Come on in. The water’s like a bath.

It is so over for you cunze.

I can't think of two films that look more like one another than Branagh's 'Hamlet' and Lynch's 'Dune'. I will not be taking questions.

It’s absolutely astounding stuff that people — elected politicians even — are flat out saying that the reason cops are prowling the streets of Sydney with semi-automatic rifles is to make people “feel” safer. And that this security theatre is a *good* thing.

MELBOURNE: Do you want to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social at the Athenaeum tomorrow night? Bummer because it’s sold out. BUT I’ve got two tickets that I can’t use, so first to ping me can have them. www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com

Early fireworks in the Mallee, which is good because I can go to bed now.

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Man. Remember “fuzzy logic”? It was the AI of the day — they were shovelling whatever it was into *everything*. Still don’t know what it claimed to do but I’m pretty sure our dishwasher had it.

Bitch, I’m Sir Idris Elba. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

Temu really wants me to buy a chainsaw for $0.01 and I’m inclined to buy 100 of them.

Airports during the interregnum. Avoid.

We're in the studio today, and these ship from here, so if you order now, you might get lucky: www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...

At least Brigette Bardot made the trains run on time.

Getting up in the middle of the night, thirsty and bleary-eyed and grabbing a Sprite from the mini-bar only to discover the green can is in fact a beer is only made worse by that beer being a Carlsberg.

This is what Radiohead sounds like to me.

It is absolutely outrageous that I have to know what a “Will Stancil” is.

Sydney Treasure Hunt going well. Just spotted a wild Jane Caro.

My favourite episode of this had someone come in with a suitcase jam-packed with cryovac pouches of bear fat, and when Customs said “what’s all this then old mate” the guys said “Not for food. Is for religion”. Unbeatable television.

Test batting just fkn sucks at the moment. Give me a 5th drop with an undiagnosed inguinal hernia who grinds out 74 runs over three sessions, runs out of partners, and is carried off field with heat exhaustion. Now I’m a happy man.

Look at this and tell me the theme from The Odd Couple doesn’t immediately start cranking from the tv of your mind.

Wish I had relatives in NSW so I could call “just to say hi” and then steer the conversation immediately to whatever that cocksmoker Chris Minns said the day before. I feel like I’ve earned it.

Chris Minns perpetually looks like he needs to check the cooktop before leaving the house for the 3rd time, which is the same illogical approach he takes being premier.

We have now arrived in Sydney and under the Glorious People’s Soviet Republic of Victoria’s strict citizenship laws I am required to say it’s rather shit.

Narrator: It was the *best* part.

I am 100% certain that selectively arming one ethno-religious cohort while threatening to cut off the water and electricity of another will see us through this terrible time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is the grim stuff. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

Yeah, this.

On reading about the problemic French actor’s death I immediately had a deep desire to listen to “Live on both sides” by Jemeni The Gifted One (and Dangermouse). Why? It samples the fanfare from Gainsbourg’s “Initials BB”. That is some *serious* cultural influence.

The smart money is on Goetz.

My 2026 Hill is nudge economics.

Yes, AND, we need a station wagon incentive scheme to right this nightmare. You buy a PHEV station wagon and you get something good like a tax rebate or a gentle soapy massage from John Cena.

Finally, someone says what we are all thinking.

Slow going against a weak southerly for the bulk of the Sydney to Hobart yachts.

Minns seems absolutely determined to create the perfect conditions for a Rum Corps Waco. And his hair is stupid.

Avatar’s cultural relevance is misunderstood unless you read it (as I, a genius, do) as an expression of furriedom and the ineffable yearning to either be or fuck a big blue cat.

Wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was a baller I wish had a girl And she owned a prawn trawler

People get hella mad about the Sydney to Hobart being a rich person’s sport that should get no media attention and then come March they whack it to bits watching Formula One.

podcasts are for in the car/train/bus if you want video you are a pervert.

Pokémon or Pill? 💊 I made a silly little game where you guess if a name is a Pokémon or a pharmaceutical drug. Can be harder than you'd think 🙂 Maybe something to challenge your family and friends with over the holidays? pokepill.net

Save a life. Buy a station wagon. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Wild. Just checked our position on Marine Tracker and it turns out we just passed MS The World, the residential ship for the mega-wealthy that just goes around the planet doing rich people stuff. It is headed for Burnie, Tasmania.

Australia’s greatest cultural exports are Hemsworthen, and the idea of strong-arming poor island client-states into establishing and running concentration camps on our behalf.

Passenger Pigeons populations were once so incomprehensibly large that in North America in 1866 one flock in flight was estimated as 1.5km wide and 500km long. If that flew over you, it would take a full five hours to pass overhead. Yet I have never seen them so much as mentioned in a Western.

Whoever gets into the White House next (time comes for us all) will need to redecorate in their own way. The precedent being set, it’s going to be like slogans on Victorian number plates, changing pointlessly with each new regime. Cannot fkn wait.

I love this new form of the game. 2 days is as long as I can pay attention.

Overdue moral victory for Australia.

Stumbled across this essay series and this graphic is a doozy. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

Motion to call that billionaire’s whining about civility on here “The Cuban Facile Crisis”. Ring the bells.

Sublime use of what I assume/infer is photogrammetry here. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Graphics: the worst thing to happen to video games in the last half century