“So it’s a Western set in space with a cold leading man?” “We need a foil to show his sensitive side…” “He likes ducks?” “No that’s been done” “He likes babies?” “Yeah, maybe” “How about a baby Yoda?” “Nice!”

French culture is the best because it is brutally honest. They hate the sycophants of the anglosphere, or Benny Oui Ouis as they call them…

The reason conservatives hate contemporary art is that they get angry about things they don’t understand and they want that feeling validated… For me, the feeling of disorientation you get from not understanding something is one of the best… it generally precedes personal growth…

Some people will watch and lean over their barista with the intensity of an addict…

Hobbes loves just to hang out…

Trump is a realist’s wet dream because he leverages military superiority at every turn, even against his allies. I’m sure our realist friends have thought through what this means in practice… I guess we’ve always lived in America’s world but it’s feeling less and less like a choice…

It’s weird that The Economist is so touchy about business monopolies and so relaxed about media monopolies…

My favorite thing about the Economist is the job adverts: It’s all like “we are looking for a new CEO of Boeing” and i’m like “sure, i read the Economist, why not ping my CV off”

Why is it so much easier to spot typos after you submitted? It’s like magic!

Everyone should read this….

If Rawls was a better writer we’d have totally overhauled the constitution by now.

This guy dgaf…

One of the central tenets of post modernism is that the reader is responsible for ascribing meaning to the text… So if you don’t understand my work it’s completely on you…

I’m going to invent a student that turns red when they haven’t done the reading…

*Trump voice* “They’re eating the body… they’re drinking the blood…”

*Trump voice* “They’re eating the body… they’re drinking the blood…”

Flashback to when this little guy hitched a ride on a banana from Queensland… “ “Stevie” the tree frog lives at the vet now in a temp moderated tank…

Must be incredibly frustrating for His Holiness Pope Leo in moments like this that per his sacred vows he's not allowed to reveal his secret crime fighting alter ego, Pope Man.

Congratulations to my two Hungarian friends and your compatriots. May this be an impetus to me learning how to pronounce your names correctly… 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

I really dislike loyalty cards. I don’t like the idea that my loyalty can be bought with a sporadical free coffee or whatever… Just make the coffee cheaper in the first place you bastards…

I’m thinking of sending a detailed list of my kinks to my relatives so the internet scammers will have no leverage over me… Auntie Julie just wanted a Christmas card this year… Unfortunately that’s no longer the world we live in…

I wonder what that BBC cameraman who broke protocol to save that cute baby penguin 🐧 is doing now? Intervening all over the place no doubt… hard for lionesses to get a square meal… he keeps warning the baby antelopes…

Musk/Murdoch/Bezos having greater influence on policy than vast swathes of the electorate is structural, and defending it on free speech grounds is obscene… Free speech and equal speech are two different things… It’s our turn to talk and their turn to listen…

Musk/Murdoch/Bezos having greater influence on policy than vast swathes of the electorate is structural, and defending it on free speech grounds is obscene… Free speech and equal speech are two different things… It’s our turn to talk and their turn to listen…

Ron Mueck at AGNSW!

Looks like they gave up on the putting a bunch of soldiers on Kharg Island idea… I mean… it is flammable…

Nothing better than art which speaks to the philosophical/emotional impasse you are experiencing at a particular time… Plato, Kafka, Goya, Orwell, Wittgenstein, Miles Davis, Joseph Heller, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan… It’s impossible to quantify how much these people have meant to me…

"With all this talk of a new age of ‘neo-royalism’ perhaps what the country needs is for liberal politics to grow more paranoid in style, not less." www.liberalcurrents.com/too-great-fo...

People secretly hold different philosophical beliefs to those they publicly espouse, and it’s becoming a problem… #Clever academics who held that constitutional and international law were platitudinous bunk now regret having zero basis for holding governments to account…

I am worried that Hobbes has escalation dominance… If he is displeased he shits on everyone’s bed and there is nothing we can do about it…

People are also randomly kind on Bluesky… Sometimes i’ll get a message from someone like “doing great work over here” and they’ll like three of my posts. So i’ll go over and like three of their posts… Meanwhile my daughter wants to spend time with me and i’m like “can’t you see i’m busy…”.

“You came all this way to consult the oracle and that’s your question?”

There’s a certain type of university professor that will advocate passionately for critical thinking as a societal benefit of the humanities and then set about destroying the careers of anyone who criticizes their work…

If you ever wondered who enjoys free jazz.... it's me. I'm sorry. I don't know how to explain it. I just like it.

There’s a certain type of university professor that will advocate passionately for critical thinking as a societal benefit of the humanities and then set about destroying the careers of anyone who criticizes their work…

Has anyone read this one? I’m hopeful that I might be able to write an article out of the historical parallels…

Have any of you worked as waitresses and actually enjoyed having patrons comment that you’re beautiful?… I may or may not have had a big argument with an elderly relative about this…. Is it contextual/sometimes non-threatening or always steeped in power dynamics?…

I was trying to cure my wife’s hiccups by telling her something shocking so I told her I called her work to speak to her and they said “don’t you want to speak to someone more important?”. It took about half an hour to calm her down… cured the hiccups though…

The best thing about going to France as a kid was stocking up on bangers (small incendiary devices)…. Really excellent times… until you get bored and decide to stick them in some dog poo…

My hottest take is dry and chewy. Oh wait that’s my hottest steak…

It’s dangerous to discuss politics with your surgeon… You don’t want to give her a reason to hate you… When she is administering anesthesia you don’t want to be saying “Yeah, i’m a total feminist, but…” What if she never hears your excellent qualifications?

When drafting an essay i like to reread the first paragraph thousands of times until i get a headache…

Fun historical fact: The terms “left” and “right” came into being in the aftermath of the French Revolution as people debated across a tennis court the extent of the revolutionary changes necessary. There was only one hold out who wanted to keep serving the King…

Primitive religions blamed catastrophes like wars on the sexual immorality of their peoples… Of course in this case they’d be right…

There should be a Time Out guide for people who enjoy arguing: 1. A relaxing trip for two to Ikea on a Saturday to “choose a new sofa”… 2. A romantic drive for two in the city center with the sat nav switched off because “it’s usually wrong anyway”…

I stop myself from criticizing a lot of things because i’m middle aged now and the main thrust of culture is aimed at a younger demographic… I kind of think Chalamet should have won the oscar though and if he was punished for saying something obviously true about ballet and opera that’s ridiculous…

Do you think squid husbands ever use their squid ink to get away if they are losing arguments with their spouses?

The British comedian to documentary-maker pipeline dictates that Sacha Baron Cohen will one day air an emotional reconciliation with the Kazakhstan tourism board…

Nice one Hannah! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One person’s “perceived slight” is another person’s genuine grievance. E.g. There are those who dismiss the socialist tradition as “the politics of envy”. I would agree that ego-driven academic beefs are tedious as hell…