Bradley J. Dixon
@bradleyjdixon.me
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cannot WAIT to see how this bizarre worksheet of celebrity disabilities is relevant to my disability awareness training next week
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
cannot WAIT to see how this bizarre worksheet of celebrity disabilities is relevant to my disability awareness training next week
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So many denials:
❌denial that MUP was pressured by the UniMelb Council chaired by Mark Leibler, after Meanjin published "an essay highly critical of the Exec Council of Australian Jewry"
❌denial that UniMelbCouncil was involved in the decision to close Meanjin
❌denial Council even discussed Meanjin
❌denial that MUP was pressured by the UniMelb Council chaired by Mark Leibler, after Meanjin published "an essay highly critical of the Exec Council of Australian Jewry"
❌denial that UniMelbCouncil was involved in the decision to close Meanjin
❌denial Council even discussed Meanjin
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
So many denials:
❌denial that MUP was pressured by the UniMelb Council chaired by Mark Leibler, after Meanjin published "an essay highly critical of the Exec Council of Australian Jewry"
❌denial that UniMelbCouncil was involved in the decision to close Meanjin
❌denial Council even discussed Meanjin
❌denial that MUP was pressured by the UniMelb Council chaired by Mark Leibler, after Meanjin published "an essay highly critical of the Exec Council of Australian Jewry"
❌denial that UniMelbCouncil was involved in the decision to close Meanjin
❌denial Council even discussed Meanjin
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Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
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Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...
August 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...
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Vale David Stratton, the wonderful film critic.
I have seen a few mentions of Stratton’s surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which came to light about a decade ago.
His ASIO file has been digitised and can be viewed here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
I have seen a few mentions of Stratton’s surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which came to light about a decade ago.
His ASIO file has been digitised and can be viewed here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
August 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Vale David Stratton, the wonderful film critic.
I have seen a few mentions of Stratton’s surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which came to light about a decade ago.
His ASIO file has been digitised and can be viewed here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
I have seen a few mentions of Stratton’s surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which came to light about a decade ago.
His ASIO file has been digitised and can be viewed here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
Get along to this.
The Encampments
A documentary on the student protests in the US exposing universities’ ties to the war on Gaza, which sparked hundreds of university protests globally.
events.humanitix.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Get along to this.
Logging on to catch up on the latest news.
July 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Logging on to catch up on the latest news.
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PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert
Filmography: David Lynch : David Lynch : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Posted in respects of the late David Lynch (1946–2025). All of Lynch's feature-length content.Eraserhead (1977): A hapless factory worker tries to survive...
archive.org
February 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert
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We are literally supposed to have fun like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. Jot that down.
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
January 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are literally supposed to have fun like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. Jot that down.
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wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us
“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer
The filmmaker was so much more than just an influence on his legion of LGBTQ+ fans.
www.them.us
January 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us
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any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
Isn’t there a democratic billionaire who can buy Wikipedia and keep it free of Rich White MAGA Separatists??
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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They're doing their best to keep it a secret, but @mitchmctaggart.bsky.social's 6th annual 'Last Year of Television' is out now on Binge.
December 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
They're doing their best to keep it a secret, but @mitchmctaggart.bsky.social's 6th annual 'Last Year of Television' is out now on Binge.
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The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.
Nazis in ascendence on Substack? If it doesn't appear in my feed personally, I don't care. The REAL issue is people calling their posts "Substacks".
Pundit brain at its absolute mushiest from gr*ber.
Pundit brain at its absolute mushiest from gr*ber.
November 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Nazis in ascendence on Substack? If it doesn't appear in my feed personally, I don't care. The REAL issue is people calling their posts "Substacks".
Pundit brain at its absolute mushiest from gr*ber.
Pundit brain at its absolute mushiest from gr*ber.