Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

Good night, queen

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

This is still so good.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

So many obviously. Here’s my favourite

Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Again: Inattention is surrender. So don't surrender. Only 41% of the agreed-upon trucks are entering Gaza (Government Media Office, December 22) and 80% are commercial (ICRC, December 19). There's no aid. Give. Act. One way—help six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...

I understand that YouTube is the dominant cultural delivery method of our age but i genuinely don’t understand it. I don’t want video of my audio entertainment. I listen while I’m doing other things. I don’t even know what the use case would be for me.

The bar for any podcast that isn’t Unedited 1-2 People Chatting* is also unfeasible. You want me to turn my narrative nonfiction show into a filmed doc? My fiction into a literal tv series? A reminder again to work in whatever fucking medium you want to *also a perfectly good form

2010: we are pivoting to video, learn to use this flip cam and develop your Personal Brand 2016: why isn’t this working 2019: we have made a terrible mistake 2026: we are pivoting to video

I just got back into Letterboxd and I’m giving everything 3.5 stars. Color out of space? 3.5 stars. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence? 3.5 stars. What is happening

Pretty much all questions that were asked at the inauguration of the NHS, they didn't prove particularly difficult to resolve despite the aftermath of the Blitz, massive shortages of labour and building materials, huge government debt

2025 is nearly over! Here’s some of the stuff I did, and liked (hire me) martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/2...

Remember the dawn of human civilisation, when no-one was near-sighted?

This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Say it with me now: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. (Attributed to John Gilmore, ~ 1993.)

Bari Weiss won't hear your remarks about how disgusted you are with her toadying to the admin but on the other hand yes she will, these people are absolute dogs for attention and would eat their own vomit on live TV if it meant even three people would notice them

This whole thread is worth a read tbh

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.

It's also a good time to remember when the great Bob Gottlieb sent another hugely successful children's author a letter telling him to knock this shit off or they'd drop him...

This is “A Liitle Rain” from Bone Machine and I claim my £5 www.instagram.com/p/DSctGEQFPC...

This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.

Wow, it doesn't say the name Trump anywhere in the unredacted parts. That's good enough for me, and I consider this "case closed"

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

LET’S get into the giving seaon by GIVING!! Sign up for a weekly amount now! Please. We are the only line between life and death.

Franz kafka - an imperial message. great one page story

I just watched his Osaka World Fair video for the first time and unironically love Big Joel

Trans rights are human rights and it's not negotiable, you fucks

Honestly I’ve made a bunch of friends and met so many lovely and inspiring people making podcasts

Calling him an odd duck is really funny

Susie Wiles is a canny political operator who knows exactly what she’s doing and bears a ton of responsibility for the way Trump has been normalized by the press that she sees the writing on the wall is maybe the clearest sign of where this ends and the coming knife fight to inherit MAGA

Someone, sometime, is going to be the first to say "What the fuck is wrong with you?" to Trump's face and that person will be a hero forever, the Neil Armstrong of "reacting like a human being"

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Expand this to 1984 and you also have one of the funniest movies ever made

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg

When Ghost says "yo, this rap is like ziti", I trust he knows what he means bsky.app/profile/coke...

New episode in your podfeed: I read all of A Christmas Carol, with musical backing from @martinaustwick.bsky.social. It’s a banger! theallusionist.org/christmascarol

Sure this looks bad for AI, but that's just because we haven't invested enough money in it yet!

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

Also worth noting here are the replies to this of people who've had a similar belief trajectory, I find them quite heartening

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