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Stephen Wright

@mycommunistcat.bsky.social

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Writer, idler, anarchist on unceded Anaiwan country. He/Him Can be found at Overland literary journal overland.org.au Novel ‘A Second Life’ still available around the place Currently asleep on a verandah

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · Jul 14

Little thread on things I've published and can still live with. First a novel, 'A Second Life'. Kathy Acker is resurrected in northern NSW. A bit of a vigilante, her real job is taking murdered children through the bardo. Good review & summary here

anzlitlovers.com/2021/02/03/a...

A Second Life (2017), by Stephen Wright (2017 co-winner of Seizure Viva La Novella Prize)

A Second Life is a pleasurably baffling book. Winner of the 2017 Viva La Novella Prize, it seems to be many things: a meditation on death and memory; a cry of anguish about misogyny and male viole…

anzlitlovers.com

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 7h

If you are a landlord, airbnb owner RE agent or anyone profiting from 'the housing market' and are not waking up each day consumed with deadly shame, pleading with your chosen deity to give you a little more time to redeem yourself before you are shunted to Hell, you are not fit for human company.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 8h

According to figures from nine services across Brisbane, half of the children being supported by homelessness services are aged under four.

Homelessness services report 48 per cent rise in kids needing help

According to figures from nine services across Brisbane, half of the children being supported by homelessness services are aged under four.

www.abc.net.au

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 8h

Companion animals can become entwined in your life in ways you don't notice. It's not just the usuals - affection, intelligence - but their intense unhuman aliveness, and when you lose them, you can feel bereft in odd ways that don't fit with other experiences of loss.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 1d

We have a winner in the 'unhinged literary opinion' thread doing the rounds, one I completely endorse, and which could profitably generate a new field of literary studies.

Brian J Hall @owabrian.bsky.social · 1d

The Wind in the Willows is simply a vehicle to promote the worship of the god Pan

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yes. Only annoying cos they're right. 😏

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 1d

Philip K Dick is grossly overrated and In Search of Lost Time is too short.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 1d

The autistic part might be not knowing if it's good or bad. The 'insight' part is feeling like you need a break to do other interesting things. Doesn't have the feeling of burnout or depression (former counsellor for autistic adults speaking).

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 1d

Alternative reading, kids are very smart.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

Shame, as that means you'll have to write your own.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

Looking good to knock em dead for the ballroom or the house party.
Enjoy your steroid-free weekend.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

So, dunno. Have a beer, try again?

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

Fellow citizens, and those occasionally watching, meet the Australian media class. So utterly unaware of the politics of 'reporting', so cocooned in their privileged bubble, so unalterably hilariously smug they may as well be Tories.

Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting on a party is not the same thing as supporting them...

Frances @franceswilmore.bsky.social · 3d

@lenoret.bsky.social why when I open my Guardian App is an article about the Liberal party the first article - again? They are irrelevant over kaput not newsworthy - please stop supporting them #auspol

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

It's the palace of colonial power. A First Nations person wishing it would burn down seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

Who *hasn't* wanted to burn down Parliament House?

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

Miller-Heidke for sure. Or Delta.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 2d

You can add a sentence beginning "Children will suffer as a result of..." to nearly every ALP policy.

Tom Sulston @tom.sulston.net · 2d

It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.

Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

Turnip Shepherd has me nailed.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

Good little rally for Palestine in Anaiwan country this arvo. Welcome to Country by local elder Uncle Steve, drawing direct line between colonisation of Palestine & so-called Australia.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

This is the Guardian's Australian headline today, a desperate attempt to maintain the neoliberal status quo & rehabilitate a right-wing party that is long past its use-by date.

Guardian headline obsessing over the future of the Coalition.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

Proust is a very funny writer. Comedic scenes & characters are his speciality.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on. The big investigative scoops the Guardian do and its occasional opinion pieces by left-wing writers are necessary to launder its reputation as a fierce defender of democratic values. But its 'mundane ideological work', (transphobia, spruiking the right & 'populism') is its real project.

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 3d

If we want to understand the role played by mainstream media like the NYT, Guardian, Le Monde etc, we must look past the truly excellent investigative pieces they put out at times and think of the more mundane ongoing ideological work they do on a day to day basis with headlines like this

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 4d

If I had an ocean of contempt to drown Penny Wong in, it wouldn't be nearly enough.

Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 5d

Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it.

Embarrassing.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I'm shocked. I mean, I thought 'rage against the machine' meant being mad at your Victa. Really confused now.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely 100%. Arts orgs think politicians will listen to an 'art makes money' argument & suddenly be enlightened by it.

Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 6d

It's so weird. I mean, I understand why some people make the 'investing in arts makes money' arguments, but it's depressing to hear them. The whole experience of creating & imagining is outside the mercantile sphere & disrupts it because it has absolutely nothing in common with it.

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