Call the Nightingale

Call the nightingale There is heartache on your lips And your heart's a foreign house And your soul is full of rips But don't be scared of the dark It's been less bite and more bark Don't be scared of the end Life always begins again

First Hungary, then Israel, then India?

Anyway, I've finished a round of editing. 8000 words are gone. That's probably the limit. I now need to learn how to write query letters.

You know, I'm trying? But I just can't hate him more. Like, I hate Donald Trump too much for anything he does to impact me. I cannot hate him more. That's probably not healthy. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

Birb!

Birb.

Vladimir Putin: I shall conjure these soldiers from my bum. My bum-bum.

What must it be like, being the sort of country that gets the average American political ambassador? Are you proud that you're deemed a desirable posting or do you wish you had regular civil wars so you get a real diplomat?

Huh. Hungary has really changed for the better. Here's hoping for Serbia, Israel, Turkiye, and the USA. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Oh, I see. Bibi, if you needed Arab votes you'd wave a watermelon flag. Shut up. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Forg.

The difference between AI and social media is that one was created by men who decline any responsibility for the damage it wreaks, and the other was created by men who decline any responsibility for the damage it wreaks. Hope that’s cleared it up.

I'm just always impressed when he gives a speech without a Medicare card in his hand. #auspol

'In a world less similar to our own than it first appears '... That's been the tagline for my book for years, but I've never worked out how to finish the sentence in less than five hundred words. As I need 50, that's a problem.

Panic is over. Now I need to sit down and actually work out how to pitch my book.

I love Queen Victoria Markets. One of these days I should try South Melbourne and Prahran.

I really hope the suicideation from finishing a book and confronting what comes next is normal. I mean, I guess it being normal would also suck. I have no idea. I feel sick and tired and anxious. Maybe I should just destroy it all.

I am 99.95% finished with this book, and I've reached the point where I think it's rubbish and am actively contemplating suicide. Is that normal? I hope that's normal, I don't need more things wrong with me. Anyway, 99.95% finished. Hurray!

The human face behind Australia’s inhumane treatment of refugees Kim Wingerei reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-human-face-behind-our-inhumane-treatment-of-refugees/

I like when they provide numbers, because it allows people to disprove them.

No! The French can't beat us! My fellow Australians, we must ban social media for the under 14s. No, it won't work, but that's not the point. It wasn't the point of banning it for under-16s, after all. If the goal was making it work, there are so many other ways we could have done it. #auspol

St Paul’s Cathedral has faced criticism over its non-religious concerts, but churches were once thriving hubs of secular social activity. We dig into the raucous history

And this woman is more credible as opposition leader than Angus 'Well done' Taylor. What's going on with the right in Australia? #auspol

this is one of those facts that is technically true but could do with some context: 1) unlike films, game sales are tricky to track cause there's no one comprehensive and reliable source. So things have to be taken with a grain of salt regardless 2) the HP game in question shares the rank of 20-

It took them way too long to make Zelda a playable lead, but they did get there!

Of course he did, he's a horrible person who holds power only because Israel has what might be the worst electoral system in the world. Basic competence was never on his list, he ran on his brother's memory, hatred, and supply deals. Who's surprised? Stop being surprised.

Honestly, considering the kind of things he says and does sober, drugs may be a good thing for Warren.

Meanwhile, they ignore Nixon's policies. They just love the racism.

Australia needs a left populist party.

Good news, everyone!

Of course you're not, Barnaby. The similarities are limited to the company you keep. He also hung out with people generally considered bad for society (Zealots), liars (Paul), moneymen who turn on their friends out of innate conservatism (Judas), and whores (Magdalene).

I'm 95% finished with this novel! I'm so excited. Once it's done I get to start doing the stuff I hate the idea of, like finding editors and agents and so on. Hurrah!

In Canavan's defence, the Australian right has decided to join Americans in protecting misinformation at all costs. He's just being consistent in defence of American social media companies that should be banned.

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

Still having a better season than us at North. Despite all the everything.

A winner from Labor.

I'm glad I saw this thread, because I was going to buy this book and now I'm rethinking it.

Israel's biggest problem is its election system, which allows any nut into the Knesset and then makes those nuts indispensable to forming government. Too many people just accept that their system is democratic on faith; it's little shy of kakistratic. A threshold of 3.25% is a stupid threshold!