22 years! #AnniversarySelfie with @nadianiaz.bsky.social

I don’t know which movie is being filmed here on Little Collins Street in the CBD, but I do know what city #Melbourne, Australia is standing in for today :)

Always good stuff from Betoota Advocate… Report: Feels Like We Should Be Making A Bigger Deal About Someone Throwing A Homemade Explosive Device Full Of Ball Bearings At Aboriginal People On January 26th www.betootaadvocate.com/report-feels... #news #australia

I propose: ALL THINGS ARE EXHAUSTINGLY INTERCONNECTED

Australian supporters at #AustralianOpen 2026 :)

Hanyu Guo's serve at #AustralianOpen 2026.

Ball kid ready to provide another tennis ball to the serving player at #AustralianOpen 2026.

Annual #AustralianOpen selfie with @nadianiaz.bsky.social :)

"Six months into her training as a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, Anita Karim grappled with her father on their living room floor, knocking him unconscious in six seconds." ‘I didn’t set out to break records’: Pakistan’s first female MMA fighter www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/... #pakistan #MMA

It's a sad state of affairs when you encounter a problem with your work laptop and you're not sure if it's a malware infection or an issue with Windows! 😆

This is excellent. "The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, would do well to read up on McCarthyism’s appalling moment in history because he and his whispering cadre of Israel lobbyists have become Australia’s new destructive, unapologetic McCarthyites." theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Welp, the Chaser's article on the Adelaide Writer's Week, calling it the Adelaide Writer's Afternoon, has infiltrated the Edge AI summary. 'Hilariously', the AI summary combines the parody article with real news, so it could very easily trick people not in the know. #saparli

The two pieces that most accurately capture the events of this week #auspol

Hmmm. I wonder if I should approve this comment on my 2022 blog post in which I shared photos of the baking I'd done over the weekend? 🙄😆 #CommentSpam www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

"So a political decision. Made for political reasons that will once again see others pay the price. The arts have always been a contested space and, much like the media space before it, are being narrowed into a monoculture of centrism and approved views. "

Great post by Cory Doctorow on the reason why virtually all first year college kids use AI in their writing. Writing vs AI – pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/d...

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

First the app was called Microsoft Office, then it was renamed to Microsoft Office 365, then just Microsoft 365, and now it's called Microsoft 365 Copilot. *sigh* #MicroSlop

If you're not going to call, then at least text me Ishmael.

Someone had a good night in St Kilda! #melbourne

Australian Aboriginal eel net inspired design of the West Gate Tunnel entry portal in #Melbourne. More on this urban design here: bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/wes...

"With 5.9 stores per 100,000 residents, #Melbourne is home to more record stores per capita than any other city on Earth" Melbourne is officially the record store capital of the world | www.timeout.com/melbourne/ne...

Happy new year! It's just past 11am in Melbourne and I've already received my first #scam text message of 2026. *sigh* (I'm also slightly insulted that it's such a basic scam attempt.)

Happy new year! If your life is as hectic as mine sometimes is, may this be the year you get a chance to slow down. #AdviceFromBikePath

Underneath the elevated Murrumbeena railway station in #Melbourne.

Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Statues above the entrance of the Former AMP Building in #Melbourne. The plaque reads, "Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur" (a true friend is discovered in times of uncertainty) which is funny, given the crap AMP was found to be doing by the 2018 Royal Commission.

All of this.

On a pillar holding up the Queen Street Bridge in #Melbourne: "In 1788 Queen Street Bridge was a waterfall".

Bank of Australia Post post office boxes.

What are your go-to neutral-ish sans serif fonts that *aren't* just clones of Helvetica? These eight are my favourites. I made a whole video about them and everything (with a tl;dr at the beginning). www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_l_... #typography #fonts #helvetica #arial

On the Jim Stynes Bridge that runs underneath the Charles Grimes Bridge on the Yarra River in Docklands, #Melbourne.

My big piece of advice for rendering social media tolerable is if you see someone in your notifications who feels the need to leave some vacuous quip on every post they interact with, block them immediately. Don't wait for them to do something "wrong" – fatuous remarks are 100% a blockable offence.

Cat chilling in the front garden.

I love it when people do things that bring joy and whimsy until the world :) ‘Slightly haunted but manageable’: new signs cause confusion – and delight – in Christchurch www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

To every single person who recommended THE RESIDENCE to me this year: thank you it is a delight (even if I am baffled by Cordelia Cup apparently spotting a song sparrow for the first time)

Reflecting the neighbouring building.

[Video] I made a video about the free and paid, neutral-ish, sans serif fonts I recommend that aren't just clones of Helvetica. This is for everyday folks bored with the default Arial, Helvetica, etc fonts that came with your word processor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_l_... #typography #fonts

Excellent piece on the convergence of post-colonial Englishes and 'AI'-speak. I can't find a single pull quote because the whole thing is fantastic.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Australians crashing the lifeblood website because they wanted to help shows exactly who we are. We band together. We help each other out.

Happy anniversary to The Expanse, one of the (if not THE) greatest scifi TV shows ever! The first episode aired OTD in 2015. @abraham.bsky.social, congrats. 😀

Oh no – not my *checks notes* Cloud! #spam #email

Yes, Angela. I'm sure it is. #spam #email

The same bots that targeted Blake Lively are targeting Taylor Swift. "Thousands of social media posts were traced to deliberate attempts to misrepresent the singer – and showed ‘significant user overlap’ with the campaign to attack actor Blake Lively" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

How boys get sucked into the manosphere – really nice digital storytelling from the Conversation. stories.theconversation.com/how-boys-get...

Australia's over reaction, aka social media ban for under 16s, will go into effect tomorrow. Please look out for the children – particularly the most vulnerable children – who are going to be negatively affected by this. youtu.be/ZxRB5qWphJE?...

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”