Please, God, let this be true.

NO I FUCKING DONT

I’m gonna need my seven cent royalty.

Thing I like about long distance EV driving is the opportunity for post apocalyptic photography it offers

The phrase "rubfucking a jackboot tamagotchi" will have me cackling all day.

I should be allowed to eat with a bib.

World War 3.2: The Axis of Time by @birmo.bsky.social is 99p. Not yet read it, but mainly because I'm slow. The first trilogy is great. www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-3-...

The loneliness of the long distance EV driver. (Me. I’m the driver).

I’m at the Paris Cat in Melbourne and this band is fucking kicking it!

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

On the myth of a left wing media

"I came to Gwynne’s The Faithful and the Fallen series in a doomscrolling fugue state. I snapped one night and decided I wanted a long book with lots of good guys hurting lots of bad guys with edged weapons. Gwynne delivered on this with operatic super-abundance."

My dictation software just rendered Albo as elbow, and I think I have stumbled onto a great running joke for the column

this is the worst thing that has ever happened to anybody in history

Did a nice analog thing tonight. A chat Avid Reader bookshop with Anna Goldsworth about her great Quarterly Essay. A full house and a fun discussion

Just finished reading Anna Goldsworthy’s Quarterly Essay on AI. JFC what an amazing piece of work.

I should really barbecue more.

Me. Wants to watch Widow’s Bay. But is a giant scaredy cat.

Be pretty funny if this new bloke became British PM, took one look at AUKUS, and went “Are you fookin kidding me. We’re not doing this shite.”

I’m at Saint Marthe in Mt Tambourine for lunch and this is the very first Cosmopolitan I have ever had. It’s very nice.

The banner descended & the commentariat did what it does best: agreed with itself, instantly, at volume: “Oh noes! GetUp just gifted her the victim narrative she came for”. Mmmaybe. But then the mainstream media reads these things through the lens of, um, the mainstream media.

Hearing from sources close to the government that Albo is chairing an emergency meeting to see whether we can get America to attack us, too. Feeling the heat from Opposition criticism that he should have picked up the phone to Trump before Iran got all the money.

Dead yet?

Have become obsessed with The Hold Steady album “Thrashing thru the Passion” to the point where I’m considering writing a story set in The Cruel Stars universe which is basically Seph and her crew doing the rip off from “The Stove and the Toaster.” youtu.be/L9tu5Jv-j4I?...

A calming five minute meditation for the end of the world

I don't know much about basketball, but I assume these Spurs fellows are like the team that plays the Harlem Globetrotters, yes?

LOL’ing at ‘extreme violence’. Top-shelf copywriting from the marketing mavens at Random House.

I ate the mystery chicken in the freezer and I now fear there is no mystery about what is going to happen to me

Man, the worst really are fucking full of passionate intensity, aren't they?

I meant to write a quick reply to a fan about an old book series. Ended up writing a small essay about the long, slow death of traditional publishing. (And why it’s not all bad).

Trying hard not to buy these discounted headphones. I don’t need them. But they’re discounted.

I spent a long hard day in an ER. It was amazing. (And it turned out fine).

Fucking really pissed off at how Patreon is brute forcing creators to use its bullshit social media thing. Nobody wants another social network. Nobody. Except the fucking chodes running Patreon.

This guy reminds me of a pretty hard-working character actor but I will be damned if I can remember his name or even the films he’s in. Can you think of who I might be misremembering?

Why can’t everything just be cool?

Holy fuck!

Just fuckingdiealready would you…

Privatisation. Union busting. Wage suppression. Tax cuts for the rich. Welfare cuts for the poor. Service cuts for everyone else. After 70 years of this shit, you’re still paying a third of every dollar you earn to prop up a system that taxes billionaires an effective rate of 1.9% on their assets.

shes much happier now the storm is over

In a scary thunderstorm you take whatever support you can get

that student? herman melville

A glass car? Oh, Sir Jony, you've done it again! Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant, sir. Why has nobody thought of this before!

OMG I just discovered The Mountain Goats why did none of you tell me about this band?

Just had a strange encounter in a toilet. An Irishman came up to me & said he really liked my fragrance. It confused me because I wasn’t wearing any. Then I remembered - ”Oh that’s the shoulder of slow cooked lamb I ate at lunch,” I said. “Oh Jayzus, that’s it to be sure,” he said. Then I ran away.

I just realised after searching all of my old files and emails that I don't have any of the digital archive of my research for Leviathan because it predates online backup. I don't even have a digital copy of the ms. I might have to go to a pirate site to get one!

On the hysteria of the week.

"In 1999, John Howard and Peter Costello ... handed the investor class a 50 per cent discount on capital gains tax. ... an open invite to turn the housing market into a national blood sport based on the conviction that if you had a lot of money, you deserved more money." @birmo.bsky.social #AusPol

open.substack.com/pub/aliensid... @birmo.bsky.social pours a much needed bucket of icy cold water on the hysterics screaming about the Federal Budget #auspol

Okay. Ready to write my column.