@samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social on Sumner Locke Elliot's late-life coming-out novel, Fairyland. Listen to the podcast: apple.co/4nVRuAW

Loved being a part of this podcast and writing about SLE!

Australian real estate culture is rotten. A take on everything.

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. 📰 AFR ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social ✍️ @edmundtadros.bsky.social 🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

What can we glean from the last bastion of regular television book coverage? @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social finds out. killyourdarlings.com.au/article/brin...

Finally a hot bisexual man. The representation we needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

i feel like there's probably a better way to dunk on ai tools than using them extensively so you can post all the poor results that in turn encourages even more people to use them to post their "funny" mistakes. true believers don't care, you're just amplifying its use and feeding it more user data.

I would like to read my very interesting book on the bus but instead I have to listen to your very boring conversation.

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI

I challenge Australians to have normal conversations on public transport, or, better yet, none at all.

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Again, someone hoping to provide report cards on universities advocates for this role in a report that would likely fail as an undergraduate paper for lack of citations and evidence of its many claims.

In a week that the Yoorook Commission found a genocide had taken place in Victoria, and the NT coroner found the territory was rife with (potentially fatal) racism, Albanese ignored both. He owns the furore that followed, and the mess it has become.

Glad to announce my next book The Mush Room: Australian Publishing's Rushed Erin Patterson Books will be out in a few weeks. Start writing it tomorrow!

The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoy’s antisemitism plan

“Israel is massacring Palestinians at aid sites every day” is the headline you scumbags www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The word is "massacres"

Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some of these films are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin on our list of significant political films. Published June 22, 2023: https://trib.al/4OEgh53

This is so fucking evil

Keep forgetting to post about it (everything's frantic, prepping for this + working to get the @londonaustfilm.bsky.social festival line-up sorted), but I'm doing my first keynote tomorrow, as part of the PICNIC @ 50 symposium at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, organised by Jonathan Rayner and SCRIF.

Respect the game

Shout out to @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social for writing this incredible book on film in Australia. Witty, fascinating and at times (for a film student wanting to make Australian works) disheartening

Really proud of this piece in the new Griffith Review.

“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Just two perfect heroes hanging out

Is this relevant?

Fixed it

New hat. Who dis

KYD commissioned me to take a look back on The Book Club (2006 - 2017) and what I found was a long storied history of film, book and cultural criticism on ABC TV, but a complete dearth of that sort of coverage today, when it should be easier and cheaper to make than ever.

Endless shame on Creative Australia and their cowardly Board for their racist cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi, which has given license to others to target him. The damage they have done is incalculable. This is yet another a disgusting and racist action. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

Watching the US from over here it very much looks like this is it, the thing we've been creeping towards for over twenty years is actually happening. No idea how it feels to be there, particularly if you're in a relatively secure position (white, middle-class, cis). Scared for everyone I know there.

Two Soderbergh movies in cinemas in two months. This was the promise of Horizon Parts 1 and 2 delivered.

Watched Derek Jarman's Edward II with @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social, who found the most correct letterboxd review

Not aimed at anyone specific but noticing a lot of writers/women’s/ideas festivals that still don’t include issues around fatness or fat women speaking on other things! With ozempic & TikTok’s rising pro anorexia shit, it’s a very good time to include fat ppl in your thoughts, projects & politics!

Did you hear about the Greens new arts policy? We will: - Pilot a living wage for 10,000 artists - Put an artist in residence in every public school and library - $2bn investment in the arts over a decade - $300 million capital fund to expand and renew arts infrastructure

The damage is spreading www.theage.com.au/culture/art-...

The year is 2025 and every artist, writer, musician, actor, everyone & every form of culture has been cancelled to protect Israel's genocide. Somehow we're still saying "this sets a dangerous precedent" when we are well beyond that, this is the ever-expanding silence that follows

Strange that significant elements of Australia’s artistic and political elite were more vociferous in defending Bill Henson’s photos of naked children than Khaled Sabsabi’s art.

Hey so yesterday was a special one: a tribute on Screen Sounds to David Lynch. Thanks to everyone who listened in and has messaged, obviously meant a lot to be able to pull this one together.

I don't even know what to Bluesky about.

Philanthropist Simon Mordant has “resigned as an Ambassador to the now cancelled project and withdrawn [his] financial support." He says "The Pavilion should remain empty in solidarity with Khaled. A very dark day for Australia and the Arts”. theconversation.com/a-shameful-c...

Media Watch on Lattouf last night generally sensible critique, but the implication Lattouf shouldn’t have been hired because she previously expressed an opinion on the war is absurd and not found in any policy. This is from a network that has previously hired Howard-era immigration ministers ffs.

Sam's book is one of the best reads about Australian actors making it overseas. Captivating, well-researched, and just all round good writing.

I'm enjoying this!