Jane Howard
@janeannehoward.bsky.social
Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
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Ever wondered what the manosphere looks and sounds like? This @aunz.theconversation.com with @debbieging.bsky.social takes you into this dark online world.
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How boys get sucked into the manosphere
It starts with one innocuous video. It ends in misogyny, anger and nihilism. Welcome to this online rabbit-hole of toxic masculinity.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Ever wondered what the manosphere looks and sounds like? This @aunz.theconversation.com with @debbieging.bsky.social takes you into this dark online world.
stories.theconversation.com/how-boys-get...
stories.theconversation.com/how-boys-get...
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this is fascinating bc the supposed hook is "I was raised in a tech-skeptical commune, yet AI helped me work through my problems" when it's actually "I was raised in a cult and responded to a form of AI emotional manipulation that treated me like a cult leader"
Healing My Heart for 20 Dollars a Month
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
this is fascinating bc the supposed hook is "I was raised in a tech-skeptical commune, yet AI helped me work through my problems" when it's actually "I was raised in a cult and responded to a form of AI emotional manipulation that treated me like a cult leader"
Brilliant piece on the suffocating beigeness which is AI speak www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
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December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Brilliant piece on the suffocating beigeness which is AI speak www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
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Arts investment vs cultural policy ambition: a “diabolical” choice for governments when weighing the priorities that create Australia’s future. I’m quoted in this timely piece by Santilla Chingaipe in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
The shrinkage of Australian arts funding
Restructures across all levels of arts funding have deprived institutions of money and led some to scale back their ambitions or even close.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Arts investment vs cultural policy ambition: a “diabolical” choice for governments when weighing the priorities that create Australia’s future. I’m quoted in this timely piece by Santilla Chingaipe in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Frank Gehry, the architect of the unconventional, the accidental, and the inspiring, has died at 96
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Frank Gehry, the architect of the unconventional, the accidental, and the inspiring, has died at 96
Frank Gehry, who has died at 96, leaves a powerful legacy, visible in many major cities, in the media, in galleries and in popular culture.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Frank Gehry, the architect of the unconventional, the accidental, and the inspiring, has died at 96
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Maybe it's just time to say we won't have a South Australian election in 2026 and save everyone the time and money. antonygreen.com.au/9012-2/
Electoral Pendulum for 2026 South Australian Election
South Australian Liberal Leader Vincent Tarzia has today resigned citing the pressure of leading the Liberal Party while trying to raise a young family. He still intends to contest his marginal sea…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Maybe it's just time to say we won't have a South Australian election in 2026 and save everyone the time and money. antonygreen.com.au/9012-2/
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Big news in South Australian politics: Liberal Leader Vincent Tarzia is stepping down, with just over 100 days until the next election.
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Big news in South Australian politics: Liberal Leader Vincent Tarzia is stepping down, with just over 100 days until the next election.
Isn't it amazing when shows you saw in Adelaide in 2018 come to Australia for the first time in 2026
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Isn't it amazing when shows you saw in Adelaide in 2018 come to Australia for the first time in 2026
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Must read for anyone interested in creative careers! Read the full paper here too www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Must read for anyone interested in creative careers! Read the full paper here too www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria are an absolute travesty. This is a great outline as to why.
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria are an absolute travesty. This is a great outline as to why.
"A healthy culture is one that doesn’t just regurgitate old stories, but tells itself new ones, lots of them – and makes space for new storytellers too." www.theguardian.com/stage/commen...
Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?
A new report suggests playwriting is in crisis after Covid, with producers retreating into safe old classics. Well, not from where I’m standing
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December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"A healthy culture is one that doesn’t just regurgitate old stories, but tells itself new ones, lots of them – and makes space for new storytellers too." www.theguardian.com/stage/commen...
Look I'm not a tariffs genius, but the UK exports £11.1bn of medicines to the US each year and Aus exports $126 million which feels like a different equation.
‘Problematic precedent’: expert says Australia could be next as UK agrees to pay 25% more for new US medicines
‘Problematic precedent’: expert says Australia could be next as UK agrees to pay 25% more for new US medicines
US has said it hopes other countries will follow as health policy experts say the agreement signals a shift away from value-for-money assessment
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The federal health minister, Mark Butler, said the government is trying to understand a “dynamic shift that’s happening in the global pharmaceutical market” following a new agreement that will see the UK pay 25% more for new US medicines, as drugs policy experts warn the deal sets a “problematic precedent”.
Under the deal, the UK will double the percentage of GDP it allocates to buying innovative therapies from the US. The deal has led to UK experts expressing concern that the National Health Service will pay more money for new treatments, with less money left to pay for health staff and proven existing treatments. Continue reading...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Look I'm not a tariffs genius, but the UK exports £11.1bn of medicines to the US each year and Aus exports $126 million which feels like a different equation.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Lovely piece from @drfergusedwards.bsky.social on the philosophy that underpinned Stoppard's plays theconversation.com/its-wanting-...
‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers
One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as well read and inquisitive as he was.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Lovely piece from @drfergusedwards.bsky.social on the philosophy that underpinned Stoppard's plays theconversation.com/its-wanting-...
spamming submittable forms with essay submissions. lmk if you know somewhere which would like a weird essay about ptsd, mindfulness and james turrell lol
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
spamming submittable forms with essay submissions. lmk if you know somewhere which would like a weird essay about ptsd, mindfulness and james turrell lol
November is a difficult month for me and truly never has anything done as much heavy lifting for me this time of year as how obsessed I am with Paddington the Musical www.vulture.com/article/padd...
I Would Die for the West End Paddington
Performed by two puppeteers, he deserves all the marmalade sandwiches in the world.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
November is a difficult month for me and truly never has anything done as much heavy lifting for me this time of year as how obsessed I am with Paddington the Musical www.vulture.com/article/padd...
If only this were happening in a geographically isolated city with a long and proud history of staging logistically complex art works www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
Year delay for Adelaide showing of world-class opera - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
International opera AIDA – spruiked by the SA government as being a "historic" first production outside of Italy, has been delayed by a year.
www.indailysa.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If only this were happening in a geographically isolated city with a long and proud history of staging logistically complex art works www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
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Hey folks, bit of news. Commissioning changes have meant that ABC Gamer will be rested at the end of the year. My contract ends in December and I will be back on the job hunt. It’s been a dream to work here, and the Children & Family team have been extraordinary to work with. Nothing but love.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hey folks, bit of news. Commissioning changes have meant that ABC Gamer will be rested at the end of the year. My contract ends in December and I will be back on the job hunt. It’s been a dream to work here, and the Children & Family team have been extraordinary to work with. Nothing but love.
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ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?
I wouldn't call South Australia "the battle ground" unless it counts as a battle when its four people against every other person in the state. Labor is currently on 66% two party preferred – an 11% swing towards them from when they won the last election. www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/10/s...
South Australia is now the battleground for the forced-birth movement
Conservative forces both inside and outside state parliament want to make abortion a key issue in 2026.
www.crikey.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I wouldn't call South Australia "the battle ground" unless it counts as a battle when its four people against every other person in the state. Labor is currently on 66% two party preferred – an 11% swing towards them from when they won the last election. www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/10/s...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
I'm a much better writer than I was a decade ago, but there are so many fewer places to publish. Have been trying to place an essay for over a year and it's just rejection after rejection. I'll be fine, I have a day job in this field, but what hope is there for young writers?
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm a much better writer than I was a decade ago, but there are so many fewer places to publish. Have been trying to place an essay for over a year and it's just rejection after rejection. I'll be fine, I have a day job in this field, but what hope is there for young writers?
Did you know when you buy a work of art and hang it in your house you can touch it whenever you want? Eating the forbidden fruit.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Did you know when you buy a work of art and hang it in your house you can touch it whenever you want? Eating the forbidden fruit.