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The 1998 waterfront dispute pitted workers against each other. Recruits from the wharves share their stories - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/waterfront-dispute-pitted-workers-against-each-other-recruits/105007704
The 1998 waterfront dispute was one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australia, but what happened to those who were recruited to keep the wharves running?
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James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
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Housing affordability crisis - Saving for a deposit forever - The Australia Institute
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-crisis-saving-for-a-deposit-forever/
The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.
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Broken
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
How self-promotion became the new networking.
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You Don't Have to Monetize The Things You Love
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/
My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time, a
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Blind and Sighted People Understand Color Similarly - Arts & Sciences Magazine
https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2021/10/blind-and-sighted-people-understand-color-similarly/
Krieger School researchers have found that like any sighted person, those born blind understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why.
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The Banality of Zionism
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-zionism/
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
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The sound of three hands clapping: Further comments on why we need to rid ourselves of two-party politics
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-three-hands-clapping
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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Mark Zuckerberg Is at War With Himself - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/mark-zuckerberg-free-expression/681238/
Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) – Eruditorum Press
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cuddled-little-vice-sandman
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a magical one with Grant Morrison. That story continues in Book Three. This, meanwhile, is a new epilogue
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13 Things I Learned Reading a 225 Page Report About the Gaming Industry
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/13-things-i-learned-reading-a-225
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Australian Ceramic artist Shannon Garson
https://www.shannongarsonporcelain.com.au/shop
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I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me | Femicide | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/08/i-adore-my-children-im-also-scared-that-one-day-my-son-will-kill-me
In the UK, more than 170 women have been murdered by their sons in the past 15 years. An anonymous mother reveals what it is like to be frightened of your child while desperately wanting to support him
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No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows-how-this-will-end-but-i-do-not-think-it-will-end-well-for-them/
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're
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Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying, by Django Wexler
https://djangowexler.com/writing/how-to-become-the-dark-lord-and-die-trying/
Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself. Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and […]
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/lgbtq-people-are-not-going-back/
On identity politics and unreasonable demands.
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