The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Roll out, Troops! The Genetic Infantryman has landed! deadline.com/2026/04/rogu...

just a regular reminder to folks that while, yes, hot goth chicks are hot, they're also goths, and as a whole goths are the lord's most tiresome people. wanting a hot goth gf is like when you see people saying they want exotic wildcats as pets. sure, some people can manage it, but not you

Kenneth Anger spectacularly failed the audition for Superman

Going back over my old Livejournal last night, I was reminded of the time I met Dubya (or his cardboard stunt double) at 2SER when APEC was happening here in 2007...

This is a bridge over the Cooks River at Tempe on a rather cool and clear pre dawn autumn morning. Sometimes Sydney names things in an interesting way, sometimes names are a little too obvious. This bridge has two names, the Tempe Bridge or the Cooks River Bridge at Tempe.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

#FilmSky #MovieSky Tonight's viewing: ALRAUNE (1928) This is a film of surprising importance to me for reasons it'd take too long to explain here; suffice to say thanks to @deafcrocodile.bsky.social for putting it out there.

Jesus facepalmed.

Oh my GOD look at this kitten

OK, I've now heard Angine de Poitrine and, yeah, slightly less than one song was more than enough.

Poor Richard Hanania doesn’t seem to grasp that if you suck to begin with, the question is moot

A very lively aurora Borealis this evening……

💀 James Ensor's Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891) is peak weird Belgium. Two bickering skulls tug a herring across a pastel sky — one even sports a fur hat. Ensor's darkly comic masterpiece helped shape Expressionism. Utterly unhinged. Utterly brilliant. 🎨 #ArtHistory #FineArt

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

you're laughing? orban is eating shit immediately after our loser vice president went there to try to help him in the biggest display of contagious loserdom in history, and you're laughing? yeah, me too

I’m in the bush this morning! Well not quite. The is the top of a hill called Mount Steel and on the other side of the gum trees is the Moore Park Golf Course driving range. At my back is the Sydney City skyline. A crisp dawn ahead of another warm autumn day.

The day #gives its final cue. #7syllablesentence #blueskypoets #nature #photography #sunset

Sunday

David Cronenberg’s ‘Dead Ringers’, but instead of Jeremy Irons, it starts Corey Haim and Corey Feldman made up to look like identical twins

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

The Coat Hanger, a Sydney icon. Silhouetted against a cool autumn dawn. No politics, no trolls… just a feeling of timeless serenity.

TIME FOR THE BIRTH OF TERROR

🐾🐱🧡🐶🧡🐱🐾 In these dark times, we have one constant ray of sunshine in our lives. Our pets. Cherish them today and always. #nationalpetday #adoptdontshop #caturday #dogsofbluesky

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

Beautiful Merovingian brooch of the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’, AD 660-670. Found during excavations ahead of construction works at the Grand Place, Quaregnon, Belgium, in 2008-2009. Gold, silver, copper-alloy, garnet, and glass. Diameter 5.6cm. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

The Brope - at last, a Pope for men

Go out with Fachtna if you like, Áine, I couldn't care less. I'm just warning you though, I took a slash next to him at the urinal once and his knob looks like a

“If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.” -Tom Lehrer #BOTD

Wikipedia app's 'picture from previous page in browsing history' bug is playing a blinder today

I'm calling bullshit on today's Wordle.

In the '80s, Harlan Ellison wrote about the Voyager 1 flyby of Saturn and noted his dismay about this amazing achievement of humanity having to share headlines with a devastating war in Iran. Almost half a century later, here we are again: cretinous leaders tainting wonder with needless bloodshed.

I'm sure this can't be as good as that description, but I must see this somehow now I know it exists.

If genAI becomes the accepted "new norm" in major film/TV production or Big 5 book publishing, I'll be watching/reading a lot less new stuff. Same with music, etc. I'd happily rather spend the rest of my life in a pre-2020s media bubble than embrace the anti-art, anti-human, anti-life theft machine.

A ten second exposure flattened the waves and gave the clouds an eerie look. I’m at the southern end of Bondi Beach to take in the classic colours of a Sydney autumn dawn.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

#FilmSky #MovieSky Tonight's viewin: THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T. (1953)

Sydney’s Waverley Cemetery was established in 1877, often cited as one of the most beautiful in the world. Some famous are buried here, and on a cool morning, all the gravestones turn to greet the new day.

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

When you go abroad on a 3 week holiday with a friend you don’t really know that well

There will never be another sentence that goes harder than this: “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

🧵Spotted at a Country Easter Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (3?) is full of all the woe. Lip quivering. Mum says: "What's wrong?" Small Human wails: "There's TOO MANY THINGS and I am having VERY BIG FEELINGS!" Mum picks her up for a hug. "One bite at a time. That's how we do it." (1)

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, reload and fire again. The moon must be stopped at all costs.

Has to be Mamdani by default. Trump has no religious beliefs.