Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️♿
@sbwrightpoet.bsky.social
Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
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Housing is a basic human right.
When people don’t have housing stability, their mental and physical health will suffer.
I’m currently facing a housing crisis and I had no idea the devastating impact it would have on my baseline.
We urgently need more affordable housing.
When people don’t have housing stability, their mental and physical health will suffer.
I’m currently facing a housing crisis and I had no idea the devastating impact it would have on my baseline.
We urgently need more affordable housing.
January 31, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Housing is a basic human right.
When people don’t have housing stability, their mental and physical health will suffer.
I’m currently facing a housing crisis and I had no idea the devastating impact it would have on my baseline.
We urgently need more affordable housing.
When people don’t have housing stability, their mental and physical health will suffer.
I’m currently facing a housing crisis and I had no idea the devastating impact it would have on my baseline.
We urgently need more affordable housing.
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If the RBA lifts rates on Tuesday, you already know who’ll be screaming the loudest... the parties who spent years voting for tax cuts for the rich, blocking housing, and propping mega-profits.
I’ve put together a pre-emptive fact-check on the Libs and One Nation:
open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh...
I’ve put together a pre-emptive fact-check on the Libs and One Nation:
open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh...
January 31, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If the RBA lifts rates on Tuesday, you already know who’ll be screaming the loudest... the parties who spent years voting for tax cuts for the rich, blocking housing, and propping mega-profits.
I’ve put together a pre-emptive fact-check on the Libs and One Nation:
open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh...
I’ve put together a pre-emptive fact-check on the Libs and One Nation:
open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh...
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Five years have passed since Myanmar’s military staged a coup against the government.
Since February 1, 2021, the junta has decimated almost every facet of life in Myanmar.
The junta’s impunity needs to end.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4a41O4g
Since February 1, 2021, the junta has decimated almost every facet of life in Myanmar.
The junta’s impunity needs to end.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4a41O4g
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Five years have passed since Myanmar’s military staged a coup against the government.
Since February 1, 2021, the junta has decimated almost every facet of life in Myanmar.
The junta’s impunity needs to end.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4a41O4g
Since February 1, 2021, the junta has decimated almost every facet of life in Myanmar.
The junta’s impunity needs to end.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4a41O4g
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Art is political. In the 1700s in Japan, Karai Haciemon (1718-90) invented senryu to poke fun at politicians and make social statements. Post some of your senryu below and I will choose one or two to share in our mid- February issue.
#senryu #submissions
#senryu #submissions
January 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Art is political. In the 1700s in Japan, Karai Haciemon (1718-90) invented senryu to poke fun at politicians and make social statements. Post some of your senryu below and I will choose one or two to share in our mid- February issue.
#senryu #submissions
#senryu #submissions
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I missed celebrating Tues's North American debut of Emi Yagi's When the Museum Is Closed (trans Yuki Tejima).
The novel... "fully commits to a reality that is only transitory. Statues speak... Rika and a marble statue have on-page sex, in open defiance of the rule, 'Please do not touch the art.'”
The novel... "fully commits to a reality that is only transitory. Statues speak... Rika and a marble statue have on-page sex, in open defiance of the rule, 'Please do not touch the art.'”
When the Museum Is Closed: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I missed celebrating Tues's North American debut of Emi Yagi's When the Museum Is Closed (trans Yuki Tejima).
The novel... "fully commits to a reality that is only transitory. Statues speak... Rika and a marble statue have on-page sex, in open defiance of the rule, 'Please do not touch the art.'”
The novel... "fully commits to a reality that is only transitory. Statues speak... Rika and a marble statue have on-page sex, in open defiance of the rule, 'Please do not touch the art.'”
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Sayaka Murata's 2016 Akutagawa winner, Convenience Store Woman, led the recent boom in translated Japanese fiction. Her stories dissect how society's expectations don't stand up to scrutiny. Her protagonists seem oddball, but she claims anxieties about "not being human enough" are "very normal".
January 30, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Sayaka Murata's 2016 Akutagawa winner, Convenience Store Woman, led the recent boom in translated Japanese fiction. Her stories dissect how society's expectations don't stand up to scrutiny. Her protagonists seem oddball, but she claims anxieties about "not being human enough" are "very normal".
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We have lost one of the greats. Damn she was an absolutely brilliant comic actor. Awful news. #RIP
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, dies aged 71
Actor, also known for Beetlejuice and her work with Christopher Guest, died after a brief illness
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:41 PM
We have lost one of the greats. Damn she was an absolutely brilliant comic actor. Awful news. #RIP
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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The regime is arresting journalists.
Journalism is necessary to any functioning democracy.
Four journalists have been arrested for documenting atrocities:
Don Lemon
Trahern Jeen Crews
Georgia Fort
Lydell Lundy
We can’t accept this.
They want to silence us. All of us.
Journalism is necessary to any functioning democracy.
Four journalists have been arrested for documenting atrocities:
Don Lemon
Trahern Jeen Crews
Georgia Fort
Lydell Lundy
We can’t accept this.
They want to silence us. All of us.
January 30, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The regime is arresting journalists.
Journalism is necessary to any functioning democracy.
Four journalists have been arrested for documenting atrocities:
Don Lemon
Trahern Jeen Crews
Georgia Fort
Lydell Lundy
We can’t accept this.
They want to silence us. All of us.
Journalism is necessary to any functioning democracy.
Four journalists have been arrested for documenting atrocities:
Don Lemon
Trahern Jeen Crews
Georgia Fort
Lydell Lundy
We can’t accept this.
They want to silence us. All of us.
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Let’s not forget that ICE Director Todd Lyons said he wanted to run deportations like “Amazon Prime for human beings”.
People are not packages.
They have rights.
They deserve basic human decency.
This is a significant escalation.
People are not packages.
They have rights.
They deserve basic human decency.
This is a significant escalation.
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Let’s not forget that ICE Director Todd Lyons said he wanted to run deportations like “Amazon Prime for human beings”.
People are not packages.
They have rights.
They deserve basic human decency.
This is a significant escalation.
People are not packages.
They have rights.
They deserve basic human decency.
This is a significant escalation.
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Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
January 30, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Love to go through footnotes from research I did a year ago and note that fully half of the .gov urls are 404s and often I can't find the material archived elsewhere (other than my own .pdf). The wipeout of knowledge courtesy of the Trump admin is going to reverberate for decades.
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Love to go through footnotes from research I did a year ago and note that fully half of the .gov urls are 404s and often I can't find the material archived elsewhere (other than my own .pdf). The wipeout of knowledge courtesy of the Trump admin is going to reverberate for decades.
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I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.
New trick discovered today: an LLM-generated essay, saved as a PDF, with a tiny white space between each letter. This makes it impossible to paste quotes into a search engine, prevents text-matching in plagiarism checkers, & means URLs in bibliographies can't be clicked on. A lot of my time wasted.
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.
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One year ago, Israeli authorities began “Operation Iron Wall,” forcibly removing 32,000 Palestinians from their homes in West Bank refugee camps.
HRW documented the forced displacement, which amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Read more:
HRW documented the forced displacement, which amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Read more:
West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said ...
www.hrw.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 PM
One year ago, Israeli authorities began “Operation Iron Wall,” forcibly removing 32,000 Palestinians from their homes in West Bank refugee camps.
HRW documented the forced displacement, which amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Read more:
HRW documented the forced displacement, which amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Read more:
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New misfeasance in public office decision dropped. A cracker: Judge awarded $2m in damages, including v. rare punitive exemplary damages, against former head of Medicare watchdog. Matters are RARE. Wins rarer. A boon to potential Robodebt + other cases. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: Misfeasance case paves way for robodebt action
A damning judgement of ‘highhandedness or cynical disregard’ by the Medicare watchdog has established a new front for civil litigation of public servants named in the robodebt royal commission.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
New misfeasance in public office decision dropped. A cracker: Judge awarded $2m in damages, including v. rare punitive exemplary damages, against former head of Medicare watchdog. Matters are RARE. Wins rarer. A boon to potential Robodebt + other cases. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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To find out what kind of surveillance tech you may be facing at a protest, check out EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance: www.atlasofsurveillance.org/.
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
www.atlasofsurveillance.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
To find out what kind of surveillance tech you may be facing at a protest, check out EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance: www.atlasofsurveillance.org/.
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We haven’t found evidence of Stingrays being used at protests in the US yet, but if you’re going to a protest, why not bring Rayhunter to be sure? Don’t forget to charge and update it, then let us know what you find! efforg.github.io/rayhunter/s...
January 30, 2026 at 2:33 PM
We haven’t found evidence of Stingrays being used at protests in the US yet, but if you’re going to a protest, why not bring Rayhunter to be sure? Don’t forget to charge and update it, then let us know what you find! efforg.github.io/rayhunter/s...
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Not that it warrants a death sentence but the video allegedly showing Pretti kicking a tail light appears to be a very good ai fake.
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Not that it warrants a death sentence but the video allegedly showing Pretti kicking a tail light appears to be a very good ai fake.
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All praise to Wangaratta library: today their seedbank table was giving away free veggies
January 30, 2026 at 7:18 AM
All praise to Wangaratta library: today their seedbank table was giving away free veggies
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As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 AM
As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.
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Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
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The folly of inviting Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, to Australia.
My column for the ABC.
My column for the ABC.
Why the looming visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog may backfire on Anthony Albanese - ABC Religion & Ethics
The Prime Minister is not known for taking big risks — but the visit of Isaac Herzog risks jeopardising his government’s efforts to address escalating tensions within the Australian community over Gaz...
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2026 at 5:06 AM