I did a course at uni when I was about 19 about adapting classic novels into films. The entire pointwas whether an adaptation must be ultra faithful to be successful, or whether it can be a conversation with the original text having regard to its own political/social context etc

Made my kid an adorable smash cake

My mum has the first Australian Women's Weekly dinner party cookbook (published January 1990) and oh my GOD

Tried to read my baby an adorable book about how much I love them only for it to be summarily shoved aside in favour of "Dear Zoo"

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

The replies on popular posts in this joint really are grim

Australia understands what the beautiful game is all about: grinding out a boring 0-0 draw against another team that isn’t very good

Anyway. My beautiful baby is turning one and going into daycare and my return to work is looming and I'm EMOTIONAL about it

Remember when karl stefanovic was just sort of the funny guy on breakfast TV. And now he's speedrunning right wing grifter dickhead with a podcast. Hope the money's worth it Karl. Hope you can live with yourself when boosting nazi rhetoric gets someone hurt or killed

Neil, an elephant seal well known to Tasmanians, has returned to land, with a new video showing him being coerced off a road for his own safety.

Listen to @boontavista.com

Dredged up a memory of being taught to sing Rip Rip Woodchip at primary school

Anyone heard of the Witcher 3. Pretty good game

Australia if Lang left everything to Rose

Out and about driving at 2am for "baby refuses to sleep" reasons and I have seen SIX kangaroos just out and about in suburbia

At ED for "baby temperature" reasons - it's all fine, we're home now - but various doctors and nurses repeatedly told me how cute my child was, which: Me: I bet you say that to everyone Also me: I KNOW I HAVE THE BEST AND CUTEST BABY IN THE WORL—

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

Oh yeah I did have to tactfully tell my not particularly crunchy mother that fermenting garlic in honey probably carried a minor risk of botulism and maybe don't do that without reading up on how to do it properly

There's genuinely nothing like watching a boomer relative scroll through their Instagram feed to make you realise the information economy is ~fuuuuuucked~

There are many things to miss about livejournal but multiple icons, man. Multiple icons.

Have to say the child social media ban has been in place here for half a year and I frequently see the local primary school kids gathered around phones looking at Snapchat. So you know. It doesn't work

"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole".

Does anyone have $1m spare. There's a house I like

Having a trillion dollars and not being able to crack a single good joke

What's the point of a trillionaire other than as a guillotine test run

And here we go. Already Ive been tricked into sending my penis to three of these so called "Group chats". I now have no choice but to shut down my alt where I pretend to be a 36 yr old Sex Worker from Brooklyn, offering my calloused, world weary perspective interspersed with moments of gentle warmth

What makes babies gulp at water like they're dying and why is it so cute

Five days later and the sore throat has NEARLY resolved. 🫠

I am afraid I cannot reconcile "fewer babies means fewer workers, people must have more babies" with "AI means fewer workers, companies must have AI" as the two big economic talking points of the right / the government / big tech.

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Got a run goal today (sub 30 min 5k!) and like three hours later my body has gone "bitch,"

are you just going to do this for every generation

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

Boring taxes reminder to Australians that if you happen to have spare cash (lol lmao etc) you can make a voluntary contribution to your super and immediately claim the whole amount as a tax deduction

Demi Adejuyigbe having to spell "sushi world Westfield belconnen" on guy mont spelling bee feels like finding out your work colleague is dating your mum

Lmao calm down Sephiroth

June 1st

Ever wanted to do surgery on yourself to put all your softest most vulnerable most important organs on the outside where anyone can get at them at a moment's notice? Have a kid

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

As NSFW accounts might be disappearing from timelines, now is a really good time to go subscribe to your favorite fanfic authors on AO3 so you get emailed about everything they post

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

My mum in her sixties texted tonight asking what it means when "young people call out six seven"

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

Grimly fending off impending winter misery by painting my toenails fluoro orange. Will anyone see them? No but I'll know they're there

Watching Rivals and honestly David Tennant plays such a good arsehole

When I saw the "wrestling snakes" headline I thought they'd be actual snakes, not sentient shoelaces

Side effect of turning off the youtube algo is that I often have religious themed videos in my "watch next" suggestions which is... Interesting,