wednesday newstrip

YouTube has a hidden list of keyboard shortcuts · female scientists less likely to be given authorship credits, analysis finds · poliovirus identified in London sewage, says UK health agency · Afghanistan's Taliban rulers plead for aid after the country's deadliest earthquake in two decades · the Australian Supreme Court has found a war veteran lacked mental capacity to give house & fortune to hairdresser · US politicians pass first major gun restrictions in decades · US Supreme Court strikes down New York law, expanding gun rights · US Supreme Court ruling ends the constitutional right to abortion · less than half (49 per cent) of the 2.1 billion COVID vaccine donations promised to poorer countries by G7 countries have been delivered, according to new figures published today by Oxfam & the People’s Vaccine Alliance. Had the missing donated doses been shared in 2021, it could have been enough to save almost 600,000 lives in low & middle income countries, the equivalent of one every minute.

wednesday newstrip

‘Incel’ who killed 11 in Toronto van murders sentenced to life in prison · T.®ump slams Congressional hearings as ‘a smoke & mirrors show for the American people’ · a Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know? · Kim Kardashian allegedly damaged iconic Marilyn Monroe dress she wore on Met Gala red carpet · Aboriginal flag to fly permanently atop Sydney Harbour Bridge by end of year after years of resistance from state’s political leaders · US President Joe BidenMyTime takes a fall from his bike while on a morning ride with the first lady · Bitcoin value plunges below $US20,000 for first time since 2020 · someone made a tombstone to mark Internet Explorer’s end-of-support date.

wednesday newstrip

Color-changing mouse model allows researchers to non-invasively study deep tissues · thousands of Italian mafia operating in Australia, federal police say · Wout Van Aert edged out by Ganna as vengeful Belgian hunts Gaudu in Dauphiné TT · Capitol riot panel blames T.®ump for January 6 'attempted coup' · superworm makes a meal out of waste polystyrene · Apple iPads will support new external hardware thanks to iPadOS 16 DriverKit update · ‘ancient Mao DNA discovered in New Zealand might affect our understanding of climate change’s consequences’ — doubtful, since it’s the extinct bird —the moa — not the late leader of the CCP, that’s being discussed · ‘Politicians have done nothing’: tens of thousands rally against gun violence across US.

wednesday newstrip

Man ‘dressed as old lady in wheelchair’ smears Mona Lisa casing with cake before being arrested at The Louvre · the right-wing Australian Liberal-National Coalition scrapped recovery plans for 176 threatened species & habitats in one of its final acts before it lost government · unusual neutron star spinning every 76 seconds discovered in stellar graveyard · Ronnie Hawkins, rock’n’roll legend who mentored The Band, dies aged 87 · claims Jacinda Ardern stole speech from a movie are un-bee-lievable · the world's largest plant — 200 km² — has been found hiding in plain sight in Western Australia & is at least as old as Egypt's great pyramids · researchers have developed a coherent Raman spectroscopy platform, termed time-resolved coherent Raman scattering (TCRS) spectroscopy, which focuses on molecular vibrational dephasing.

wednesday newstrip

Someone just bought two super-rare Golden Funko Pops for $100k cash · recent changes to the gun laws in Texas have made it even easier to carry a handgun in public · author who wrote How To Murder Your Husband convicted of murdering her husband · Cu-Fe catalyst facilitates ambient-pressure conversion of CO2 into long-chain olefins · ex-Prissygent DoNuts T.®ump defends rights of gun owners during NRA conference days after Texas massacre · Moon volcanoes may hold future water supply for astronauts · lock up the onions, hide the sauce: thieves in Aotearoa / New Zealand target the basics as cost of living soars · baby formula shortage stings US as Australian company ships millions of cans to States.

wednesday newstrip

In a wild twist, physicists have revived an alternative theory of gravity · West Australia Liberals blame attitudes to women & religious fundamentalism for Australian federal election disaster · World Health Organisation calls for concern around growing monkeypox cases · Nationals MP lashes Victorian Liberals as ‘election-losing machine’ · giant asteroid almost two kilometers in diameter to fly past Earth · Legalise Cannabis Australia party sees record Queensland Senate votes in federal election · Rainbow Six Siege reveals Sens – the shooter’s first non-binary operator · outgoing Pram Minister Scat SorrySon has cried in church, after losing the Federal election race to Anthony Albanese.

Today the post-
woman brought
me nothing. An
empty mailbox 

later filled by a
green & yellow 
tree snake which
watched silently 

as I detoured a-
round it taking the 
garbage out. That arc 
retraced returning

until eye contact 
broken. Which 
is when the 
snake spoke. Said: 

I'm an old man now, and
a lonesome man in Kansas. . .

wednesday newstrip

Kim Jong Un orders North Korea into lockdown after Pyongyang confirms first COVID-19 outbreak · final refrain for iPod as Apple stops production · United States records 1 million deaths from COVID-19 two years after start of the pandemic · running Twitter may be much harder than Elongated Muskrat thinks · Israeli police beat pallbearers at Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral · Finland, Sweden inch closer to seeking NATO membership · crypto-currency crash sees man lose $650k life savings · cancer surgery patients fare better with robot surgeons, study finds — with chances of re-admission reduced by 52%.

recently, at Series Magritte

Le parfum de l'abîme

L'abîme est un band de Montréal in-
fluencé par le jazz, le rock, & le
classique contemporain. This isn't
them. More likely the painted
shape is one of those bits of 
bricolage, the detritus one finds 
rolling around the bottom of an 
abyss. Magritte, more concerned
with shadow than with shape, 
appoints it the head of a child. No 
jazz there. Possibly death metal.
 

geographies: Pyramid Hill

 

wednesday newstrip

Kim Kardashian's Monroe moment at the Met Gala shows money, influence, & Instagram can get you what should be untouchable · Sri Lanka's President declares state of emergency as thousands protest & demand his resignation · woman lost $1m to Tinder swindler after bank approved hundreds of thousands in loans, two of them days apart · Palestinians vow to stay on West Bank land despite defeat in decades-old legal battle · after fighting & dying against Crucible Knight Ordovis, a player showcases how tragically close they came to defeating the two crucible knights ·Taliban issues decree mandating Afghan women wear head-to-toe burka in public · man who received a pig heart transplant dies with animal virus DNA.

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-five are now available.

The print parts of issue sixty-five are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. Lulu's weekly promotion code can be found on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Otoliths issue sixty five, part one.
Page count: 380 pages
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Part one contains poems, short stories, & various other bits & pieces by Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, Chuck Joy, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Richard J. Fleming, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, Ben Egerton, Nathan Whiting, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, harry k stammer, Jen Schneider, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, John Levy, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Keith Nunes, Bob Lucky, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Rich Murphy, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NCE' Colella, H. A Sappho, Martin Stannard, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, & Bob Heman.


Otoliths issue sixty five, part two.
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Part two, the full color part, contains photographs, paintings, video stills, poetry, an essay, visual poetry, & collages from Karl Kempton, AG Davis, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Marco Giovenale, Mario José Cervantes, Gregory Stephenson, Texas Fontanella, Sarah Bilodeau, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, fred flynn, John McCluskey, John Gallas, Laurent Grison, Jeff Bagato, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Howie Good, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Michael Basinski, Dave Read, Daniel de Culla, Joanne Bechtel, Bill Wolak, Elmedin Kadric, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Sabine Miller, Diana Magallón, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, Márton Koppány, Cecelia Chapman, Michael Brandonisio, Judith Skillman, Katrinka Moore, & Guy R. Beining.

wednesday newstrip

New Zealand cannot afford to put back everything that will be damaged by rising sea levels, the Climate Change Commissioner says, as new data shows an earlier risk of inundation than expected · Police use tear gas during annual May Day rally in Paris a week after Macaron's election · Vladimir Putain has two secret sons by his gymnast 'lover' Alina Kabaeva, according to a new report · Netflix drops Meek& Markle’s animated series amid cutbacks – report · leave space missions to billionaires & robots, says U.K. astronomer royal · Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine -- to find they've been remotely disabled · Atlanta pedal pub vehicle rolls over causing 'mass casualty incident', 16 injured.

The new issue of Otoliths is now live.

Issue sixty-five of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2022 issue, is now up.

This issue, which marks the beginning of the seventeenth year of the journal's existence, contains a mix of — sometimes mixed — photographs, paintings, short stories, poetry, interviews, magazine columns, & manifestos from an international contributor list including Karl Kempton, Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, AG Davis, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Chuck Joy, Marco Giovenale, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Mario José Cervantes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, Gregory Stephenson, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Texas Fontanella, Richard J. Fleming, Sarah Bilodeau, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, fred flynn, John McCluskey, Ben Egerton, John Gallas, Nathan Whiting, Laurent Grison, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, Grzegorz Wróblewski, harry k stammer, Howie Good, Jen Schneider, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Michael Basinski, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Dave Read, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, Daniel de Culla, John Levy, Joanne Bechtel, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Sabine Miller, Keith Nunes, Diana Magallón, Bob Lucky, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Elmedin Kadric, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Márton Koppány, Rich Murphy, Cecelia Chapman, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, H. A. Sappho, Martin Stannard, Michael Brandonisio, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Katrinka Moore, David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, Judith Skillman, Bob Heman, & Guy R. Beining.

As always, enjoy.

wednesday newstrip

NASA doctor is 'holoported' to the International Space Station for the first time · BoreUs Long_Johns_on no longer ‘worthy’ to be prim minister, says former chief whip · Jacinda Ardern greeted by giant sad dancing kiwifruit during visit to Japan · new World Of Warcraft expansion lets you fly dragons · anthropologist believes ancient human species could still be alive in the forests of Flores Island · New Zealand shoppers order groceries from Australia as inflation soars · Harvard scientist wants to launch an investigation into alien technology at the bottom of Pacific · evidence of zoonotic spread: Superbug C. difficile can jump between pigs & humans.

Cartography

 

wednesday newstrip

Club Penguin fan remake allegedly shut down by Disney after five years · Elongated Muskrat sued by former Twitter shareholders for delay in disclosing his stake in company · Putain's propaganda playbook shows how an army of fake fact-checkers is sowing doubt & confusion · give a dog kale, instead of a bone: study · Swiss man, 20, was left in intensive care after suffering rare lung injury from masturbating · largest comet ever seen is heading towards Earth – will we survive it? · Brazilian man gets 2kg dumbbell stuck up his ass, with medics unable to remove it surgically · Time might not exist, according to physicists & philosophers — but that’s okay.

archi/vale

Later he would walk down to the lagoon / to look for the pelicans.

geographies: Heathcote

wednesday newstrip

A study of the visual system of fruit flies reveals factors regulating neuron development & uncovers similarities with human brain development · 'abandon the Cold War mindset': China's response to Australia's missile plans · 'For the children' written on rocket used in Ukraine train station strike, killing dozens · nationwide recall of Kinder Surprise Easter eggs due to salmonella contamination · Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban over Chris Rock slap · DoNuts T.®ump Jr texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows two days after the 2000 presidential election with strategies for overturning the result if T.®ump's father lost, CNN reports · an alien world is so extreme, it has literal clouds of vaporized rock.