Take our Christmas quiz: which Booker book is this festive extract from? Send to your friends for a healthy dose of competition. 🤭 https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vhqo5fpq10

AI is affecting technology markets in many different ways. One thing you may have noticed: prices for consumer DRAM, the type that you put in your desktop, have skyrocketed in recent months. Beloved brand Crucial is finishing up in early 2026 www.techradar.com/pro/why-is-r...

Publishing a long interview tomorrow for a recently rereleased lost Aussie classic film. Want to be the first to read it? Sign up to our newsletter here: Thecurb.com.au/subscribe

Thoroughly chuffed to have contributed to this upcoming edition of the spooky 1981 James Herbert adaptation, The Survivor, from Indicator @indicator.bsky.social. It includes 3 cuts of the film and a wealth of extras. Pre-order now! #BluRay #DavidHemmings #JennyAgutter #RobertPowell #JosephCotten

Peter Greene Dies: ‘Pulp Fiction’ & ‘The Mask’ Actor Was 60 deadline.com/2025/12/pete...

New interview: Former NGA CTO Anthony Vinci talks to @mattfulton.net about his book, The Fourth Intelligence Revolution—why AI and China are changing what “intelligence” even is, and why the coming fight is for society itself. Don’t miss it. 🎧 pod.fo/e/365bae 🎥 youtu.be/D4ZagwI5Z3o

All the Empty Rooms on Netflix is heartbreaking but so beautiful. The fact the US didn’t increase gun restrictions after one school shooting is shocking. The fact they haven’t now is state sponsored murder.

dick van dyke’s 100th birthday just rang in as i’m watching a randomly programmed episode of “becker” (forgotten ted danson show) where dick van dyke plays his father 🥲 long live the icon who’s humor and heart has colored generations

Everyday people deserve and require respect and care from harm. #RaiseTheRate While there’s a #HousingCrisis let’s have a #MoratoriumOnEvictions and bring all empty properties back onto the market: for sale or rent. Housing prices are harming Australians. #auspol #RentersRights #ruleoflaw #SOS

Now that we’re heading into the end of year holidays, let’s get into the Christmas Spirit - ‘Let all our Hearts be Light’.

Why is Keir Starmer so hellbent on digital ID? Two words: Tony Blair. At @thenerve_news we’ve tracked Blair’s influence - & his billionaire backer Larry Ellison - behind a policy that nobody asked for & almost nobody wants. 1/

Gearing up for all the Christmas specials I want to watch for the holidays this year! Any good ones coming up that people are excited for? Need to get a list going. Especially keen for ones from the UK, Canada and maybe some US ones.

Shoutout to Lamestream, We Used to be Journos, @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social, @theklaxon.bsky.social, Declassified Australia, @roycerk2.bsky.social, @thepointau.bsky.social, @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @crikey.com.au, @rachelwithers.bsky.social + more for their work in this space.

Bluemoose 2025. Two books listed for major prizes. Christ on a Bike by @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social Dublin Lit Award The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social OrwellPrize 6 part BBC Two TV Series: Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social From Hebden Bridge with love.

Join us tomorrow in London as we screen 1965s #JamesBond film THUNDERBALL, followed by a Q&A with Bond Girl extraordinaire Martine Beswick! And SpyHards listeners get 20% off with the code SPECTRE20 Get your tickets now: riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/9y-...

the absolute clownery of a court allowing Reynolds to bankrupt Ms Higgins for the “defamatory imputation” that Reynolds continued to harass Ms Higgins.

Tonight's view:

Happy Ella McCay day to those who are celebrating. Here's @nadinewhitney.bsky.social chatting with James L. Brooks & Emma Mackey: www.thecurb.com.au/ella-mccay-i...

"refine our approach" is notably not the same as "scrapped", so there's still work to be done to protect the SLV

I guarantee that if and when low information voters find out about the real back ground to this social media ban- they will be as appalled as we are #auspol

OMG!!!!! #auspol > Article here > www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...

I voted against Republicans’ $900 BILLION military spending bill.   It blocks healthcare coverage for IVF, bans DEI initiatives, undermines military readiness, and expands ICE’s power to attack immigrants. The public doesn’t support this bill and neither do I.

Good. The outrage at the SLV has been justified. Another win for collective action from writers! ✊🏼 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh "My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east And they danced to his music."

Hey, it's Christmas soon, and Australia has a bunch of Christmas films - or Aussie Xmas flicks if you will - to watch. Here's a bit of a rundown of some of the good ones and some of the bad ones. www.thecurb.com.au/a-christmess...

it’s that time of year again! the time when my social media feeds are filled with Australians and New Zealanders very politely explaining that we have Christmas in summer to some American person in their comments calling them stupid for not wearing a jacket in December

My 2025 #25DaysOfXmasMovies Viewing List Thread: This will be a thread of every Christmas film that I’ve seen from my list this year. If you want to know which ones I’ve planned to watch throughout December, you can check out post below. #FilmSky

Happy birthday to me! And you! My new standup special dropped tonight. Watch it for free here: youtu.be/_U52klyZZp8

Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi

Obscure 90s film of the day: Oliver Stone produced 1991's IRON MAZE, Rashomon-type drama about an assault on Japanese investor in a struggling steeltown. Bridget Fonda, Jeff Fahey, JT Walsh & Hiroaki Mirakami star. From the director of TWILIGHT OF THE COCKROACHES. m.ok.ru/video/142215...

Before I planned to hit publish on some words about Ian Bell's WTO/99 (I liked it a lot), I decided to pause and have dinner. I put on THE ENCAMPMENTS and found many similar themes. Decided to add some words about it as a coda to it here at reDocumented. redocumented.ghost.io/wto-99-dir-i...

@renaegibson.bsky.social Saw all the M&S Christmas biscuits at Coles!!! Keen to try them all. 😂

Coming this March... THE SURVIVOR - terrifying Ozploitation horror! DEAD KIDS - uncut in the UK for the first time! Plus, EIGHT standard editions. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/krbpbs6x The Survivor and Dead Kids 10% off bundle deal: tinyurl.com/33psy2mj

Earlier that day the barista at my local café had been playing Fleetwood Mac's Landslide and, unbidden, I began singing in my head as I walked 'and I toooore my men-iscus' to the same tune. Also I’m officially a French resident now. rick-morton.ghost.io/in-which-i-a...

Also treated myself to a full spa day. Japanese massage & facial at my go-to Sakura Lounge and a Japanese head spa at M Kami Japanese Head Spa in the CBD! So relaxing! 🤩

Today's lunch: Tried Rodd & Gunn's new 2-month old Cellar Bar in the basement of Lt Collins Street. Delicious & such a nice, intimate space. Had their foccacia & pasta al forno. Worth the hype.

‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

The final report into governance has called for state and Commonwealth legislation to refocus universities on teaching and research.

Today is another day of why are my bf's housemates such assholes? 🤢 Emptied the dishwasher this morning and was met with an awful smell coming from their fridge which is next to it. Turns out there is spoiled food in it from October and also a 3 week-old takeaway curry. WTF! Not the first time.

Queensland Police Service’s case management system, QPRIME, was automatically inserting details of domestic violence victims into court forms, unlawfully giving alleged perps access to addresses www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...

The man who led the inquiry into the criminal prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann loses his appeal to have serious corruption findings against him overturned.

Oh wow! I've read most of her books when I was in my late teens and early 20s. My favorite was Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella will be sorely missed. 😢

Aboriginal housing advocates are calling for urgent improvements to the way remote public housing is maintained in the Northern Territory, after the coroner found the death of a toddler who fell into a backyard septic tank could have been prevented.

I assume with the media ban in force the under 16s are going to be returning to the old ways to find stuff out:

the campaign against Wells is specifically designed to remind Albanese not to try anything opposed by corporates like murdoch (including the ABC).

Lynette Thompson was set on fire by her partner who later committed suicide.  A coroner wants NSW police to change their procedures in dealing with domestic violence.

The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜