Israel-Gaza: 400,000 residents ordered to leave Khan Younis

first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me” she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us” when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen,

“There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?” - Sheila Heti in Motherhood.

We strongly encourage authors, illustrators and agents to negotiate for AI clauses to be added to publishing agreements. We've provided suggested drafting for AI clauses here: asauthors.org.au/artificial-int…

‘What world emerges after this? The war on Gaza is simply too big, too live, too relentless for its forced normalisation to occur without unintended consequences.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Can't sit back and say nothing! Imane Khalif is being accused of being a man from high profile sources like a bigoted children's author and the village thug, but what's the truth. The truth is, they're lying to you. 🧵to cut through the BS gender police hate fest

I heard from a friend in Gaza. She told me some of what we know - that what is happening in Gaza is beyond human comprehension. That Israel is targeting schools and shelters with US missiles and committing massacres of civilians. She told me she is afraid, not of death, but that

Let’s amplify more voices like these. Bravo. 👏 x.com/skynews/status…

Silence. My The Sydney Morning Herald cartoon.

The "whole purpose of the postmenopausal female" is to be the free babysitter grandma theory makes the rounds because scientists haven't figured out why cis women live so long after we “lose” the ability to reproduce. So here's my theory

It is at this point that patriarchy loses its control over us and we gain what we want our lives to be. So us postmenopausal cis women have to be defined, again, by our "use" to patriarchy.

I’ve said it before, I’ll keep saying it, AI isn’t going to destroy us in some Terminator style uprising, AI is going to destroy us by polluting the information we rely on with dangerous misinformation and bullshit which people are going to wind up believing…

For context, the 'quietly doubles travel time' here means that your journey on the new metro will take a total of 2 minutes longer. 2 minutes. Is that what you would've inferred from this headline?

There is peace in Afghanistan under the Taliban, like the cold peace of a graveyard. They now rule over the people they killed for decades, like a dead nation. There are no rights, no life, no hope, and no joy, with the dreams of 20 million women massacred.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Karin Littlewood. Relaxed use of watercolour, skilled draughtsmanship and lovely sweetshop colours. From the picturebook The Emerald Forest by Catherine Ward. About Sumatran orang utans rescued to a nature reserve. Out since 8 Aug from Otter-Barry Books

Absolutely shameful. "Coles reports 8% surge in annual profit to $1.1bn amid cost-of-living crisis" What's worse is that one of Coles charity partners, Foodbank Victoria, had to seek public food donations as they've been critically low in stock #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

Remember when *Rafah* was the “red line”????

Not wanting to make any progressive change, or even just do the right thing because of a culture war fear is just letting the culture warriors rule by proxy. What’s the point of having power if the number one concern is not allowing the coalition to weaponise it?

John Lyons gives a harrowing, heart wrenching and despicable account of what is happening in Gaza. There's nothing more we can possibly contribute, try to listen to the full 6 minute interview on the ABC. #Auspol

John Lyons John Lyons: "There's a pause for nine hours, so the children are being vaccinated in one one-third, while children are being killed in the other two-thirds in bombing. I've never seen anything like this."