Distribution, yes. The whole thing about artists sleeping in houses and eating food, not so much. Fix the second one and nobody's gonna have much of an issue with the first.

"But but but I might get HURT". Yeah, and they might KILL her. MPs have been killed in this country before and one wouldn't shouldn't have to fight alone. Get conflict training and take a self-defence course so you have the confidence and courage you lack behind your excuse. Train up, and intervene.

The breeze is cool, it's pissing down raining but the verandah isn't leaking and I have a cat on me I have a book and an old sofa Could be a lot worse tbh Often has been

The world is fucked and getting worse but there are still a few nice things and it's ok to be a huge fan

War must be going really bad for the US to already start setting up Israel to become the scapegoat for its failures and atrocities

there's always body horror. space and time cannot be trusted. i also think more Weird Fiction could learn to have *its characters* experience emotions other than fear, to create fear *in the audience*.

Cass found an area where a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial would be (1) impossible, (2) unethical and (3) pointless, and then declared that none of the evidence counts because it's not from double blind randomised placebo controlled trials. Genuinely evil.

My car is old enough to vote and most of the doors open most of the time. Sometimes the neighbourhood kids get in and put my logbook and receipts and plush octopus in different places. They don't find anything to steal cos I don't have anything. It's a way better sitch than whatever this shit is.

What a magnificent specimen of a man he was.

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

Morning Bluesky.

“HIELANMAN'S UMBRELLA” should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.

I wish I had a place that was just mine so I could go home to it and not have a 4x5 room to sit in or someone else's noise/movies/people/chat to face as the options Never gonna happen, never has, but I wish

If LLMs were treated as a niche technology for a subset of work, instead of being shoehorned into every aspect of life without consent, you wouldn't have people ready to join the Butlerian Jihad Vanguard. There is a kind of self-centered chauvinism in the way tech people think of "work" and "use."

As of yesterday the Great Western Highway over the blue mountains had been indefinitely closed. This has almost cut off 2/3 of NSW with the unreliable Bells Line of Road now the only way over the mountains. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

We now know the identity of the Nepalese national who was killed as a result of the Iranian attacks on the UAE. Dibash Shrestha, aged 29, was as a security guard at the airport employed by the Middle East Company. Shrestha died while trying to diffuse the drone. What a tragedy.

I cannot tell you how excited I am about the Brisbane launch of THE PARADISE PACT! Sunday, 29 March at The Loft, West End, hosted by Avid Reader. Love to see you there! Free tix but bookings requested: avidreader.com.au/pages/13676-...

Sitting in the Bowlo while the eleventy-piece jazz band sets up for Monday night rehearsal These old guys can play anything, have forgotten more about music than I will ever learn Tarnished brass and comfortable shoes Not a dark hair or a polished instrument in the house Gonna get loud soon

Equally radioactive hot take: someone forgiving themselves, moving on and being forgiven by others doesn't exonerate them or oblige you to join the forgiveness party

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Googles ‘How to turn stockpile of 1,000 rolls of toilet paper into petrol’

This investment idea is for general information only. You should consider seeking independent legal, financial, taxation or other advice for your circumstances before using a ute to fill an above-ground pool with diesel.

I'm trying to write but I can't fucking look away

ever wondered about the Jim behind Jim's <insert task here>? Yeah, it's weirder than you think. in Classic Aussie Business style he went from scrappy business innovator to feared Rentier system freak to weirdo Eugenicist billionaire in under 30 years. https//www.youtube...

Same tbh I absolutely hate having this pattern recognition and wish the amnesia would come for the understanding of exactly how fucked we are instead of whether I've taken my meds and what your name is again, for the third time, sorry

nbd just speed running some low points from the last century

Narrator: It was the same truck

I don't leave the house much anymore

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

Ok I think this might be over now They're snarkmaxxing We've been trashmogged

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

it would be pretty funny if a fuel crisis caused regime change in the US before it did in cuba

Add one word to a film to ruin it. The Endless Bickering

Add one word to a film to ruin it. The Bowel Purge

Always repost the Fixin' to Die Rag

Students of history will recognise this search for ways to bring the secret police to trial for their crimes as an act of great kindness to them The option traditionally involves lampposts

on this international women's day i want to give a special shout out to trans women with old timey sounding names like Gertrude and Mildred and Gladys and Edna and Doris and Winnifred and Agnes. rock on

welp, found a guy on reddit who appears to be digging a mine for asbestos-bearing rock in his backyard? i need to remember to check in on this occasionally

Appreciate the clarity

Goodnight from The Old Ferry pub, where Paul Hardy is having another pint rather than risking rain and rumours of Empress Eel swimming the flooded lanes. Goodnight from Ellen Wulford, stitching shadows into her coat with a needle made from fox-bone. Goodnight from Hookland.

I love writing savage banter and the palimpsest of deep time that we call place. If I ever write a sex scene you will know I am dead. Return to where we fished that final summer, retrieve the cache and avenge me.

Me leaving the restaurant supply store with three months of energy

I don't want to hear the eventual mewling. It absolutely DOES matter that state TV is doctoring footage.

Read this novella, some of the best Weird/SFnal/fantastika horror going, bar none. The imagination blazes actinic, the writing is deathly beautiful but it's his *humanity* I love best, elegies to what we lose & have lost as the future rolls over us. One of my favourite current short story writers.

I'm out of words here

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Cryptobro: Bitcoin can't be hacked An ex cop with a hacksaw: Can't it tho

INTERVIEWER: now, where do you see yourself in 5 years? ME: [thinking] don't say "dying of dysentery in the water wars of 2031". don't say it ME: uhhh. dying of dysentery... full stop INTERVIEWER: i like your moxie, kiddo