You’re only allowed to rewatch two films for the remainder of your life Mine:

I think I thunk a thinky thought, so thinksome a thought, I thoughtfully thank. This thinkage I thunkaged, when I thinkamicated thus, what that thinking is thinkly and thinkfully thought.

Remembering how in 1968 Kubrick decided against realistically depicting heatsinks for the Discovery bc they’d look too much like ‘wings’ and then Star Trek in 2026 does this

"When I lie awake at night, and the intrusive thoughts in my rotation recede for long enough to hear other musings, I wonder how we can ever hope to take care of one another when we have so quickly been entirely convinced not take care of ourselves."

COVID pandemic enters 7th year with no end in sight. "It's strange to think that the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into lockdown 7 years ago never ended. It continues to kill and cripple us, to this day. We simply stopped talking about it." boingboing.net/2026/01/16/c...

Curiosity in a tiny package: Joy of small museums www.thenewdaily.com.au/travel/exper...

A healthy democracy cannot have a standing force of vastly-funded, barely trained, heavily armed and masked secret police riven with a not insignificant number of white nationalists just waiting around to brutalize people. Abolish ICE

This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.

These programs help to offset what I’ve previously described as a vampiric relationship between AI companies and the commons: www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

Wilderness Australia detected 102 den trees during surveys over the past two months at Glenbog state forest, which is scheduled for logging in the next few weeks. Under state rules logging is not permitted within 50 metres of known den trees. Read more: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“‘Rather different from your home life, eh?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘What do you do at home?’ What did I do at home? It all seemed so long ago! ‘Fancy needlework, sir,’ I said at last, that being the first thing I could think of.” (Thesiger, ‘Practically True’)

It’s Ernest’s birthday tomorrow. “[He] was getting off a bus with his shopping when the doors closed on him. He immediately cried, ‘Stop! Stop! You are killing a genius!’” (Kenneth Williams) 🎨 Alexander Christie (1937)

Okay, one more MCU take and I’ll move on. Superfans of a massively popular series now in slight decline are like “You Film Twitter snobs are attacking MCU because normal people like it!” “Normal” Okay, sure. Normal people regularly fight for the honor of IP. Uh huh.

Hey babe, are you a Jabberwock? Because you burbled as you came.

I don't care if it is brillig, you can't just gyre and gimble in a public wabe. It's against Tulgey Woods council bylaws and carries a mimsy fine.

Granadaland in one image. Ena Sharples at Clifford Court in Hulme/Old Trafford on 18th April 1966. Picture taken by John C Madden.

If I suddenly became a multi-billionaire tomorrow, apart from the stuff I'd fund and the adverts I'd take out to continually shame governments into doing the right thing, and the artists I'd support, I'd buy the rights to Reboot, and return it to the original creators along with a money for season 5

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

"The species is named after Inazuma, a character from the Japanese manga ‘One Piece,’ known for the ability to change sex between male and female"

Whoever decided to make this fucking thing "retro-active" (IE get AI to animate covers that were not made to be animated) should be fired into the sun.

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For years and years I used an invaluable site to send myself email reminders, regular & one-off. Recently it stopped working; I fear the owner may have passed away. Now I'm trying to find a similar site or app. (There's an add-on for Thunderbird, but with scary privacy implications.)

Naomi Wolf sends Nancy Friday a letter for inclusion in a new My Secret Garden volume. IYKYK

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

"Evan Rachel Wood is speaking out for the first time since Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said his office would not be filing domestic abuse and sexual assault charges against her ex-fiancé, Marilyn Manson."

100/124 writers due at Adelaide Writers Festival have pulled out, as has sponsor, the Australia Institute. I'm loving this display of solidarity, and rejection of racism and Islamophobia.

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

They would rather burn it all down than risk someone saying a genocide is, in fact, a genocide.

1/3 "Why do you still wear a mask?" Well, forgetting the fact that COVID isn't over and I refuse to risk my family, I also refuse to risk other people.

Yes, even for the surgical stuff www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...

Mermaid dressing — a tiny illustration available as a sticker, among other things www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1451...

CNN put together a montage of Trump being vocally against regime change before he fell in love with it

If you have been turned away from Hilton Hotels, we welcome you to sleep in our maintenance shed where you will be given a bowl of water and unlimited raw raccoon meat.

Pulled up next to two wild brumbies today! Beautiful animals! Just a shame they don't belong in the national parks.

"I wanna do a 'Get Bin Laden.' Obama got to do a 'Get Bin Laden.'" "There aren't any Bin Ladens. We could manage a Noriega. Do you want to do a Noriega?"

I remember when the September 11 attacks happened, there were tonnes of US citizens saying, "We did we ever do to deserve this?" What just happened in Venezuela? That. The US has been pulling crap like that for decades, usually to help big business. Ring and write to your politicians

After five minutes with Molly Ringwald

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

Kid is 2.5 weeks into summer holidays. “I’m bored”. Made him fold laundry with me. And then I did an interpretative dance to Darude’s Sandstorm through the living room. He’s no longer bored. He’s going fishing

Love how these squids took the time to all pose for the photo. 🦑📷sue_churchill (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

2025 was Australia's 4th hottest year on record! The last 4 hottest years all occurred in the last 6 years! 2024 2021 2020 2019 We're so cooked! #auspol

Leave X Tell anyone you know who uses it WHY they need to leave X.

Thatcher's Britain echoes through Stephen Daldry's wonderful 2000 dance drama Billy Elliot. fictionmachine.com/2026/01/03/r...

I just sniped a kid in Overwatch and he wrote "ohhh Kirked me" and I just found out they're using that as shorthand for a good snipe HOLY SHIT LOL

Apparently the new Andor Season 2 issue of Journey Planet just dropped, for which I did the cover art. I painted this before seeing the second season. Still can't resist those John Berkey vibes. www.journeyplanet.org/journey-plan... #StarWars #Andor

LE CHEMIN ALLUMÉE (2008) Acrylic - 36” X 36” “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent... 1/5