That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

Starting to get Memories in my photo albums that make me think “But… that was just a couple of years ago? Wait? Umm… ohhh…” Getting old is a blessing but damn it moved quickly!

New article is live! The history of Australian computer and video game magazines. From Megazone and Hyper to Atomic and APC. As told by the people who were there 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net/australian-v... #SonicTheHedgehog #Australia #VideoGameMagazines #RetroGaming #RetroComputers ☀️🌴

VAR is great. It's the rules that suck. Make defenders defend.

No one let IT decide that the finance dept should run on crypto. Yet somehow IT is driving a lot of the advice on increasing AI 'efficiency' across a lot of business units.

Doing a big movie day! Love to just dive deep at the big screen sometimes. Masters this morning, Obsession this afternoon, and Disclosure Day tonight.

Someone should have shown this to the team. We’d have scored three goals in five minutes in a rage.

Talk about one-eyed - the ref is even running the clock down for USA with his own cramps! 😆

GOLD TEETH has launched! It's a piratical TTRPG set in a cursed version of the Age of Sail, with 350 pages of briny phantasmagoria, colonial terror and nauseating seafood. It's part Master & Commander, part Blackadder, left to ripen in the sun like a beached porpoise. teethrpg.itch.io/gold-teeth

Straya!!!

It should be illegal for documents to lose track of your specified line break spacing.

Today we launched a dive into the "less lethal" weapons some police are using against crowds in Australia—and about which very little is publicly known. These are projectiles that release powder designed to burn the eyes and throat. Flashbang grenades. Teargas. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

Quality. And. Integrity.

Here is Roy Valentine’s full speech about his dad James Valentine. It’s one of the best speeches I’ve heard. Put aside 13 minutes to watch it. I promise it’s worth it. www.instagram.com/reel/DZEWw0w...

Can anyone spare Newsnight a Zoom Premium subscription?

big companies are supposed to be good at this! But they’re so AI-pilled they just vibe it and hit send.

I miss being at Computex in Taipei. Great city. Fun show.

Lobbying God's messenger on Earth to ask if He could maybe tone it down a bit on AI regulation. www.politico.eu/article/pope...

Too many people currently confuse raw novelty with value. Just because it's new and does clever tricks doesn't mean it's inherently good.

Checked JustWatch and it says the only place to get modern Doctor Who right now is from Fetch. And only three seasons. Is that true??

Why’s everyone talking about the Steam Controller again? I’ve had one for a decade and I haven’t used it in years!

Reading most budget headlines it's clear the only promise we must make as a society is to the landed gentry. Heaven forbid there should ever be a promise to future generations about anything.

Suddenly remembered how fun Stuntman Ignition was.

Needed a trigger warning going to see Devil Wears Prada 2 that we’d be watching two hours of fighting the destruction and debasement of the media industry.

Met Chris Roberts. Asked him when Star Citizen was coming out. Here’s 3500 words on it. (Wherein I also interview several avid players to try and understand why they’ve invested thousands of dollars into an unfinished game) thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/star...

For the last couple of years I've been part of Australia's flu tracking research. They need more people to be part of the process. It means every Monday you get an email, you click two buttons and you're done. Please join the initiative: https://www.flutracking.net/Join/AE/inv264

Half marathon off we goooo.

Spied a 2005 Robo Rally in a local op shop. Never played it. Should I grab it?

Just noticed Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set is now on Prime Video. If you haven’t seen it you should go eat that thing up. Big Brother housemates don’t know London is having a zombie apocalypse. It’s brilliant.

How is it, after all these years, Microsoft Word still renders weird vestigial horizontal lines if you delete one near a page break. I feel like I've been seeing this happen for thirty years!

cool bit of news tucked away into a gi.biz interview today – the drifter by @dave.powerhoof.com is being adapted into a film at a 'major studio'!!

This is obscenely good. Skip to 4:15 for the greatest dance video of the decade. youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU?...

I just want to watch and read random cool shit without worrying about how some algorithm will interpret the thing I'm looking at so it can give me more of it. Let my signal be noise - a cacophony of bewildering wonders!

This is obscenely good. Skip to 4:15 for the greatest dance video of the decade. youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU?...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I started and caught up on Dungeon Crawler Carl since the last book came out. Pretty psyched we’ll have a new one in 18 days. I’ll be doing the Jeff Hays book experience again - it’s the only one way to fly!

Man, that speech Albo made when he won from opposition was great, huh? Wonder where that guy went…

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

Vale James Valentine. Such sad news.

The University of New South Wales has so far kept the door open to potentially finding community radio station 2SER. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/20/2...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Real nostalgia vibes with all the online trinket sellers now using the "closing down sale" schtick. It's like driving down Parramatta Road back in the day with all the carpet stores and sports warehouses eternally closing down.

Happy 80th Birthday to Tim Curry, a guy who treats every single part like it was the role he was born to play.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

The last time I was impressed by AI generated imagery is years ago. Meanwhile, I am mostly annoyed. And I don’t think I am the only one. It’s only that these visuals are derivative. It’s that their production is effortless and without friction. Everything seems possible, and thus equally boring 3/

Finally played some Blue Prince today. Playing with Ms17 passing the controller and making notes together. Really fun as a shared exploration. Highly recommended.

A reminder that Dr Ashwin Nagappa is seeking participants for this interesting study. If you're reading this, you're eligible to participate! Check out the flyer below for more information. 👀

It is the fossil fuel industry that benefits the most when we fail to realise that listening to the constant pleas of the climate movement would be saving all of us billions and billions and billions of dollars right now, before we even consider the lives saved by avoiding their use