Most of the time I see Clive’s ads I mistake them for JB Hifi ads and ignore them

Imagine the good Clive could do with the money he spends on his promotions and the tres he is wasting on these extravagant publications

PSA. Expect this to drop in your letter box any day now.

I was wondering why the bus was on time & had so few passengers. Then I realised it’s a student-free day. I have no idea about these things now I no longer have a school-aged child

Note to self: the coffee machine makes terrible noises if it doesn’t have any water in it

Super quote from this article about Canberra's height restrictions: "Canberra is lacking in urban climax." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

I have so many linked things going on in my head from my course, from the sessions I went to, podcasts I've been listening to, other recent talks, all these little connections are being made and remade and I don't know, what does one actually DO with all of this?

The thickness of the pages of notes I made at the writers festival on the weekend is 0.4 cm.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Dear drivers of road-coloured cars. It’s very dark & you are hard to see. Lights might be not a bad idea.

Unpopular opinion. I like the scramble crossings.

Telling universities to become 'economic powerhouses' is like telling Mona Lisa to get fake tits

Why does everyone have to be done quicker quicker quicker? There must get to a point beyond which everything moves so fast it goes into reverse. Here’s an idea. Take your robots & your content & go make a new world as quick as you want. Leave me out of it so I can do human stuff.

It pleases me that I know more people who refuse to use AI than people who use it

Is there somewhere on Facebook I can mark myself safe from "being attracted by Pauline Hanson"?

I have the Brut 33 jingle from the 80s? 90s? stuck in my head

Safely home. Quiet. Watching little peregrine chicks on Salisbury Cathedral tower 🥰

I feel like I’m a terrible festival attendee. I go to a session and afterwards, while everyone else gathers and chats and makes new friends, which is the whole point of writing festivals, I seek out the quietest darkest space I can find because I feel so overwhelmed

I’m back at the readers & writers festival. Wondering how many other loners like me are here. #taswriters

Sure, the Saint Andrew's Cross is one of the most iconic flags ever buuuuut what would the Scottish flag look like if it took inspiration from other flags? Not having a unicorn on the flag seems like a missed opportunity... Source: buff.ly/cfhuGho

I had a great but overwhelming day at the Island Readers & Writers Festival. Festival = many more people than I’m comfortable around. Highlights were Shaun Tan’s illustration workshop plus meeting Cadance Bell & buying my first ever spec fiction novel from her 😃

“Lingering” outside an event venue before they open the doors is a highly anxiety inducing activity

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

I feel like everytime I’m told I have to pivot or flex or embrace disruption this is to benefit the instigators of disruption, not society in general.

Why is it set up to require this might be a better question.

Why does everything have to be “dynamic” and “mobile”? Why does The Economy require this?

I am told from a variety of sources that being “stuck” in one job, one home, one place is a bad thing. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

I'm so excited to FINALLY announce I'm running for election to Kingborough Council this year! Volunteering and advocacy at a local government level has been a real passion for me over the last few years. The time has come to turn it up a level! More to come! Like and share 🙏

I am super super excited about the ISLAND writers festival this weekend.

If I save the document and close it, next time I open it 100 words will have disappeared, won’t they?! #soclose

On the way back I read a very dirty book.

somewhere amongst the 100 or so browser tabs I have open is a livestream of some birds & I can just hear their disembodied chirping through the headphones that I am not currently wearing

Exciting!!!! I made the long list of AWC's #FuriousFiction challenge for May :-) With this picture as a prompt .... #amwriting #writingcommunity #taswriters

Finally

Where is the bus?

Quietly freaking out last night as I'm studying Dracula, when a mosquito starts flying round my head. They are basically tiny vampires, right?

My bank is transferring every to its new platform in a couple of days and has told me “it’s time to get excited”. I have never been less excited about anything in my life. Except perhaps pap smears. They weren’t exciting.

Henry Maudsley (1867) on cases of insanity that were “directly due to moral causes”: “one woman …. was driven mad by listening to a violent sermon in a Methodist chapel”

Betwixt The Sheets: how filthy were the Victorians. Fascinating. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...

So much as I complain about buses, late or not, they are still better than driving, cause I hate driving and finding a park, cause I can’t park, and riding & being terrorised on the road by gigantic super utes & drivers who don’t think they need to give you too much space

Okay that’s weird. The bus has gone from being not tracked and “departed”, to being tracked and four minutes late

The shift in weekend bus timings from 30/30/30/30 minutes to 15/45/15/45 is inconvenient and confusing but at least it’s keeping my brain active

Today’s question. Is a writing system actually a writing system if it doesn’t codify speech?

I mean the world is amazing right?

My mother subscribes to New scientist magazine & every time I visit her I flick through it & there is so much cool and fascinating stuff in there I want to learn more about & I hardly ever can becuase there is so much & only 168 hours in a week and how do I filter it

I have clearly missed my calling. Stay tuned for my new YouTube series, workouts you can do at the bus stop with just a backpack.

Okay the bus is super late. It just arrived. 25 minutes late. That really sucks for people who need to get to work on that bus since it’s the first one on a Saturday.

Now exploring ways I can do the gym workout I was going to do at the bus stop since the no show bus has messed up my morning. Lucky I have the heavy backpack I guess. Lucky also I don’t care what people driving past staring at me think.

It must have. It’s now 13 minutes past the time it should have been here

Unless it came before I even left my house