forgot to post this but I wrote about my favourite Christmas movie for the Guardian! (I neglected to mention that I am banned from picking Christmas movies after two consecutive picks where people got their fingers cut off and eaten by an animal) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

saw someone posting the TLJ cast as the obvious Knives Out 4 however may I instead suggest

starting to feel like the only person in the world with real job security.

Donating blood is an incredibly important way that so many people can help in the aftermath of a mass casualty event, as these frequently strain bloodbank reserves. Australians can begin donation through the Red Cross Lifeblood service or by calling 13 14 95. www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood...

If Benoit Blanc is such a great detective, why hasn’t he noticed these are all the same guy

ok I know this is also obvious from all the work they've made but the Game of Thrones writers sure haven't read any Pratchett huh

Listening to @tansyg.bsky.social’s latest episode of @goingroguepod.bsky.social (about the terrible pilot ep of Game of Thrones & how it was fixed) & it’s such a delight. I’ve never even watched GoT & it’s so enjoyable.

new UNLOCKED bonus episode about the disastrous GoT pilot over on the Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/forbid...

I disabled a heap of data tracking stuff (way too late) but my non-targetted ads are incredible. do I need to finance a new truck for my trucking business? because if so I should trust the truck financing experts, not any of these casual non-trucking industry truck financing companies.

"consumers want a shorter theatrical window and more accessible movies" motherfucker a three hour drama about feuding kabuki brothers just spent six months in cinemas and became the highest grossing japanese live action film of all time

love to get a panicked call from a family member and assume the worst only for my phone to bug out and refuse to take the call and finally they get through to me on voice messages to say I was mentioned on their favourite star wars podcast anyway hiiiii @morecivilized.bsky.social

before making an episode I like to ask myself "is this at least 5 years out of date and completely irrelevant yet?"

christmas sorted by the op shop

watching the Michael Clayton deleted scenes and I think it's safe to say Tony Gilroy has a type

doing burn tests on all my op shop fabrics to see if they’re really silk

Really loved Conspiracy Nation by @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social , especially this summary of the way conspiratorial thinking escalates

my main goal when I started Going Rogue was for it to "break even" in terms of the time I spent making it vs the time ppl spent listening to it so 🥹

had a nightmare where I was travelling overseas and just... using my regular sim card. dream me wasn't even worried. felt like Walter White screaming in the car.

I’m not Catholic or anything what happens if they do Last Rites but then you don’t die?

look I can understand the urge to have a non-gendered term for people who sew but "sewist" isn't hitting and "seamsters" is right there.

new bonus episode up on the patreon now! www.patreon.com/posts/runnin...

dead men wake no ups

bonus episode hitting the patreon later today and the thumbnail has very little to do with it but sometimes you just gotta chase joy where you find it

hunger games stage play written by Artemis Fowl film co-writer was not something I had on the bingo card for today

when researching the Artemis Fowl episode of the pod I found a pretty salty NYT review of the original book by Gregory Maguire, so I of course immediately went looking for the NYT's original review of Wicked and I was not disappointed.

furious to report I was rereading an old script and for once I was really enjoying it until I got to page 30 and it stopped mid-act and I realised I was the one who had to write the rest of it.

sometimes I wish I knew less. I think I'd be happier.

your honour when I said I'd get a lot done today I did not realise I would have the opportunity to buy a $15 tray of mangoes

ok I know printing your own merch is both cringe and the height of being known but... what do we reckon lads?

having a terrible old phone is great until you need to prove something happened. like yeah I saw a penguin last night just making his way downtown. got footage worse than Patterson Gimli of it tho.

a beloved friend is seeing the preview of a famously disastrous film before me

i have crippling decision paralysis please help me pick the next bonus episode www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

I’m up to season 3 in my Hustle rewatch and I’m starting to understand why Adrian Lester dipped after this season.

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

I assume this experience is universal.

did the T-1000 sprint for the last bit of my run and I gotta say that freak was onto something. feels good as hell.

hey if like 20 people could sign up to the Going Rogue patreon it would become a number that'd make me real happy. sign up for free to make the number go up but also the offer still stands that if you can't afford the patreon, just DM me and I'll send you a code. patreon.com/goingroguepodcast

cleaning up my harddrive and finding some absolute solid gold.

if I get one vibe from Verbinski it is that this man is supremely hinged? like you don’t make stuff on the scale he does without a lotta hinges.

Werner Herzog encountering an Arnotts mixed pack: of course there is the great irony, that the biscuit is called NICE and is in fact not. a classic deception of business standards.

Look I get that this is exclusively a me problem but I’m watching an old episode of Hustle and they keep saying they’re pulling The Wire but they’re not doing the wire part of it? Like they’re doing every piece of it except the wire?

I talk a lotta shit about my cats waking me up at 2am for someone who cannot look at a sleeping cat without hassling it.

rewatching HUSTLE just to feel something and the fits are insane. half of Stacy’s wardrobe is the most male gaze shit imaginable and the other half is the world’s drabbest office wear. she’s currently playing the hot secretary role in a bedazzled purple cardigan.

just discovered the australian vegan subreddit is full of self-declared Grass Gobblers and i'm afraid it's the only term i'll be using from now on

ok now everyone go watch QUEEN OF KATWE you slept on it before but now you have to.

watching the daily wire rename their long-gestating fantasy series and also purge most of the making of materials as they finally announce a release date

sure SPEED RACER is visually one of the most insane things you’ll ever see but narratively? incredible ADHD simulator.