycle on RRR plus podcast platforms. Living in Naarm. Baker of bread. Here we go again.
A rapper singing white nationalist and anti-immigration lyrics has been exposed as entirely AI, with one of its creators receiving funding from far-right group Advance UK. www.ettemedia.com/borders-are-...
“Borders are opening…prices are soaring”: rising rapper found to be AI propaganda tool
A rapper singing white nationalist and anti-immigration lyrics has been exposed as entirely AI, with one of its creators receiving funding from far-right group Advance UK.
ettemedia.com
Lots of writers (including me) and book stores have been caught up in this - so however you can, support your local book industry. (and thank you to those who have been still trying to buy our books) x www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Bookstores struggle to fill shelves after cyber attack on major publisher
A cyber attack on one of Australia's major publishing distributors has left independent bookstores and authors struggling to meet customer demand.
abc.net.au
Volunteer work should reduce your tax bill. I won’t be taking questions at this time.
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
In honor of Dolly, I'd like to give away some of my middle grade books to teachers who are having trouble getting books into their classrooms. I have Mine, Camp Scare, and Ride or Die on the Horror side and Minecraft Mob Squad on the Fantasy/Gaming side. I'll give away 4 mailers with 3 books each.
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
afm.org
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 3d agoDolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.
Not sure I should have watched the Boeing whistleblower doco the night before catching a flight. 😬
Just remember it's wages *expectations* that the RBA is worried about. And poor Ampol had no choice but to charge higher prices and have profits go up 376%. Good thing it only cost the govt $3.3bn to artificially lower petrol prices, no one else had any need of that money...
So good that the RBA is worried about wage growth driving up inflation...
Someone really has been taking the piss the past 6 months
This was inevitable when media outlets started reporting 'details' of the Swans allegations that minimise the perceived harm caused (wonder where they got those details from). Soon the narrative will shift to poor footballers losing their careers over something that 'wasn't really that bad'.
Richmond investigate as Mad Monday video gives AFL new headache
Two days after their season ended, the Tigers players were caught on camera at a pub in country Victoria.
theage.com.au
Data centres to consume nearly as much power as every home in NSW and Victoria by 2036 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Forecasts reveal effect of data centre rush on electricity grid
The rush of AI data centres is expected to put a larger burden on the electricity grid than previously estimated, with projects in development more than doubling in a year.
abc.net.au
Ok but if this is a priority growth area why then is the govt fast tracking data centres that are swallowing up huge swathes of what should be residential land in west footscray, polluting the immediate environment?! I’m losing my mind.
These suburbs may never be the same as Melbourne’s population soars to 10 million
We asked planners what Melbourne would look like if it went up or out by 2101. Explore our interactive tool of projections for the city’s future.
theage.com.au
Yes because it’s a fucking robot! A machine. Once again, a motorbike or car could do the same gd thing. Because it’s not human. What do we keep doing this?
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5d agoA Chinese humanoid robot outran Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record on the opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, posting a time of 9.39 seconds — 0.19 faster than Bolt’s pace in 2009.
Every time I see one of the rambling posts from Trump now, I just imagine Natalie frantically typing away while he sits back mumbling incoherently. The dog and pony show.
Rob Arnol@robertarnol.bsky.social · 4d agoMaybe America should stop carrying Canada, Australia, Israel and all the others Trump claims only exist due to the US and concentrate on improving the lives of their citizens. Universal healthcare could be instituted, the pay rate could rise from the 1970’s rates etc. Charity begins at home Donny.
Push back against Zionist overreach in Australia. Sign the petition. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
Don’t let Israel define antisemitism
Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]
jewishcouncil.com.au
Coles profit statement today - up 10%. And what do we get? RBA rate increases.
I hope for the sake of a potentially traumatised child that the ‘model’ is AI. The fact this costume got designed (probably AI) and made it through every stage of sign off tells you either there is zero diversity at Target or the whole process is automated. Or they’re a bunch of racists.
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
nytimes.com
““Cheating” implies you’re competing against someone. Who is being cheated if a fat person changes their body? What game are we playing? Why does it matter how a person changes their body – and why does any of it matter at all to non-fat people anyway?”
Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough | Rebecca Shaw
Using weight loss drugs like Ozempic is not ‘cheating’ – and why does it matter how a person changes their body anyway?
theguardian.com
Sign the petition to restore How to Sell a Genocide to Waverley Library.
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Restore How to Sell a Genocide to Waverley Library and protect the Public's Right to Read
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![When the 1974 recording of the song reached number one on the country charts, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to record the song.
Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.
[28] Parton refused. She recalls:
I said, 'I'm really sorry,' and I cried all night. I mean, it was like the worst thing. You know, it's like, Oh, my God... Elvis Presley.' And other people were saying, 'You're nuts. It's Elvis Presley!'...I said, 'I can't do that.
Something in my heart says, 'Don't do that. And I just didn't do it... He would have killed it. But anyway, so he didn't. Then when Whitney [Houston's version] came out, I made enough money to buy Graceland. 29]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxplkzuausfufk5dthatrd5m/bafkreihq5mquwwvljjtys7fyqpnwvzj4cnfrkinrrbuhflwrdkxerzcghi)
