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sanja00.bsky.social
He seems to be on the JK Rowling trajectory, previously well-liked and respected person faces criticism for a bad decision/take and then continues to dig their heels in until infinity.
January 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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ingridm.bsky.social
name one white male who was cancelled because a white Australian male walked into two mosques and murdered 51 people. I’ll wait.
"I don't speak for the board," Mr Malinauskas said. "Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people," he reportedly said. "Can you imagine that as Premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to Writers' Week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn't." "The reverse is happening in this instance, and I'm not going to support that either. "I think it's a reasonable position for me to have, it's a view that I believe. He said the Government had "always stood up for the independence of arts events and that's a record that we're proud of."
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Louise Adler on “social cohesion” and propaganda. From her opinion piece in The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Screenshot of a paragraph from Louise Adler’s article in The Guardian. Reads “The board’s statement cites community cohesion, an oft-referenced anxiety which should be treated with scepticism. This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking. Who, after all, would argue in favour of social division? Presumably only a terrorist or a nihilist. The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda.”
January 13, 2026 at 8:38 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
The people who advocated for Dr Randa’s removal knew this would happen. They don’t care about the arts, they are only interested in wielding soft power. If they can’t use the arts to further their agendas, they will happily destroy them.
omarsakr.bsky.social Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · Jan 13
Adelaide Writers Week is officially cancelled, with all remaining board members stepping down. This is a travesty. Not only did they refuse to reverse course and save the festival, they “apologised” to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah… and then once again tried to justify their decision by citing Bondi.
We recognise and deeply regret the distress this decision has caused to our audience, artists and writers, donors, corporate partners, the government and our own staff and people. We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented and reiterate this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia's worst terror attack in history. We acknowledge and are committed to rebuilding trust with our artistic community and audience to enable open and respectful discussions at future Adelaide Writers' Week events.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Every day we cede more of the territory of our souls to brutality. Shame on these institutions.
nickfeik.bsky.social Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Jan 8
Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Get in loser, we're going west to diminish
On the far Western shore of Middle Earth rests the Grey Havens, One of the last bastions of the elves in this world. This is Círdan the Shipbuilder's domain. For years now he has fashioned the vessels that will take the remaining Noldor and Sindar to the undying lands of Valinor, in Arman, hidden from the mortal realm at the end of the Third Age but for those who take the ships from this harbor (the only two exceptions to this being Gimli and Legolas, and Samwise, both many years from now). One of the great ships sits at a beautiful dock: Galadriel and Celeborn stand in front of Círdan, watching as Elrond gestures to an elderly Bilbo Baggins to board. Gandalf will join them and Frodo also, after a tearful goodbye. They will sail into the sea and soon join the Valar and Mayar and all the rest of the Elves. Frodo and Bilbo's time there will feel so short, mortals in a timeless realm, but it will be peaceful and joyous and filled with food and drink and song and harmony, and be a fitting resting place for the ring bearers. And Gimli of course, the one exception to a non-Elf ring bearer granted amnesty in Valinor, because unlike the movies, in the books he is the poet and chief moral officer of the third age, and brought peace between the two long rivaled races.
July 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
I don’t normally talk about this but it has felt especially important this season to donate to organisations that are bringing light and kindness into the world. ASRC donations being matched today, so please donate if you can.
kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · Dec 21
Tamie Fraser, along with 28 Australian families have come together to pledge to match your donations to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre up to $124,903. Today only. Till midnight.

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December 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Anderson has made some of the most incisive political art of our age.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Dec 18
The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.

He had this to say about the experience:
Excerpt from Magnum. The text is by Anderson: "“A couple of days into our journey, the boat began to sink. We were doomed and we knew it. We started saying goodbye to one another. Strangely, it was quite calm on the boat. There was not much to do except resign oneself to the inevitability of it all. Up to that point, I had not taken many pictures. Everyone on the boat knew I was a photographer, but it somehow had not felt right. It’s difficult to explain. But as the boat sank, David, the Haitian whom I had followed on this journey, said to me, ‘Chris, you’d better start making pictures. We only have an hour to live.’ And so, without much thought, I began making pictures. We were saved at the last moment by a US coast guard cutter that happened upon us, but that’s another story. Much later on, back home safe, I reflected on this question: why make pictures that no one will ever see? The only explanation for me was that the act of photographing had more to do with the explaining of the world to myself than explaining something to someone else. The pictures were about communicating something about my experience, not about reporting literal information. This would be the single most transformative moment of my photographic life.”"
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
No, actually, the estimation is 680,000 and that’s a conservative estimate.
Based on the Lancet study's findings of the first 9 months of the Israeli-imposed Gaza massacre, the projected death total by 25 April 2025 is 136,000 violent deaths after 15.5 months of killing. However, this analysis only goes so far. A more comprehensive picture of the death toll in Gaza since the start of the current conflict suggests it is necessary to estimate the number of non-violent deaths resulting from war-imposed deprivation. IMPOSED DEPRIVATION AND GAZA'S DEATH TOLL When deaths resulting from imposed deprivation (indirect deaths) are factored into mortality data, the total figures will be higher than those from only violent deaths (direct deaths). Eminent epidemiologist Professor Devi Sridhar (chair, Global Health, University of Edinburgh) reported in an article in The Guardian a "conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death". Assuming that deaths from deprivation were 4 times the violent deaths, then the 136,000 violent deaths after 15.5 months of killing (25 April 2025) would imply 541,000 Gaza deaths from imposed deprivation, and that the total Gazan death toll would accordingly be 136,000 violent deaths plus 544,000 from imposed deprivation, leading to a staggering total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025. Most of these victims, as indicated in earlier counts by the Ministry of Health are women and children.
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Today I was in a room full of Jews and Muslims when I found out that a gunman had shot up a Jewish event. We all shared the pain together. A Palestinian man from Gaza who happened to have moved here 2 weeks before October 7 expressed his pain at our tragedy. Many of his family members are dead, and many others are in tents now. And still, he stood with us. These moments will be used to divide us. Thats the whole reason they are committed. To tear us all into different factions so one can win and one can lose. Buying into that worldview hands the shooters and bigots a win by creating the world they want. The only actual way to defeat them is to stand firm in building a world of dignity for all. This is what the Palestinian in the room did for us. It is what the Muslim man who risked his life to save Jews did. This is the way to win. This is how we beat those who want a world of division and violence. @eladnehorai
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Trying to look at the brave people who stepped in to help, trying to look at the first responders, trying to look at the lines of people at the blood banks. Trying to see light and grace, and people coming together, and not letting despair and division win.
chriscjackson.bsky.social Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · Dec 15
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
sanja00.bsky.social
Don’t remember much of the semester of Latin I did at uni, but the phrase “sic semper tyrannis” randomly popped into my head today. Randomly…not related to anything at all…
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Peoples lack of ability for nuance rearing its ugly head again with the Louvre heist. I guess we’ve decided museums = bad, so robbers stealing cultural history to fund crime/sell to billionaires = good? I mean I love a good art heist film just as much as the next guy but c’mon!
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
sanja00.bsky.social
Australian art institutions continue to completely undermine their credibility. Bleak stuff.
nourhaydar.bsky.social Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · Feb 20
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Thought I was an honest person but the amount of times I have said and written the words “no worries” in my lifetime begs to differ.
February 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
Hard time to be a person who cares about other people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
YOUR DONATION TO THE ASRC MATCHED TODAY ONLY!

35 of our supporter families have come together to match all donation up to $105,482, today only. This is our only dollar matching day for Christmas.

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December 19, 2024 at 4:18 AM
sanja00.bsky.social
I thought as I got older I would become more hardened, cynical, unmoved. Only to find that I am softer, and more sensitive to the horrors of the world than ever.
November 10, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 8:59 PM