Just now learning that MOG dies and narrates her own death. Huge Judith Kerr energy.

Solidarity with all my striking colleagues at the ABC. On mat leave so can’t strike but supporting them from the sidelines.

The If You're Listening team is striking today, calling for fair pay and conditions, particularly for casual and fixed term staff. I'm lucky enough to have an ongoing role - many of my colleagues don't. As a result, this week's Thursday episode will be released on Friday.

It took me a while to understand this

Former defence guy: our biggest threats are disinformation and climate change newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Four year old constantly horrified when I tell him an adults birthday celebration has no theme, or worse, an adult is not even having a party.

'Helium is critical for MRI machines to cool superconducting magnets. 1/3 of the world's helium supplies comes thru the Strait of Hormuz.' 🫠

I need directors to know I don’t need as many drone shots as you think I need.

Money seems fake when you read stories like this.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Feels like maybe we shouldn’t have let Uber convince us it’s ok to rate human beings out of five. It’s been basically downhill tech-wise since then.

If you're thinking hard about an EV right now can I suggest the two wheeled variety? I have two EVs and while I love the car, the bike is the actual superstar. 7c to fully charge, free parking everywhere, has saved me THOUSANDS in fuel and fares. www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07...

I hate how math is forced to continuously justify itself by its uses and it can't just be allowed to stand on its own. Humans have done art for thousands of years because that's what humans do. It's the same with math. Humans reason about pretend things that don't matter, and that's okay.

Very disappointing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see the DOJ surrender in the middle of the Ticketmaster-LiveNation case after political pressure from the top. Hopefully the states will continue to push to break up a monopoly that should have never been allowed to exist in the first place.

Just obsessed with the nurse at our local GP clinic who does the kids vaccines. So warm, personable, efficient, competent. Takes all the anxiety out of the room.

Just a quiet word for anyone storing jerry cans of fuel in the garage: improper storage of fuel in quantity can potentially invalidate home insurance

Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.

Well this makes me feel both more and less insane

Been thinking how much our generation came of age when disruption was the major paradigm when actually a lot of human needs comes under the umbrella of the opposite of innovation: maintenance and care.

Watching so much Couples Therapy (US) I am now unfortunately a licensed counsellor

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

This morning after baby’s second wake I dreamed I had to submit a huge essay and it was the day before and I had months and I hadn’t started and I was just reading the assignment sheet being like oh I was supposed to do a research trip to Africa for it I forgot. Normal!!!!!

ah another heartwarming sydney property story

Obsessed with April in og Ninja Turtles getting 3 days to chase a story and come up empty. What a heady time for establishment journalism.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

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Just realised me being on mat leave having little meltdowns because I miss my colleagues makes me not dissimilar to a newly retired old dude grappling with his irrelevance to the world of organised labour.

A lot of this going 'round eh. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

here’s what the Kyle and Jackie O split could mean for your grocery bill

Thinking a lot today about how reading rates are dropping (despite all the studies that reading is really good for people), writers are struggling to survive, and publishing companies keep consolidating into bigger, more vicious conglomerates. It's an ugly, massive Gordian knot.

Man I forget how many people are War Guys in their heart of hearts and don’t get to exercise their war guyness until something like the Iran strikes pop up.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

While we all watch Iran…

There’s something about the crumbling of the international rules based order along with the crumbling of any semblance of copyright infringement protection from LLMs that causes shall we say extreme dread for a person that cares about fairness and artists.

I’m teaching my son piano (very basic) and wow it’s bringing out some real Parts of my Psychology.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Cloud Carrier proposes gas-fired power station to power Moss Vale AI data centre. New data centres should be banned from requiring fossil fuels to operate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

I love this quote and illustration but it’s deranged to put in the kids bday card section

One of these days I’m gonna start a monthly support group for eldest daughters in south asian families so we can talk about our Problems.

Post me the most broken AI thing you’ve seen on the internet today

Wrote about feeling moved open.substack.com/pub/bhakthip...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Sunflower report

Thinking about when I was a refugee caseworker and nice liberal folks would call us asking if they could host a Ukrainian family. When told there weren't any available for rent, but they could host a Congolese or Afghan family instead, we never heard from them again. This happened a lot! Like, A LOT

After all that and there’s not one bare buttock in Wuthering Heights (2026)

He marries your sister-in-law: Not a red flag, since he could just as well claim that you married his brother-in-law. Plus, it will make holiday gatherings more intimate. Between this and the shared parents, nobody should get stuck sleeping in the haunted bed closet.

I’m very happy and everything but does every day need to be new, can we just go back and do one great day again????

it’s so cool everything is either a scam or designed to take away human rights or both now

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.