James Macaronas
@jmacaronas.bsky.social
Paranormal investigator, aspiring heretic. He/him.
PhD at Melbourne - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
PhD at Melbourne - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Pinned
James Macaronas
@jmacaronas.bsky.social
· Nov 19
hightailing it to here full stop - still James - still probably a writer.
I don't know if I can adequately or succinctly account for the rest of what I am, and to be honest I'm not sure I want to.
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Udo Kier (1944–2025)
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Udo Kier (1944–2025)
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!
Part two of my exhaustive, exhausting piece on Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks, in which Doctor Who and one of his best friends strip off… 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct... #DoctorWho
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, by Terrance Dicks — II
0tralala.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!
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relevant life lesson from comics on this one
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
relevant life lesson from comics on this one
Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.
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White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.
September 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.
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"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished."
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
February 12, 2024 at 5:20 AM
"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished."
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote
Boycott DC Comics.
Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC pulling Red Hood after Charlie Kirk comments: ‘I had no regrets’ by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/horror-it-gi...
Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC pulling Red Hood after Charlie Kirk comments: ‘I had no regrets’ - The Comics Journal
As if you've never gotten in trouble at work? Gretchen Felker-Martin dishes on the abrupt cancellation of her new DC series, Red Hood.
www.tcj.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Boycott DC Comics.
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They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing
September 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing
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“Charlie bit me!” - the dust
September 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“Charlie bit me!” - the dust
what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..
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This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.
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"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions"
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
March 31, 2024 at 5:21 AM
"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions"
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'
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You don't say?
9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.
August 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You don't say?
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I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.
I was going to post new Sundered Isles this Friday but I got distracted by something else and made a video on that instead and that something else is some fucking awful AI nonsense I’m having thrust upon me.
a man holding a cup of coffee with the words it 's horrible written on his face
Alt: a man holding a cup of coffee with the words it 's horrible written on his face
media.tenor.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.
it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.
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Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵
May 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵
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John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good
July 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good
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That thing SWs have been warning everyone about for years is here and it's gonna get a lot worse real quick.
SO YEAH. @itch.io has just enacted a massive search shadowban on adult content. I tagged my old game "Who will you save? / Who will you serve?" as "adult" and immediately got removed from search results.
July 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
That thing SWs have been warning everyone about for years is here and it's gonna get a lot worse real quick.
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Let's hope Interzone magazine & its editor haven't been dogpiled off Bsky for good. They did good work, were kind to people, boosted others & other mags constantly, & were keeping one of the oldest sff mags alive.
July 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Let's hope Interzone magazine & its editor haven't been dogpiled off Bsky for good. They did good work, were kind to people, boosted others & other mags constantly, & were keeping one of the oldest sff mags alive.
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still really dig this essay -
In anticipation of the eco panel I have here at Eurocon / Archipelacon in four+ hours, here's my Esquire piece on climate fiction. Climate Fiction Will Not Save Us share.google/YdEakSUXUaUu...
Climate Fiction Won't Save Us
As the world burns, readers increasingly look to climate fiction for hope, predictions, and actionable solutions. But can the genre really be a manual for useful change?
share.google
June 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
still really dig this essay -
Essential reading -
Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”
Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal
Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...
overland.org.au
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Essential reading -