From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Oh man. I haven't been this excited for a movie since the "Great Simpsons Movie Countdown of 2006-2007"

I hardly ever see science news reach outside my little bubble, so it's been real nice to see everyone getting behind the story of NASA slingshotting a crew in a little tin can around the Moon and back safely. youtube.com/shorts/iWQWO...

I've just been made aware that planning a wedding involves a lot of planning. Are people aware of this

Heard everyone was watching the Mario movie this long weekend, so

I can only play Resident Evil Requiem in 10 minute intervals, interspersed with 2 hours of Pokemon Pokopia

It's genuinely puzzling to me how much backlash the free public transport announcement is getting

Yes I got distracted but I'm still running this weird experiment! So let's meet our cast of characters:

Sorry to "Sincere Post", but we went out for teppanyaki to celebrate our last anniversary. By which I mean, the last time we'll celebrate the night we met - after this year, we'll be celebrating our wedding anniversary.

The ScienceAlert crew is in New Zealand this week for a retreat. This gorgeous scenery reminds me of that movie.... Spaceballs

Ok so this might be the nerdiest thing I've ever done, BUT: I wanna recreate this paleoecological paper about sauropod dinosaurs using @frontierdev.bsky.social's simulator Jurassic World Evolution 3. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Based on a true story

Honestly it's probably @dangolding.com at this stage

Are people still using starter packs on here? I've gotten like 200 new followers today and I have no idea where you all would've come from

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Hosted a dinner party tonight, which was surprisingly successful considering that as people were arriving we discovered the roast had been sitting in the oven for 2.5 hours without said oven being turned on

I appreciate my fiancee humouring me today, when I dragged her to the beach near where we were staying to hunt for dinosaur tracks, based on vague directions I pieced together from this article and a handwritten note we found on a sign. www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06...

Away near Apollo Bay for the weekend, sitting out here with a beer and a book and I just heard a koala grunting for the first time. Only ever heard clips before. Can't find the guy but he's out there somewhere!

My first article of the year is, of course, about dinosaurs. Or rather, how giant marine reptiles had previously unknown opportunities to EAT dinosaurs www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-...

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.