Clare Strahan
@9fragments.bsky.social
Novelist A&U Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge & Cracked. RMIT PWE teacher. Editor-IPED member. MSS assessor @ KYD. La Trobe PhD candidate. Wants green peaceful life for all. Saddened. I donate to UNHCR & ASRC & not individuals sorry.
Pinned
Clare Strahan
@9fragments.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Statement in support of Meanjin’s future - Overland literary journal
We write in support of the University of Melbourne Creative Writing program and call on the University of Melbourne to protect Meanjin and the incalculable cultural wealth that it offers us all. The u...
overland.org.au
what a picture
Officials in Dubrovnik, Croatia, say the strong currents of the Adriatic Sea washed ashore a colossal amount of garbage, mostly from Albania, during a recent storm. nyti.ms/4pDyPui
Dubrovnik, Known for Its Beauty, Faces a Mound of New Trash
Officials in Dubrovnik, Croatia, say the strong currents of the Adriatic Sea washed ashore a vast amount of garbage, mostly from Albania, during a recent storm.
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
what a picture
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Solidarity to UTS members for their huge strike yesterday. Members were out in force to show management that staff deserve better and will keep fighting for much-needed improvements to job security, workloads and fair pay.
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Solidarity to UTS members for their huge strike yesterday. Members were out in force to show management that staff deserve better and will keep fighting for much-needed improvements to job security, workloads and fair pay.
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We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide
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Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
couldn't happen to a nicer guy
The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.
Brazil’s Supreme Court orders Jair Bolsonaro to begin prison sentence
The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
couldn't happen to a nicer guy
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
Who doesn't love a bit o' Robert Reich
The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Who doesn't love a bit o' Robert Reich
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Powerful.
so sad
Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
so sad
what a bunch of destructive twerps
"Jacinta Price, Sarah Henderson and Jessica Collins headed the bank of Liberal conservatives who walked together into the party meeting that discussed net zero on Wednesday."
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
what a bunch of destructive twerps
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Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
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I have been writing my latest newsletter update for a week and trying to get it finished. It is sprawling, perhaps even unreadable, but I will have it ready by tomorrow morning AEDT. If you want to subscribe, it's free! rick-morton.ghost.io
Nervous Laughter
Life, writing and other tragedies
rick-morton.ghost.io
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I have been writing my latest newsletter update for a week and trying to get it finished. It is sprawling, perhaps even unreadable, but I will have it ready by tomorrow morning AEDT. If you want to subscribe, it's free! rick-morton.ghost.io
WTF is wrong with people? We know what works and it's spending money on the right things to allow lives to be lived not trauma to be repeated endlessly - not locking kids up forever
A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
WTF is wrong with people? We know what works and it's spending money on the right things to allow lives to be lived not trauma to be repeated endlessly - not locking kids up forever
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Shahd Shamali was given 20 minutes warning before the I.D.F. struck her building. She describes her home and the life she made there, before it was erased, and the choices she and her family made in the brief evacuation window. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_uZDZ
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Shahd Shamali was given 20 minutes warning before the I.D.F. struck her building. She describes her home and the life she made there, before it was erased, and the choices she and her family made in the brief evacuation window. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_uZDZ
Can recommend!
Hello! I'm running a six-week writing workshop in Melbourne over summer designed to help you deepen your craft, receive generous feedback and build momentum in your work.
💫 Small group (max 12 writers)
💫 Fortnightly meet-ups
Places are limited. Apps close on Nov 7. App w info in bio.
💫 Small group (max 12 writers)
💫 Fortnightly meet-ups
Places are limited. Apps close on Nov 7. App w info in bio.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Can recommend!
horror
Despite the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli attacks continue to kill Palestinians.
Gaza residents fear more Israeli attacks, unable to rebuild their lives
Despite the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli attacks continue to kill Palestinians.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
horror
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Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
brave person
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
brave person
cool bananas
I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
October 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
cool bananas
This poop thing is ... I mean wtf? Is there any better advertisement for 'no kings' in Ame rica? Cripes. So weird. Great organising from the sane people.
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
Trump Reacts To ‘No Kings’ Protest With WILD AI Video: Drops POOP Bombs From The Sky In VIRAL Clip
YouTube video by ETimes
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This poop thing is ... I mean wtf? Is there any better advertisement for 'no kings' in Ame rica? Cripes. So weird. Great organising from the sane people.
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
pretty glorious (and disturbing)
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
pretty glorious (and disturbing)
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Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...