Jennifer Mills

Amazing news! #Adelaide tonight became the 24th jurisdiction in Australia to vote to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships🎆 #fossiladban commsdeclare.org/2026/10/27/a...

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

"The global book market is expected to grow five per cent annually for the next several years; for the generation now entering college, book sales are at a lifetime high." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!

Authors oppose watering down copyright law for Big Tech at Parliamentary Inquiry. Our sincere thanks to Anna Funder, Charlotte Wood, and Markus Zusak for generously giving their time to speak up for creators. Read full article: www.asauthors.org.au/news/authors...

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

A privilege to see the profoundly moving doco Kumarangk: Sacred Womens Business in the presence of some of its star storytellers last night. AFF has announced a 5th screening, go if you can www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/2026...

Admire my extremely gay roses!

WIN! Adelaide University has just confirmed to us that the old Santos Petroleum Engineering Building will be renamed the 'Sustainable Energy Futures Building' 🌍 The move follows advocacy from us, Conservation Council of SA and others to free our public institutions from climate polluters. 👍

Not collapse but industrial action by authors in response to institutional failure. We’ll go again if we have to

Sally Rooney books removed from UK shelves over Palestine Action support

In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...

Spend so much of my day to day life trying to improve stuff, it’s great that fiction provides a place to enjoy making things worse (for imaginary people only)

Lin King, who translated Yang Shuang-zi's #TaiwanTravelogue from Mandarin to English, charges an European publisher for copyright infringement over commissioning a translator who cannot read Mandarin to create a third-language translation using King's English text, original footnotes, and afterword.

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Quandong crostata. Neighbourhood tree is having a very good year

Didn't know this. Hilary McPhee on signing Tim Winton: "Allen & Unwin discovered Tim first, I must make that clear, and looked after him very well. But the big mistake they made was having a policy that they didn’t publish short stories, which hardly any publishers did in those days. And we said,

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Humming consensus!

Office interruption. We call this move “mic drop”

Editorial: As Albanese says he supports coordinated principles for AI, he is considering an opt-out copyright system in the hope of luring AI companies to Australia to train their slavering models. This is called being part of the supply chain. trib.al/nmsB6bx

Together, Steph and I have taken on AUKUS, fossil fuel giants, tech billionaires, and exposed Australia's defence links to Gaza. We aren't here to push Labor to be a little better: we are here to replace them.

A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE

Looking at all the stories on the working poor from media outlets that haven’t increased their freelance rates in 20 years

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

In May I covered three datacentre projects across Australia that local communities were fighting back against. Two of the three have now been scrapped. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Something like this Medicare breach would surely be enough to make our government understand that flimsy “opt out” mechanisms are not enough to protect our creative work from AI theft Surely

✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.

The ASA has launched our Annual Survey for 2026 and we need to hear from you! The survey is open to all authors and illustrators, including ASA members and non-members. And please share! For more details and to take the survey please visit: www.asauthors.org.au/news/have-yo...

I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes

Good morning to cryptic bird news and cryptic bird news only www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday

MEAA members are calling on the government to require media organisations to pay superannuation on top of a minimum fee to freelancers through the News Bargaining Incentive.

Freelance journalists are contracted as sole traders and paid per word or per piece, rather than per hour. They have no rights and protections under the Fair Work Act and Superannuation Act. Read the report and stand with freelancers fighting for a fair go: buff.ly/2FDX4CK #PayUp

Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"

Took the day off work, saw an echidna. This is what capitalism is trying to keep from you

“Something we have decided is that we’ll be paying writers MEAA rates. We’ll pay $1.12 a word. And we’ll pay ASA rates for the illustrations and graphic storytelling as well... We’d like to honour appropriate remuneration of creatives in Australia.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @asauthors.bsky.social

I have taken 30k words from this draft and as a result it is 10k words shorter. Novelist maths is the devil’s maths

Spring garden. Proud of this abundant chaos. Was 80% lawn <4 years ago