Having now gone 5 episodes deep with #Pluribus, I'm re-listening to @lukeburbank.bsky.social & @walsh.bsky.social discuss the show... ...I *still* have no idea what the show is about...but I'm loving it nonetheless. #tbtl traffic.libsyn.com/secure/d6aa2...

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social Based on the exchange rate, I think this makes me a 5, but I'll take it for now. What do you do is so important. #tbtl

I have never, not once, seen a single argument for using AI to create art that is remotely interesting, compelling, or intelligent. They are all total garbage. And they are all total garbage because they are made by people who fundamentally do not understand why humans both create and consume art.

For three years military journalist and soldier Anastasia Blyshchyk served on the front line in Donbas. For 7 months she carried out missions while pregnant without telling anyone. She gave birth to a son - Myron Myroslavovych, the greatest victory of her life. Photo: @anastasiia_blyshchyk

"I am distraught. I am angry. I am deeply deeply frustrated with what I already see as the weaponisation of this attack by many members of the political elite in Australia and globally, and many in the media." ~ Antony Lowenstein. #auspol #bondi theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Episode 209 just dropped! Listen now and remember it fondly later! hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/nost...

RFR is back! We have some top secret info about the upcoming 50th anniversary 4K upgrade rerelease of the original '77 version of STAR WARS. Where has RFR been the last month? We explain everything. Plus, interview highlights from Shawn Levy & Matt Smith about STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER

From the moment of Diana's untimely death, our collective addiction to grief porn has only ramped up. Is there an end point to this? Or are we going to continue to devolve through a ghoulish obsession with tragedy? www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

"Remember that to be Jewish is to be part of a broad cross-spectrum of people & opinions & adherences. Be angry alongside your Jewish brothers & sisters for this event. Weep with them. You may not know who you weep with, but that is tragedy – ugly & tangled." #auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social I've gone down a Myrna Loy rabbit hole and I don't wanna climb out... #tbtl

I think the Australian mainstream media have reached a nadir this past week with their desperate, pornographic coverage of the #Bondi tragedy. They are no longer fit for purpose - none of them, not even the ABC. They should be ashamed but I don't think they are capable. #auspol

Surely the real battle is those who hate, and wish to spread hate, versus those who wish to stop it ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’

The purient opportunism by conservative figures in the wake of the #Bondi tragedy, cheered on by a frothing media estate is as disgusting as it is stupid. Liberal #auspol is a cesspool. youtu.be/2z0gjjea0mQ?...

This week at #deanfromaustralia - Fighting It. Sometimes, I just can't bare to be in my own skin anymore. #nursing #stoicism #glioblastoma deanmayesauthor.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/f...

I've long held the view that neither Donald Trump nor JD Vance are the most dangerous individuals to the USA. Stephen Miller is, far and away, more dangerous. He is this century's Eichmann. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

The Holocaust Tattoo & The Barber Shop. www.deanfromaustralia.com/2019/06/

Episode 208 is now live and this week we're talking about speciousness, mendaciousness, and sophistry. Wasn't hard to find examples! hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/soph...

This week at #deanfromaustralia - Fighting It. Sometimes, I just can't bare to be in my own skin anymore. #nursing #stoicism #glioblastoma deanmayesauthor.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/f...

I'll never be cool but I can say that I have a great great great grandmother who is buried in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

New Post at #deanfromaustralia - Fighting It. Sometimes, I just can't bare to be in my own skin anymore. #nursing #stoicism #journaling deanmayesauthor.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/fighting-it

Have you ever encountered a smile so beautiful it hurts...?

New Post at #deanfromaustralia - Fighting It. Sometimes, I just can't bare to be in my own skin anymore. #nursing #stoicism #journaling deanmayesauthor.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/fighting-it

Overnight, I am sitting with my patient trying to console him. Earlier yesterday, he was told that the glioblastoma in his brain was a Stage 4 - meaning inoperable. He is going to die. No amount of medication is relieving his pain or his nausea right now & I'm thinking to myself that, after...

The "it's within the rules" argument is as pugilistic as it is hollow. The rules are broken. The rules should be fixed. A pox on both their houses. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Here's the thing about #bonsai... You sit in front of it and think for 3 hours. Then you make a single tip prune. This has been my TED talk.

"He (Deputy Opposition Leader Josh Teague) also stressed that the decision to step down was Mr Tarzia's." Sure Jan. Where's Alex Antic hiding? #SouthAustralia #saparli www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

#Breaking - South Australian Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia is announcing he is quitting politics. #saparli

Welp...this is going to be another dud Test. #TheAshes

The ABC is a fundamentally broken institution. It is absolutely beyond comprehension for them to continue to platform a criminal underworld figure who remains connected to some of the most dangerous individuals in Australia. #auspol youtu.be/HYIwk4qL2os?...

Meanwhile, in Australia: youtu.be/HYIwk4qL2os #auspol

And the perennial question remains... Who is funding Bruce Lehrmann? #auspol

Hey friends, if you listen to Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, we'd like to invite you to send us a question-- it can be serious, funny, challenging, whatever-- to answer on air. Feel free to post your question below or email it to us at [email protected]!

Bobby Kennedy is a friggin' terrorist.

An #Adelaide #Hydrangea

The LNP is facing extinction in #auspol youtu.be/GBmu-CMMEq8?...

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social I can safely say that, after your spoilery discussion of #Pluribus, I still have no idea what this show is about. I don't know if this is a good thing.

For the past week, my wife & I have been processing our daughter's anorexia nervosa diagnosis. The path to this point has been brutal. Everything we thought we knew about this disease (we're both health professionals) has been rendered invalid - probably a good thing - but no less devastating.

Rian Johnson's #StarWars trilogy cancelled...

Canaries in the coal mine.

You know...I thought I was on board with big events like the car race coming to #Adelaide... ...except when they lock down the entire eastern side of town & I'm trying to make a specialist appointment I've kept for weeks & I have break multiple road rules just to get close enough to their rooms.

My family are torturing me. Send. Help. #christmasmovieseason

NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market. Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I have failed many times in my life. Some failures have been worse than others. For the longest time, I wasn't able to see these failures. I looked for excuses - for someone else to blame. I had to learn to own my failures - both past and recent. It has been both frightening and liberating.

No words to express how honoured I am to have illustrated this officially licensed poster for my favourite #StarWars story. What a dream to work on this was ✨     Print will be limited to 377 pieces on paper. You can pre-order it now via @collectsideshow.bsky.social (link in reply👇🏻) #ANDOR #art

...What if Barron isn't Donny's?

If anyone wondered why Australia doesn’t have shutdowns, it is because we have a parliamentary system and not a Presidential system. Sorry America, your democracy objectively sucks.

14 years after I penned this teenaged love letter to #pinkfloyd singer Rachel Fury, her mystique & the awareness of my ode to her has only grown. I've recently updated it with some fascinating new information. #music www.deanfromaustralia.com/2011/06/oh-b...