@sleepship.bsky.social
Writer, artist, parent.
I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art
they/them.
Free Palestine.
I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art
they/them.
Free Palestine.
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Writing on art and culture from lutruwita/Tasmania by Andrew Harper
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Check it out and sign up for my emails about art on this island.
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'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
I thought you might like to know that the palawa kani name for Midway Point is
Tipina
You can download the palawa kani app to find more translations
Tipina
You can download the palawa kani app to find more translations
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I thought you might like to know that the palawa kani name for Midway Point is
Tipina
You can download the palawa kani app to find more translations
Tipina
You can download the palawa kani app to find more translations
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i emailed a bunch of Australia's 'top' literary podcasts to see if they wanted to talk about NOCK LOOSE and every single one of them was pay for play.
what an absolute farce.
what an absolute farce.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
i emailed a bunch of Australia's 'top' literary podcasts to see if they wanted to talk about NOCK LOOSE and every single one of them was pay for play.
what an absolute farce.
what an absolute farce.
this is cool too
Wrote about the incoming extinction event, and how Australia doesn’t know what to do next
open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...
open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...
The Death of the Dinosaurs
Is Australian politics ready for an extinction level event?
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
this is cool too
the article is sweet and hilarious. Give it a read. I wanna go.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
the article is sweet and hilarious. Give it a read. I wanna go.
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Way to save OzLit: publish 80% less books and 5 year moratorium on YA, “middle grade” (??), and crime fiction
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Way to save OzLit: publish 80% less books and 5 year moratorium on YA, “middle grade” (??), and crime fiction
absolutely nothing, sing it again
Pauline Hanson been in politics lond enough to hand out captain cooks pox blankets.
What has she ever achieved to help any Australian community?
What has she ever achieved to help any Australian community?
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
absolutely nothing, sing it again
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Welp. My view is that somewhere around pandemic tech companies collectively decided its no longer worth creating and selling new products to customers.
Instead they decided that promises of a brighter future to investors will sell better. And they were right.
bsky.app/profile/musi...
Instead they decided that promises of a brighter future to investors will sell better. And they were right.
bsky.app/profile/musi...
Anyone have a good solid primer on why GenAI is an evil mass-theft halucination money-stealing ponzi scheme lying planet-killing brain-death machine?
Especially to share w/ elder parents who still basically think all tech is magic, and credulous youngsters who've been trained into tech dependence?
Especially to share w/ elder parents who still basically think all tech is magic, and credulous youngsters who've been trained into tech dependence?
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Welp. My view is that somewhere around pandemic tech companies collectively decided its no longer worth creating and selling new products to customers.
Instead they decided that promises of a brighter future to investors will sell better. And they were right.
bsky.app/profile/musi...
Instead they decided that promises of a brighter future to investors will sell better. And they were right.
bsky.app/profile/musi...
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Back in the Corbyn years the shitpost left would joke that Pollard would eventually defend outright Nazis from charges of antisemitism as long as they were sufficiently pro Israel and naturally against the left.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Back in the Corbyn years the shitpost left would joke that Pollard would eventually defend outright Nazis from charges of antisemitism as long as they were sufficiently pro Israel and naturally against the left.
spotted The Fall T-Shirt in Stranger Things 5 #StrangerThings #TheFall
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
spotted The Fall T-Shirt in Stranger Things 5 #StrangerThings #TheFall
Goon: In, I believe the US, goon refers to unrepentant enjoyment of pornography.
However.
In Australia, goon is a widespread name for cheap wine that comes in a silver bladder contained in a box:
However.
In Australia, goon is a widespread name for cheap wine that comes in a silver bladder contained in a box:
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Goon: In, I believe the US, goon refers to unrepentant enjoyment of pornography.
However.
In Australia, goon is a widespread name for cheap wine that comes in a silver bladder contained in a box:
However.
In Australia, goon is a widespread name for cheap wine that comes in a silver bladder contained in a box:
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Also why do people present "What if James Bond is actually... a CODENAME" like they're the first person to think of it. Everyone has thought of this, it's a really obvious retcon.
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Also why do people present "What if James Bond is actually... a CODENAME" like they're the first person to think of it. Everyone has thought of this, it's a really obvious retcon.
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My grandfather went through a period where he was tuning into Rush Limbaugh to “know his enemy,” and let me tell you it did NOT improve his thinking.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My grandfather went through a period where he was tuning into Rush Limbaugh to “know his enemy,” and let me tell you it did NOT improve his thinking.
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Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).
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Obvs different contexts, but my introduction to this sort of capitulation was CBS to Brown & Williamson 30 years ago almost to the day, and it just guts folks rooting for a free and adversarial press focused on afflicting the comfortable and publishing facts that powerful people want to keep secret
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Obvs different contexts, but my introduction to this sort of capitulation was CBS to Brown & Williamson 30 years ago almost to the day, and it just guts folks rooting for a free and adversarial press focused on afflicting the comfortable and publishing facts that powerful people want to keep secret
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Wow, honored to have The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2025:
100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Wow, honored to have The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2025:
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...
2025’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM
GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...
this was so out of control I listened to it again straight away (join the cult of book).
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
this was so out of control I listened to it again straight away (join the cult of book).
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NEW EP: Jacob Israël de Haan wrote the first gay Dutch novel, moved to Palestine in the 1920s, turned against Zionism, and was assassinated by the Haganah paramilitary. "What is it I long for," he once asked. "The sanctity of Israel or an Arab male prostitute?" badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
NEW EP: Jacob Israël de Haan wrote the first gay Dutch novel, moved to Palestine in the 1920s, turned against Zionism, and was assassinated by the Haganah paramilitary. "What is it I long for," he once asked. "The sanctity of Israel or an Arab male prostitute?" badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
LET'S F*CK! I'LL F*CK ANYTHING THAT MOVES CHARLIE BROWN
Those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain, Charlie Brown.
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
LET'S F*CK! I'LL F*CK ANYTHING THAT MOVES CHARLIE BROWN
a remake of The Exorcist? what?
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
a remake of The Exorcist? what?