Very disappointing to see the closure of The Bookshop Darlinghust on Oxford Street. Always went in there on my trips to sydney. What exactly do all the gays who live around there do if everything is closing?! www.starobserver.com.au/news/sydney-...

Seriously the funniest movie I’ve seen this year. Go see it if you still can.

Imagine paying $1,800+ for a smart refrigerator only to have it deliver advertisements based on your personal data. Anytime you're not using the screen, it's showing you advertisements #technology

Randomly watching season 7 of Project Runway on YouTube and I looked up what happened to Mila and she was a ‘key costumer’ on Twin Peaks: The Return! Also worked on Barbie, Big Little Lies, Tron Legacy, Top Gun Maverick and heaps more. That’s what I like to see.

Happy to see that Gabrielle Brady’s THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT has been selected to represent Australia at the Oscars. Certainly not for everyone (“so boring” said the ladies at my matinee screening), but I thought it rather sublime. if.com.au/gabrielle-br...

Happy to see that Gabrielle Brady’s THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT has been selected to represent Australia at the Oscars. Certainly not for everyone (“so boring” said the ladies at my matinee screening), but I thought it rather sublime. if.com.au/gabrielle-br...

Thought CAUGHT STEALING was a load of fun. Nice to see Aronofsky get out of his own way for once and put his skills to something that isn't weighed down by his whole deal. Butler and Kravitz scorch each other with sexual charisma, and how about that cat! Plus, bonus for shooting on location in NYC!

Somebody in my neighbourhood has opened a business called Jeffrey Epstein - Billionaire Boys Club. I saw it on the map today. It sells ‘political satire’ merchandise that’s advertised as “avant-garde merch for the bravest thinkers” like this Epstein joint rolling set and Ghislain tee-shirts.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a genius and I’m glad that everyone knows.

I love that Patty Dangerfield shared this on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DO8LNKO...

Well done, Channel 9.

For @dailydead.bsky.social, I reviewed the Aussie WWII shark flick BEAST OF WAR! "It's a simple formula, but the beast looks excellent, the torn-apart gore is gnarly, and desperation hangs dreadfully thick." I've seen too many indie "Fin Flicks" lately with terrible CG predators. Not here!

Brief mini thoughts on the newly-released Bunny Yeager doc, NAKED AMBITION at reDocumented. Even more brief than the movie itself (73 minutes!). redocumented.ghost.io/naked-ambiti...

Somebody in my neighbourhood has opened a business called Jeffrey Epstein - Billionaire Boys Club. I saw it on the map today. It sells ‘political satire’ merchandise that’s advertised as “avant-garde merch for the bravest thinkers” like this Epstein joint rolling set and Ghislain tee-shirts.

Thought CAUGHT STEALING was a load of fun. Nice to see Aronofsky get out of his own way for once and put his skills to something that isn't weighed down by his whole deal. Butler and Kravitz scorch each other with sexual charisma, and how about that cat! Plus, bonus for shooting on location in NYC!

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Do you think the makers of SPACEBALLS 2 looked at those Spinal Tap sequel results and went, hmm, is this really worth shipping Rick Moranis out to Australia and out of retirement?

I’ve lived in St Kilda for seven years now and I have never seen the dragonflies as numerous as they are this year. Not sure what happened during their breeding season but good on them I suppose. Horny dragonflies! I see dozens flying around just my study window alone.

They aired a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud rerun instead. So far the Kirk special has under 2500 views on YouTube (views as a metric on YT are worth about 2% of a broadcast viewer). So someone flinched here and I am *very* curious to find out who and why.

Sancta Francisca by Vasily Kandinsky, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137833

Around “We Almost Broke Up Last Night”, the horny Kasey Musgraves sound got a hit distracting, but I was still enjoyed Man’s Best Friend a lot. Unsurprisingly though, my fave is the Paula Abdul-esque “House Tour”. Also really dig “When Did You Get Hot” and “Tears”. open.spotify.com/track/25jgQB...

Sandy Bullock didn’t order pizza online at the beginning of THE NET just to have artificial intelligence take over. Rude.

The website for the pizza joint I ordered from last night had an AI function that can decide your order based on your previous order. They removed the “order again” function that just let you reorder previous orders, and replaced it with an AI bot that makes the choice for you. Truly brain worms.

What does one buy a 16-year-old girl for her birthday in the year 2025?

Geelong not scoring a goal until the 28-minute mark and then winning by 30 points is quite a turnaround. I’m critical of Dangerfield sometimes but that was one of the best games of footy you’re ever likely to watch from an individual. Grand Final next week!

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

We look on from Australia with horror at US late night comedy being cancelled, then note that we don’t even have a tv network prepared to invest in late night comedy. When our ABC tries it, they back down after a couple of complaints from the IPA about “bias” or “offence”.

It’s almost as if all of the mergers and conglomeration of media entities was done to make the rich richer and to make it genuinely impossible to peacefully protest by means of boycotts. It’s all obviously on purpose to minimise the volume of dissenting voices and the number of outlets for them.

There is a leafblower going down my street and all the leaves and debris has just been blown out into the street where it will eventually end up where it was before the man and his leafblower arrived. What’s the point?

extremely conservative christian cafe opens with a “this is home” mural the “e” is also their logo, it is on everything

At reDocumented, I wrote up some words about Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin and Juan Camilo Cruz's LOST IN THE JUNGLE, which is now streaming on Disney+. I liked it quite a bit and it has some of the best doc animation I've seen in a while. redocumented.ghost.io/lost-in-the-...

Saw a funny comment in the replies to Tony Wright’s liberal party/donosaur op-ed this morning, that the LNP’s real net zero target is how many seats they will have by 2050. Made me chuckle.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

The worst thing about Vimeo being sold to a company called Bending Spoons(?!) is that they’re the one (ONE!) platform for digital screeners that actually works on first go, doesn’t require an Apple TV or to be authenticated 6 times, and doesn’t buffer. Sales like this always produce a worse product.

The response to the Charlie Kirk death—so many “I respected him”, random stores doing half mast flags, minute silences and on-screen tributes at ballgames—really underlines how the republicans keep winning in spite of everything. They’re way more conservative and stupid than you could think possible

Yet another piece of shit column from one of these Hollywood trades worshiping at the alter of Zionism. I’m only surprised this wasn’t published by Variety who actively waged campaigns against Melissa Barrera and Rachel Zeigler.

The Golden Girls premiered 40 years ago today in 1985 and 28 days later I was born. Coincidence? I think not.

ICYMI "Kirk wanted the America he was killed in. He fought for it. Became rich in doing so. And up until his final breath was continuing his harmful grift that has seen trans-people demonised across world." archive.md/2025.09.12-1...

Victoria’s team gonna be full of Melbourne, Essendon, Carlton and North Melbourne players. Way more important to win actual games than a state of origin match.

Met a guy yesterday for a drink. We’d been chatting a lil bit and clearly got along. Hung out for a few hours. Went well. Said I’d be keen to hang again and he said yeah but he’s feeling it only as mates. Which is fine, but I told him I didn’t think that was realistic. Because it’s not!

I can’t say that the new Little Gold Men fills me with a desire to keep listening. It could just bias to having listened to the same people for so many years, but man calling Milena Canonero some sort of weird, disassociating random French lady is the sort of thing that really turns me off.

One thing I always emphasize to a newer journalist is that there's a balance between speed and accuracy that needs to be found, and the latter always trumps the former. It's better to be fifth to a story and correct than first and wrong. Feels like a lot of media orgs need to relearn that right now.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Christina Ricci has always been better than Selma Blair, but this makes it even more clear and obvious.

Still the best Vengaboys song and I would die if I actually heard it out one night while in a state open.spotify.com/track/3v1W3l...

And this should go without saying, but I guess it doesn't: You can and should deplore political violence, which is both unacceptable on its own AND because it makes us all less safe, but it does not mean that you airbrush a legacy of malice and darkness as a "spirited disagreement." Tell the truth.

Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: Ignoring the realities of school shootings and gun violence while antagonizing people on campus with racist and bad faith commentary and assuming the guns he jerks off to at night would never actually affect him. America!

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence