Michael Farrell

my short stories book The Victoria Principle is available to preorder @GiramondoBooks it's my collage on cover, designed by Allison Colpoys. thank so much to Anna, Aleesha, & of course Ivor. giramondopublishing.com/books/michael-… #austfiction #autofiction #shortstories #melbourne

@UnaDavey11 @Balqahiddir @SufiPervert blake is on the list

@Balqahiddir @SufiPervert I dont see Blake on the list - I learned, from his letters, that referring to someone as 'a creeping Jesus' wasn't just a modern insult. Who'da guessed?!?!?

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Cellini, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Hölderlin.

@Balqahiddir @SufiPervert milieus vary. rimbaud would make it in mine.

@SufiPervert Lermontov, Cellini. and Rimbaud could be dropped. I think I am the only person who’s ever brought them up in any discussion I’ve had, usually met by blank stares.

@SufiPervert funny how people find this triggering. i assume there are others who would make a list of sportsmen. but im curious what women writers you rate if any

@thezachloeffler agree but a very late call

My own feeling: we should stop trying to defend the humanities according to a logic they oppose. The objects matter in themselves. Any justification undermines what gives the humanities legitimacy. The forces of reaction are coming for us precisely for this reason. Let them come.

@molochofficial study finds that the easter bunny and the gingerbread man have a common ancestor

slightly concerned that this unknown prehistoric Northumbrian horned god might be the One True God

@AdamsOrArdor yes. not recently. no one has a better ear, but sound is not that valued currently.

@MFWitches id rather not see her butt again

Are men okay?

@Mollyploofkins new teeth?

What's there to smile about?

@daanysaeed saw this yesterday

Excl: News Corp veteran Clare Armstrong is the ABC’s new chief digital political correspondent.

@covie_93 conceptual diplomacy

Umm, what was the purpose of that trump putin meeting????

@DaAngryOstrich no, theyre not

What are your thoughts on Kim Davis?

@JMcNallyBooks admirable

In a few weeks I’m moving to Cambodia for the year. I’m picking out books to take with me. I want to spend the year reading (rereading in some instances) all of Steinbeck. Reread a few classics. Dive into Henry Miller. I really just want to drink coffee and read old paperbacks.

@moonbeeaam calling freud a fraud is both projection and a freudian slip

Sometimes it’s worth pointing out that the popular critiques of Freud are themselves Freudian. Oh, you think he only said that stuff because he fancied his own mother and was projecting? Who gave you that idea?

@CollinRugg somehow usa produced her.

NEW: San Diego babysitter bawls in court while being sentenced to 100 years in prison for handing over disabled children to her boyfriend so he could r*pe them. Brittney Mae Lyon abused girls aged 3 to 7 years old and marketed her babysitting services online. Hundreds of videos of the mol*stations were found on six computer hard drives belonging to boyfriend Samuel Cabrera, according to police. Some incidents were filmed from multiple angles. One mother who saw the news story at the time reached out to the police, only to find out that her 3-year-old was in one of the tapes. Another victim was a young nonverbal autistic girl. Lyon and Cabrera reportedly met in high school. Cabrera allegedly had Lyon secretly video women changing in the locker rooms for him. Cabrera was sentenced in 2021 to eight life-without-parole terms.

f off and harrass british athletes you one note cigarmama #stinky

@EmmettStinson good haul

I bought all of the good books at the book sale and now there aren't any left for you. Sorry.

@patriottakes whats that medal? you give that medal to yourself? i want it

Did the White House release this photo to make Trump seem tough?

@elonmusk presumably they really said if your gf is 10. #pedoparty

Overheard at a party, “If your gf is a 10, she’s an asset”

@charliekirk11 thank you for using they pronouns

They hate you. They hate the Constitution. And they hate America.