Subtly downgrade a band. My Acquaintance the Chocolate Cake

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. The Goodies Spaced The Mighty Boosh Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (US version) Blackadder The Young Ones Curb Your Enthusiasm The League of Gentlemen Black Books Red Dwarf

For American children who watch "Bluey" it is an Australian Broadcasting Corp (public broadcaster) program that Disney broadcasts in the USA. Use a VPN, get iView from abc.net.au and watch away.

Saw NDW, George Telek and band in Melbourne last night and had dreams in the forest. 🌳🦜 #AusMusic #PNG youtube.com/watch?v=SpmG...

Kenny Rogers' 'The Gambler'.

Off to see Not Drowning, Waving and George Telek performing the iconic 'Tabaran' album tonight at Melbourne Recital Centre, and today got an email with download link for new album 'Malira'. 😎 Six tracks in so far, and it's absolutely brilliant. Kudos to @davidbridie.bsky.social and co! 👍 #ausmusic

Release day. Lot of work went into this. Aust na PNG bung wantaim. On vinyl cd and dig. On Tidal and Qobuz, Apple Music bandcamp and selected stores

This evening I rewatched John Carpenter's (to me) classic, 'Big Trouble in Little China' and found myself scribbling a few thoughts and memories about the first time I saw it in the cinema, back in the day. #movies #letterboxd

Sorting through some photos of our trip to Queensland last year and found this one taken at Hervey Bay, looking NW towards the 868m long Urangan Pier on a dramatic sky day. #photography #landscape

Ruin a song by adding the word 'literally' to the title: Stop Literally Draggin' My Heart Around 😬

It's a dirty job...

Current #WritingMusic is this live slice of shimmering psychedelic goodness from Nodens Ictus (who were at that point Ed from Ozrics and Gre from the also-excellent Gracerooms). 🎵🍄

Just finished watching Flash Gordon for the first time since the 1980s... ... and it was glorious. I'd honestly forgotten how wonderfully bonkers it all is - my memory reduced to a few quotes preserved in the titular Queen song. The scenery-chewing Brian Blessed was right: Gordon is indeed alive.

Nature is perfect. #SundayPixPerfection #SundayPix (Look, there are just SO MANY places and things I could post for this one, Wombat. I’ll stop now. 🤎)

Yup, I think it’s Jinsy Time. youtu.be/Sc72mWqZTpM?...

Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title: Hallowed Literally Be Thy Name 🤘

Make a band singular. Faith One More

Make a band singular. The Psychedelic Furry

Make a band singular. Velvet Flintlock

Make a band singular. Mötley Löner

Make a band singular. Grand Funk Tram Track

Thank you to everyone who came along to the premiere of my new concert film at the BFI last night. It was wonderful to relive the Luck and Strange show on the big screen, surrounded by many of the people who were part of making that tour such a special one.

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

Counterpoint: I think that people who _aren't_ referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably slack-jawed mouth-breathers, or shills for AI slop generators. 🤷‍♂️

Sorting through (and trying to reduce…) my photos and found this shot taken earlier in the year - possibly the smallest common garden skink I’ve ever found.

Slightly diminish a book. 'The Call of the Mild'

Slightly diminish a book. 'The Grapes of David Lee Roth’

A briefly-opened doorway on Collins Street beckoned me inside, with its promise of dimly lit interior and hints of ornateness. Took this whilst sitting on a comfy leather couch. Apparently it was the banking chamber of the Commercial Bank of Australia, built in 1891-93. #melbourne #photography

Lars von Trier’s When Harry Met Sally

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This evening I am in the old neighbourhood, as it were. #StKilda #melbourne #photography

Just pre-ordered the upcoming Mick Thomas album as this month's #BandcampFriday purchase (still 3 hours to go!) - went the old school CD option, but been listening to download-now track, 'A Mighty Ride (All Aboard the 96)', a tale of taking the titular tram to St Kilda. 🚋 #AusMusic #music

Currently reading an autobiography that I can't help but hear in my head as THAT VOICE! 😉 💙📚 #reading

Quote post with an album you'd rate a perfect 10 out of 10. This is my #1 go-to, but I have many others.

Matt Damon, best known for playing the role of 'Steamer Windsor' in Mystic Pizza.

It was a very comedy-related DVD haul from the local op shop (aka 'charity shop' or 'thrift store' depending on your locale) the other day, which is no bad thing - I could use a laugh or two at the moment. 😉

The true headline: "31% of your employees are actually intelligent enough to realise your AI strategy is built on empty marketing lies" With the summary: "Despite the hype, GenAI is a novelty that saves no time and cannot be relied upon for 99% of business purposes it is now being forced into."

Post your favorite first-watches of August 🍿

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. There's Something About Gary

I am actively embarrassed for people who really should know better when they parrot the empty PR hype (aka utter bullshit) of the GenAI slop machine makers. Because this is utter nonsense.

Post a random picture, or everything will go bad in September. I can’t see this ending badly… 😉

A Nazi rally with people who aren't Nazis? But I thought... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you see the Eureka Stockade flag today, know that Raffaello Carboni, an Italian immigrant who helped create the flag, said: "I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol

I need to find a new starter word, as this was my first act of spring cleaning for the season... 😉 (If only this happened during #Aug100...) 🤷‍♂️ #WQuers Wordle 1,535 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

“When an LLM fabricates a falsehood, that is not a malfunction at all. The machine is doing exactly what it has been designed to do: guess, and sound confident while doing it. When LLMs get things wrong they aren't hallucinating. They are bullshitting.”

My intermittent re-read of every #Discworld novel reached 'Equal Rites'. The first read of my well-worn OG copy in probably 20 years was interesting. I still love it, though to my mind the pacing now feels a bit odd, but hey, it was early days and there's still so much gold here! #TerryPratchett 💙📚

Without saying "Just Like Heaven" name your favourite The Cure song. Since "JLH" isn't even in my top 50, that bit's easy. 🤷‍♂️ Then it gets tricky. Lullaby? Lovesong? Close To Me? All Cats Are Grey? I'll go with A Forest, cos it's what got me into them, all the way back in 1980. Iconic bassline.

Absolute gold. "What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it." #FuckGenAI