Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

I enjoy the completely serious tone of Aesthetics Wiki. e.g. this, for 'Downtown Girl': "those living in the city have a more exciting, albeit hectic, life, as they are able to encounter more cultures, work in more prestigious careers, and go to glamorous outings."

It is funny that Tyriq Withers stars in a film called 'Reminders of Him', given that he previously starred in a film called 'Him'

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

It just kills me that ad campaigns for universities seek to communicate ‘innovation’ by savagely disrespecting basic categories of nouns, adjectives and verbs Deakin ad just now: “See the wonderful possible”

IWGB Game Workers is running a fundraiser to supper the workers unfairly laid off by Rockstar for trying to unionise: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

“Apply now for a rewarding and secure career with Corrections Victoria” – ad on SBS On Demand can’t believe they have the gall to pun that being a prison guard is a “secure career” ACAB includes screws! Protect your “transferable skills” from prisons!

A wandering modifier implies a perverse kind of bringing-to-life in a Frankenstein review I just read: “Having died when giving birth to his younger brother William (Felix Kammerer), the sudden loss of his mother is the personal tragedy that sparks Victor’s descent into madness…”

Watching an elaborate ASMR roleplay where you’re a vampire lady being tended by a Victorian-era maid. The screen shows a dressing-table mirror that reflects the maid but not you the vampire: a clever narrative frame for the ASMR tropes of pretending to brush [the viewer’s] hair, etc

Radical left is the new normal. Conservatives are the new weird and cruel.

“Lessons have been learned from this year's Bendigo Writers Festival” is such a hilariously weaselly thing to say! Who learned those lessons? What were the lessons?

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable. Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

If a woman's name is Georgie, what d'you assume it's short for? Georgina? Georgette? Georgia? it looks so strange when typed repeatedly fondly reminded of when half Melb's film publicists were named Georgie, my editor accidentally typed "Gerogie" in an email to her. She was Gerogie ever after

God I resent the way so many film preview screenings are now on Thursday and Friday nights. I know the whole idea of film criticism as ‘a job’ is a joke now, but over my ‘career’ I have held 2 things sacred: TGIT and TGIF

A new report from Foodbank finds 20 per cent of Australian households have skipped meals or whole days of eating in the year up to July 2025.

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

It’s called Zionism

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Nature is healing

OMG the ABC is bringing back Race Around the World. idk if it will hit the same now: producing a new video every 10 days for 100 days is a leisurely pace for social content creators

Deciding I actually dislike that genre of bland plinky-plonky piano movie score where the left hand does basic arpeggios while the right hand is up high playing a winsome little melody The Piano – Michael Nyman Amélie – Yann Tiersen Pride & Prejudice – Dario Marianelli

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The Australian government has announced it will impose a 10% local content quota on video streamers operating in Australia. It will apply to services with more than 1 million local subscribers. The bill will be introduced to Parliament this week.

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

Posting honestly on LinkedIn feels like self-harm

Today on Stan Captions: someone made that sharp chiding noise you use to tell someone (or a pet) to stop or shut up, like “pssshtt!” The caption said “Fuist”

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

Our friend Omar's son has Leukemia and just started treatment. If you can support this GFM it would be fantastic

What I want you to do is pay attention to yourself for the next two weeks. I want you to think about the way you hold a glass or react to a startling noise. I want you to map out who you are and what you do unconsciously until you can figure out what makes you a distinct individual.

I feel so neurodivergent when editing instructional writing. A zinemaking guide says: "fold paper in half shortways. Cut it halfway until you hit the centre" but it doesn't specify you need to cut widthwise from the folded edge. I guessed it meant widthwise but I would've cut the free edges

I love the perspective shot Sam uses in the final frame of this comic

I’m redesigning my invoicing template and choosing new fonts. Saw one called Brill and remembered it’s the in-house font for Brill, the academic publisher, which I downloaded for a copyediting job earlier this year

“Get him!” is one of the all-time funniest lines of dialogue in any movie or TV show, and I always love it best when they give it to a featured extra in an angry mob scene, who puts their whole extrussy into it

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

Parenting in Barkly Square: just overheard dad emphatically saying to his small kid, “Tell me what it IS, not what it ISN’T.”

Oof, the closed captions on Stan are not great. Someone just said “Ockham’s razor” and the caption said “Auckland’s razor”

SomeBODY once told me From lands extremely old he Saw vast & trunkless legs in the sand They were looking kinda dumb Near a shattered visage sunk With a frown & wrinkled lip of cold command WELL those passions start coming & they dont stop coming Stamped on these things & they hit the ground running

This is awful but Teresa’s Storm Desmond reportage has such a chokehold on me that last week when it was super blustery here, & ABC radio news reported that 2 Englishmen drowned while attempting to surf, all I could think was “People have been spotted in the water, both today and yesterday!”

My god, I’ve got that dreadful Pink song ‘Hoonoo’ in my head

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳

If thinking about it ‘right’ involves those fucken full stops, I’m happy to be wrong Still, small mercies; the Graun probably styles it Adhd

When you hit Baker’s Delight just when their savoury rolls and filled focaccias are hot and fresh out of the oven… Damnnnn

Incredibly accurate take on PhD programs.

Not now, aggressive monkeys on the loose with hepatitis C, herpes and covid.