RipOffRed
Writer, freelance book editor, reader.
Most recent publication: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/acts-of-living
- Reposted by RipOffRed!! 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)
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- Reposted by RipOffRedWhat 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!
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- Reposted by RipOffRedcry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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- Reposted by RipOffRedIt 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
- Reposted by RipOffRedThis hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
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- Australian publishing in the news, upsetting the correct people. STRAYAAAA!!! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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- Reposted by RipOffRedThis frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
- Reposted by RipOffRedI wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
- Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social writes.
- Language Is a Virus for modern times.
- Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4
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- Reposted by RipOffRedIsrael appears to be destroying high-rise buildings as part of its displacement efforts and aims to conquer Gaza city. Israeli law prof Eliav Lieblich comments: "17 years in the field and I haven't seen a 'state of law' that conducts itself like this. There isn't a millimetre of legality here."
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- Practising family therapy skillz on my cats regarding a dispute they've been having, and holy shit if it isn't working.
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- Reposted by RipOffRedI think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
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- Reposted by RipOffRed"At the end of the day, if you're going to have adults being infantilised by a set of rules that give one person such power over another, you're always going to have perverse outcomes." This will be true as long as 'Job Search Providers' can suspend payments. It's Dole Parole, not a job service.
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- The trouble with job interviews is they are conducted in corporate buzzspeak only a sociopath feels at ease with. WTF is a 'core competency'?
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- Beloved Catri, always decent, always considering how literature fits into the larger picture.
- A moment of synchronicity, as this week I finally steeled myself to read Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains, contemplating the last time this country bipartisanly chose to endorse cruelty towards people who'd nothing except exist in the wrong time, in the wrong place, in the wrong skin.
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- Reposted by RipOffRedA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
- I've had so many battles over the years trying to persuade authors not to refer to women or girls as 'females', but now all I have to say is 'It's giving Andrew Tate'. So I'm grateful to him for that, I guess.
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