You love to see it

I feel unhinged and unmoored by the news at the best of times, but why every single politician in the world who isn't a member of his party (and even then, ugh) isn't out demanding his removal right away is just absolutely astonishing

I understand this is a big jump in context, and numbers like this take a while to turn around, but is it not still sort of staggering that 85% of buyers in March 2026 are looking at petrol prices and going hey yeah hook me right up fellas

Justice for Yumi Stynes

I have been personally slighted by Jack Black

My “please do not panic about petrol shortages” national address has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my national address

Extremely hyped that my MARS FIRST LOGISTICS expanded edition soundtrack got a couple of plays on the very first episode of @bandcamp.com's 'The Game Show' - and is described as 'super irresistible', no less! Thanks Bandcamp! bandcamp.com/radio?show=927

Victorians get free public transport for a month in bid to ease surge in fuel demand

In the spirit of having nothing to say if you can't say anything nice, I have beyond nothing to say about this

Said it on other platforms but want to express my solidarity with my MEAA colleagues at the ABC on strike today. ✊

ABC News: "We understand Pauline Hanson has been speaking at the One Nation event. Let's bring you some of that now." Pauline Hanson: [incomprehensible swamp monster noises] Yeah, sounds about right to be honest... #AusPol #SAParli #SAVotes

Perennial independent Dan Golding (no relation) seems to have run again in SA with a 5% swing against him. Bless.

Remembering the pitch I wrote for A Website in 2022 about it being the year tech ate its own entrails with metaverse, NFTs, and crypto turning dollars into discourse, a strategy that would inevitably fail. Rejected for publication, sadly.

This was the strongest year for original score I can remember in years. Sinners is a worthy winner, and probably would be my choice. One Battle, Hamnet, and Bugonia are also genuinely excellent and would’ve all been my frontrunner in other years. And as the “worst”, Frankenstein is also still good!

big post for a dude whose birthday is today

Hello I am going to be in the first issue of this! Despite this fact people seem to really like the idea and it is already funded in less than a day! Very good! Go support it more! Magazines good!

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.