My Christmas movie viewing took a turn with Santa Jaws, which is about the dangers of giving a disaffected teen a magical pen with which to draw a graphic novel.

Hey, guys, for 2026 can we try STOP TURNING THINGS INTO MUSICALS?!?!?!?!

I'm gonna tell you a little secret about copyediting. Shhhh. A solid 25 percent of copyediting is helping writers not to get kvetched at by people who like to kvetch at writers over picayune shit. Now, that might seem to be giving in to the enemy, but trust me: Writers like it. (Most of them.)

Name the three best novels you read with... What are your top three movies about... Top five favourite songs that include... Man, I have trouble remembering what day the bins go out. Get outta here.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Clearly limping towards the end of the year. Just read 'formulas' as 'for mulas' and thought, 'What's a mula?' Apologies in advance to the authors whose books I'm working on over the next few weeks.

whoaaaaa!! 🧶

We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide

It's AusMusic T-shirt Day, so, just for fun, I pulled an old gig T-shirt out of storage and tried it on. How can *my head* have grown in twenty-five years? Or were T-shirt neckbands just smaller back then? Once I got it over my head, it fit perfectly.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are: 1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and; 2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.

Great breakdown of why every single parent I know who works in the games industry (myself included) will never let their kids touch Roblox

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

3 months ago, Austin told me that he wanted a break from adventures. I didn't know why at the time but it turns out it was because someone had made fun of him for being into trains. This broke me tbh 💔 but after lots of deep chats, he's over it & going to ignore them. So... 1/2

🧵 Most people don't realise there are whole categories of disease transmission they don't have to think about because they've been taken care of by society, e.g. there are laws & inspections & engineering that protect you from diseases that are waterborne (e.g. sewage treatment), bloodborne

Feeling a bit green around the gills about the amount of money I just spent on holiday camps for my kid.

Jason Atherton’s restaurant is promoting its Sunday lunch using guess which song #AccidentalPartridge www.instagram.com/reel/DP1AqRH...

The 8yo has learnt the word 'nonchalant' and is using it every other sentence.

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

The thing is the human form is not actually optimal for remaining upright as anyone who has ever had to dress a mannequin will tell you. Big Tech will continue to fail until they accept that the One True Robot Form is Rosie from the Jetsons

My child has entered the reading-the-dictionary-for-fun stage.

Took my kid to see a 40th anniversary screening of Back to the Future. We had a good time but I was distracted by 'jigawatts' and spent far too long wondering if everything 'giga' is instead pronounced 'jiga'.

I'm not much of a movie person, but I have watched four movies this week, so fill yer boots with my last four watched.

The episode has appeared. All is well with the world.

AGHAST that it looks like channel 10 is not airing the final episode of Celebrity Traitors UK UNTIL A WEEK AFTER IT WAS AIRED IN THE UK. It seems the true traitors are channel 10.

This is utterly delightful

What the world needs now is a sitcom in which Alan Carr and Hannah Gadsby play siblings.

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no

Went as the burglar, a costume that the other mums either ignored or looked askance at. Yay, school socialising!

ELEVEN DOLLAR HANDLING CHARGE FOR TWO E-TICKETS TO A CONCERT? ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH?

NOVEMBER CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2025/11/over... #AmEditing

The Louvre thief has been identified as Mr. Steal Your Girl

For every $1 in benefits fraud, agencies spend $3.72 trying to detect it, based on the unproven assumption that means-testing lowers the rate of fraud. But there's evidence to indicate that trusting people to self-report what they need would be cheaper overall, even factoring in fraud/abuse.

I'm taking my kid trick or treating tomorrow and I think I should have a (simple) costume. Hi-vis vest, black mask and some glitzy jewels or a nametag that reads 'Madeleine'?

Dictionary.com goes out early with its 2025 Word of the Year … and it chooses “67,” or “six-seven.” www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-th... I had the privilege of running the site's Word of the Year for a few years, so I’ll share some thoughts (that don’t divulge any privileged info).

Why does no one publish Christmas books for kids older than 7? Shops full of picture books and board books but haven't been able to find chapter books or, god forbid, novels, apart from those terrible Ben Miller Christmas elf books.

This doesn’t seem right.

Is adulthood just deciding what you’re going to clean next

Oct 26th 1985 - In the early hours of the morning, Einstein became the worlds 1st time traveller. 📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

Halfway through the second season of Austin and wondering why Austin never meets any other (identified) Autistic people.

The 8yo has a friend over and I've become surplus to requirements. I don't quite know what to do with myself.

You’ve probably heard of the phrase “time immemorial” as a general term for events that happened a very long time ago, but in fact, it has a specific meaning, and this year is its 750th anniversary. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tim...