A classic

8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...

BRING BACK UDO KIER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S ENOUGH SILLINESS.

Today in Awkward Amy news, a woman I didn’t know came up to me on the street and gave me a bouquet of flowers only for me to blurt out “are you ok?”

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In case anyone wonders how The Discourse ™️ is going, I’m currently watching a YouTube video entitled “what a week as a Hobbit taught me about capitalism”. It’s actually very sweet.

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

The YouTube film recap accounts often use text to speech for their videos. Hilariously, this means the Predator: Badlands recaps are based on a Yorkshire fighting for his life and not a Yuatja. Oh ay.

David Lynch altar for the Día de Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever.

“Performative reading” is the anxiety of an illiterate culture

1. GODZILLA MINUS ONE SEQUEL TEASER 2. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I LOVE THIS SHUT UP 3. THE SOUND YOU HERE IS MY DEPRESSION LIFTING 4. WE ARE SO BACK, BABY youtu.be/msIIHSrWjgo?...

Love to watch Welcome to Derry, a tv series apparently about my ankles which is where I look instead of at the screen. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The full report is available here: ttps://www.uwa.edu.au/institutes/public-policy/-/media/public-policy/documents/2025/allambee-report-final_.pdf

The report found that about 68,500 people annually require sexual assault support services in Australia but about 23,000 are left with unmet support needs. The funding shortfall for support services is $80 million - or 0.02% of the $368 billion the Commonwealth gov is spending on 11 submarines

Don’t need to eat today because Dragula fed me so good last night.

Just a woman…on the street…wanting to throw hands over the weak ass film analysis book she’s reading.

In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.

We love @horrornonna.com 'round these parts.

Few scandals better illustrate the cost of government secrecy than robodebt. But the newly proposed FOI bill will make it harder for the public to scrutinise the government and easier for secrecy to prevail www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...

Actual thing I’ve just said to my son: “What’s genuine affection…no, go away”

Them: oh the audio is glitching. Me: oh, no, it’s supposed to sound like that. Every reaction to introducing someone to Captain Beefheart ever.

The implication of the blood being symbolic and not literal suggests that this McDonalds does not believe in transubstantiation, and therefore is a Protestant chain post-Reformation

Meanjin only cost UniMelb $220k a year?! This is CHUMP CHANGE in such an institution. The whole thing is infuriating. I haven’t accepted its end. Won’t somebody please tell me it’ll exist again somehow www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Holy shit this looks amazing.

Email from @damonyoung.com.au (threatening) About some sort of events that aren’t Pho-based and therefore useless: www.damonyoung.com.au/publicity

in honour of the kill james bond podcast bringing it up in their latest episode here is my jason statham trans man cop thread

Please give if you can. Alexandra is brilliant at what she does, a national treasure and, quite frankly, a menace who should be supported in menacing others.

Another good reason big business and Pride should not mix. 🌈💸 London Pride parade chief investigated over alleged misuse of funds Time to Reclaim Pride as protest ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/london-pride-parade-chief-investigated-over-alleged-misuse-of-funds

Losing Meanjin means a lot more than one literary journal closing down. It massively narrows the space for criticism, memoir, personal essay, and non-mainstream viewpoints within Australian culture. And it leaves us wondering whether hollowed out Australian universities can still support the arts.

Gutted. A favourite title to read brilliant essays and an honour to have contributed towards the lower end of that spectrum. We are all in killshot fatigue.

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down? It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance? This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Usual Chaos in Indonesia and Thailand with Erin Cook” @erincook.bsky.social (48m06s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00251/ Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app of choice. Like it? Please tell your friends and perhaps even support the crowdfunder. the9pmedict.com/spring2025

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial - MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions. - “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit” By @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Today in fact checking: cat girl or furry? For a serious piece scheduled for publication in a world that doesn’t realise the internet was a mistake.

Have been messaging a selfie of every cig I’ve smoked this morning to a friend running a marathon. I hope they appreciate my incredibly sincere support and physical exertion.

I have tried my very hardest to make this read about Indonesia's last 48 hours as accessible and easy to digest as possible. The goal here is that there is NO assumed knowledge (except for Jokowi, i think I always assume him sorry) darimulut.substack.com/p/indonesia-...

Another quiet night over here, just standing in the local car park, waiting to fight anyone who doesn’t think Bruce Willis’ best movie was The Fifth Element.

About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensation per person www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"...known as “AI kill chains”, they pull us all into a web of invisible tracking mechanisms that we are just beginning to comprehend, yet are starting to experience viscerally in the US as Ice wields these systems near our homes, churches, parks and schools."

Asked Gen Z son what he’d pitch Disney who want ideas for Gen Z men: - The Wiggles (all serial killers) - Fast & The Furious 5 but in Germany on the autobahn. All new cast except for Vin Diesel. - Freddy vs Jason 2: the kissening - giving Orcas bodycams and GPS targets on all billionaires

Who wore it better?

Up now on reDocumented is my review of Donna Davies' 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, which world premiered last night at @melbfilmfest.bsky.social. A smart take on adapting @horrornonna.com's encyclopaedic tome that's an insightful look at female representation in horror. redocumented.ghost.io/melbourne-in...

It’s called “cinema”, look it up.

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social! It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26! mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

I was the most fascinating person at the pharmacy today which is a valid and normal thing to want to achieve.

Read up! @horrornonna.com www.smh.com.au/culture/movi...

Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply