seems we didn't need either #MichaelMovie or #BohemianRhapsody when they could've just dramatised this single encounter and mined more emotional depth than both biopics combined #FreddieMercury #MichaelJackson

portrait of my dog waking me up at 3am to remind me to get a good night sleep cos i have a couple of deadlines today (taken by chance on my phone when i was bleary-eyed n checking the time). #writingcommunity #DogsOfBluesky

Finally caught It Was Just an Accident — and it more than earns the hype. Thrilling, sad, funny, unsettling… and its portrait of ordinary Iranians now hits with added political force and poignancy in the shadow of the war #ItWasJustAnAccident #Film #Cinephile

i'm a freelance writer literally trying to do my tax right now and I feel this stupid about numbers #writingcommunity

Cool story about street art and ephemerality. Megan Hicks tells the little-known tale of Banksy's 2003 'Diver' stencil on Alfalfa House in Newtown, Sydney. Sadly covered over now. I wonder if there were/are any other #Banksy works in Sydney? @bbbanksy.bsky.social #art #streetart #graffiti

vale James. For me he'll always be the host of ABC's Afternoon Show: giving me and other millennials a crucial intro to the Goodies, #DoctorWho et al. 40 years later, I still vividly recall him pretending to be attacked by the studio lights after an ep of the Tom Baker classic "Seeds of Doom". #RIP

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

funny how vague concepts like “pivot” keep popping up in all the “AI will upend white-collar work” talk ... especially for mid-to-late career professionals, pivot to what exactly? Soylent green?

ME: yeh so writing is inherently solitary so i try to get out and socialise for my mental health. Anyway, good to chat to you again.. SELF CHECKOUT: please take your receipt and items from the bagging area. #writingcommunity

oh man, fighting with your own lead actor in the courts - while your $22m feel-good musical is in cinemas ... uh, there's definitely such a thing as bad publicity

gotta urgent deadline today and this blank word doc I've just opened seems to be giving me the Gen Z stare #writingcommunity

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

the #25amendment stuff always reminds me how relatively easy it is in my country (Australia) to dump the narcissistic weirdos who inevitably end up in charge; true, we just replace them with another narcissistic weirdo, but it kinda freshens things up a bit

This year is going to be absolute carnage for British business. Trump's escapade in Iran – and everything that's going to spiral out of it – is going to hit the UK harder than most, because Brexit has left us exposed. It'll finish off countless firms which were already barely hanging on. 15/18

for my April #writingchallenge I will finish the first draft of my WIP before society collapses #writingcommunity

just looking for a bit of clarity if i'm supposed to dust off the Edwardian face-fuzz and get the ol' horse and buggy out of my storage shed #fuelcrisis

finally saw #MartySupreme over the weekend, yeh, i think it's interesting how much his precocious, abrasive onscreen character is blurred with the 'real' Chamalet persona; i thought social media had killed this kind of good old-fashioned movie stardom, but no it's back and self-aware (maybe)

when it comes to TV reboots, we should be talking about a live action version of Bananaman - c'mon people 🧐

had a blood test earlier, went ok, I'm sorta familiar with nervously handing over something fairly personal for the judgement of an anonymous professional, then just ... waiting to see what it means, it's kinda a writer's thing, very cosy. #writingcommunity

man, that vague-post is operating at a level of context-deficient specificity you can really feel. it’s pure insinuation that could feed a million dreams. you know the one i mean

We were crucified nearby… how often can you say that?

"Klaatu, barada ... nikto!": me trying to open the auto garage door when the battery on the remote has run down (again)

"self-publishing is about finding your unique voice and story..." #writingcommunity

a 60-year-old version of the show accidentally attaining a kind of currency just as the modern iteration seems to be fading and moribund feels very doccy who #DoctorWho

the #Atlassian thing is a good reminder that despite what your employer's PR team might say, a corporation is never your "friend", let alone your "family" ... unless of course they mean one with similar internal politics to the Corleones

"thank you for everything you have committed to our epic story" - funny how corporate jargon designed to engender a team "culture" seems spectacularly hollow when they're giving said team the boot #AI #Atlassian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

watching 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' on International Women's Day seemed apt; its Kafkaesque representation of motherhood, where the individual is relentlessly stripped of agency while subject to intense judgement, makes it a hell of an experience especially in these callous, dehumanising times

for a March writing challenge, i have committed myself to producing at least 50 exasperated sighs per day #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

i know that projection and idealisation of celebrity has a lot to do with the mess the world is in right now, but screw it, i'm all in on Harrison Ford worship right now.

Pauline Hanson’s ‘surge’ has made the front page of the ‘New York Times’, but even in their reporting, not one word is said about what her non-immigration-related policies might be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

joining the collective outburst of "ah, smeg. 😢" www.nme.com/news/tv/red-...

what no, of course i don't mind you posted that dishevelled photo of me on insta and tagged me; cool to be reminded of the inescapable ravages of time on a Thursday morning

this superb article reads like tragi-farce, a Doctor Strangelove reboot where the "war room" is now some silicon valley corporate frat house & its assembled tech-bros are insisting that the smartest way forward is to be aggressively thoughtless, all the way to the apocalypse

Imagine thinking it's a good time to shit on Lakemba while all of Sydney plans to hit up the amazing food and atmosphere at Ramadan Nights It's wild to me the media keeps printing articles about how Hanson has her finger on the pulse

i love me a character actor who commits to a kinda thankless role to serve the story & Robert Duvall in M*A*S*H is one of the greatest examples of that: the way he plays Frank Burns dead straight, without winking at us or sending him up, gives the satire real edge. RIP to a great one #RobertDuvall

watched After Hours (1985) last night, a film I've (until now) had a blind-spot about, but then it is a weird beast: a screwball comedy, with the heft of Scorsese's trademark dynamism - smart, urban, mean, anxious - and a glorious bit from Catherine O'Hara, to boot. #MartinScorsese #CultFilm

stayed in with my partner over the weekend and we watched that Together horror film, and afterwards while we did the washing up (me washing, she drying, as usual), we agreed it was some kind of metaphor

i love character actors who pop up in a show and just nail it; so here's 5 guest performances from classic Who that rock deceptively tough gigs: -Mark Jones - Seeds (of Doom) -Nicholas Parsons - Fenric -Terry Scully - Seeds (of Death) -Simon Rouse - Kinda -Cynthia Grenville - Morbius #DoctorWho

go off jack white

🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

amazing how it turns out real-life villains operate on a level which is pantomimic, almost comically stupid: "stranger" than fiction, but only in respect to the imperatives (incl. blithe entitlement) at play being dumber & more banal #writingcommunity #Epstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CyD...

finished a reread of this one last night, still a fave, still bites esp with its themes of mob cruelty & social isolation, the way they create unreliable narrators; amazing how the significance of great writing echoes down the decades #writingcommunity #ClassicLit #GothicFiction #LiteraryFiction

Jean-Paul Sartre: “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company ... or at a screening of Melania."

needed an excuse to procrastinate and in the nick of time my computer asked me if I wanted to install updates, how sweet #writing #writingcommunity