Bought! (and an Austin Wintory CD while I was at it, because, why not?) With about an hour left on #BandcampFriday

Just in time for @bandcamp.com Friday, I've finally released the Expanded Edition of the Mars First Logistics soundtrack. Featuring half an hour of new music for the full release of @ianmaclarty.com's wonderful game, and a generally sunny musical disposition. Free to all who bought the original.

Too easy

Is there anyone else in the history of the universe who could, in the moment of seeing a player take a heavy hit, come up with “Liberatore went into that last pack optimistically - and came out misty optically”

I’m old enough to remember the leader of the Australian Labor party telling the USA President, to his face, in an official parliamentary speech during his visit, that his invasion of Iraq was a mistake.

ha ha ha oh no

Probably the opinion I actually more or less hold that seems bonkers to most normal people is that they should really just add a third house made up of randomly selected people, like jury duty (and do an actually strong corruption commission alongside it).

Good story from @jacksonwryan.com with comments from me, @brkeogh.bsky.social, Katharine Neil and others.

I know he’s excommunicated but is he the most senior member of the royal family to be arrested since… Charles I? Anne Boleyn? Maybe Mary Queen of Scots? Good company lol

New book now coming out very soon. Next month!

“Australia’s peak body for the videogame industry, the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA), also confirmed that they’ve written to Creative Victoria and Colin Brooks, the Victorian state minister for creative industries, on this matter, urging reconsideration.”

Grateful to @harrisonpolites.bsky.social for letting me talk about the state of @free-play.bsky.social and funding. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year. This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Incredible story

Catherine O’Hara was the Catherine O’Hara of comedy

This is so sad. With Schitt’s Creek and even The Studio recently you just expected another ten or fifteen years of brilliant performances from O’Hara, let alone the classics like Home Alone and Beetlejuice. You never really know an actor, but through her performances, she just seemed to get it.

I have thoughts on this, as a former director and a board member for six years, and for one time anyway, a keeper of the flame of Freeplay’s history. But first up I want to say how incredibly disappointing it is that Creative Vic hasn’t funded Freeplay.

A vital figure in giving life to Star Wars, post-prequels. Force Awakens is a great blockbuster, Last Jedi is flawed but hugely imaginative and thematically rich, and both Solo and Rise of Skywalker are fun and underrated adventures. Andor obviously generationally good. She had a good run.

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

A generational run

I look forward to several Copilot Universities opening

I think the USA should also have a void period where nothing happens between dec 22 and jan 5

“I’m a proud Muslim, coloured boy from Pakistan who was told that he would never play for the Australian cricket team. Look at me now. And you can do the same.” There’s a reason the likes of Paul Kelly wrote songs about Usman. What a legend.

If you search my music on Spotify, you'll now find nothing.

After almost eleven years, today is effectively my last day at Swinburne. I’m on leave for some time until Feb, when I start as Professor of Media at Monash.

A friend no longer on this platform some time ago said that one day we'll wake up and google will have shut down google scholar with absolutely no notice, and i really can't help but feel he's very right

Discord, who recently leaked a heap of personal data in a security breach, wants my personal data to let me access a channel I created in a server I created. Thank you, Australian government.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

News from me: after years of not being able to have my soundtrack for Untitled Goose Game on Bandcamp - it's now on @bandcamp.com. I'm also in a slow process of having my music (including Goose Game) removed from Spotify, for their treatment of artists, their politics, and their embrace of AI.

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...

Just want to say that Emily who I am absurdly lucky to be married to has done amazing things and I am so glad and proud that against all reasonable odds she has been funded for a DECRA

It’s not important that Australia wins. It’s important that England loses.

Horrible guy.

what’s this then www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases remember remember the 5th of november 👀

Also: anyone who wants to use this as a chance to wallow in doom and despair can fuck right off - every tonne of CO2 matters, every fraction of a degree we prevent saves lives and ecosystems. We need to fight like HELL to save what we can, grieve what we can’t, and lock up those responsible.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

has anyone considered sending or receiving an email blast

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Had just a great time with the TSO in Hobart last night. Thanks so much for coming along Jason (and anyone else who was there too)!

Ha ha ha what the hell

This looks to be a really good move from my employer.

If you’re a mainstream thinker about technology in Australia right now you’re holding two ideas in your head: one technology, speculative and futuristic, is inevitable and inescapable and impossible to resist (AI); and another, already here and dominant, must be restricted (social media)

Parallels was great last night. Absolutely wild that Freeplay has been both the anchor and the beacon for experimental and independent game development in this country for 21 years now.

Does this feel like the final migw or is it just me

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Evergreen post

Incredibly generous review of our brand new Joe Hisaishi show at the Opera House and Sydney Symphony from Limelight. Still three shows to go!

Such a surreal thrill to see MFL complete and released into the world! This new 1.0 includes more than 35 mins of new music by the way which I actually suspect makes MFL the game I have written the most music for, ever. Really keen to hear what people think, because I reckon this game is brilliant.