Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

Why Does Herr R Run Amok With Big Naturals

This movie is unbelievably good and if you read this, you 100% should watch it

If you love a work of art long enough, eventually it will remind you of people you lost who you’d shared it with. Trying to decide if I think this is beautiful, awful, or both

Wait till Trump decides that Art of the Deal was better than Satantango.

Stretching and foam rolling all morning to get ready for the second day of The Astor’s twin peaks season 3 screening

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

“We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Starting a new thread for audiobooks. Book I finished/book I started

Ran my first session of Necronautilus by @worldchamp.bsky.social. Characters defeated the God of Tapeworms by summoning a whirlpool of inverted vomit. A+ good times

I wanna get away from Goodreads so gonna start a thread to log my reading. Book I finished/book I started

Pretty happy that my parents now provide a generous allowance so I don’t have to work

About time last year, @danhf.bsky.social posted about watching directors’ whole filmographies in order, and as a result I’ve now seen everything Fassbinder, Bigelow, Campion and Panahi made. Strongly recommend trying this out strikecuriousposes.itch.io/shanes-extre...

Hell yeah!

Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban. Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now! itch.io/b/3421/ban-t... #transrights #ttrpg #nzpol

Now this is a mash-up!

ALRIGHT! Here's stuff i made the past that's only been released in the gates of itch IN THIS BRIGHT DAY OF 2025! ⭐ supernatural stories about dyads ⭐ adorable box mini-game bartering SEX & POWER ⭐ a cinematic story-game about LOVE&MONEY, triangular & migratory mariabumby.itch.io/love-or-money

Maybe the most embarrassing answer possible: the first game designer I could have named was Chris Perkins

Creating an AI chatbot of Jean Baudrillard just to really hammer things home.

I have been feeling kinda weird lately and after a lot of processing, I think the unfamiliar feeling is a good mood

The Rosa Luxembourg biopic Fassbinder was planning at the the time of his death

Workers with @kickstarterunited.org end their six-week strike victorious, enshrining 4-day work weeks and salary floors while also adding protections against gen AI replacing human labor.

I’m currently struggling with the BackerKit backend but digital copies of Fiction in the Space between should be going out soonish. Otherwise, 8 roleplaying games and game pieces based on the music of Tracy Chapman! check it out here: pidj.itch.io/fiction-in-t...

Hot take: it’s a shame Robert Pattinson has such obviously good taste, since it means he keeps shitting up great directors’ movies with his terrible acting instead of coasting on his looks like he should

🧵 Our new QUEER AS… website Exploring queer Indigenous creativity. With: Blaqademics/Indigiqueers Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up). Indigenous Creatives Queer Museums Queer Tv - deep dive Our pubs and info queer-as.org

The greatest! I have an Edith Head tattoo and it breaks my heart that nobody ever recognises her on my tricep

10 horror movies to get to know me 🩰 Suspiria (1977) 💃 Suspiria (2018) 🚘 Titane ✏️ Eraserhead 🪰 The Fly (1986) 👰 Bride of Frankenstein 🧺 Basket Case 😴 Nightmare on Elm St 1-3

Spell your name with movie titles horror movie edition Suspiria Hellraiser Alien Noroi: The Curse Eraserhead

Have entered a big Book Phase. Don’t wanna do anything but sit on the couch and read

Reposting so I can find this later

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

I am already all in on GFM so can’t benefit from this offer, but maybe you can? And should?

Remembering that the only thing I wanna do on a holiday is nap

I’m at a regional airport so small it doesn’t even have a metal detector. Wild!

Running a short campaign of The Watch by Ash Kreider, totally incredible, the most emotional I’ve ever been during a game (complimentary)

I missed the whole middle part of the Melbourne Intl Film Festival bc of Covid, but recovered in time for two incredible movies: Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident and a new restoration of Campion’s Sweetie, my favourite Australian film. Both hilarious, left the theatre crying both times, 5 stars

I was really annoyed I missed my train and then somehow a choir appeared on the station platform beautifully singing a capella?

Have Covid again, got so bored I inexplicably decided to watch all the Saw movies. So far, not good!

Not sure whether to be mad or relieved that the seats for Jeanne Dielman etc etc are so uncomfortable

Gretchen’s new book came out yesterday and Bluesky celebrated by banning her. Celebrate for her in the way that matters by buying BLACK FLAME, leaving a review online (the algorithm hungers!), and talking it up to your friends. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/23067/9781... C’mon, this looks sick:

Kids these days don't know what it was like before cell phones and social media, when you would just hang out with your bros above a convivence store, snacking on garmonbozia, making plans, laughing, and just having fun!

Action for Australian folks: register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char... Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern

Let’s change gears. Do some good Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Nothing more stressful than getting like two-thirds of the way through a book and everyone is happy and the plot seems to be wrapping up. WHAT is about to go wrong?? #janeeyre