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RipOffRed
@ripoffred.bsky.social
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Writer, freelance book editor, reader.
Most recent publication: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/acts-of-living
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marisakabas.bsky.social
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ripoffred.bsky.social
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
jewishcouncil.good.do
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Israel must be brittle and weak. If they're trying to make it so it's illegal to criticise and protest a genocidal apartheid state in distant colonies far away, that must mean Israel is extremely vulnerable to the truth. And the establishment is choosing fascism to deal with it.
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West
Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.
michaelwest.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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kentparkskeet.bsky.social
There’s something Eastern European novel about having to protest against protest laws.

#AusPol

#ProtestMore
December 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Narrowly avoiding civilisational collapse by sliding into a Romantic resurgence is, theoretically, possible. Like, that is real.

I am choosing to acknowledge that as a real possibility
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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thebooksdesk.bsky.social
"Book polls are bunk but this one did make me wonder whether there is any audience left for Australian literature, good, great or middling" @catrionamp.bsky.social infra-dig.ghost.io/books-in-cri...
Books in Crisis
On the books we don't need about Bondi
infra-dig.ghost.io
December 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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strangerous.bsky.social
“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old”
“I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother”

This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
Australian media is resolutely racist and Zionist in its framing, across the board. It’s utterly grotesque.
osmanfaruqi.bsky.social Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 11d
Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.

No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
The most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.
Similarly, the potential pitfalls of Albanese's proposal to develop a "narrow" federal offence for "serious" racial vilification depend on how these provisions are cast and what kind of speech can be caught in the net. There must be no possibility of the threshold for prohibited speech stifling legitimate discussion of sensitive but important subjects that touch on matters of race, such as immigration policy or the connection between radical Islam and terrorism. These are the kind of technical questions that the royal commission into antisemitism proposed by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg could usefully explore.
December 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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brionyneilson.bsky.social
Following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template
Letter to NSW MPs: Protect democracy - don't ban protests
In an attempt to exploit the horrific trauma produced by the recent mass shooting that devastated the Jewish community in Bondi, the state NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced that Labor would move to ...
palestinejusticemovement.good.do
December 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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phonakins.com
"There is far too much preciousness about wealth and income – and it benefits those who are doing a lot better than they would like you to know."

new from @grogsgamut.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
The way we talk about wealth and high incomes is so skewed that, for example, the government’s own advice on superannuation refers to the ASFA line that a “comfortable retirement” involves being able to have: Top level private health insurance Fast reliable NBN A computer and smartphone with good data allowance/streaming services A reasonable car Regular leisure activities including club membership, cinema visits and exhibitions Confidence to use air conditioning in the home and afford all utilities Occasional restaurant meals An annual domestic trip to visit family, and One overseas trip every seven years. For most, that is not comfortable, that is a dream.
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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thommo67.bsky.social
What the fuck has restricting people’s right to protest got to do with the events of the weekend. Fuck these authoritarian cunts. Wake the fuck up Australia!
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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damonyoung.com.au
“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.”

Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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imairhorns.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser
pandersera.bsky.social swan 🍃 @pandersera.bsky.social · Nov 9
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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nora.zone
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Two high schoolers wrote a love letter about their high school librarian and the banned books club they're part of. This is really moving and thoughtful and a reminder that kids know exactly what the hell is going on right now.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/09/s...
Why schools need libraries and librarians like Mr. Biddle
How our school library and its book club focused on banned books changed us for the better.
www.chalkbeat.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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savemeanjin.bsky.social
It just does not add up. We're aware of at four offers being put to MUP to clear their financial woes @andyhazel.bsky.social @nickfeik.bsky.social
andyhazel.bsky.social Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · Sep 17
“I think anyone who has looked at the actual sums involved can see that the financial arguments just don’t add up. It’s hard not to surmise that Meanjin was killed at least in part because it was too problematic politically and culturally for the University of Melbourne." | @nickfeik.bsky.social
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
www.crikey.com.au
September 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
This hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
September 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says [Free NYT article].
Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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bcdreyer.social
AWK

REDUND

DANGLER

WE KNOW
Diary of a Mad Copy Editor (part 2)
[on the care and feeding of writers]
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
This is such an important read:
michaelwest.com.au/white-suprem...
White supremacists with Australian flags. What really went down at Bondi - Michael West
A peaceful pro-Palestine protest at Bondi Beach on the weekend was disrupted by white supremacists draped in Australian and Israeli flags.
michaelwest.com.au
September 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
ripoffred.bsky.social
Australian publishing in the news, upsetting the correct people. STRAYAAAA!!!

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Donald Trump accuses Australian author Scott Stuart’s children’s book of ‘radical gender ideology’
US president says fifth-grade student forced to read aloud My Shadow Is Pink, a book about a boy who loves ‘things not for boys’
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Angry and determined to win this time: Dulle Griet leads her army of women through a fiery world to plunder at the gates of Hell. As wonderfully conceived by Pieter Bruegel, whose day is today.
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM