Nocturnal animals

Where he'll drive French hospo staff nuts with Michael Caine impressions and flirting with waitresses while sneering at his friend's references to Baudelaire

New upload: The Collectors episode with Hawthorn historian Peter Haby, and Just Collectables George Zach Look how incredible that chockfull Museum room is youtu.be/lf32P_Es17M

Juno stretching

Thirsty gang gang

The perfect Sydney paragraph does not exis—

coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale

So windy outside and I watched #traindreams the other day and I'm wary of flying branches.

Delete Spotify

So basically exactly what Cathy Wilcox suggested in her cartoon.

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

He used his doctoral thesis to expose Apartheid South Africa's secret nuclear program and then included detailed instructions in his forced confession, which a judge read aloud in court, on how to sabotage all of the critical facilities.

Check out my ex-student's TikTok series about a guy in the 70s who gets a government grant to make a movie - impressive so far (5 eps on) vt.tiktok.com/ZS5TGP76F/

The last word of every sentence is in italics here, the better to imagine the Beastie Boys rapping about quicklime.

Heart Attack and Vine; walked from the new Parkville Station

“Dire threat of collapse”: southern Australia’s most important river system

Would eat

Every creepy movie villain drinks milk

Congratulations to Philosophy Bites interviewee, Aeon essayist, and author of Being You, Anil Seth, for winning this major prize for his essay on AI and Consciousness berggruen.org/eu/news/2025...

Just so we're clear: @economist.com has maintained a special account (which they pay thousands of dollars to Musk for a gold tick) on the sexual abuse software they're describing in their article They have 25.7 million followers: nearly every post from the last 24hrs has 0-5 RTs.

How to Spot a Communist by Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military

Warner: The last time—beyond the bombing of the nuclear facility in Iran—the last time we militarily intervened in Iran was in 1953, when the CIA overthrew an Iranian government that had been elected. Most historians say that ultimately led to awful actions that have taken place since the late ’70s.

Keyboard warrior

Thanks to @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social, I now know the apparent origin of the word 'hipster'

Trying to chainsaw a fallen black wattle in the yard, and boy is it tough. Getting more scorch marks than woodchips

I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

God this is just unending. The pro-genocide lobby group delights in trying to destroy livelihoods and honest reporting. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

No sign Australian politicians will leave X after the Grok scandal. Hard to see what if anything could make people who are still posting on there now leave. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Are the Australian right, who spent most of the last decade demanding 18C be rescinded, really going to demand this legislation be passed? Are the Greens stupid enough to pass laws that will obviously be used to the target the left disproportionately? The bill could, and should, fall completely flat

My reading companion

Things the Bondi RC could examine to aid our public discourse: -The difference between antisemitism and anti-zionism, and why it is dangerous to conflate them -The impact of Israel's conduct on perceptions of Israel, and by extension Jewish people, due to the unfair conflation of Israel and Judaism

At least 12,000 people were killed during protests in Iran. - Iranian opposition outlet Iran International

Well I hope so

I hope Peter Malinauskas doesn't ban Bachar Houli for the AFL's Gather Round or SA will lose that too

Need some advice from the hive mind - my wife is going to the States for a wedding and needs $US in cash fot tips etc - should she by some before she leaves, or just withdraw from an ATM when she arrives in Denver?

Trump’s former Deputy NSA and wife of Republican Senator Dave McCormick.

Sleepy Juno

“probabilities on polymarket” polymarket and online gamblification of every aspect of our lives is the worst new development of the world in 2025

Andrew Bolt, ladies and gentlemen: #auspol

Owen Cooper at the #goldenglobes

Thirsty female gang gang

Well this is something.

Indonesia today became the first country to block Grok. "The government views non-consensual deepfake practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-suspends-grok-ai-over-sexualized-images/

Good morning

Watch Elon use Starlink access as leverage

Bed time for Juno

AFL too, please

Enjoying the cool sunshine