Asha
@ashawrites.bsky.social
Word herder and dog lover living on Whadjuk, Noongar boodjar (Perth, Western Australia)
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Asha
@ashawrites.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I know I’m supposed to do an intro post but I don’t have the bandwidth right now. Have some doggo pictures instead. This is Frank (grey) and Rani (bw)
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Trump says he is ‘entitled’ to deport people without trials – live
Trump says he is ‘entitled’ to deport people without trials – live
President says it’s not possible to have trials for everyone he wants to deport and that US would otherwise be a ‘very dangerous country’
* Hegseth blames ousted officials for leaks
Speaking in India, JD Vance has warned that the 21st century could be “a very dark time for all of humanity” depending on the decisions made over global trade and global partnerships at this juncture.
The US vice-president said “We are now officially one quarter into the 21st century, 25 years in, 75 years to go. And I really believe that the future of the 21st century is going to be determined by the strength of the US-India partnership. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Trump says he is ‘entitled’ to deport people without trials – live
This is what we want from all our politicians. Less cynical politicking, more admitting to mistakes and giving actual hope and policies we can get behind. I hope Australian politicians are taking note as our federal election looms on the horizon
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is what we want from all our politicians. Less cynical politicking, more admitting to mistakes and giving actual hope and policies we can get behind. I hope Australian politicians are taking note as our federal election looms on the horizon
The way politicians everywhere behave as if they’re doing taxpayers a favour instead of actually providing what our taxes pay for…
Give me it. ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The way politicians everywhere behave as if they’re doing taxpayers a favour instead of actually providing what our taxes pay for…
A couple of questions about this whole fiasco:
1. Aren’t their govt issued phones blocked from messaging apps? Were they using PERSONAL DEVICES for this?
2. Even if it is targeting an egregious terrorist, what about all the innocent civilians in the building who will also die or be injured?
1. Aren’t their govt issued phones blocked from messaging apps? Were they using PERSONAL DEVICES for this?
2. Even if it is targeting an egregious terrorist, what about all the innocent civilians in the building who will also die or be injured?
Good lord what a bunch of liars and incompetents. Also, as an aside. who sets their disappearing messages to 4 weeks if they want to avoid accountability? Also, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social is a badass.
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A couple of questions about this whole fiasco:
1. Aren’t their govt issued phones blocked from messaging apps? Were they using PERSONAL DEVICES for this?
2. Even if it is targeting an egregious terrorist, what about all the innocent civilians in the building who will also die or be injured?
1. Aren’t their govt issued phones blocked from messaging apps? Were they using PERSONAL DEVICES for this?
2. Even if it is targeting an egregious terrorist, what about all the innocent civilians in the building who will also die or be injured?
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Dutton unveils gas reservation scheme and vows to sack 41,000 public service workers in budget reply
Dutton unveils gas reservation scheme and vows to sack 41,000 public service workers in budget reply
Coalition leader says national gas plan will require LNG producers to set aside more supply for domestic use to protect Australia from global ‘price shocks’
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Peter Dutton has vowed to establish an east coast gas reservation scheme to lower power prices and sack all 41,000 federal public servants hired under Anthony Albanese if he wins an election billed as a “sliding doors moment” for the nation.
The opposition leader used his budget reply speech on Thursday night to claim Australia’s prosperity would be “damaged for decades” if Labor was returned to power. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Dutton unveils gas reservation scheme and vows to sack 41,000 public service workers in budget reply
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For those wondering what Dutton has said - @amyremeikis.bsky.social has it all here
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Australia Institute Live: Coalition to slash migration, sack 41,000 people and establish 'anti-semitism' taskforce if he wins government
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March 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For those wondering what Dutton has said - @amyremeikis.bsky.social has it all here
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Most days my patience with yt 🚺 exists on a knife edge but today I’m so done with them. The quickness with which they resort to tears and calling the cops gives me whiplash. And it starts young. #storytime So for the last week and a half I’ve had little gangs of yt girls coming past my 🧵
a woman wearing a blue coat and earrings is sitting on a couch .
ALT: a woman wearing a blue coat and earrings is sitting on a couch .
media.tenor.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Most days my patience with yt 🚺 exists on a knife edge but today I’m so done with them. The quickness with which they resort to tears and calling the cops gives me whiplash. And it starts young. #storytime So for the last week and a half I’ve had little gangs of yt girls coming past my 🧵
Brilliant positioning during his report ❤️
Alan Kohler book club is back! Uprising by Stephen Gapps, People Power by George Williams and David Hume (great read) and What Trump’s Second Term Means For Australia by Bruce Wolfe. And a pilea. @alankohler.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Brilliant positioning during his report ❤️
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Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli military says it is conducting ground activity in northern Gaza as dozens reported dead after Israeli strike
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli military says it is conducting ground activity in northern Gaza as dozens reported dead after Israeli strike
Israeli military says it is conducting ground activities in northern Gaza strip as Gaza’s health ministry reports 85 people killed by Israeli attacks overnight
The resumption of airstrikes has sent Palestinian residents again fleeing for their lives from…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli military says it is conducting ground activity in northern Gaza as dozens reported dead after Israeli strike
Proving yet again that Musk is a grifter
Starship is the cybertruck of SpaceX - the moment when a Musk company runs out of plagiarised, borrowed and bought technologies and start having to rely on the deeply shitty brain of Elon Musk
"how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"
"how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Proving yet again that Musk is a grifter
I love this movie so much
March 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I love this movie so much
I’ll be there! You should join me
Tonight (in the ET time zone) at 8pm! Join us and Tara Campbell for a SmokeLong webinar on getting weird in micro. If you're taking part in SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon, this is included and you should have received the Zoom link already (also in the workshop). www.smokelong.com/product/lets...
“Let’s Get Weird!” with Tara Campbell - SmokeLong Quarterly
Unleash the unreal in your writing, both in fiction and creative nonfictions. We’ll explore multiple ways of stretching reality to turn common experiences into uncommon stories. Date: March 9 Time: 8p...
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March 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I’ll be there! You should join me
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Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.
March 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.
I was recently in a workshop facilitated by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and her work is stunning. This story is no exception
"then they decide to pirouette across her scalp and arabesque along her hairline, so I coo come back, but the knuckles of my middle finger wiggle a jaunty no"
A brilliant, breathless paragraph from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social with so much urgency to it
A brilliant, breathless paragraph from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social with so much urgency to it
Read "All I See and Hear Is Blue" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I snip my fingers, and they land on the hair of the client sitting in front of me, and then they decide to pirouette across her scalp..."
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"I snip my fingers, and they land on the hair of the client sitting in front of me, and then they decide to pirouette across her scalp..."
tinyurl.com/27z3derk
March 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I was recently in a workshop facilitated by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and her work is stunning. This story is no exception
Oh this is beautiful prose!
Yay!!!!!
Very excited to see my story "Big Girl" up at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social !! They also did me the honor of re-publishing my story "Where Your Knit Hat Went," one of my faves. Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring Big Girl in SLQ Fitness! www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/barb...
March 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh this is beautiful prose!
This is stunning work
February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is stunning work
Oh god. Very VERY much this
It’s simple: I don’t want to write a poem I want to have written a poem
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Oh god. Very VERY much this
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Last chance to join us for this wild, story-generating ride. One participant in last year's March Micro Marathon published 19 stories from it. What could you write in the buzz of 24 prompts, 150+ supportive fellow writers, small groups that have your back, live webinars, and a friendly squirrel? 🐿️
If you have signed up for The March Micro Marathon, please be watching for your invitation today! If you haven't signed up yet but want to, you still have time. Places are now limited. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
The March Micro Marathon 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
BOOK HERE We are doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writi...
www.smokelong.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Last chance to join us for this wild, story-generating ride. One participant in last year's March Micro Marathon published 19 stories from it. What could you write in the buzz of 24 prompts, 150+ supportive fellow writers, small groups that have your back, live webinars, and a friendly squirrel? 🐿️
Two lovely acceptances to make up for starting the year with a rejection! Look for me soon at the Raine Square Story Dispenser (one cnf/memoir and one fiction)
February 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Two lovely acceptances to make up for starting the year with a rejection! Look for me soon at the Raine Square Story Dispenser (one cnf/memoir and one fiction)
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I’m so looking forward to this workshop!
Just over 6 days to sign up for The March Micro Marathon! Write with us if you're a workshop lover. Invitations to join the workshop site go out on February 28, then orientation until March 3, when our first writing task goes live. Our first webinar is March 1! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
The March Micro Marathon 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
BOOK HERE We are doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writi...
www.smokelong.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I’m so looking forward to this workshop!
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"Young Australian women are moving sharply to the left. But unlike in many other countries, young Australian men are also shifting left, just at a slower pace"
theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...
theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...
I looked at 35 years of data to see how Australians vote. Here’s what it tells us about the next election
Women and young people are key voter demographics for politicians to win over. Data show how both groups have become more left-leaning over time.
theconversation.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Young Australian women are moving sharply to the left. But unlike in many other countries, young Australian men are also shifting left, just at a slower pace"
theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...
theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...
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Do not fly in the US.
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Do not fly in the US.
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General subs will close at midnight ET today, reopening May 11. From Feb 15 to May 10 we'll be reading for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Grand prize: $2500. Second place: $1000. Third place $500. Finalists $150. All published in our June issue! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
February 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
General subs will close at midnight ET today, reopening May 11. From Feb 15 to May 10 we'll be reading for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Grand prize: $2500. Second place: $1000. Third place $500. Finalists $150. All published in our June issue! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...