Hey Melbourne (and broader Vic) people, have you signed this yet?
Guten Morgen aus #Melbourne, Milo spielt just awesome music. https://www.pbsfm.org.au/ Gerade eine Liveversion, die Under Pressure heisst, aber nichts mit Bowie&Queen zu tun habt.
Gestern wieder nach dem Schach zu den Old Plates. Afrospace Interconnect, wie fast jeden Mittwoch seit drei Jahren (die Band, nicht ich). Supercool. My little hump day party.
Nun, zusehen, dass der Kaffee nicht kalt wird.
Discussion Thread 🍇 Thursday 26 March 2026
It’s time to ban native bird hunting in Victoria! - Sign the letter to the Vic govt
While threatened species like the Freckled Duck and Australasian Shoveler are protected species, they are often illegally shot as part of the duck shooting season. The impacts extend beyond the birds that are hunted. Disturbance of wetlands can disrupt critical Brolga flocking, destroy breeding sites for spoonbills and herons, and depletes the energy of migratory shorebirds forced to flee instead of preparing for epic journeys. The imminent arrival of H5 bird flu means that Australia needs to bolster waterbird populations, not decimate them with recreational hunting. Recreational native bird hunting in Victoria must end if we are serious about protecting threatened species and restoring native waterbird populations to healthy levels in eastern Australia. BirdLife Australia urges the Allan Government to ban recreational bird hunting once and for all, following both the 2023 Parliamentary Inquiry recommendations, the science, and a clear public majority opposed to this unsustainable practice.
Stéphane Mallarmé is dead: all praise the empty page!
Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . . One hundred years have passed since the death of one of France’s most enigmatic and curious poets. And yet for one hundred chaotic and turbulent years editors and publishers all over the world have surveyed poems, articles, essays and stories stamped with Mallarmé’s indelible influence, brushed with his unmistakable reverie. In the same way, his paradoxical presence could be felt at the Mallarmé Writers’ Event, a small-scale but intense seminar held at the Alliance Française de Melbourne on 8–9 October 1998. The event was a celebration as much of Australian writings and writers as of Mallarmé himself. […]
Updated public transport patronage data has just been released, including for January 2026. This is particularly interesting given the Summer Start free weekend travel that applied during December and January. Unfortunately the other data set that separates out patronage by days does not include weekend data for this period. It's not clear if this is [...]
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