Using the lasercutter to create a stamp for a print workshop with #moveabletypestudio
Smoky aroma included.
06.03.2026 23:57
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Using the lasercutter to create a stamp for a print workshop with #moveabletypestudio
Smoky aroma included.
Colonialism is when a library Board/CEO misinterprets a directive, damages the reputation of an Indigenous writer and the cultural institution and zilch happens except a poorly constructed 'review' that doesn't go into any of that stuff, but does say writers awards aren't library business.
#auspol
Queensland’s State Library will no longer manage the state literary awards on behalf of the government, in response to a long-awaited review into the sinking of a fellowship last year. Who will is so-far unclear.
My interest?
I've been a Qld Literary Awards judge for about 10 years (maybe more).
No, I wasn't consulted as an interested party. It'd be interesting to see if any judges were.
More:
- the Creative Australia debacle is canvassed, there's more stuff about risk and managing reputational damage
- there's nothing at all about what happens when SLQ itself causes reputational damage through its inability to read and interpret a simple Ministerial directive.
More notes:
- recommendations include conducting criminal history checks and social media checks on award entrants
- what would be deemed acceptable, what process would be used, who would do the social media checks etc isn't canvassed. Maybe a new branch, a special branch or somesuch would be apt.
Even more notes:
- One of the primary duties of SLQ is stated as operating within its principle - which includes respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- the reviewer doesn't even touch on what that means in this instance. A glaring ommission
More notes:
- The reviewer questions whether it's within SLQs ambit to run competitive awards programs
- there's an overt and simplistic focus on risk and risk management
- everthing that's relevant - eg the Human Rights Act - are deemed outside the remit of the review.
More notes:
The review author canvasses the hire of SLQ venues to third parties - which is fine - but the incident which triggered the review doesn’t relate to a third party having hired/used an SLQ venue. SLQ was the party using its own venue for the purpose of awarding one its own awards.
I guess so. The terms and conditions are pretty vague on this.
Reading the review commissioned by the State Library of Queensland Board.
Key points so far:
- The Minister didn’t direct the Board to rescind the Black&Write fellowship
- The Board/CEO did, as they misinterpreted the directive which was also clearly stated in Hansard (see page 20).
#auspol
The review confirms that the Minister didn’t rescind your award, he directed the Board not to give it to you on State funded premises. So, the Board/CEO made the decision to rescind. They could easily have hired another venue and gone ahead.
So the ‘we had no choice’ advice to you wasn’t true.
'As AI-generated artwork becomes more commonplace, it still won't be able to be copyrighted, according to US courts.'
I know this is the US, but the #BrisbanePortraitPrize is open and accepting partial AI works, but if you can't claim the work as your own how can prize organisers accept your work?
Looks very poppable.
The incompetence in government policy and program management is staggering and obscenely costly.
The NDIA said '...his inability to drive did not result from his low vision, but rather from Victorian road traffic legislation barring people with low vision from holding a driver's licence.'
Exhibition coming up April 10-19.
The gallery is in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, so you can wander around the gallery then wander around the gardens. It's a lovely time of year for wandering.
Boy kibble!
In Australia we don't get to vote for our Prime Minister. The party who wins power selects who the PM will be & can change it. Our 'Commander in Chief' is the unelected Governor-General who takes advice from the PM and Cabinet. Parliament has no say. A small group can send us to war. Also bonkers.
Going to reprint.
Museum taxidermy sketchbooks are in demand!
Can't wait to hear his International Women's Day speech about difficult women and the massacre of school girls.
games joyce and he games instead of writing densely layered books
Maybe it's time to recognise other industries and their experiences. Time to recognise publishing's own labour roots and leave behind the 1% room of one's own romanticism that dogs us. Time, in fact, to organise with other industries to stop the labour theft and knock off machine that is AI.
Sex workers in Nevada unionising and denying their employer ownership of their likenesses etc is an astonishing win against AI drive. labour theft. Publishing should celebrate this and other wins, but we're not so good with recognising working class or working poor stuff. We're artistes! 4/5
Books manuscripts, designs, styles IP have been stolen & keep being stolen, knock offs are flooding the market, scams are us.
Publishing is in a place other industries have been in for decades, but it's worse as all industries now face the worst kind of theft & enclosure of their IP and labour. 3/5
The only thing he could do was try and stay ahead of the game. The pressure was always on, but it's not a winnable game.
Publishing has never had to deal with cheap knock offs in the same way his and other industries have. But, now we do because AI is the ultimate cheap knock off machine. 2/5
Short #AI 🧵
One of my brothers worked in the motorcycle industry for decades, designing jackets, gloves, boots, etc and managing clients like Arai. He sold millions of units, earned the companies millions of dollars.
Knock offs were always a thing. His designs were stolen constantly. 1/5
#booksky
Who would have thought that the regulation already in place wouldn't work because governments would fail to hold tech companies and billionaires to account - in fact, fail to uphold the law. Either copyright law exists or it doesn't. Government upholds the law or leans further in to might is right.
The priest who wrote that 'first they came for' poem was the same: voted in adolf, was eventually thrown in a camp, even offered to fight for adolf, was rejected. Survived. Wrote the poem as a kind of confession. Remains a contentious character to this day.
Haha!
I believe difficult women and girls make up 51% of the Australian population. And some 9,253,749 million women and 8,826,037 men voted in the Australian federal election in 2025 (the trend since 2010 apparently).
#auspol
