The Stranger by François Ozon tenoften.substack.com/publish/post...

The world is visible outside. Begone, world.

A World Appears by Michael Pollan open.substack.com/pub/tenoften...

Why do I always sit at Table 12? Is it the light, the noise centrality, the back-of-cafe seclusion? Or am I a prisoner of obsessiveness?

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If you just read free stuff on the internet, you’re missing out, like always eating at Macca’s. I ditched my New Yorker sub for a year and now that I’m back, wow! This review of Marie NDiaye’s The Witch turns me onto a novel I’d never glanced at because of the subject matter (witches).So subscribe.

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 #MovieReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11559

51% by Matt Witten #BookReview readlistenwatch.com/2026/51/

51% by Matt Witten #BookReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11580

Blindingly fast, BYD has put up 5,000 kW EV chargers in China. Our EV with 440 kms of range could be charged up in 3 minutes. Australia doesn’t yet have the cars to accept such fast charging, but why doesn’t the government at least subsidise really fast charging around its rim?

The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo by Bao Nguyen #MovieReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11543

One of my heroes, Barry Jones at age 93. In an Age article last weekend, he correctly lambasts Albanese for timidity. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Memories of remote hikes fade fast, leaving only general impressions. Photos like this help but only a little.

Is this an alien planet. No, it's a jigsaw piece up really close, as photographed by a six-year-old.

It's unflattering but I loved that a grandson snapped it on my iPhone, using a B&W setting I didn't know existed.

I love doing jigsaws but only rarely give myself time to tackle one. This is small (100 pieces) but you can see why grandchildren loved doing it with us. The creativity of the picture, the many objects and planets ... so satisfying.

Fifty years ago, I was smitten by rock music. Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind captured my ears for months. Now a fan has written an entire book (not available in Oz, unfortunately) about the album. Read this revealing current interview: thekevinalexander.substack.com/p/graham-par...

Hamnet by Chloé Zhao #MovieReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11539

Genocide is genocide is genocide. I hope and yearn that Israelis can change their government and bring the nation back to sanity and morality.

Our prime minister gave one of his canny but weak national addresses recently. That he did not make the stunningly obvious point that energy security requires vigorous shifting, with aggressive policies, away from petrol bowsers, is a national tragedy.

Enthusiastic Nuclear Bros are passionate about their preferred energy source. As a historian, I find their passion and view fascinating, but with my second volume of reactor history very much focused on the anti-nuclear activists, I’m now looking to find and engage with them.

The International Booker Prize shortlist is out. I’m not a big reader from this prize’s choices (they’re often too obscure even for me) but I’ve read one (the obvious one) and two others beguile.

Trump is lying about the Iran Nuclear Deal. It is the exact opposite of his claim that with the deal “Iran would now have an arsenal of nuclear weapons.” FALSE. If the deal were still in place today, Iran would not have any HEU, would be 2 years away from a bomb. newrepublic.com/article/2082...

A generation of idiotic arms negotiation backflips by the Americans. And now this. Oh, the lies we’re telling…

Will the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, or any other msm say Trump's speech was unhinged, incoherent, slurred, meaningless, and incomprehensible? Or will they try to read their own messages into it?

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans #BookReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11536

I rarely read obibuaries. This caught my eye, if only because Len Deighton’s early and later spy novels greatly influenced my reading tastes. Aged 97.

A day in the life of an aged, reluctant hiker. The tough day was “good for me.” Perhaps.

The jumble and tumble of thoughts.

“I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth.” My first response was to weep at the apparent futility, then I bounced with joy and hope.

"I am leaving because I want to tell the truth." What a powerful and damning response to the scientific darkness Trump has cast over America.

Come See Me in the Good Light by Ryan White #MovieReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11518

So much has been written about Shoreham, an fully built American reactor shut down in the early 90s without ever pumping out any electricity. But what is the truth?

Mountains. A big sky. Clouds. Aah.

At last almost fully electrified, it irks me no end that my electricity is still 55% generated by fossil fuels, and this % will only climb slowly, according to Victorian government plans. There’s bipartisan silence on this damning reality.

An attack on power plants that serve civilians is an explicit war crime under the Geneva Convention Protocols.

Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good! Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

The brazenness of the false anti-renewables story!

Wild seas lashing the northwest coast of the south island of New Zealand. Our last day of hiking, a month ago, was alongside these churning waters. I struggled that day.

Australian entrepreneur started up Prenuvo, a whole-body MRI company that now has 24 scanning sites in America (with 11 more coming soon). Outside USA, Prenuvo is in London and Melbourne. I've just had a scan. It's fascinating and scary...

Audiobooks are rarely as captivating. I have an hour to go with the audiobook of Michael Pollan's latest brilliant book, which he captivatingly narrates. Highly recommended.

Scribbled notes to dig into two new reactor design prospects in America. Each "digging" will involve tons of work. Should I go ahead? Should I wait? By not deciding right now, I'm deferring work and I'm happy with that.

The mouth of one of New Zealand's many churning rivers, one day of the end of the Heaphy Track. At this hut, there is still no contact with the outside world except by helicopter. Memories...

I nearly stepped on him/her. Something about the valiant striving across the driveway ... reminded me of me. Maybe. Keep going.

A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken #BookReview readlistenwatch.com?p=11504

We should be expecting our politicians to prioritise energy security and rapidly stop mining and buying fossil fuels.

A reminder. Our politicians kept insisting we were winning the Vietnam War right up until we lost it. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Current mood is trying not to worry about what's going on politically. It's hard

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.