Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

An empire is crumbling, people are being disappeared from the streets, wars are igniting across the globe, and yet some people are pouring all their passion and rage onto a trans woman who was cast in a musical. The plot of Cabaret 2 is writing itself.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

I gave birth to a Bitcoin bro.

Any time I'm tempted to think my toddler's a genius, I remember that he misheard the phrase "wishing well" once and now says "lishing well". He thinks it grants "lishes". If he finds a coin, he tosses it for a lish. When I asked him what a lish is, he said "oh, don't worry about it mummy".

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Will die on the hill that Ringo Starr was just as genius a songwriter as Lennon, McCartney & Harrison, he was simply writing to a different market (toddlers).

BUY. THIS. FOR. YOUR. DADS.

Was going to launch this at Adelaide - but will now be Canberra in March. I suck at promotion, but it’s open for pre order at wherever you get your books (and you can ask your library for it too) 🩷

Of all the children's authors I've read to my 3 year old so far, E.B. White is the only one who has taken my breath away. I'm actually furious so much of his work is buried and almost impossible to find.

This guy would've joined ICE

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Just when I think AI can't get worse...

People say Australians don't have a culture but I just heard a mum call her toddler a dickhead, so

"see... BS news"

This was the first thing that popped into my head when I heard Scott Adams died.

I love Stranger Things, I think it's an incredible accomplishment, but the documentary serves as further evidence that straight people need to hire queer writers to check their work when they're writing queer characters, because Jesus Christ. Jesus. Christ.

This is how I know this is the website for me lmfao

Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

Grateful to the writers who dropped out, and especially those who did it first. And at the same time, I'm so fucking angry that spaces where writers get to share their work, get inspired and collaborate are being destroyed by far right neo-fascists who do not give a shit about the arts.

Louise Adler has resigned www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

she didn’t say this at all, she answered my question about if she regrets past discrimination against trans people. not discriminating against trans people is “pedophilic trans grooming” to people like elon musk. absolute insanity

Makes me a little sad that the genius who wrote this line will never get the credit they deserve.

Ezra Klein did a podcast episode a while ago about how actually Trump might be a perfect election pick if you want world peace. I wish Klein nothing but restless nights fixating on his own bad takes.

Funnier than any joke Ricky Gervais has told in his life

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

Stopped listening to most true crime podcasts half a decade ago bc I was tired of the exploitation and unnecessary grotesque detail, but I've started listening again and I'm happy to report that so far most of them have been about the horrors of police incompetence, as it should be.

Rallies across US after ICE agent kills Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis https://aje.news/m72phn

Forgetting the Adelaide thing for a moment, I want a list of Australian writers who are still on twitter

I'm anti-police enforcement, I think the system needs a complete overhaul and I will never be on the side of the police. But this moment is a serious opportunity for the police to do their fucking jobs and protect citizens by arresting masked thugs. It's literally what most kids imagine cops to be.

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

New morning affirmation just dropped

Adelaide *Writer Festival.

It's 6pm and it's 40. IT'S 6PM AND IT'S 40.

Dare I say the best movie ever made

Watching Pauline Hanson talk about antisemitism is like that time a drunk guy at a club yelled at me that he was a feminist and then grabbed my tit and said "honk".

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

I know the Adelaide writers festival stuff is yesterday's news but I wanted to contribute to the discourse by saying lol.

You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.

Entertaining a toddler during a heatwave is weirdly SO MUCH HARDER than entertaining them during cold stormy days. It's probably because it looks nice outside and trying to explain to a 3 year old that the nice day will kill them is way harder than explaining lightning.

The only thing I knew about American mayors before this is that they were probably connected to the mob. That's it.

One of the weirdest things abt watching what's happening in the US from abroad is that I've learned the names of several Mayors. Things are so bad over there and the lack of leadership is so rife everyone is turning to their MAYORS for help like this is a batman comic and they live in Gotham City.

So far 42 writers have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers Week, and I think this understates the number because they don't for eg have Peter Fitzsimons on the list, and he is definitely out. ✊ www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

Hey, ICE shot and killed a US citizen today in Minneapolis. I don't post political shit here but if there's ever a time to take to the streets and demand justice NOW IS THE TIME.

You're such a fucking monster if this is the pull quote you use from this interview. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I totally understand Ashley Tisdale noping TF out of the mummy group chat, but writing an article about it is like escaping a bear and then running back to poke the bear.