pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

doing a photoshoot of jonathan bailey for sexiest man alive and only including one photo where he's smiling is negligence of duty, and it's time for a coup to reclaim people magazine as the people's people.

i just don't think power saws are ever necessary at 8am on a saturday

said goodbye to someone and we both went for a half hug and cheek kiss but went the opposite directions so ended up just awkwardly pressing faces together, going to think about it til I die

i know some people are bad at categorising films by genre, but i just got a message from someone asking if i'd heard of a "romcom" their friend recommended, and i'm side-eyeing whoever described a cringe comedy about a 14 year-old who has a(n unrequited) crush on a 25 year-old as a romcom.

i think more holidays should be co-opted into being an excuse for people to dip their toe into doing drag or being a furry

good turnout! got to speak to a number of people about how it mirrored their personal experiences, and to those whose eyes were opened to something they knew nothing about. getting to discuss movies and the way they tap into such personal feelings really is one of the best parts of the job.

If you're in Sydney, don't miss this free Intersex Awareness Day screening of a vital, must-see documentary that's both a celebration of community and call to arms in the ongoing fight for bodily autonomy for intersex people everywhere. 3PM at Event George St: queerscreen.org.au/sessions/the...

nothing says a stable climate like random 38°c days in the middle of spring

been sick all week and no signs of improvement. wasn't able to get an appointment with my regular gp so went to a walk in clinic. told him my concerns over sleeping constantly due to body aches and fatigue. he checked my temperature, throat and blood pressure (all fine) and declared "sleep is good!"

taking a break from emptying the moving truck to do a zoom meeting I couldn't skip – love to turn up red faced, sweaty and out of breath to the function.

hot take: packing and moving is bad

posting that you've been up all night praying for your famous sister because she's "a little under the weather" is a great bit, more siblings of famous people should do it

i knew my inbox would be a mess when returning to work after being off sick just before a long weekend, but finding multiple messages from the same person following up about something they only sent at 4pm on friday is still a lot.

famous last words is an interesting – if entirely gimmicky – idea for a show, but it's hard to look past the fact they've entrusted these supposedly monumental final interviews with cultural icons to mr gwyneth paltrow, one of the creators of glee, who has zero interviewing experience

bf fell asleep during a video call while leaning on his arm and now it looks like he's sleeping while flexing, it's very cute

we were meant to move in together when my lease ends next week, but with the limbo the search for a place stalled. i'm very grateful my parents are willing and able to let me stay temporarily while i keep looking and we sort things out but it doesn't make it feel any less like i'm moving backwards.

i don't have a personal opinion because the last time i even vaguely kept up with current music was when i swapped cds with friends to put on my ipod nano, but it's objectively funny that they've reached the "i'm actually glad it's not good, because that means she's happy" stage of parasocial fandom

She'll always be Hyacinth to many (vividly remember first "getting" the running gag of her unseen gay son and his roommate Tarquin) but she was also a Tony and Olivier winner. Worked with Sydney Poitier, Vincent Price, Antony Sher, Alan Bennett, Victoria Wood. What a career. youtu.be/UKTviQNM6KA?...

one of the hardest parts of long-distance is missing the warmth of his body and rumble of his breath as we sleep. it's been 4 months since our last reunion and a video call while one of us falls asleep and the other naps is the closest thing to capturing the pure serenity I feel in his arms. fuck.

woke up early today so the real estate could host a rental inspection to find a new tenant and exactly one person showed up. i'm sure she felt super welcome being greeted by the over enthusiastic twink agent only to find three bleary eyed housemates standing in the lounge waiting to go back to bed.

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

went to a friend of a friend's house birthday party. my friend had to run but I didn't want to seem rude and stayed until cake, the polite exit time. except afterwards the immediate mass exodus was even quicker than I expected so suddenly I was the last straggler still finding my shoes. awful. 0/10.

it's funny finding out someone who frequently posts nudes and thirst traps on main also has an "alt" that's mostly just them posting more of the same. it's like realising jekyll and hyde are actually the same person and the tip off was the fact they looked and acted identically the entire time.

listening to my straight housemate's dating woes is wild. what do you mean you can't decide between "guy who took you away for a weekend then ignored you to play a warhammer tournament" and "guy who went on an anti-immigration rant despite you both being immigrants". is the dating pool that bad???

it's crazy she said this while discussing olivia colman's ability to straddle drama and comedy, as if her oscar win wasn't for a comedic performance. you could argue comedy actors are more likely to be acknowledged once they've shown the ability to do both, but comedic nominees aren't non-existent.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

love turning up for a confirmed doctor's appointment only to find the medical centre is closed an hour early without notifying me

managed to relax last night, please clap

photographer got exactly one candid of me looking cute at work this weekend

guess who's 32 today, not 33

someone asked me my age last night and it turns out for the last few months I somehow mentally aged myself up by a year lmao anyway

i survived my first film fest as programming manager. we sold out four sessions and audiences mostly enjoyed the films, now i plan to not move for the next 24 hours.

i don't have many straight friends but i have friends who do, and it's still a surprise whenever one of the boyfriends tries to talk to me about sports. i'm not saying unlearning stereotypes was a bad thing, but retaining that one assumption could really have saved us both an awkward conversation.

nothing brings me joy quite like recommending a film to someone and finding out they loved it. getting to know someone and understanding their taste well enough to pick out just the right thing really tickles something in me. it's my love language.

mum's stories about me as a toddler oscillate between complaining how much she had to push me in a pram because i kept refusing to walk places (when i absolutely could), and eventually having to keep me on a leash whenever i did because otherwise i'd run away, get lost or nearly get hit by a car.

been doing a few radio interviews for work and unfortunately i love a natter and like every white man in his thirties i caught myself thinking, "wait, should i do a podcast?" (i should not)

Like so many people my age, The Movie Show and At the Movies offered a window beyond what I was seeing at the multiplex and ignited a passion for and curiosity about cinema that remains today. David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were a fixture of my childhood, and taught me the joy of criticism.

meta has made it more difficult to target queer demos, ostensibly to protect them from being outed by ads. but in practice it means queer orgs like the film fest I work for can't reach their intended audience in the algorithm, so now we get homophobic responses from people we used to easily avoid.

i feel like there's probably a better way to dunk on ai tools than using them extensively so you can post all the poor results that in turn encourages even more people to use them to post their "funny" mistakes. true believers don't care, you're just amplifying its use and feeding it more user data.

not my real estate sending a text to inform us of an inspection and asking if someone can be on site, then when we confirmed asking us what our address is. i feel like if you handle tenants you should probably know their addresses.

Absolutely massive turnout from people of Sydney marching over Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an immediate ceasefire and end to the genocide in Gaza. March so big NSW Police have now turned us around back over the bridge.. #freepalestine

obsessed with the old white woman complaining that the march for humanity: save gaza march across the sydney harbour bridge isn't moving quick enough (were two streets from the start point, due to the numbers). adult grandkid: there's quite a lot of people, nan. nan: yes, well it's not ideal.

Queer Screen Film Fest is back, bringing fresh and diverse LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world to Sydney (27-31 August, 2025). It's my first as programming manager, check it out: queerscreen.org.au/whats-on/ Featuring Russell Tovey, Asia Kate Dillon, Tom Blyth, Lea DeLaria, Vic Michaelis and more.

wifi went down a week ago. tech was meant to come thursday but never showed, then isp ignored three attempts to reschedule before responding. just got the "be there in 15" call and feel like i'm waiting for a grindr guy who already ghosted twice but i'm sure will be different this time! 🤡

This is called John Waters. He’s ’camp’, which is what gay people had before ‘slay’.

there's a rehearsal space next to my office that's used by young/amateur bands occasionally and there's currently one repeatedly practicing just the chorus of murder on the dancefloor over and over, and now i'm concerned this version is slowly overwriting the original in my subconscious forever

hot off the presses! we go on sale tomorrow 🫣

made the mistake of checking my likes tab and discovered the proportion of shirtless selfies to funny and interesting posts was way more than I thought. truly humbling.