Guy named Toby who has to workshop his short story the week after Franz Kafka: ‘Yeah I guess I would say this one’s a little Tobyesque.’

thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own

awful to see. gambling ads must start including warnings about post-structuralism

Amateurs out here making bets on the signifier and not the signified

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-37... it flew under my radar from 2024 but Universal Language is a very funny, very clever little film. the hardest i've laughed at a movie in years comes from a repeated cut-reverse cut gag. barely 90 minutes and a cheap streaming rental, you have no excuses

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

this is the only kind of content I'm interested in from now on

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

have rebooted an old newsletter - will be writing about writing while trying to understand what on earth is going on (in general) open.substack.com/pub/scottlim...

ruining your life to sell 1,000 copies of a book may seem bad in america. in australia this is the best possible outcome

just watched a movie that ended. how am i supposed to know what the characters are getting up to now

you can either choose to be the FM radio host who advocates for teens to be kicked off social media or the FM radio host who advocates for harsher criminal sentencing. those are the only two options as far as I'm aware

feels great to live in a country where political power centres around two guys called fitzy and wippa

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

SURPRISE!!!! 🔥🐶🔥 Dogpile is OUT NOW!!

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

just got a podcast ad for an "AI-powered B2B CRM" which is unfortunately my CIA activation phrase

australian sculpture is mainly about giving bananas a 'dudes rock' energy

I’m learning Godot so I made a Mario Paint composer-inspired microgame called CHOONS and now my house is filled with the most silly little beats chipswoon.itch.io/choons

I am going to get to the bottom of this

thank you mr albanese for making a better world possible

we should definitely keep Awakening things in the Deep

Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"

damn I'm sorry to hear that

here's me on the Netflix–Warner Bros. merger, how David Ellison and Paramount Skydance lost their long-planned bid, and What This All Means for the future of the cable news and global entertainment industries (spoiler: it doesn't look good) slate.com/technology/2...

going to spend the rest of my life creating illuminated copies of this text in a medieval scriptorium

choose your fighter

must have missed the meeting where we all agreed on this criteria but sure

I love that we still get conspiracy theories that turn on "the timing was perfect to distract everyone from Trump's big scandal". what scandal are you referring to? his breakfast scandal or his lunchtime scandal? maybe his mid-afternoon scandal

the 29th prime minister of australia (a useless centrist who was done in by his own party) had his official portrait unveiled this week, and

sometimes I wonder what people might be talking about on Threads, but I guess there's really no way to know

the words you hear right before something very good happens to you

Lately ive been watching breaking bad fan cams in my spare time

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year me: i sure was operator: that’s great. gotta love it

converting this to AUD caused me to black out for several hours

honey, I'm home. yes I had a great day at work. as you know I recently worked in HR for a large gambling company. one thing led to another and the state library has made me their acting COO. yes. yes. yes honey of course I will fire as many librarians as I can asap

shooting my entire film around corners and through doors so it constantly feels like the main character is being watched. which they are. by my wonderful audience

delightful to be feeling this at almost every waking moment

pitching a series where a detective who is relaxed and comfortable with who they are investigates crimes in a major city where every resident is completely open with one another about everything they've ever done

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years

[author of six critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels]: tough writing day today haha [bluesky reply from guy who has never completed a project]: Just hang in there. I always find going for a walk helps get those creative juices flowing again. Do you have a writing group?

dudes rock

when you hit your mid-30s you develop a new sense of what material will go off in the group chat

does anyone have any leads on Australian literary agents who are 1) young 2) hip 3) alternative 4) (most important) have a sense of humour/like funny prose? or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?

elon musk has listened to more llm-generated book summaries at 2.5x speed than joyce carol oates ever will. his meaning of life multiplier is literally insane compared to hers lmao

are there any pop economics authors from the mid-2010s whose brains are not now totally fried

attaching this to all literary agent queries

damn i wish australia had mayors