Dianne Masri
@mediapixel.bsky.social
The Synchronicity of Things 🌟
www.mediapixelconsultants.com
www.mediapixelconsultants.com
Beautiful human and award winning author Richard Flanagan on the power of words and how it can convey love w/ Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art #question7 #writers youtube.com/watch?v=7k5b...
Writer Richard Flanagan: The Possibilities of Life
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Beautiful human and award winning author Richard Flanagan on the power of words and how it can convey love w/ Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art #question7 #writers youtube.com/watch?v=7k5b...
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Fabulous podcast w/ Sarah Wilson and Dr Martha Beck on anxiety and other matters open.spotify.com/episode/40fT...
MARTHA BECK: Only the most nourishing chat I’ve had about anxiety ever
Wild with Sarah Wilson · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Fabulous podcast w/ Sarah Wilson and Dr Martha Beck on anxiety and other matters open.spotify.com/episode/40fT...
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👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽Yes worth listening to, and contemplating deeply. However the message of the talk is: society will inevitably collapse, we have no choice, but I’m going to be a nice person when it does, so I’ll be ok… while I:
a) starve
b) be one of 70% of the global population under tyranny 1/
a) starve
b) be one of 70% of the global population under tyranny 1/
You need to listen to this: "How to respond to #societal #collapse" | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney | www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Ay...
How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽Yes worth listening to, and contemplating deeply. However the message of the talk is: society will inevitably collapse, we have no choice, but I’m going to be a nice person when it does, so I’ll be ok… while I:
a) starve
b) be one of 70% of the global population under tyranny 1/
a) starve
b) be one of 70% of the global population under tyranny 1/
The Blake Poetry Prize 2025 applications are open. Listen to the winner of 2024 Simone King stunning poem. www.westwords.com.au/the-68th-bla... #poets #poetry
The 68th Blake Poetry Prize - Shortlist - Westwords
www.westwords.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Blake Poetry Prize 2025 applications are open. Listen to the winner of 2024 Simone King stunning poem. www.westwords.com.au/the-68th-bla... #poets #poetry
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Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the U.S. 😱
source: Food and Ag Org of the UN
For more information on food waste, check out @paul-west.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org
🔗 sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...
source: Food and Ag Org of the UN
For more information on food waste, check out @paul-west.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org
🔗 sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...
The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash
Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?
sentientmedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the U.S. 😱
source: Food and Ag Org of the UN
For more information on food waste, check out @paul-west.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org
🔗 sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...
source: Food and Ag Org of the UN
For more information on food waste, check out @paul-west.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org
🔗 sentientmedia.org/the-climate-...
Book review by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on Bee Wilson's new book about kitchen objects and the stories they tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
The Wedding Cake Was a Triumph. The Marriage Went Stale.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Book review by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on Bee Wilson's new book about kitchen objects and the stories they tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...
The 2025 Brisbane Writers Festival Address by @dranitaheiss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/anitahei...
2025 Brisbane Writers Festival
Anita’s FIRST WORD keynote address
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The 2025 Brisbane Writers Festival Address by @dranitaheiss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/anitahei...
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AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of #ChrisLynnHedges appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made. #auspol #NPC #media
Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia
AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.
johnmenadue.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
AFOPA urges the president and board of the National Press Club to reconsider their cancellation of #ChrisLynnHedges appearance on 20 October and to honour the commitment they made. #auspol #NPC #media
Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’ open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...
Can we talk about your silence?
before fascism stops us (**uncomfortable ideas incoming)
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Author and podcaster Sarah Wilson ‘Can we talk about your silence?’ open.substack.com/pub/sarahwil...
Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.
October 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Monument to the Burghers of Calais, 1889, Bronze by Auguste Rodin, Museum Rodin Paris. Remarkable.
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Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in #Nagazaki in 1945 when the #atomic #bomb destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of #NihonHidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Powerful testimony by Dr Terumi Tanaka, who was a 13 years old child living in #Nagazaki in 1945 when the #atomic #bomb destroyed his city. He is now a Chair of #NihonHidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
#BanNuclearWeapons #TPNW
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.
This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.
Even wars have limits. #IHL
This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.
Even wars have limits. #IHL
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Under the rules of war, parties to conflicts cannot use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.
This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.
Even wars have limits. #IHL
This includes depriving them of food, water, or other essentials needed to survive, even if it does not lead to death but causes suffering.
Even wars have limits. #IHL
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In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the #GenevaConevntions
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...
World leaders united in defence of international humanitarian law to uphold humanity in war (21 September 2025)
Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human (…)
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
September 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In the face of egregious and widespread violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts around the world, we need to act. Leaders of 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇷🇯🇴🇰🇿 together with @ICRC urge States and the international community to uphold the #GenevaConevntions
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-fo...
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You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for #IHL at www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation, including
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations
Humanity in War
www.upholdhumanityinwar.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
You can find information on the Global Initiative to galvanise political commitment for #IHL at www.upholdhumanityinwar.org/documentation, including
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations
✅ Workstreams
✅ Next events and consultations
✅ Statements from states in previous consultations
Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid. open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/...
Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid
Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Do the hard thing … AI is making you genuinely stupid. open.substack.com/pub/pluri/p/...
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process. #innercritic #recycle #art . open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
The liberating potential of trash
On recycling as creative process
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on the liberating potential of trash and the creative process. #innercritic #recycle #art . open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
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"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042641/when... #emergingartists
When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”
If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.
hyperallergic.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.” Damien Davis @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042641/when... #emergingartists
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Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors.
I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).
www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).
www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
Congratulations to the 2025 finalists! The winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award is determined by public vote. Click the buttons below to vote for…
www.slq.qld.gov.au
September 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Voting for the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes today. There are 8 finalists, please support any one of the authors.
I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).
www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
I have a few friends in that list, so I can't tell you who I voted for (NO it was not for myself).
www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
Treaty: This is how we get over it @mrdtjames.bsky.social on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history " firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso... "This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... " open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...
Treaty: This is how we get over it
Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Treaty: This is how we get over it @mrdtjames.bsky.social on "Victoria has tabled a treaty the first in the nation's history " firstpeoplesvic.org/reports-reso... "This treaty is not the end of the story but the beginning of a new era ... " open.substack.com/pub/thespenc...
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New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
www.crikey.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if @cloudappsoc.bsky.social on @bsky.app #cloudappreciation
September 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Looking up to clouds … and checking to see if @cloudappsoc.bsky.social on @bsky.app #cloudappreciation