I drew a horse in the horse-drawing website and felt an unexpectedly authentic pang as my horse ran free to join the herd, never to be seen by me again (though I kept watching, it never reappeared) Beautiful narrative design. You cannot capture your horse except with the screenshot's lasso

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Chris Minns and Isaac Herzog in Sydney yesterday couldn't have made this axiom more repugnantly literal

Most style guides I work with say cardinal place names get capped up if they're official districts or regions, e.g. Western Sydney, South-East Asia (aka Southeast Asia) so I'm looking up regions in Victoria, but the state govt's regional dev website divvies them up in ways I don't often see used

The statement from Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia. With alt text

Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable' live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

Oh shit, the AV Club’s hiring a film crit– (is immediately trampled to death in stampede)

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

I don’t share the fatalism that somehow the NSW cops have always been like this and always will be. It’s ahistorical; the patterns and contours of violence change. And most of all we do deserve, as citizens of a society based on law, to have an accountable public service.

To a Riot Squad, a group of Muslims praying quietly is a riot to be put down, and so is a man standing with his hands in the air, who simply has to be gut-punched repeatedly

Ah jeez. Glioblastoma

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

Ah, shit

More like Good Bunny?

for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and often stand for each other

Yesterday at the dentist I put on the speed-dealer sunnies they give you & joked that they should be playing ‘Sandstorm’ by Darude “How does that go?” my dentist said “It goes doo-doo-doo doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo” “Uh, I don’t know it”

I finally capitulated and bought a 12-tin box of my cat’s expensive venison tinned food As I took it to the counter of the pet shop, the shop assistant said, “Getting a slab, are ya?” “Yeah, well it is Friday night,” I replied

I wonder if Paul Mescal has thought about bringing out his own brand of tequila

While screaming at the absurd reveal of Yassified Julius Caesar in ‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’, I looked up what Caesar looked like IRL & found this Patricia Piccinini-esque reconstruction that was like “this guy definitely was not born by vadge”

I know this is serious, but I can't stop laughing at Jeff's phrasing Scoundrel time!

As a young teen I craved the gingham bustier Melissa Tkautz wears in the 'Sexy (Is the Word)' video. Sportsgirl sold bras in a similar style at the time which I would fondle yearningly, absolutely unable to afford them

Reform the Gestapo!!!

"Punishment Pays: The reason why the Government won’t bin Mutual Obligations" by @jeremypoxon.bsky.social for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

among other things, it's good for our brains to have practice understanding that a person who has added something good to our lives -- as a friend, a teacher, a family member, an artist whose work we love -- can have done harm that it's now our moral duty to name.

Constellations first programming announcements are out! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The moment we're living through has me thinking there's so little satisfaction in having been correct (Morrissey voice) Now I know how Cassandra felt Now I know how Cassandra felt As the flames rose to her Trojan nose And her iPhone started to melt

Appointment TV on Monday: Australian Story's featuring ALBY MANGELS I'm telling you, Mangels, it's INSANE! Nobody's ever worn tiny shorts and ushered a bevy of baddies around various rugged and idyllic destinations, and SURVIVED!

"When I pretend to be someone else, I go to the depths of nothingness. The more I do that—become nothing—and the more I let the character take over, the more I feel like that person. When you become the person, nothing is contrived.”—Catherine O'Hara www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...

I hear it’s got a really useful index 😎

Santa Claus in the offseason be like

From the start of the year to last Friday, the Vice Chancellor of my university was paid the equivalent of an entire annual salary for a full-time Associate Lecturer. (maths based on full pay + super before tax, based on VC's reported 2024 income from the 2025 financial statement).

Was struck by Max Chandler-Mather's point in @deepcutnews.bsky.social that anti-immigration policies are popular with those in material distress who crave political agency, & "borders are one of the few sovereign powers that states haven’t handed over to finance capital or unelected institutions."

Front page Epstein files story today reveals Steve Bannon told Clive Palmer to spend $60mil on anti-China and anti-climate change ads for the 2019 election. D’ya think this could be why we want our media to ask “who’s behind this & who does it serve?” rather than just reporting “pollie said this”?!

The Weekly is woeful at satire at the best of times. But we’re living in the blurst of times… More, please, from the Always Was Tonight team! Writers included Yaraman Thorne, Megan Wilding, Aaron Collins, Jay Wymarra & Dave Woodhead Wilding in particular was piss-funny in ‘Gold Diggers’ (2023)

A comma

Something is truly rotten in the state of victoria … open.substack.com/pub/crickete...

Labor: Welcome Mr President, we are proud to honour you

What the scope and breadth of Epstein's contacts and incriminating emails show is that the rich and powerful view the rest of humanity as basically chattel, and that this is widespread and prevalent.

I am so repulsed by the sound of drunken men shouting at the tops of their voices. My Youthful Neighbours are having yet another party and some of them are doing grunty gorilla hoots while others are bawling in utterly tuneless ‘song’

1980s-era Christopher Lloyd would have been great in a Michel Foucault biopic

“In order to grieve, we need this genocidal cretin and president of apartheid Israel to visit, we simply can’t otherwise” is an absurd and obscene demand. Literally trying to use the dead to normalise a war criminal. As usual, there is zero self-awareness as to what this reveals about their values.

Fresh from observing that my friends' daughters' netball skirt-length school uniforms are much shorter than anything we would've got away with, I have brought my walking frame over here to be like when did 'sunscreen' turn into 'SPF'? When did 'terms & conditions' become 'tees and sees'

every time

this is a sincere post: particularly if you live in Aus or NZ you need to wear SPF every day all year

Humidity is so much worse than dry heat. Today the sweat just poured off me and the air felt thick and hard to breathe. It’s 66% relative humidity inside my place now and it feels swampy and gross. Outside it’s 89%. It’s projected to get to 91% by 2am

Who invents pharmaceutical brand names? My cat was on ondansetron, an anti-nausea med that sounds like a Euro EDM club My psych clinic also now offers an intranasal esketamine spray for treatment-resistant depression… called Spravato Whatsa matter you, eh? Why you looka so sad? Sniffa da Spravato

Australia is run by landlords for landlords The national anthem speaks of shared commonwealth, but that wealth was stolen from sovereign First Peoples & locked away from workers & carers If we shared it we could all thrive. But no The rage and disgust I feel at this can't easily be put into words

Ah jeez, there's an upcoming Netflix series adaptation of 'The Age of Innocence' Ben Radcliffe is Newland Archer; Kristine Froseth (who plays Nan in Apple's adaptation of 'The Buccaneers') is May Welland; Camila Morrone (who was Camila in 'Daisy Jones & the Six') is Ellen Olenska