I’m curious: do you still have a Twitter account, and if so, why?

Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago. Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.) Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.

Ad from the 1957 Tasmanian phone book. Eat your heart out, Musk.

Tech bosses increasingly confuse disrupt and dismay

The iSuck

I’ve always wanted to do this. Sci Fi road safety campaign on a shoestring. Homage to the Burma Shave ads that featured on Highway 61 from the 1920s to the 1960s.

I’m looking for evidence that America is still a functioning and functional democracy.

I’m gearing up for a fight with Green Motion, the worst car rental company I’ve ever used. Anyone else had a poor experience? I’m all ears. #greenmotion

Passed the national headquarters today

I had a chat with Helen Shield at ABC Hobart about our SimCity twinning hopes www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage

At the local tip. I like the jaunty angle of the chair to the left. Tempted to go back with some scatter cushions.

You know that occasional feeling you have when a book seems to have been written with you specifically in mind? This is profound and unputdownable. Thanks @drspacejunk.bsky.social

The French were the original advocates of en plein air painting. Decided to give it a go today. Quite happy with the result. It’s called ‘Spock visits an Air BNB in Switzerland’. $399.99.

The French were the original advocates of en plein air painting. Decided to give it a go today. Quite happy with the result. It’s called ‘Spock visits an Air BNB in Switzerland’. $399.99.

Idly wondering whether there’s someone in the writer’s room for Skeleton Crew who knows that SM-33 is also the name of an Australian mouth ulcer treatment and hasn’t let on.

Looking forward to not storming the Capitol tomorrow.

None of this makes sense www.canberratimes.com.au/story/885905...

The campaign to twin my town with SimCity is underway www.canberratimes.com.au/story/885905...

I’m wondering how many people turn up with a van

Tasmania's Fingal is proposing a world-first "town twinning" partnership with the digital game SimCity, with hopes it can revitalise the 400-strong community.

The campaign to twin my town with SimCity is underway www.canberratimes.com.au/story/885905...

I wrote to the owners of SIM City this morning, requesting a virtual twinning with the small rural town of Fingal, Tasmania this morning. Looking forward to their reply.

Popped out to see the stars just now but the curtains were drawn

Looking forward to this

H R Giger’s bathroom

Am announcing something that includes a small rural Tasmanian golf club with more holes than members and a central character nicknamed ‘Vincent Van Golf’.

I think this might be my favourite bibliography.

I think this might be my favourite bibliography.

Salvage

Just passed a Tesla in Tasmania with the number plate TESLA and I’m wondering why they didn’t go for TASLA. #moremoneythan

Bumped into my COVID drawings this morning. What a strangely productive time.

Kudos to @michelleredfern.bsky.social for fighting this absurd injustice. When will the first man in Australian sport join her #brotest ? www.hrleader.com.au/learning/262...

The 13.1% Gender Pay Gap is Just One Measure of Inequality in Australian Sport. Today, I’m proud to launch the 2024 Advancing Women in Sport report, The 13.1% Gender Handicap. 🔗 Download the report and join the conversation to action movement: https://buff.ly/3OGDdrD #BroTest

The bra weighs around 11kg. Men, feel the weight of this injustice. Your women colleagues effectively started working for free for the rest of the year at about 10am on Nov 13. Join the #brotest

I don’t have anything fresh to say about Thicarus.

I listen to the BBC Loose Ends podcast every week. I enjoy the truncated version of live songs (20 seconds or so for rights reasons). This week’s shortened ‘Don’t need persuading’ by New Starts is an all-time classic. I might start a band called For Rights Reasons.

Several years ago I created the idea of a giant concrete banana in the town of Banana in Queensland. Limited offer: If a crypto billionaire wants to buy it, I’ll accept $6.2 million. I wouldn’t recommend eating it though. More details here: www.news.com.au/travel/austr...

In adversity, opportunity 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Algorithm, n., a bibliography for prejudice

Made a start on a starter starter pack

Here’s a Pack Starter Pack for Pack enthusiasts for starters

Magic

Soaking up the atmosphere at the Olde Tudor shopping complex

Might restart my crime and horror knitting pattern thread here. Hoping to stage an exhibition in 2025.

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.