I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Biden, loading bullets into magazine: You wouldn't want Trump to have this loaded gun would you?

Time for the Australian govt to give serious reconsideration to the alliance with the US, including #AUKUS, says @emmashortis.bsky.social. #auspol

There are so many reasons, I wish I could report it more than once.

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

Just crossed the halfway mark of season one of the Pitt (to paraphrase Amanda Plummer, any of you fucking pricks spoil it and I’ll execute every motherfucking last one of you). It’s a remarkable achievement. Definitely designed to not be binged. Unless you want to suffer burnout by proxy.

Decided to take a mental break tonight and watch some movie I’ve never seen before and didn’t know much about. I chose: THE MIST (2007). Hahahaha. Ha. Oh god.

I’m assuming there’s a Fiona Dourif hive around the place somewhere, because… my god does she deserve it. The talent in that family is just off the fucking charts

Yeah boss, I put out a new presidential picture of you, and I made it look like you were using a walker just like you asked

"Razor-sharp dialogue and vivid prose ... conjure an intoxicating atmosphere of glamor and decay, while Harper’s distinct characters elicit deep emotional investment. The result is a glittering neo-noir with staying power." www.publishersweekly.com/9780316458405

Not going to repost WaPo, but Bondi and the DoJ are issuing subpoenas to Tim Walz and Jacob Frey for impeding law enforcement. Related, the thing about tepid action or absolute inaction in the face of fascism is that fascists are just going to pretend you did the most treasonous things anyway.

Heads up, Walter Chaw's (@mangiotto.bsky.social) "Top 50 of 2025" is now free for everyone to read. Enjoy, and apologies for the delay. filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/the-...

In 1999, I was working in regional South Australia. Wim Wenders was touring the country to promote the Buena Vista Social Club. Given the year and the country were crucial to his film “Until The End Of The World”, he decided to take his personal print of the Director’s Cut of UTEOTW with him…

Every week at 5AM StoryTalk, I pose a single culture-related question to my community of artists and art lovers at Substack. This week, inspired by the brilliant @pronounced-ing.bsky.social, we discuss: What film would you force Hollywood to make? Click the link and join us in the comments there.

Newsom is a weaker candidate than Kerry, Romney, etc. take your pick, in their day, and that's going ONLY by whatever politics considers "authenticity" or national appeal, not even BEGINNING to get into your so-called purity tests which, let me tell you, ARE legit. I will NEVER vote for Fascist Lite

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Just saw a dumb blue maga fuck say that he’d vote for the “lesser of two nazis” if Newsom was the dem candidate. And then pat himself on the back for getting to use that line. Imagine saying “Why yes I’ll vote nazi” and then congratulate yourself for it.

I’m just gonna leave this screenshot here. From this page cms.adelaidefestival.com.au/media/rrsdvp...

28 YEARS LATER fans are called Bone Temple Pilots now, pass it on.

I'm also happy to report that my Commentary Commentary column has found a new home @bloody-disgusting.com! My first entry with them (from a couple weeks back) is an appreciation of ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/392354...

For all the incredible films she was a part of, Hollywood should to build a theater in her honor. Call it “The Kennedy Center.”

There’s something ridiculous about state agencies and famous pop stars posting news updates and concert info while @GroyperGod88 asks Grok to put teenagers in bikinis and give them bloody lips

WAIT, WHAT?!? Suddenly I am interested.

Tip this girl. She is good at what she does and she needs the support of the community to keep doing it.

Damnit, ugh, gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/m...

I have a few mutuals following this person who - at best - doesn’t know what they are talking about (Kennedy was not involved in the Landis segment) or - at worst - is a troll. Feel free to act accordingly.

This photo by Mostafa Bassim shows an ICE agent scanning someone's face with a mobile app, quite possibly Mobile Fortify as first reported by @404media.co. This is the first image I've seen of the app's UI in action. If you look closely, you can also see an interesting wristband on the agent.

Apart from @jessiegender.bsky.social, are there other good Trek reviewers/reactors on YouTube? Because I scrolled through this morning and it was just a wall of people who pre-hated it and continue to hate it for clicks.

As promised / threatened. Another original non AI poster for Sam Raimi's SEND HELP. Art by Doaly.

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

$EllaMcCay

This such a great piece. It tells you so much about how much the information environment we live in is the result of a conscious political project, not just something that technology — much less public sentiment — made happen.

Handy for Bluesky to provide some new phrases and accounts to block

Australian comic book fans… do you know of any reliable mail order services? #comicsky

Comical Barbie

a non-zero number of pasty-faced ICE goons who are fully ancestry dot com-pilled about being like .0002% Irish will have their day sincerely, authentically ruined by this knowledge, and that makes it so beautiful to me

Love these guys

Legit surprised @marquelawyers.com.au hasn’t expanded its #AdelaideWritersFestival sights to include the Adelaide Advertiser, because… holy shit are they unhinged right now

It's a great day to see this movie. Tomorrow and the following week are also good, because it is expanding its release to more cities.

Please help if you can

$WTF

Murdering a wife and mother. Abducting a baby and giving it a bruise on the cheek. Flashbanging a car full of kids, including a 6 month old. They better fucking hope we only stop at “Abolish ICE”

Looooooot

You know that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 where they keep trying to get Baby Groot to bring them a specific way to escape jail, and he just keeps bringing back random unrelated stuff, like underwear and a badge and a severed thumb? That's the Democrats trying to Find the Moment right now.

Hey so like...this Ceisler guy RAN on doing this, right? And this is a *checks notes* yes a Sheriff. In Penn country. Who ran on promising to do something just next door of "Abolish ICE." Anyway every Democratic strategist should be fired. Every Establishment Democrat should resign or be voted out.