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Poachers, when caught stealing content from our website, always blamed the theft on an “intern” or “freelancer.” We always pretended to believe them.

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Opposition leader, the Dark Lord Peter Dutton, has spent the day seething after learning that Cumberland city council had stolen his idea to start banning LGBTQIA+ based books in the local library. ”Peter is not a happy man at the... Read More ›

Former Prime Minister (yep, really), Scott Morrison, has been asked to leave Dymocks Burwood after repeatedly hassling customers and trying to foist his new book on them. ”It was really embarrassing, he was standing at the door trying to lay... Read More ›

Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?

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I’m doing a few solo poetry shows this year, starting this month with Chester, Lincoln & Scarborough. I’ll be in Falmouth, Totnes & Launceston in April. And Belfast & Dublin in October. If you fancy coming along to a show, you can get tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/

“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may […]

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Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding […]

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Well done, everybody, for making it to January 569th. I’ve been grateful for those extra days this month, as it’s given me time to get my head together for my 2024 shows, which begin in just over two weeks’ time with a run of dates with the fabulous poet (and human) Henry Normal. We start…