Something is missing here.... But I can't put my finger on it....

This issue features the special dossier in collaboration with My Formative Queers: Stories of the music Videos that Made Us Queer, edited by Patrick Kelly and Stuart Richards @stuartrichards.bsky.social : www.sensesofcinema.com/category/my-...

Issue 115 of @sensesofcinema.bsky.social is out and it includes a dossier from the great symposium 'My Formative Queers' at last year's MQFF, where speakers shared an early music video clip that shaped their queerness in some way. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...

From now on, any time anyone answers any question I have, I'm going to say "Ahh, that would explain the wasps."

Have you got your *free* tickets for our Issue 115 launch yet? We're teaming up with My Formative Queers for a special dossier: "Stories of the Music Videos that Made Us Queer", edited by Patrick Kelly and @stuartrichards.bsky.social Register here 👉 events.humanitix.com/senses-of-ci...

Grog's rule of privatisation: "The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."

Saw NO OTHER CHOICE at AFF and while there were some absolutely wonderful moments, it was overall very meh. Such a shame!

The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens. Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies. This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.

I just finished the audiobook for Darcy Green's After the Siren and it was an absolute delight. It's so refreshing to read an Australian gay story that isn't entirely dour.

Emilia Jones is just incredible as Maeve in TASK. Terrific series.

So, the Albanese Govt's Education Minister wants to do something about bullying. Perhaps he could start by ending the legalised bullying of LGBTQ+ students by religious schools. You know, like they promised in 2022, before walking away from it, and from vulnerable kids. #auspol

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

a) an English degree does not prevent you from getting and doing a [scare quote] real job [scare quote] b) there are things, goals, and values in the world other than money but also c) last year the publishing industry's estimated worth to the UK economy was ELEVEN BILLION QUID.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Today I happily deleted my academia account. I hadn't logged onto the site in ages so it was overdue anyway.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Phwoar what brilliant tv. Another great character study from the creator of Mare of Easttown. 2 episodes in and need more.

"Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy" Excellent by @emmashortis.bsky.social theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

At this point I almost feel sorry for techbros, who are stuck chasing the emotional and financial nostalgia of an era when tech was truly transformative, and are instead stuck in this one promising shareholder value on the basis of obviously unrealisable hype

Something weird about these early 40s white men insisting we ditch net zero and fuck the consequences. The pig-headed, nihilistic disregard almost made sense for Abbott (67), Joyce (58), Morrison (57). But Hastie/Duniam are 42. Millennials who might've led the Coalition into the 21st century...

Can someone sit the producers of the Emmys down and explain that we watch for the speeches? And why are they producing the Emmys if they don't know it?

The Pitt Jeff Hiller + Hannah Einbinder are just brilliant but good lord the rest of The Emmys are painful. It genuinely feels like the host is an intern who was asked to fill in at the last minute and has never been on camera before. Not a single thing has landed. At least The Bear isn't winning...

'Hacks' star Hannah Einbinder closes out her speech after winning her first Emmy "I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine"

Important intervention

This Italian journalist is about to discover the famous Australian DoubleTap Racism manoeuvre, used by journos across the industry - First you get paid to do something racist - Then you get paid to write about how the real racists are the ones who were mean to you online

3k USD would have paid off all my current debt :-/

This sounds amazing

Some hints in here that the decision to shutter Meanjin might not have been 'purely financial'...

Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’

"Those rallies were whipped up by far-right extremists and neo-Nazis. A lot of people were warned about that. I am not in the business of doing ‘there are good people on both sides’ argument... In particular, I haven’t seen a good fascist yet." 💥👏👏👏 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albo: “there are some good Nazis”

"Sorry, what did you just say?"

Dear media, you absolutely do not have to lead with ‘Benjamin Netanyahu says…’ It is not fulfilling your charter of unbiased reporting at all, quite the opposite in fact. It is shilling for a war criminal.

Shooting at Porepunkah the day after the gun lobby beats its chest and day the Minns government supports the gun lobby's party's bill. Nice timing.

So surreal hearing about Porepunkah on the news. My mum was about to take the dog out when my brother called to stay inside. Terrifying stuff.

LOL. This is not new behavior from this man but it’s very funny that drugs are great but lesbians are a bridge too far.

Why would anyone want to get relations ‘back on track’ with a nation committing genocide? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

'One of the proposed solutions to the fact that these AI companies are already stealing the work of creatives, writers and artists is not to wonder – not even performatively – about how to protect the output of the creators but to suggest formalising the theft'. rick-morton.ghost.io/crumbs-at-th...

Happy Anniversary to my favourite Twitter interaction

ALIEN: EARTH absolutely slaps. Phenomenal so far.

he’s gay AND Tom cruise?? he really CAN do it all, wow

If your contribution to the Discourse™️ about whether the fight for same-sex marriage rights was assimilationist or not doesn't include an acknowledgement of the importance of hospital visitation/next of kin rights/end of life decisions/funerals and bequeathments to that fight then, maybe, just don't

Oh, David :(

Oh this is such an incredibly dumb move. The reviews were the best part of Variety.