It's vaguely funny how much of the cross promotional coverage this year is retrospectives. I guess they've given up even the self delusion that it is for anyone younger than middle aged

Follow up on this: Grok turning twitter turning into the CSAM production machine has forced me to leave at last. I still don't really vibe with bsky but I guess I'll be around!

"Hans, are we on the board of peace?"

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

‘How would you describe’ is the key part of this analysis. A lot of people describe themselves as ‘liberal’ when they espouse surprisingly conservative views. ‘Conservative’ as a term has been hijacked by populist radicals.

Imagine if Bob Katter was born 40 years later. What a magnificently insane poster he’d be.

The future of data visualisation.

Fraudsters are like vampires; thoroughly evil creatures that are bound by very simple laws

Australian courts did distinguish between criticism of Israel and antisemitism… and then found that the person being sued had crossed over into antisemitism. Dr Abdul-Fattah also runs the risk here that a court finds she’s said antisemitic things.

People who use LLMs to do their work fundamentally undervalue their own work. it’s easy to tell if you get something AI generated on your desk, because it’s a vague and nonspecific smear of meaning that looks profesh on a superficial level but tells you nothing, and reading it is a waste of time

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

This is just awful. Heart goes out to the family. In my neighbourhood down at Mawson shops www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

love 2 figure out how to lock all my social media accounts to stop a guy from sending me messages calling me ugly and insane

God is a Twat youtu.be/Q1_HfhtB5eo

i can’t remember the last time i slipped on ice. if my foot starts to slip on a patch the lower half of my body just takes care of it for me without bugging the rest of me. it looks like a bad split screen special effect. i’ll never slip again. never

If a rational, loving God existed, why did He give the most unhinged political opinions to those who understand the least about politics?

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

It’s so weird reading the editor of an online news outlet venting unhinged political hot takes when he could never, ever win an election himself. Absolute ‘Backseat Driver’ brain.

They shouldn't allow videos of podcasts. That content should get taken down

I think of all the amazing writers I know who struggle to make rent, then see the turgid, semi-concussed garbage written by tenured writers who landed journo gigs straight out of High School back in the 1990s. All political writers should stand for election after 10 years of writing.

Genuinely fascinated by this. The who AI generated the evidence that Good aimed her car at the ICE agent who fatally shot her said they did it to show people that she did, in fact, aim her car at the ICE agent.

Not being able to read a Bill in 48 hours is a massive skill issue. Nobody is forcing you to post your Ls on main.

Last year I started my "my peace is worth more than this" approach to social and selected professional interactions... it has been wonderful

I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?

Morry Schwartz attacking Louise Adler and in the process damaging the credibility and independence of his media products ...

Was going to write a post correcting errors in people’s understanding of legislation… but chose happiness instead. This is the growing of wisdom.

A lot of people reposting a lot of misinformation on the old BlueSky…

In the australian justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the people who do defo and the defo’d who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. *def oh*

This could very much end up as a Lehrmann affair with a Court agreeing that she made antisemitic comments and that her presence would have been insensitive. This could backfire spectacularly…

The funniest thing Scott Adams did was open a sock puppet account on Metafilter to comment about how Scott Adams has genius-level IQ and immediately got busted.

Tired: Whiskey Fridays with Andrew Bolt Wired: Sauvignon Blanc and migraine medication with Glenn Milne at the Walkleys Inspired: Sam Maiden leads a police chase through the suburbs of Canberra

with the greatest respect to my colleague dr k, this seems pretty open and shut

You know he means the mirror universe

Watching Scott Adams morph into his own manager caricature was truly amazing. I wish we could watch it happen again.

[This post deleted even though it was extremely, extremely funny]

very sad about Adelaide Writer’s Week festival. growing up in suburban Melbourne in the 80s, its music taught me that it was ok to be weird

Adelaide Posters’ Festival

now with the adelaide writer’s festival cancelled we can finally turn our attention to some real cultural activities: the build up to the NRL season

I just read a post by an Australian Writer and thought: ‘Yup, these are the sort of people who tried to flush kitty litter down a toilet.’

Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security inquiry into the draft Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. Submissions due by 4pm Thursday 15 January: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Infinite warfare on news sites that don't have a chronological feed page.

Is Civil War getting a sequel? No, not the movie.

It’s true that men think about ancient Rome at least once a day, but we also think about vengaboys as well. We contain multitudes

typing up triangulation fantasies that will never happen literally as people are being terrorized and disappeared. because Sensible Moderates might not be moved by the government saying they can kill anyone they please. what a joke

Fun clip on why Birdhouse In Your Soul is both awesome and impossible to play a cover of or sing at karaoke www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg2C...

New queer approach to international law just dropped

‘Prominent person made this claim but the data tells a different story’ [Insert 800-1,000 words of innumerate nonsense here]

This piece by @irelandpiper.bsky.social on extraterritorial jurisdiction and irregular extradition is worth a read: share.google/s7eeJqGv6cFL...

can you image an arts festival not guided by a real estate agent and an airport manager? makes me sick just to think about

We often celebrate those who survive cancer, but nobody thinks about the feelings of malignant tumors.