Mez of Gryffsville

Update: the same Dine cat food, on 'sale' again at Coles this past Sunday, $1.40. The cats of Australia continue to recommend IGA. #Coles #DownDown #Cats

An honest companion Maybe the best companions are a bit annoying at times, because they’re being true to themselves, not modifying their behaviour to give a deceptive appearance of unquestioning & unending helpful…

Short read: An honest companion (spoiler, it’s a cat!)
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A group of people seated in a spacious, sunlit room, engaged in knitting and conversation around a central table with hats on display.

Abstract painting featuring geometric shapes and vibrant colours blending patterns and forms.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Here's to celebrating, exploring, researching and enjoying art made by women ❤️

Discover women artists on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/women-artists

1) Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 IWM
2) Eileen Agar (1899–1991) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 RA

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media As streaming continues to dominate the film and TV industry, many Gen Z movie watchers are opting out and choosing physical formats instead.

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media, citing frustration with subscription fatigue. Physical media ownership is now being viewed as a form of cultural rebellion. archive.md/nmHtR

Video rental shops still exist?! 😮

When you're in love with someone who doesn't know you exist.

#ValentinesDay

People are often incredulous to hear that I regularly shop at IGA, & say they can't bc it’s too expensive. Last week #Coles had Dine cat food “on sale” for $1.20. In the same week I saw it at a local IGA, on sale for 95c, & this week, at another local IGA, on sale for 80c. 9/10 cats prefer IGA.

....said Macbeth, peevishly, when Birnam Wood DID come to Dunsinane. #Shakespeare

Restore funding for Writers Victoria - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria

Just signed the petition to the Victorian State gov't, to reinstate funding to Victoria's Writers Centre! @writersvictoria.bsky.social #writing #writers

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Me, trying to bring you little essays about art and such, from the state of my life at the moment.

Appalling decision for all Victorians if it goes ahead! #auspol #health

Scrap AUKUS! Gift link: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22525/...

*6 or more words was the challenge but I was out of characters. #music #songs

(I’ll love you) Till the end of the world - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

I remember a time when once you used to love me - Dirty Three

A million dollars in a red velvet suit @davegraney.bsky.social

Nobody really cares if you don’t go to the party - Courtney Barnett

6-word titles #aussie edition

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You need a lot of confidence to rock a hairstyle like this 😆
A pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

The lyric sheet for ‘Let Down’.

‘Let Down’ by Radiohead came on in the pub tonight, and I was transported (deliberate reference) back to 1997, when I first heard OK Computer.

This is my favourite song on this album. “One day I am gonna grow wings” followed immediately by “a chemical reaction” - incredible! Hope, then bleak reality erases the hope. And music working so sublimely w lyrics. Your description “constantly on the move with little or no agency” is perfect! 👌

a white cat, nuzzling up to the face of a woman, leaning back with her eyes closed.

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...

Thanks!😊👍

Is there a link (or clue about a venue) for the second Melbourne show? (I’m feeling v Google-weary.) Hat looks great btw!

"Do not be afraid to use the correct word for things when those things that a word exists to describe are happening." @summerbrennan.bsky.social

David Bowie died 10 years ago, and then the world went to shit ever since.

The new Adelaide Festival board has:
- retracted the previous board’s statement about Randa Abdel-Fattah
- rescinded her exclusion and invited her to the 2027 festival
- apologised to Louise Adler
- rescinded the decision to have a subcommittee review AWW operations

Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.

The Invention of Anarachism A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The Invention of Anarchism -
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Thanks for your reply & explanation, really appreciate it. As we’ve already committed financially to flights & accommodation, we’ll support & accept refunds from any shows that cancel, & attend those that don’t, & plan a different kind of holiday in Adelaide.

Will the festival allow refunds - what reason will you give? Asking bc we’ve already booked & paid for accommodation, flights & tickets to about 7 shows (for the arts festival, not writers festival but I see it’s the same Board.)

MEDIA RELEASE: Tone deaf Coalition puts Culture War over mainstream science Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

'In a tone deaf move, the Victorian Coalition has launched a pro fossil gas campaign in the middle of the worst fire conditions the state has experienced since Black Summer.'

www.melbournefoe.org.au/media_releas...

“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss.

Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt