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Jane O'Sullivan
@sightlined.bsky.social
Art writing & fiction in Vault, Meanjin, Apollo, Art Guide, Art Monthly, Okay Donkey, Milk Candy Review & New Flash Fiction Review
Secret sewing habit 🪡
janeosullivan.com.au
New project from Australian artist Tega Brain
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
thought I was really smart for putting balsamic on my avo & tomato on toast then I remembered bruschetta
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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We're delighted to welcome Jane O'Sullivan with her story Six Stitches and a Scar, out tomorrow @sightlined.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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
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Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Big Tech is using the art, music and work of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people to train AI algorithms, with no respect for cultural protocols or its spiritual and historic significance.
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.

With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country
Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
oh no I'm meant to be doing edits on this essay but I'm just making it worse
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
'Submittable' by Paul Dawson in Cordite

cordite.org.au/poetry/dedic...
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Marveling at this essay on a sentence that's a parable for our times
Hannah Smart spent a year diagramming, against the advice of well-meaning family and friends, a 900-word David Foster Wallace sentence. Here's what the experience taught her: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
that feeling when you file a critical essay and you've gone ~ out there ~ but you won't know for a couple of weeks whether it was a good or bad idea
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.”

Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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This weekend, the Australian Short Story Festival is on in Adelaide. It's always a great vibe, so get along if you can. I'll be moderating a couple of sessions. On Saturday night, there's a 'Complaint Letters' event that should be good fun. More here: australianshortstoryfestival.com/2025-program/
2025 Program – Australian Short Story Festival Inc
australianshortstoryfestival.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
by the by, Island does such a great job with the illos on fiction pieces

islandmag.com/read/hellsit...
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
reading a book where the artwork titles are underlined not italicised and about to invent a new level of hell
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I was talking about Anne of Green Gables with my mum the other day so I had another look and that sure is a lot of semi colons for an opening sentence
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BorrowBox a bit confused today
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
"I couldn't stop them from doing that. That's their business. They're happy, I think, because this is all going on now and they feel they've really seriously generated something, but…It's completely hollow and it's probably, if anything, exposing the stupidity."
'Vault' sculptor denies backing council's 'silly' PR stunt
The artist whose sculpture headlines a regional Victorian tourism campaign says it's a "beat up to get publicity".
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A cool composite pic of this year’s first baby peregrine falcon to fledge from the Collins Street nest site (9:27am)
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Ah a Neha Kale non-fiction book!! What ✨brilliant✨ news!!

www.instagram.com/p/DQ51ZFNjF3...
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Alex Seton, A kind of human paste, 2025. Rosa Portugal marble, 100kg.

currently on show in Seeing Though Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
via www.sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/... and
www.instagram.com/p/DQxNKXhk9S...
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The faint rustling of cultural institutions everywhere rapidly changing their passwords
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM