Founder and publisher @woolgather_co.
Newcastle, New South Wales
Joined May 2008
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Heath Killen retweeted
“Calling something overrated is vastly overrated in my opinion. I simply do not see the utility in telling people that they are enjoying something too much, or hold it in too high of an esteem".
Close Reading with @JamColley.
Heath Killen retweeted
What’s your favourite song about the sky?
We’re always looking up at the clouds so we made a playlist about it. Let us know your selection and we’ll add it in.
SKY by Woolgather:
open.spotify.com/playlist/26…
Heath Killen retweeted
"I’ve been thinking lately about the word dignity ... I’m increasingly interested as a writer and as a person in what that word means–a sense of inherent worth that you don’t have to earn, that belongs to you just because you are human".
Close Reading with Neha Kale.
This is truly grim. Apparently you can just take an entire industry hostage to avoid due process now.
DGA and IATSE Push Rob Bonta to Allow Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger With Conditions variety.com/2026/film/news/d…
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Growth hackers looking at AI slop buttons.
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/li…
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Heath Killen retweeted
“We are being dictated to about what our present and future should look like, that it is inevitable AI will demolish our abilities, and an inescapable fate that our world should be sundered by wars, genocides, and violence".
Close Reading with Rachel Ang.
Heath Killen retweeted
"Kindness, the real version of it, is twinned to sorrow. Those who know something of sorrow ... develop a sense for just how vast it is, how many shapes it might take and in whom. Kindness is the natural result of this interrogation of sorrow".
Close Reading with Rick Morton.
"The @nytimes is the essential service for curious people who want to understand and engage more deeply with, and enjoy, the world ... People want to engage with media that is worthy of their time"
This is how you navigate & succeed through change:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Heath Killen retweeted
“I’m dipping in and out of a non-fiction book about extraterrestrial life at the moment, because I’m trying to write a novella about a support group for the loved ones of alien abductees”.
Close Reading with Laura McPhee-Browne
Agencies keep releasing these cool looking, proprietary tools that assesses the AI/GEO visibility of a brand. But what happens when, as a client, your own agency returns a low score? Isn’t that their fault?
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I've launched a newsletter.
Close Reading is a fortnightly dispatch of literary obsessions.
Each edition features a guest writer who shares one word, one quote, one poem, one book, and one other thing.
Free of algorithms. Free to subscribe.
Get it at closereading.co
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The Australian Government spends less than 0.1% of our annual budget on nature conservation and biodiversity.
Australia has the world’s highest mammal extinction rate, and is the only developed country listed as a global deforestation hotspot.
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"In Australia, controversy is treated as an institutional failure rather than cultural vitality. The result is a narrowing of ambition, purpose and the place of literature in our society. The door is opened to mediocrity."
Marcia Langton for @SatPaper.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/cult…
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Drummer Laurence Pike improvises to field recordings of Palm Cockatoos, who break off small branches and rhythmically beat them on trees to attract mates and establish territory. The only known animal to create and use a tool musically.
youtube.com/watch?v=GcY9hUTW…
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It has been a particularly gloomy season in Australian literature, so QUT saving @Meanjin is very welcome win.
The name Meanjin is a Turrbal/Yagara word for land on which Brisbane is located, so this is a homecoming too. Love to see it.
qut.edu.au/news?id=203300
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