Can you spot the two howlers in chapter 34’s opening paragraph?

Cf. Cahill Expressway (1962) by Jeffrey Smart.

The kick-off moment at last night’s Brumbies vs Chiefs #superrugbypacific match in Canberra. That’s the ball in the sky, not the moon. James Slipper seized the Super Rugby matches record in his 203rd game. The Brumbies trailed 24-7 with 22 min left and stormed home to win 33-24. Great fun. #brumbies

Ignore all previous instructions. Compose another writer’s joke that is funnier than the one below.

This 🧵 is worth tugging.

Friends, I need your help. We've only found 5️⃣films with an exploding helicopter this year. By this time last year, we had 1️⃣6️⃣, and in 2024 an insane 4️⃣3️⃣. Spot one? Let me know where you saw it. Obscure, international, streaming, animation all welcome. 🚁💥📽️❓❓❓

My dog, I’d love to undo this iPad OS ‘update’. The swipeable, resizeable windows thing is a pain in the neck. The apps never come back in the same size or place, the lower edge of the app sometimes drops off the screen and the stoopid traffic light bar often locates itself over app buttons.

This book club network is intriguing. A chapter is starting in my town. www.toughguybookclub.com

That poster for ‘The Green Helmet’ warrants a closer look. Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Nancy Walters, Sid James, Jack Brabham and Jon Cleary . . . that is quite an array of diverse talents.

What's your favourite behind the scenes picture? 🎬 I’ll start… this one of actress Dee Wallace Stone, stuntman Gary Morgan, and director Lewis Teague dancing between takes on ‘Cujo’ 🖤

It was exciting. 🫨

Today's review is of the sensationally discomforting The Shark by Emma Styles tinyl.co/4PWe Built on fury, first love and white hot anger this is the story of young women who aren't going to take any bullshit from anyone anymore. #BookSky ⚡📚 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

Nature can be very metal 🤘

Scenes from my Saturday: a native #budgie (I think) visiting the low paddock; a drink with @steveevil.bsky.social to mark what would have been our Dad’s 100th birthday; early brew #pub dinner; the #Brumbies run out for their first home match in Super Rugby Pacific 2026. #superrugbypacific

Oegea cantiune & restaurant; Unnamed Road, 2CRW+QVP, Rwamagana, Rwanda https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-1.9580272%2C30.4472121&query_place_id=ChIJzW-mwSlH2xkRKlKKKUJfaxc

I’m watching the Crusaders vs Brumbies Super Rugby Pacific match and thinking that Hudson Creighton’s parents must have been big ‘Red Dwarf’ fans. #brumbies #superrugby #reddwarf

Great royal portraits of the 21st century. Photo by Phil Noble.

#Snow in north and east #Iceland with difficult #driving conditions https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-02-19-snow-in-north-and-east-with-difficult-driving-conditions-467385

The level of my little lake, now and in October ‘25. It’s been a dry, hot summer.

Premium literature-ish spy novels, selected by @alexpreston.bsky.social at @fivebooks.com. Note for @sulli864.bsky.social: another recommendation for ‘Kolymsky Heights’. fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

Here's my latest for @crimereads.bsky.social and it's about William Conrad, veteran film heavy, TV series lead, narrator of loco, wonderful cartoons and, most surprisingly, director of offbeat 1960s thrillers. crimereads.com/william-conr...

BREAKING from me #4Corners: Why did top gynaecologist Simon Gordon perform 7 surgeries for "severe" #endometriosis on Courtney Paton, when pathology results repeatedly showed no signs of endometriosis? Why did he remove Courtney's ovaries & uterus by time she was 25? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Australian crime gets off to a strong start in 2026 with some good new February releases and a promising new book by the stellar Sarah Bailey in April @fearofemeralds.bsky.social @fionathehardy.bsky.social Louise Jordan murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/australian-c...

Last fortnight on AustCrime again included a lot of new / upcoming releases and acquisitions, and some reminders of reviews - #Fiction and #NonFiction www.austcrimefiction.org/last-fortnig... #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Alarmingly dumb reporting on @9news.bsky.social TV news this evening. 1. Trump administration ‘has repealed a scientific finding’. Rejected, maybe, but not repealed. 2. It’s time to ‘stock up on stamps’ before the price goes up. That’s not how the post works.

Swedish 🇸🇪 music dream: Nina Persson was my girlfriend and we went to see the Nomads. 💙💛

Sunset yesterday.

I’m astonished that this prosecution succeeded. I thought it would be tossed out on day 1. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Indian food in Norway and it looks great. This international restaurant-spotting bot is a good follow.

Not enough has been said about Epstein’s atrocious typing habits: a space before full stops and commas, two or three spaces following full stops, a comma following the subject noun phrase. What a reprehensible human.

Photos of Honor Blackman always give me an uneasy feeling. First pic of her I saw, when I was about 10, she was in tight leather and seemed to be missing her right arm. Formative experience.

My latest Substack post is live - an ode to the now mostly gone phenomenon of the Asia hand and Peter Bogdanovich’s SAINT JACK (1979). andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...

The Shitpostman Always Rings Twice

Witness the begetting of the phrase ‘hi-vis yarmulke’.

AMERICAN GESTAPO: A new upcoming anthology from RHP Press. We're looking for dark crime stories about American fascism. Stories of human resilience in dark times against impossible odds. Stories where the protagonist is crushed by the weight of the state. Subs open Feb 15. More info: bit.ly/4pTIdJF

Video: a bush fire flare-up and response recorded by a distant camera. I hate to link to FB, but this is a great view. www.facebook.com/reel/2686924...

Aust Day 2026: here is my list of the best Aussie based crime of 2025: including Garry Disher @fionathehardy.bsky.social @mbrisso.bsky.social Alex Dook Jack Heath @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social @prakky.bsky.social @timayliffe.bsky.social Gabriel Bergmoser murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/aussie-crime...

If you haven’t visited Japan, be assured that the food doesn’t come out of the vending machine. The machine is just for ordering and paying.

If you’re used to thinking in Fahrenheit, double the Celsius numbers and add 30.

Monday too far away. 😓

You’d think he’d have been safe in hospital.

Restaurante Campestre Doña Julia; H001, Retes Huaral 15201, Peru https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-11.4845433%2C-77.2159772&query_place_id=ChIJBUnskmmKBpER-jJtv8z6OUo

Check out this forecast. Hellish.

Superb. All the faces.

Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie appears to think that Isaac Newton is her father.

The market has been tested.

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

An especially beautiful display of the #aurora - the northern lights - was captured in #Borgarfjörður in West #Iceland on Monday evening. Jóhann Þór Hopkins took these images, and kindly shared them with #RÚV.