We should just play this instead of the national anthem tbh

If you're wondering how my day is going, I'm on my way home and just tried to use the tram tracker app to find out how much longer I have to wait. I'm at a bus stop.

Why are sprayed edges everywhere all of a sudden? (Not a complaint, I love them!)

As a library person though, the holds queue for Wild Dark Shore...oof

Excited to see Cannon on the Stella longlist - one of my favourite graphic novels of 2025 (and love that the Stella recognises graphic storytelling ❤️)

Ah, the four genders

Since everyone took the piss out of Sussan for having an extra letter in her first name, Angus has decided to take a letter out of his name

One of the reasons I miss my dad is because I'd show him something like this $70 to do list stand on an online store, then step back and watch him lose it for the next half an hour about how he could make it himself out of a wood offcut for five bucks at the most and so on and so forth

The thing that annoys me most about Stranger Things 5 is finding out Dustin is playing a bard when he's been a rage-filled barbarian all season. Also, this is the nerdiest skeet I'll ever skoot.

I'm constantly getting those ads for mobile games where you have to save the king from being squashed, drowning, burning, freezing. I love them, if only because watching the ruling class get what they deserve makes me cackle like a maniac

Nice Wilcox book on the left

Happy New Year to everyone except 2025

My mum set off the smoke alarm and I royally fucked up the gravy (up yours Paul Kelly)

Me: i really should post something to one of my various social media accounts Social media: *everything is terrible* Me: oh no

Product idea: a screen i can hang on my wall with "in this house, we do not" and whenever i need to, i can customise the sign with the rest of the sentence ("use generative AI", "support TERFS" and so on). Then I could just point to the sign. It'd save a lot of time.

From 2 years ago. Free MIRRORSHADES! Weirdly this epic cyberpunk antho doesn't exist as an ebook. So we turned it into a free online webpage. Happy reading, and may ye wax gnarly and punk and dirty and ecstatic and intricate and all that good shit. Happy cybermonday. rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/

Has anyone else ever had a dream where they had to move into their grandma's house and then inexplicably ended up making out with Weird Al Yankovic, or is it just me?

Can we just call it early and give the next miles franklin to the Harold Holt swimming centre guy on Instagram?

we need kaiju billy corgan immediately

Where I'd rather be today: in London, looking at this exhibition of Le Guin's maps

Copywriters. We need to talk about the word "elevate". Unless you actually work for an elevator company, could you maybe...I dunno, try a different word once in a while?

*immediately adds a frankly irresponsible number of comics to her cart*

Make fonts serif again

My niece and I drew pictures of the same orca image from the internet, then rated then. Mine is the one at the top. I gave hers a score of 20/10 ✨

I'm going away. Somewhere your emails will never find me.

Aussie Bird Count, Melbourne edition:

An update on the whaaaaat?

My 10yo nephew, completely out of nowhere: Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday, and right now you can save up to £50 per person My 75 year old mum: ...um WHAT

In every relationship, there's someone with a normal, working front door key and someone who has to stand outside wedged inside the screen door, twisting their key in the lock around for five minutes while muttering swear words

Buried halfway through the article: a book written by the CEO of QED Books is QBD's current "book of the month". Also, it sounds godawful.

My mum calls him "goat-yeah"

Waiting for TISM

Trying to find out when the Miles Franklin announcement is happening and AI has already called it

Sometimes, I long for him

At no point of "dancing on my own" does Robyn specifically say the song is set *at a club*

Kid at my work, looking at my lazy eye intensely: ARE YOU BLIND? Me: No, but I do have bad eyesight, which is why I wear these big glasses Kid: CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING?? Me: Yes, but my eyes are a bit different...

Things I absolutely didn't have on my bingo card for this year #42 - taking my bereaved mum to see AC/DC

When I was born, an evil witch placed a curse on me: she shall love dogs, but forever be too shy to ask if she can pat them

They should give you an actual, literal black dog when you're depressed.

Spaceballs??? There goes the planet...again (please be good, please be good...)

Why is every second company trying to sell me fancy luggage lately? Where is everyone GOING? I can't afford to cross the street??

I woke up like this (tired)

This is so smart!

Thinking of Steve and Tracy tonight, and the books that will never be written. Vale Tracy.

Hahaha, eat a bag of Dickson

Minecraft kids: collectively losing their shit over chicken jockey Bluesky auspol: collectively losing their shit over chicken gutting 🐔🔪

Understandable reaction to meeting Vance tbh

Anyway, this is the bit where I have flashbacks to the chunk of my twenties where I watched the movie Willow on repeat whenever I was feeling rough - which was a lot. Val Kilmer as Madmartigan was the whole heart of this film. Also, talking of hearts... *glasses slowly fog up*

Berrt

Okay WHY have I never bothered to look up what CAPTCHA actually stands for until now??