2025 was pretty good to us: - Got engaged! - traveled southeast Asia - moved to Ballarat, into a weird old church, no less - started a new job as an editor at ScienceAlert 2026 is already looking like a big one...

I know everyone did theirs weeks ago, but here's my PlayStation wrap-up. Blue Prince was my absolute favourite game of the year (and probably the last few years). A mansion full of puzzles is just so unbelievably my jam. Only pipped by me obsessively aiming to 100% Crash Bandicoot 4.

My partner's family have really outdone themselves with their 11th annual gingerbread build.

Disney investing a billion dollars into OpenAI sounds like a lot, but it helps to remember that that'll last them about 9 days

Galaxy feels like it was meant to be the third Mario movie in a trilogy. Like, it should have been after a Super Mario World Movie that introduced Yoshi and Daisy and had Wario and Waluigi as the villains.

Jeff Goldblum's interjections in Jurassic World Evolution 3 are made all the more unnerving by the life-size cutout of him standing in the corner of our living room

Dangling this in front of Trump and then also giving it to Maria Corina Machado would be history's greatest feat in trolling

It's an absolute crime that I can't host a Halloween party tonight when I live in this place

The Simpsons did it again youtu.be/GQW8ll1fi1A?...

Looked over my shoulder and my cat Gary is just... randomly admiring the lower shelves of the Simpsons collection. The good stuff is higher up, bud!

This sign doesn't fill me with confidence about the food I just ate

I had to, okay.

Hey Tim Curry, what week is it? youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM?... #WorldSpaceWeek

Jane Goodall accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. 🧪 www.sciencealert.com/how-jane-goo...

I will never tire of being able to professionally nerd out about dinosaurs with paleontologists www.sciencealert.com/new-megarapt...

Maybe just because I had low expectations, but this new season of Dexter turned out to be a blast. You gotta crank that suspension of disbelief up to 11, but it's kind of stopped pretending to be prestige TV and just embracing the shlock.

Nothing pulls me out of a movie faster than realising it was filmed in Melbourne and spending the rest of it trying to figure out where. Like, just saw Together and it was all over the second I saw a damn Vline train

Couple years ago I was interviewed about my Simpsons collection, and how my partner found out about the room. Two years and an engagement later, they came back for an update: uk.news.yahoo.com/simpsons-fan...

I never realised there was so much gambling in airline tickets. I failed the first roll: I didn't pay for cancellation insurance, then had to cancel. But if I told the airline in advance that I was cancelling they'd just pocket my money and sell the seat again.

All else aside, surely editors and proofreaders are about to experience a boom

The Sovereign Hill Winter Wonderlights thing is actual magic

Jurassic World Rebirth was pretty terrible. I had a great time

Our bnb for this wedding has a cinema room, so we're making good use of it

My Switch 2 and Lego Krusty Burger set both arrived, just before a long weekend - the first with absolutely no plans in like, 6 months.

Finally "finished" Blue Prince on day 36! Although I still have 6 envelopes to find, and gotta crack into the grotto, and drain the reservoir...

I don't know if I have anyone in the children's book world on here, but had a great day at #kidlitvic2025 conference. Super interesting insights into the industry that I had no idea about, and inspiring feedback on my manuscript from some publishers

I don't get to write as much in my new role, but when I do, it's the real hard-hitting stuff. www.sciencealert.com/sexual-activ...

I'm housesitting for my brother and his parrot keeps mimicking the Facebook Messenger ringtone when I leave the room

Dammit Blue Prince, you got me good. I figured out the secret of the drawings. I have all 4 permanent add-ons. I solved the chess mystery. I've never lost at a parlor game or dartboard. But I finally get to the antechamber and... I guess I should've expected that not to be it

As expected, Blue Prince is extremely my jam. I don't care that everybody else has moved on

I fear we're entering a food gift arms race with the new neighbours. We gave them some cake to thank them for the fish curry a few weeks ago, but they instantly fired back with chicken soup and chocolate rum balls.

Finally about to dive into Blue Prince so I can join in the online conversa- wait, what the hell is Expedition 33

My last article for New Atlas, I just had to do a deep dive into some real-life zombie stories and tie it into the new season of The Last of Us

One of my last articles for New Atlas will be the Switch 2 - which means I'm staying up till at least 1am tonight to cover the presentation.

I can't tell you how excited I am for this movie, it means I can finally stop checking archive. org every week for any new leaks deadline.com/2025/03/coyo...

My super funny friend @silvi.bsky.social is in this Melbourne Comedy Festival show all this week. It sounds like a blast thebutterflyclub.com/show/girt-by...

Okay by mid-June I swear I'll have some time to breathe

I can finally announce I'll be joining ScienceAlert as Copy Editor next month! I've been reading their excellent science coverage for years, so it's really exciting to get to contribute to that. I'll be writing articles too, like this brain bender from last week www.sciencealert.com/world-first-...

Church house update: in a door we call the "gremlin hatch" in our loft bedroom, we just found someone has strung up a bunch of mice, including one that glows in the dark.

I've lived in this creepy old church for like 2 weeks now and I'm considering complaining to the landlord. I wasn't warned that this place wasn't haunted, I feel ripped off

Finally moved into our new place - and I'm about to make "lives in a spooky old church" my entire personality. Sorry.

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

Phew! If I got even one wrong I'd have to turn in my science journo badge

I think I time warped back to 1998. And you know what, I might just stay here

Now that I'm half-living in Ballarat, my Melbourne mind can't comprehend just how close everything is to everything else. Tasks that would take an hour in the city can be wrapped up in 4 minutes here

From time to time I peek my head back into Twitter to see what it's like and

Waiting for a train in Hanoi

We have the entire ship to ourselves

More Mondays need to involve cocktails on the rooftop bar of a cruise ship moored in Ha Long Bay

We did a Khmer cooking class yesterday. When the guide wasn't telling us about his unfortunate love life and dead orphans, he was teaching us to cook chicken amok and pumpkin custard in the village kitchen.