Greg McLaren
@gregmclaren.bsky.social
Poet and nuisance. A bit autistic.
New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
Reposted by Greg McLaren
"A literary culture disaggregated from the contemporary world consigns itself to utter irrelevance – and yet in Albanese's Australia, the fantasy of an apolitical cultural sector seems to have been installed as de facto cultural policy." @catrionamp.bsky.social infra-dig.ghost.io/hard-surface...
Hard surfaces
Cancel culture strikes again? Adelaide Writers' Week, risk management, and our de facto national cultural policy settings
infra-dig.ghost.io
February 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
"A literary culture disaggregated from the contemporary world consigns itself to utter irrelevance – and yet in Albanese's Australia, the fantasy of an apolitical cultural sector seems to have been installed as de facto cultural policy." @catrionamp.bsky.social infra-dig.ghost.io/hard-surface...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
This hits me in my nerd humor spot.
January 29, 2026 at 4:03 AM
This hits me in my nerd humor spot.
White dude throws object 'designed to explode' into a crowd and it's not terrorism.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...
www.abc.net.au
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
White dude throws object 'designed to explode' into a crowd and it's not terrorism.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Great to see someone addressing this increasingly prevalent dishonest erasure of history: indigenousx.com.au/debunking-au...
Debunking: Australia Day is about 1949, not 1788! – IndigenousX
indigenousx.com.au
January 28, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Great to see someone addressing this increasingly prevalent dishonest erasure of history: indigenousx.com.au/debunking-au...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
This is a fabulous resource for those in Australia who get waylaid by arguments about today: kooricurriculum.com/blogs/news/a...
Australia Day: What the Debate Actually Requires Us to Understand | Koori Curriculum
There's a lot of noise around January 26th each year. Arguments erupt. Names get called. Social media becomes a battlefield. And in all that heat, very few people actually stop, listen, and engage wit...
kooricurriculum.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
This is a fabulous resource for those in Australia who get waylaid by arguments about today: kooricurriculum.com/blogs/news/a...
The annual reminder of where to get cool garments: www.darkanddisturbing.com.au/shop/austral...
australia drive it like you stole it - Dark and Disturbing
Vernon Ah Kee is an original member of the proppaNOW Collective. With Drive it, Vernon critiques Australian claims to the Australian continent. Please Note: This shirt is a JB’s Colours of Cotton shir...
www.darkanddisturbing.com.au
January 25, 2026 at 9:55 AM
The annual reminder of where to get cool garments: www.darkanddisturbing.com.au/shop/austral...
Bughouse
Kristin Hersh
Hummingbirds
Julia Jacklin
Jess Locke
Wish I'd seen: Detroit Cobras
Kristin Hersh
Hummingbirds
Julia Jacklin
Jess Locke
Wish I'd seen: Detroit Cobras
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Velocity Girl
Belly
The Breeders
Mila Jovovich
X
Velocity Girl
Belly
The Breeders
Mila Jovovich
X
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
The Sugarcubes (bonus: The Primitives opened for them)
The Selecter
Jolie Holland
Neko Case
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Sugarcubes (bonus: The Primitives opened for them)
The Selecter
Jolie Holland
Neko Case
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Bughouse
Kristin Hersh
Hummingbirds
Julia Jacklin
Jess Locke
Wish I'd seen: Detroit Cobras
Kristin Hersh
Hummingbirds
Julia Jacklin
Jess Locke
Wish I'd seen: Detroit Cobras
It's not entirely true, is it
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
It's not entirely true, is it
Sorry, is this the same Julian Leeser and Sussan Ley who condemned the ALP's 'politicisation' of the Bondi massacre?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia politics live: Ley and Leeser use question time to pressure PM on apology to Jewish community over antisemitism response
Follow updates live
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Sorry, is this the same Julian Leeser and Sussan Ley who condemned the ALP's 'politicisation' of the Bondi massacre?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
Reposted by Greg McLaren
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
August 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/929waCjCOJ4Sp
ABC: Stand with your journalists
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
getup.to
January 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM
I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/929waCjCOJ4Sp
Reposted by Greg McLaren
Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths.
australian.museum/learn/first-...
australian.museum/learn/first-...
Map of colonial frontier massacres in Australia 1788-1930
This map shows documented massacres of the First Nations peoples across Australia, from the early years of the colony to within several decades of living memory.
australian.museum
January 14, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths.
australian.museum/learn/first-...
australian.museum/learn/first-...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
Reposted by Greg McLaren
PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
Reposted by Greg McLaren
51 authors have now withdrawn from the apartheid Adelaide Writers Week. I wrote about it here and the long sordid road of racist interference from Zionists in the Australian arts. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 AM
51 authors have now withdrawn from the apartheid Adelaide Writers Week. I wrote about it here and the long sordid road of racist interference from Zionists in the Australian arts. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
This is a bit fucked.
You know what, I’m feeling marginally less flippant about this insanity now that I know I’m on a list in a dossier prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a “key influencer” of antisemitism. This is munted.
December 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is a bit fucked.
Reposted by Greg McLaren
"New Year is nothing more than the continuation of Xmas festivities by other means."
-- Santaclausewitz
-- Santaclausewitz
December 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"New Year is nothing more than the continuation of Xmas festivities by other means."
-- Santaclausewitz
-- Santaclausewitz
Fun inscriptions in second hand books, part 27
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Fun inscriptions in second hand books, part 27
Reposted by Greg McLaren
Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend!
Image via RAFFWU
Image via RAFFWU
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend!
Image via RAFFWU
Image via RAFFWU
Reposted by Greg McLaren
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.