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)
- Reposted by RipOffRedIsrael must be brittle and weak. If they're trying to make it so it's illegal to criticise and protest a genocidal apartheid state in distant colonies far away, that must mean Israel is extremely vulnerable to the truth. And the establishment is choosing fascism to deal with it.
- Reposted by RipOffRedChris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted @nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
- Reposted by RipOffRedThere’s something Eastern European novel about having to protest against protest laws. #AusPol #ProtestMore
- Reposted by RipOffRedNarrowly avoiding civilisational collapse by sliding into a Romantic resurgence is, theoretically, possible. Like, that is real. I am choosing to acknowledge that as a real possibility
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- Reposted by RipOffRed"Book polls are bunk but this one did make me wonder whether there is any audience left for Australian literature, good, great or middling" @catrionamp.bsky.social infra-dig.ghost.io/books-in-cri...
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- Reposted by RipOffRedAustralian media is resolutely racist and Zionist in its framing, across the board. It’s utterly grotesque.
- Reposted by RipOffRedThe most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.
- Reposted by RipOffRedFollowing the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template
- Reposted by RipOffRed"There is far too much preciousness about wealth and income – and it benefits those who are doing a lot better than they would like you to know." new from @grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
- 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!
- Reposted by RipOffRed“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.” Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
- Reposted by RipOffRedTimeline cleanser
- Reposted by RipOffRedcry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
- Reposted by RipOffRedTwo high schoolers wrote a love letter about their high school librarian and the banned books club they're part of. This is really moving and thoughtful and a reminder that kids know exactly what the hell is going on right now. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/09/s...
- 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
- “I think anyone who has looked at the actual sums involved can see that the financial arguments just don’t add up. It’s hard not to surmise that Meanjin was killed at least in part because it was too problematic politically and culturally for the University of Melbourne." | @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...
- Reposted by RipOffRedIsrael Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says [Free NYT article].
- Reposted by RipOffRedAWK REDUND DANGLER WE KNOW
- Reposted by RipOffRedThis is such an important read: michaelwest.com.au/white-suprem...
- Australian publishing in the news, upsetting the correct people. STRAYAAAA!!! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
- Reposted by RipOffRedAngry and determined to win this time: Dulle Griet leads her army of women through a fiery world to plunder at the gates of Hell. As wonderfully conceived by Pieter Bruegel, whose day is today.
- 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
- Reposted by RipOffRedHe goes: "We can't switch off fossil fuels overnight". NOONE asked you to. but letting Woodside promote themselves and keep operating until 2070 is a very bad non overnight option. it's like: Let's build Rome "Rome wasn't built in a day" Ah you got me. Let's do nothing.
- Reposted by RipOffRedThis #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee.. #numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social #fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social #leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre #spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps
- Reposted by RipOffRedLmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters
- Reposted by RipOffRed‘People are so angry’: how wealth tax became a battleground in Norway’s election
- Reposted by RipOffRedAnother Father’s Day in the genocide. 700 days of relentless massacres, bombings, and torture. There has never been a weaker or more evil human population on this earth. We have earned for ourselves that distinction, to have allowed everything we have seen to continue for two goddamn years.
- 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.
- Reposted by RipOffRedHow now? Where’s the King?
- Reposted by RipOffRedI think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
- Reposted by RipOffRedI love this idea almost more than I can say. (Though it surely helps to have been well copyedited.)
- Reposted by RipOffRedGenuinely, though, why is this outsourced to Deloitte? Didn’t Labor commit to stopping the consultancy outsourcing bonanza? And isn’t this sort of your basic bread and butter public service task?
- 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.
- More on the Ombudsman's report and recommendations including the unfair power imbalance between "The Department", its employees and delegates and welfare recipients living below the poverty line from @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org from @antipovertycentre.org on ABC www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- Reposted by RipOffRedPlease sign this petition against Scummo the Cu*t getting any kind of award. #auspol
- The trouble with job interviews is they are conducted in corporate buzzspeak only a sociopath feels at ease with. WTF is a 'core competency'?
- Reposted by RipOffRedThere are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
- Reposted by RipOffRedMy new Tangent “Daddy Politics" is about the psychodynamic and cognitive-linguistic reasons everyone hates freedom and wants to be vigorously spanked like a bad little girl. Up now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/contrapoints...
- Reposted by RipOffRedEdmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
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- Beloved Catri, always decent, always considering how literature fits into the larger picture.
- I moved my newsletter to Ghost, took a long break, and now I'm back on the horse. Thanks to Creative Australia and the SLQ for pissing me off enough to get back to it. infra-dig.ghost.io/back-from-th...
- 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.
- Reposted by RipOffRedThousands support Kneecap at first big gig since terrorism charge
- Reposted by RipOffRedI don't want to leverage my brand. I want to make art.
- Reposted by RipOffRedI honestly didn't wake up to this until the 2020 uprisings. Since then, it's impossible not to see it. News is police-washed. And I think the fact it's so similar to how the news is Israel-washed is not a coincidence. Power + money + impunity. Watch this great @taylorlorenz.bsky.social interview
- 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.
- Reposted by RipOffRedIt’s important to add to this discussion, by three straight non-trans, non-scientific ppl, that trans women are ‘biological’ women. Humans have been documented by real scientists, for over 100y, as being on a spectrum of gender & sex. Indeed every human is female for the first 6 weeks of their life*
- Reposted by RipOffRedthe shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
- Reposted by RipOffRedHe tried . . .
- Reposted by RipOffRedI talk about these “alt” government accounts in my video youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE?...
