an axe with heart-shaped holes in the blade, japan, 14th century

Dropped my books off at the library before “Australia Day” public holiday closures, and got out three new ones. Checked out the MiniSo Land I hadn’t been into before and I guess I know where to go for Ne Zha merch now.

This is fascinating. lithub.com/how-americas...

Just gonna get this off my chest. "Young people today don't read anymore" usually from someone middle-aged or older leaving the shop without buying anything at all. Customer either side of them will be in their twenties or thirties juggling a pile of five books to the till.

How precisely do they plan to enforce their percentage of "ownership" in intellectual property when everything created by "AI" is public domain because it cannot be copyrighted?

If you’re LGBTQ+ and still using TikTok, you need to be aware of this

Australian CEOs say AI isn't creating revenue gains ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Rewatching The LEGO Movie again has confirmed my suspicions that this is one of the most Taoist films ever made that didn’t escape from the Hong Kong studios in the 1980s. Fox News may decry it as communist propaganda but its core critique of capitalist dictatorship comes from a much older ideology.

Man, The LEGO Movie hits different in 2026. A corporate businessman dictator uses cops to crush dissent and creative minds are drained of their ideas by an inhuman “Think Tank” machine like AI data centres. Truly the agitprop film for our time.

Just a reminder, Toni Morrison was 39 when she published her first book. To all you creatives out there: Keep going! You got this! 👏🏼

so, I googled to see if there's official art for the belt of gender swapping from D&D and there are so, so, so, SO many nerds who read this in some old D&D sourcebook and went, "ahha, woaw...uh...whw-...whwaw...whatt what if that happened to me haha as a joke I mean"

Thing Thing, Japan

Why aren’t we still making music like K-Ci & JoJo? Why aren’t we still making music like Jodeci? Imagine if dudes were still singing: All my life I prayed for someone like you And I hope that you feel the same way too Yes, I pray that you do love me too Male loneliness, where?

i should probably spend the majority of this year promoting my book The He-Man Effect (the story of how He-Man was just the beginning of how corporations would insert themselves into our souls, steal some of it and then sell it back to us later) alongside this reboot which proves the thesis.

Japanese poster for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

Watching Waiting To Exhale for the first time, Angela Bassett AND Whitney Houston in their prime? Plus Forest Whitaker directed this? Imma eat well this evening.

Y'all. The next time you have opportunity to listen the "Theme from SHAFT," I want you to pay attention to the way it's structured, the layers, the flow of rhythms and the interplay of instruments. It really truly is musical genius in addition to being the biggest banger ever.

It is fortunate, during this moving house, that my entire vinyl collection fits within a single crate.

Packing for the move and I found my SEGA Genesis copy of Shaq-Fu that I bought in 2019 back when I believed this cartridge contained mystical properties, maybe it does?

#quotes #DavidLynch #filmsky #moviesky

Live in a way there won't be citywide celebrations of your death.

Art by • Clyde Caldwell

Speers: "If they say Israel is engaged in genocide ... and Jewish Australians feel harassed or intimidated, they can be banned for that reason?" AG Rowland: "If those criteria are satisfied then that is the case." So, criticism of Israel is now deemed harassment & intimidation & illegal?! #auspol

Didn't realize I was starting Twin Peaks for the first time in between David's death and his birth. Happy birthday to a man whose ability to show compassion even in the darkest of subject matters is largely unmatched in cinema. #filmsky

the reaction to the death of Scott Adams should contrast particularly with the (eventual) death of Bill Watterson, who will be mourned in the style of the ancient Pharaohs, with all of Ohio entombed alive along with him

WATCH OUT JOHN LENNON

A rare sighting of the Big-Eyed Box Crouton!

Alchemy is real! Alchemy is real!! I don't know why this makes me so happy, but it does. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Whether it's illegal to say it or not (?), Israel is quite clearly committing genocide in Palestine. The Australian government (but not the Australian people) is quite clearly supporting it. And our farce of a democracy is being further eroded so people don't speak this truth.

#musicsky youtu.be/3aJvIFK9-xk?...

ABC's coverage of this bill is moronic. Nothing of substance about democracy and fascism. Focused only on individuals bickering inside the Coalition and what that means for the pointless horse race. We are so poorly served. Need Al Jazeera to start doing domestic Ausopl coverage

Vigil by George Saunders review – will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent?

Weird how I spent four years of my life at a literal former mental asylum studying visual art, and while I have some regrets I definitely don’t regret the intellectual vaccine against the YouTube cranks calling contemporary art “an assault on beauty/ugliness is an occult elite conspiracy”.

Do not wait to tell me. Contact me under any condition.

Airport doodles of people I’ve seen

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "The dark arts"

can i just say how i was only able to date a bunch of TMNT recordings was by using the Home & Away promos to look up synopses from BackToTheBay? And not every episode HAD a H&A promo, so then I was SOOL

Last night, Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass new dangerous and overreaching laws limiting speech and political expression. These rushed laws include many things to be concerned about, including deeply worrying implications for people’s ability to protest.

The Chauvel Cinema was there for me when I saw The Big Lebowski and Scarface as a double bill, and they showed my brother’s student film Enthralled on the big screen. It is a massive loss to Pattington’s film culture.

Very sad to see The Chauvel arthouse cinema in Paddington, Sydney, closing forever on 27 January. OK seats were old & uncomfortable but so many great films seen there.

Amy thought about it and decided being a dog is pretty sweet

There's nothing about AI that understands consent. The tech lords who are doggedly pushing it definitely don't. Dude when you offer a product, people have the right to say no. No means no. And they're like everybody must do this or the future is leaving them behind!

he's having a serious day at the office

Jet Li has started a YouTube channel and it seems like his intention is “Jet Li wants to be your dad” and hell yes be all of our dads Jet Li

Bought new wireless headphones from Mumu Life because my old wired headphones kept dropping out during meditation, so far they are acceptable quality even if the charging cable is so short.

One of the most Chinese things I heard recently is that the first successful film franchise in China was a martial arts series, Burning of the Red Lotus Temple. After 18 sequels, it was banned by the Republic government for the rumoured reason of inspiring kids to quit school to learn kung fu.

One of the world building elements of my horror novel is ghosts can’t change the past, but they can time travel as an observer and film it. Which means an Ea-Nasir documentary can be created.

Old Kirby Canvas Curse DS print ad 🌈