James Macaronas

@jmacaronas.bsky.social

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Paranormal investigator. He/him. Naarm/Melbourne. PhD - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Free Palestine. Fuck gen AI.

Photo of a crowd outside Flinders Street station. An Aboriginal flag is being waved overhead.
Black and white illustration from a mid-century edition of War of the Worlds, depicting the Martian tripods marauding across London.
Painting by Michael Trim, depicting a Martian tripod standing in the sea, melting the prow of a steamship with its heat ray.
Photo tile from Unimelb for Palestine, which reads "We need your solidarity! The University's new Vice Chancellor Emma Johnston still needs to sign off on these expulsions and suspensions. This could happen at any point within the next few days. We are urgently calling on all groups and individuals to email/call her office demanding that these unprecedented sanctions be revoked, and support our calls for the University to cut ties with universities in Israel once and for all." Below this statement is a text box that reads "Contact VC Emma Johnston. Email: vc@unimelb.edu.au. CC: cboles@unimelb.edu.au. Phone: +61 3 8344 6134. Please share the photos/videos of you contacting Emma Johnston so we can reach as many people as possible and show the university that the community stands with students."
Screenshot of a White Dwarf interview with John Blanche. The text reads "While we're on the subject, surface detail can work two ways. If your figure is covered in surface detail, it's easy to paint up. Sometimes though, it's nice to clean most of this off and leave yourself a smooth painting surface. That way. it's all down to the detail you paint on with the brush. That can be more delicate than anything done in the casting process. Exercise your skills."
Photo of four blade-wielding plastic miniature figures that have been liberally covered in 'liquid green stuff' putty.
Photo of a figure wearing a pilot's helmet. The image of a nebula is reflected in the eye lenses.
Photo of the Invasion Day rally outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne. A large crowd fills the street, with two Aboriginal flags prominently displayed in the middle of the crowd.
Photo of a paperback book, 'Bloodchild' by Octavia E. Butler.
Photo of a paperback book, 'Q' by Luther Blissett.
Photo of a hardcover book, a reprint of the 1987 rulebook for 'Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader' by Rick Priestley.
Photo of a hand holding a paperback book, 'The Medium is the Massage' by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. The thumb of the hand holding the book obscures the photo of a thumb in the same position on the book's cover.
Photo of a paperback book, 'Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3', by Clive Barker.
Photo of a computer screen, displaying a preview of an ebook file. The file is an ebook of the 'Scum Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas.
Photo of a paperback book, 'The House on the Borderland' by William Hope Hodgson.
Photo of a paperback book, 'The Atrocity Exhibition', by J. G. Ballard.
Photo of a paperback book lying flat on a bare chest. The book is 'Naked Lunch' by William S. Burroughs.
Photo of a paperback book on a background of green fur. The book is 'The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington'.
Photo of James, standing at a lectern, looking down and reading with his right hand held out in a gesture. Behind him, a PowerPoint slide projected on the wall displays sections of comics art by Jack Kirby.
Photo of the Palestinian flag held aloft in a public garden. A crowd is gathered at the right side of the picture.
Photo of a paperback book, 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski. The book is propped up against the corner where two walls meet.
Photo of a worn paperback book. It is a copy of 'Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Volume 1', by H. P. Lovecraft and others. A green tendril is wrapped around the book's upper left corner.
Photo of three paperback books: the three volumes of the Illuminatus trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The first is facing the camera, the other two are balanced beside it, side on, with a ceramic "evil eye" placed in front.
Photo of a shelf in a bookshop - lined along the shelf are copies of the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer, with the most recent volume, 'Absolution', noticeably taller than the others.
Photo of a hardback book. It is a copy of 'Sick Sick Sick' by Jules Feiffer.
Poster for a vigil for scholasticide in Palestine, to be held Thursday 28 November at 6pm, at Carlton Gardens. The details are printed over an illustration of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, with one archway structure standing amid the rubble.
Photo of a paperback book, balanced on a hat stand. It is a copy of 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett.
Photo of a march for Palestine gathered in front of the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne. Someone in the middle of the crowd is flying the Palestinian flag.
Photo of a large paperback book. It is the first volume of the Doom Patrol comics by Grant Morrison and Richard Case.
Black and white photo of an iPod. It is playing the soundtrack to the Doctor Who story 'The Curse of Peladon'.
Photo of a paperback book. It is a copy of 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare.
Screenshot of the top of a Word document. The text reads: "And the heavy metal arm swoops down, picks up Patrick the intern and batters him repeatedly into the printer until at least some of him slips through its mechanisms. Pages of manuscript, now stained pink, keep coming through printers, copiers, fax machines, Facebook feeds, instant messages, telegrams – page after page after page of the new novel – or is it a manifesto? A parting riposte from our plastic pals. Arrow blown diode for thistle rattling sufficiently."
Photo of a paperback book, 'The Giant Book of Mysterious and Bizarre People', by Thomas Slemen.
Photo of a paperback copy of 'The Invisible Man' by H. G. Wells. The cover painting depicts a man in a brown suit and fedora, smoking a cigar, but his face is invisible, except for the eyes behind his glasses.
Photo of a paperback book. It is a copy of 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Photo of a paperback book. It is a copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.
A page from the Lone Sloane comics by Philippe Druillet. It depicts the title character being "infinitely multiplied" while transported through space and time.
Poster for the film 'My Own Private Idaho'.
Close-up photo of a painted miniature. The figure is a sci-fi dwarf figure, with a bionic eye, and a blue bionic left hand.
Photo of the Hours Heresy novel, Know No Fear.
Still of David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus.
Poster for Alien: Romulus.
Photo of the MIFF welcome screen at the Forum Theatre. Someone is standing at a podium to the right, introducing the film.
Screenshot of some writing. Written in the break between two paragraphs is the question "This critique connects to later work because -?"
Photo of a miniatures game in progress.
Photo from above of a miniatures game in progress.
Screenshot of a PDF file. The cover page reads "Kirk Dangerous Kills The Prime Minister".
Photo of a board of terrain set up for a miniatures game.
Photo of a theatre with the end credits of Hellraiser showing on screen. Laser lights play over the top.
Photo of a crowd outside a police station. People are waving the Palestinian flag. Someone to the right is holding a sign that reads "Free Palestine, ceasefire now."
Photo of the 1993 Horus Heresy board game, with many tokens placed over the board.
Photo of a crowd gathered at the bottom of a staircase, waving Palestinian flags and carrying signs. At the top of the staircase, two people have unrolled a banner that, vertically, reads "Mahmoud's Hall".
Ballpoint pen and marker drawing of two figures looking up at the empty space around them. The figure on the right says "maybe we're in hell."
Still from 'Dracula' (1931). Van Helsing is talking to two men. The subtitles read "The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."
Photo of a Palestinian flag flying over the Old Arts building at the University of Melbourne.
Photo of a laptop playing the movie 'Ghosts of Mars'.
Photo of a street in Naarm, with the skyscrapers clouded in haze.
Photo of a rally for Palestine in Naarm.
Flyer for the "die-in" protest for Palestine at the University of Melbourne, Raymond Priestley Building, March 26, 9.30 AM.
Screenshot of an episode of Doctor Who, featuring the Doctor seen through the eye of a Dalek. The subtitles have been obviously edited to read: "No, no, no! I won't tweet about AI this time! I won't!"