Herzog: "It was Australian soldiers who liberated the Holy Land as one of the greatest steps towards the creation of the homeland of the Jewish people." Maybe not quite the right note to strike, less than a week after the IDF destroyed the graves of Australian soldiers buried in Gaza.

The most American thing about DS9 is that Quark used the labour of enslaved people and Odo upheld the system of enslavement, and no one thinks they should face any consequences whatsoever for that.

Some people responding to this as if I have proposed going through every season of Star Trek and erasing 16 episodes from each. Which is patently absurd. I would only do that to Babylon 5.

me watching the forecast high for Laneway on Friday drop to 20-21

I wanna thank the leftist powers that be for organising today's Herzog protests for a time when normies with office jobs who live in the outer suburbs can attend.

I'm back in the office for the first time since before Christmas, and I want to thank Past Liz for switching her bluetooth keyboard and mouse off before she went away.

It really does feel like we're going back to the era when you had to move overseas to be taken seriously as an Australian artist or creative professional, and that's depressing.

Love that we need Amnesty advising us of our rights now that states have decided protesting a genocide should be illegal.

Pimple patches are the greatest cosmetic development of the last 20 years, except now I'm down to the last few patches on the sheet, and they're all massive and won't stay in place.

In five years, WaPo will be publishing the weirdest, most niche news. Will it be accurate? Maybe. Will it have a pleasant vibe most of the time? Absolutely? Will it, for some reason, be absolutely chock full of the worst pornography you can imagine? You betcha!

"Star Trek needs to return to 26-episode seasons." It was so difficult to achieve a season that long in the '90s that TNG, DS9 and Voyager had an open submission policy. Some years they literally did not have enough scripts and had to resort to the reject pile.

Escapist Routes is up! This week I'm looking at The Night Manager, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Fallout, Hijack and The Pitt. But some of these are only touched on briefly because I've been super busy and A Knight... is not very good.

Reports from the Auckland and Gold Coast Laneway Festivals: - food poisoning from a truck at Laneway (not allowed to bring own food in) - wheelchair accessible exits closed off at Gold Coast, all exits closed when Chappell took the stage - food and water ran out at GC - also no shade at the GC

I am always surprised by Trekkies who treat Star Trek as a literal encyclopedia of future events, instead of as a set of stories that reflect the context of their creation, and which can provide a starting point for new stories, both within the franchise and beyond, through fan and original works.

TikTok is fun.

I know I only did six months of a journalism degree, but I thought the rule was that when you get this sort of instruction, you immediately report on it

A surprising number of our comments on TikTok are men arguing that men should be able to cuddle and gaze intently into each other's eyes without it being gay, and I do not disagree, HOWEVER

JayDar is real. #StarfleetAcademy

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

'No longer can West Australians tell themselves their state is immune to the falling social cohesion and rising conflict seen elsewhere.' I'mma looking fwd to reading a critical discourse analysis on the proliferation of the term s0ciAL c0hEsi0n in AUS jernalism. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Accidentally articulating why SFA reminds me of the Netflix reboot of Heartbreak High. Only with no drugs and a Klingon named Jay-Den instead of eshays.

LOVE THIS. I have a relative who sometimes comes out with something utterly unhinged and high-key antisemitic, and it's always because they've been chatting to their SSPX friends. And then I have to gentle parent them back to reality.

This cost almost $400 that I don’t have so if anyone would like to donate to our found cat, here’s my info. We named her Saja, after KPop Demon Hunters. It means ‘lion.’ venmo.com/u/pixiedane

It's amazing how fast "social cohesion" has gone from being a milquetoast phrase to a giant red flag

This is a very good point!

My specific beefs are a little different to Keith's, and I think it's an overall okayish episode, but ALSO I agree with him, and now I know how ENT fans felt when they watched "These Are The Voyages..."

With all due respect to Transport Victoria, I feel like the night of Laneway is a bad time to run train replacement buses.

They harassed Yassmin Abdel-Magied to the point she left Australia for good

We are at the "clearly inspired the villain in a middle grade novel" stage of JK Rowling's fall.

It should be against the constitution for ABC shows to be removed from iView and put on Stan

It is 2027, Australia no longer has any arts festivals

Finally had time to read this article in full, and it's alarming to see how it conflates "explicitly antisemitic or strong anti-Israel positions" and "pro-Palestinian or anti-colonial statements". Because that is a whole spectrum of nuance!

Me: I should wash my sheets, they are covered in cat hair Colin: mother scorns my gifts and conceals my presence from the world. i must redouble my efforts and shed more Dale: you should vomit in her bed

Australia is like that kid at school who gets bullied but is still a fawning sycophant with the bullies, therefore participating in their own subjugation

It's kind of sweet that actors and professional media outlets are so excited by this week's Starfleet Academy that they keep breaking the embargo and then deleting.

I know this is serious, but I can't stop laughing at Jeff's phrasing Scoundrel time!

The spokesperson added: “We emphasise that underground terrorist infrastructure was identified within the cemetery and in its surrounding area, which the IDF located and dismantled." Guys, the British and Australia war dead were Hamas.

I feel like it's probably bad that anyone who tries to participate in public life in Australia is subjected to a McCarthyist purity test by the Murdoch press which extends to the actions and opinions of their extended family.

And with that, I am DONE with The Power Broker! What a magnificent book! Aside from the inexplicable decision to exclude the work of Jane Jacobs; don't think I did not notice how Caro wrote about women and people of colour: with the benevolent condescension of the 1970s liberal.

*UPDATED POSTER* The list of cities and towns now participating in the nationwide action against Herzog’s hate is at 24 and counting. This is what social cohesion looks like. Please share 🙏🏽

Made a Caesar salad tonight, and it turns out it’s possible to use too much garlic. But I also added chilli crisp, which made it tasty again.

Albanese's baby photo opp and caption that it's a reminder of "who we are for" is posted on the eve of welcoming Israel's Herzog - a man who signed bombs that blow up children and who is complicit in a genocide.

I think our podcast makes a lot of sense when you realise that I was a Debate Kid and @manicpixie.meangirls.online was a Theatre Kid. And this episode makes more sense when you realise that we totally missed that Jay-Den has three parents. In our defence, Dad #2 was a background extra.

Sending this week's podcast to the RSS feed, and noting with interest that we're getting good numbers for our SFA coverage, but not like what we got for season 3 of SNW. As usual, being negative about something that everyone wants negativity about is what gets you numbers.

Okay please shit on jkr But don’t use the logic “it’s suspicious an adult wanted to make a magical world for children” Bc that’s how you get “everyone who works on media for children should be jailed” ass logic

Too braindead for Matlock so it’s SVU time. Cousin from The Bear is here! I don’t think he’s the bad guy, his eyelashes are too pretty.

When you read that OpenAI, which is partnered with Microsoft and regards Google as a major rival, uses GoogleDocs for documentation

Caramel is fine. Sometimes it’s good. Mostly it’s just there.

We need to get back to proper TV seasons: 92 x 45 minute episodes, like season 2 of A Country Practice. If cast, crew and writers aren’t all desperately sick and being hospitalised with exhaustion by the final stretch, I don’t want to know.