Simon Farley
@sighmonger
Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
The Chills, Frostbite, Frozen Fingers and Chapped Lips would make for a great festival line-up
Since early 2014, I have read 439 books. Of those, ~289 - about two-thirds - were written by British or USian authors. Of that 66%, only 7% (~21 books) were written by people of colour. This makes me sad.
Two contrasting headlines from the ABC today. It is wrong to put antisemitism and Islamophobia into a hierarchy - they're both real and potent forces in our society. But we probably should distinguish between white people feeling anxious and sad and brown people getting bashed in the streets.
From the report on the International Ornithological Congress, held in Canberra in 1974 🫠🫠🫠
I still get such a kick out of seeing my work cited by others! This is from Irus Braverman's very interesting 'Settler Legal Ecologies: The Colonial Governance of Nature'
Had time to get a kebab while I waited for my train! Melbourne is the greatest city that has ever existed and ever will exist
Had a nice (albeit soggy) time at the inaugural Melbourne Renaissance Faire on Sunday
I'm gonna be laughing about this quote from Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me In The Bathroom for days
People are reminiscing about the funniest tweets but I'm not seeing any love for Brooks Otterlake? Imo he is second only to dril
Finally got a photo done for professional purposes instead of just using a selfie I took back in 2022 when I had a mullet
At this point, "Israel's genocidal empire-building campaigns must be stopped by any means necessary" should be the moderate position.
I have started reading this and I will just politely and gently say that I will be very interested to see what political historians think of it
The other day I got my heart properly broken for the first time in like nine years and it low-key feels like this
A big thank you to Astro Labe for his strong actions on September 21, 2017. It was about time somebody headbutted Tony Abbott for being a shit-stirring bigot. Well done for showing the strength needed against the racist, sexist politicians we've seen too often.
From the same article: an interesting list of trees in Gaza. I'm sure there's an interesting article to be written about how Australian species of plant ended up in Palestine and Israel.
I can't even do my silly little bird research without being reminded of Israeli sadism