Me, to my dissolute gamer son: get offa that computing game and drive trucks for your country, you lazy bastard. Also me: Whaddya mean yer only getting 36mpbs down? I'm paying for the 500 meg service. You get on the internet and find a faster computer game machine right now young man!

Yeah, but what was in it for Bill?

Willow had a little home visit from the vet today.

Same energy

This is the second cafe I’ve been in this week rockin’ out to the Doobie Brothers. The 70s are back, baby!

Honestly, I’m with Carol. She’s killed about 20 million people, but she’s makes some good points in Ep 2.

This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT

Aggressively unkempt: I did not expect this particular regret so late in life. I have so many other, graver, more operatic failings to lament. And yet, here I am, at sixty-one, uncomfortably aware that I’ve never really had… style.

Finally getting around to reading the End of Days series by @birmo.bsky.social, and finished Zero Day Code last night quite late but then started straight in on Fail State because I was so into it. So I’ve had fuck all sleep but I’ll be repeating the process tonight! Go read them!

Down at the coast for the weekend and came across this amazing bookstore. It’s fantastic. And it’s in Pacific Fair, of all places!

Cape Byron Serendipity single malt and Brookies macadamia liqueur, the Mystic Mac at Social Eating House, Broadbeach. My new favourite.

Dear @birmo.bsky.social, this is a crime lol. “A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-very-spe...

I want to be your sledgehammer, soft rock loving Australia

Watched A House of Dynamite. It was good. But now I’m not.

My problem with AI isn’t grifters it to flood to the market with shit. 90% of everything has always been shit. My problem is grifters flooding my email with their shitty marketing scams. I have half a dozen emails this morning offering tailored campaigns to improve the sales of particular books.

I remember my first driving lesson. Tony, my instructor, picked me up at four in the afternoon as a giant grey-green anvil of thunderheads piled up in the western sky. It was fine, thanks to Tony, who was an utter and degenerate rogue of a man.

I don’t know why more coffee shops or any coffee shops really don’t make their iced black coffee with fizzy water. It’s right there people! a fizzy iced long black. it would be like a Coke but without all the shit and it would be great. I really need someone to do this

JFC I’m in an Uber and drive time FM is on and I sort of understand why our civilization is doomed

Finished watching Boots. It was good.

Times are tough for everyone. Prince Harry’s catching the bus.

I’ve had a LOT of new followers this week. Has there been a botsplosion or something?

Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.

So read these & tell me why the Nobel Committee ignored @birmo.bsky.social for yet another year

Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...

Every bit of this by @birmo.bsky.social, because I keep wondering how the Bible and its engagement levels would have turned out if the storytelling model used by the Apostles et al for their LLM (Large Lord Morality) was based on the TikTok of Gilgamesh. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story

I read the phrase “plot-based media” for the first time this week, and I died a little inside. The context was the unleashening of Sora, OpenAI’s new hybrid video extruder and anti-social network...

This is gonna be one of those weeks when I get the day wrong every day isn’t it

I’m an old man and I don’t understand things. Has Tay Tay entered the discourse again?

Brilliant piece by @birmo.bsky.social on corporations not paying tax and how the people in charge want you to blame baristas, foreigners and single mums for the fact your hospitals are busted. He's talking about Australia, but it's true for everyone, everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

if anyone needs a distraction, this is very well written and quite infuriating piece from @birmo.bsky.social aliensideboob.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

Lord Rupert’s various shit sheets & Russian propaganda channels did not, it seems, earn enough to bother the scorers at the Tax Office. Which is to say that, unlike you, they earned $1.8 billion last year, but the ATO didn’t even rattle the tin at the Murdoch family, because what would be the point?

Wrote some kickarse chapters today, and ironically, no arses were kicked in the writing of the chapters.

Jeffries at high school, head being held deep down in the toilet: “We hope and expect that the bullies will soon cease flushing.”

Reading Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name and I have to keep stopping because OMFG she makes you feel it, and ‘it’ is not always good.

Sigh. Is he dead yet?

Your airborne toxic event has been scheduled... "Unless they’re bringing a big sack full o’ Bitcoin stencilled with the word ‘Loot’ in 300pt Comic Sans, most world leaders will tell you that a meeting with Trump isn’t something you approach with ‘hope’."

Ah fuck. I forgot to rapture.

This is why Orin is my favorite

Wrote a good chapter today. Saturday chapters are the best.

Buffy, Star Trek and World War 3.2. How I came to Zettelkasten: "That kind of chaos is part of the fun of writing a novel, but it doesn’t scale to a nine-book arc w/ dozens of narrators spread across multiple continents & decades. And keeping a single note on my phone wasn’t working anymore."

I'M COMIN' FOR YOU MATT HAIG AND HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME

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When books are thoughtfully arranged, they help us arrange our thoughts... When not hidden behind barricades of other books, when not stacked into precarious towers, each title becomes a kind of waypoint, a visible record of a mind genuinely searching for particular ideas.

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And Trump’s handler was Canadian, which is why you’ve never seen her

Emergent American Fascism?

Been editing the manuscript for WW3.2 with manflu and maybe it’s the Lemsip talking, but I wonder if I should leave in some typos to show that it was written by a human

I have manflu.

There’s just something about the cat’s bed…