Pretty good innings.

That's just Spawnom.

“Distinguished epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley said she was “deeply sad” and “ashamed” after the Fremantle hospital that bears her name abruptly cancelled a 2024 event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza—” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I know there’d be some gaming types interested in this auction which starts closing Sunday 5 October at 2.30pm AEDT. “The Unreserved Auction of Australia’s Largest Arcade of Retro Amusement Machines from ‘Arcade Garage’, Thornbury, VIC” online.doningtonauctions.com.au/m/view-aucti...

I'm noticing a lot more spelling and grammar errors on Wikipedia lately. I'd assume the process of ensloppification is underway, but maybe that's confirmation bias or something.

LOL

If anyone has the latest issue of Tabletop Gaming magazine, the one with my article about the Spiel des Jahres (might be the one before), can you let me know what the title of the article is? They don't send writers comp copies any more.

A day in Toho heaven

You can know a thing logically, like "Oh yeah, sperm whales eat giant squid, of course." but you often don't consider what that might look like or how it'd work.

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

Really enjoying Joe Abercrombie's The Devils, which reads like it was written for the adaptation in the best possible way. It also reads like Warhammer fanfic, and this may be the first time that hasn't been meant as a backhanded compliment.

HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK!!??

For reasons I don't understand, I am now the owner of two Tony Hawk decks.

Well, yes.

Yep!

It's only real cyberpunk if it was released between 1982 and 1999. Otherwise it's just chromed nostalgia.

Here, have something nice.

Comics people. Is there a good place to sell a whole collection? Rather just in bits on ebay?

Oh my god

Funny, that.

$2200 now. Very close now to our original $2400 goal. Thanks to everyone who's helped us out so far.

"Subscribe to my Patreon/Substack/newsletter" is all well and good, but it doesn't scale. One of the key advantages of legacy media is aggregation - the consumer gets a fair amount of bang for their buck. You are gonna have to get your heads together and think about how to address that issue.

Why is everything so fucking dumb?

Doesn't sound too crash hot, man.

Treated myself.

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Just muttering a quick prayer that people will finally stop attributing ethics and principles to massive corporations.

If I were a massive Anglophone country with extant production infrastructure and room to expand, I'd be thinking deep thoughts.

Karl fucking Rove

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Let ABC know how you feel about their bowing to the thugs in power and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel's show: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

There's gonna be a new blacklist and you're probably already on it.

Man, the hits are coming fast this week.

Make no mistake.

They did, and US studios fell into line with German censorship standards because the market was so valuable. Yes, even Jewish owned studios. Here, have a listen.

I have been thinking about this a lot for the past year or so. The monopolisation of culture is killing us. The way distribution mechanisms - commercial and social - are controlled, restricted, and altered at whim is an existential threat to art. We're living in a company town and paid in scrip.

Honestly, fuck DC. And I am so goddamn disappointed in every freelancer working for them who saw this play out and said nothing.

Movies used to have anti violence messages that warned against fascism while also letting Stallone play someone named Machine Gun Joe

Best thing you'll read today.

I struggle to see how writing "an anonymised summary" of every single student's work cuts d9wn on workload in the first place. AI evangelists are absolutely deranged.

Caravaggio would’ve crawled over broken glass

He's 42 hours plus in the hole every week.

This is the Ad that #Newscorpse initially pulled despite that it was already paid for by the Jewish Council of Australia. #Newscorpse deny they pulled it, saying it was delayed due to internal processes. Sounds like BS, I’m pretty sure they don’t want ppl to see it. Plz share.

Hip Nick & the Jerks sounds like a pretty good bar band.

Nice to see a skullcap & goatee mage after decades of Gandalf/Dumbledore doddery beardo nonsense. Nicol Williamson would approve.

My teacher is a brilliant classical guitarist and music scholar researching the works of women composers; this record deserves to see the light of day and is a long time coming. Please share widely.

I love Timor-Leste but I've seen their public infrastructure and this was the appropriate response.