New frog just dropped

Having seen the film I was confused about what the big spoiler was meant to be, then I was like, “oh, THAT bit? The inciting incident?” I really wonder whether non-US audiences find this ‘twist’ as shocking. I treated the film as a particularly US social commentary rather than a universal one

Cancer wasn't quite a literal death sentence like HIV was, but you had a barely coin flip chance of making it across the board 5 years, and a whole lot of different kinds that were close to a death sentence in 1980 that are extremely treatable today

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

Loved this essay by @timdunlop.bsky.social on “a regnant, malicious, corrupt & immoral world order” that makes banal political theatre & policy levers of what was once humanity’s most radical evil: harming children “the point is not to hide the extremity; it is to make it part of the furniture”

Baby Says That Uncle’s Hand Contains Their Own Nose

@kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org, why isn't The Australia Institute calling on a tax on the rich? The highest income tax rate in Australia is 47% (including medicare levy), which applies to taxable income over $190,000: treasury.gov.au 170 billionaires x $31490 per hour = $5,353,300 per hour.

Oh so now copyright matters.

This is actor Anthony Perkins in 1972, looking like it's 2008

Just remembered with annoyance the time my mother (a grade 2 teacher) asked me to suggest “songs about space” for her kids to sing in the school concert here I am brainstorming songs, but what they ended up singing – & it was the HIT of the concert – was That’s Amore 🎶when the moon hits your eye🎶

Since someone mentioned War Pigs www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhjI...

Shorter national address

🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈 In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript. 📅 Applications close 24 April 2026 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4tjK50s

I am sick of finding URLs in my client's footnotes that end in ?utm_source=chatgpt[dot]com This is a working scholar who holds a PhD from one of the world's most prestigious universities

They force us to use it as a way to charge us more and to artificially inflate their share price, and then they throw this in our faces

It is literally just stuff like this, over and over again all day. Nobody is actually *fooled* by this shit except people who believe *everything* they see on FB every day anyway, so what is the point?

the first report on Australia's teen social media ban is a red flashing light: - 7/10~ parents with kids on social media pre-ban say they're still on it - cyberbullying/image-based abuse reports are unchanged - using facial scans on youngest users deemed a "poor practice" www.crikey.com.au/20...

Thank god it's past midday so I can say it's fucking malignant to try to "fool" people with "April Fool's jokes" in an atmosphere of being constantly, blatantly lied to by govt, gaslit by media, manipulated by AI video, & sold made-up chatbot slop as 'knowledge' Fools once spoke truth to power

We should just play this instead of the national anthem tbh

I just opened up Google Maps on my laptop and its default view shows where it thinks I'm located. I'm not here. But the data centre my ISP uses must be somewhere on this map

The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I

I texted @morrbeat.bsky.social that it's Trans Day of Visibility today, interrupting his own text about how 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' is now available to download "Guess Avatar is a trans story" he says – and it is! And it's also a story of trans visibility: "I see you"

no dignity in this life

Docplay says of the doco 'I Shot the President' that when Hinckley shot Reagan, it "forever changed American history." did it, tho?? – Reagan stayed in office – He was already popular – he still opposed gun control – Nancy begged him not to seek another term, & he ignored her

Genuinely kind of disturbing how little attention has been paid to Israeli officials explicitly promising to do unto southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza

Jayson Gillham announces tour with Palestinian-Jordanian musician ahead of MSO court case The Australian-British pianist will face off against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in court after his concert last year was axed over comments on Gaza www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

ughhhh my singing neighbour has decided to tackle 'Walking on Sunshine' "I'm wHAWkin on sunshine, WAaAoOoOoOoUughhh" and don't it sound bad

why does the sun circus give its productions the dumbest titles ever

Check out the Sydney Muslim Writers Festival - the writers festival where attendees won't be disinvited for being Muslim and/or Palestinian www.miaaustralia.org/smwf

“Motorists driven to crime by soaring fuel prices” Do you think this would be a moment of reflection for people? And for those in charge?! That just one or two small changes to one’s circumstances can alter how people exist? No, of course it won’t. If COVID didn’t then either will this.

TLDR: Evolutionary psychology is a garbage field that doesn’t provide rigorous evidence because it can’t ever test its claims about humanity’s hardwired behaviours by time-travelling to the distant past that is its constant referent

They actually look like this

Seriously, if you are a woman, live in Victoria and have weird #longcovid #postcovid symptoms, these researchers 🧑‍🔬 are desperate to hear from you! 🫵Please email now!🌋

“As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre." www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

The wildest, most hyperbolic thug boast in rap is by Kris Kross in ‘I Missed the Bus’: “And that is something I will never ever ever do again!” Sure, Mack Daddy and/or Daddy Mack

My singing neighbour is weirdly singing ‘Angels We Have Heard On High’ well out of season Glohhhhh-o-o-o-o-ohhhhhh-o-o-o-o-ohhhhhh-o-o-o-o-ohhria

A lot of @jasemurphy.bsky.social’s analysis depends on the war in Iran being over in 2 months because a bored, stuck Donald Trump will move on to ruin something else. A truly load-bearing amount of caprice

This is not the US. It's Australia. In 2026. #NickHanna

When the flotilla boat showed up in Cuba the other day I was surprised and thrilled! I guessed the US wasn't bothering to enforce its Cuba embargo as it had bigger nations to fry over in southwest Asia tfw you realise you still had some innocence to lose

This is cool!

I wish I could let go of my pedantry, ever, but just now I was sick of cuddling my cat and told him, "I'm going to… let you get down now," to avoid the unfortunate ambiguity of the other thing I was about to say even though his tiny brain doesn't understand and there's nobody else to hear me

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

I love how utility companies send emails like "your power/phone/insurance rate is changing!" thinking they've cleverly spun "we're hiking our prices!"

This shit is no different to ISIS. No different to the Taliban. No different to the Ayatollah.

A film critic drag king called David Strap-On

On the tram I’m wearing a rain poncho over the top of my bag, which is currently sitting in my lap, making me look hugely, grotesquely pregnant

I have to admit my knowledge of Animorphs is based solely on the covers. I thought they were goofy stories about the misadventures of shape-shifting. Did not realise they were heavy war stories

English is such a mongrel language. It’s embarrassing how often I can get away with guessing a word in French or German by just saying or spelling the English word in a ‘French’ or ‘German’ way