2 and a bit days of Xmas and I've gotten not just one, not just two, but multiple smiles and chats from my two month old nephew 😁👶 Delightful boy, 10/10 babba

At the part of Cyberpunk 2077 where you fight a spider tank in a museum. I'm very happy, that's some good shit right there

That's spooky, was just thinking that I hadn't seen any holiday posts about total freaks driving away their loved ones

Man, the economic vibes are putrid

The Empire Strikes Back is a Christmas film. I can't really explain it, but it is, with its snowy planet, lessons of patience in a grey and rain-soaked bog (England in winter), its sense of imminence and becoming, and the most awkward family dinner with fascist dad that you're anxious to escape.

Nightshade might not have stopped LLMs training on people's work, but it made it take more time. Anything we can do to stymie this shit is well worth it

It's Christmas Eve so I'm going to share with you an anonymised version of one of my ghost case files. I don't share these very often for ethical reasons, but I think this one is safe to share. I'm a skeptical paranormal investigator and this is one of my oddest cases 🧵

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Laura Palmer's Theme

One of his best movies was inspired by a nightmare he got from food poisoning. The solution is to make James Cameron eat an entire cheese platter every night before bed.

Come with me now on an eerie and exhausting journey... to the "2 more work days before xmas" zone.

this is ABHORRENT donating your body for science only to have it purchased by some CEO to top up their breasts this is possibly the most disturbing thing i've read all year

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? (Cries in 'Aw shit')

There's a new 1 minute bluey short and between that and all the spin-off content, I really get the sense they're marching in place at this point. I wish Ludo and their staff a very 'Get The Bag' at this point but omg set them free!

“The Free Palestine protests have been a vital site amidst a deteriorating political climate where solidarity and compassion are forged.” Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak on the role of the solidarity movement in the fight against antisemitism.

Rather than waiting for boxing day I ran out and got the good ass toasted sandwich maker I've wanted for yonks.

Advice to all writers from my most fucked up character.

Finished my re-watch of cyberpunk Edgerunners. Not sure what else I expected to feel but yup 🥲

Silly Xmas dilemma: the 2 big presents were gonna be from Santa, but the kids found my son's big present, so it might raise doubts about the existence of Santa if that's his Santa gift

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

oh yeah, Aboriginal Australians can't have a voice to parliament but Mossad can. Cool idea.

Had our last Underworlds game for the year at thenflgs. I sly bought a DnD blindbox for my friend, who had sly bought a present for me too 😭 It was the nicest thing omg

“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.” @jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.

The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle. A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.

Just hours after the Bondi shooting, we saw a near-instant generation of closed loop of AI misinformation: It appears that AI was used to generate a lie, which was then absorbed by AI, then regurgitated to others in a breaking news situation. www.crikey.com.au/20...

This 2019 exposé on PHONy seeking some filthy lucre from the sepp0 gun lobby seems especially relevant today somehow. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/...

Ah shit it's been a while but I will finish this bad boy at some point

Last night on a date I used the phrase "suspension of disbelief" and they were so impressed 😆 finally all these years of media analysis is paying off

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

feel like pure shit just want the weird hindenburg ashtray that has a glass hindenburg full of diesel on it

Not suggesting I'm in any way as good looking as Madds, but I could pull this off

Resident Evil 9 trailer has Punished Venom Leon. I'm stoked for returning resident characters coming back in Unc form

Time Magazine person of the year is a bunch of ai slop peddlers. I've got a very specific beef with how this trash billionaire mouthpiece rag is stealing the valor of real American heroes to promote these rapacious techbro douchebags.

Hookland is a deliberate re-wilding of folklore, but it is also an act of reminding people that you only have to scratch in the right places to reveal yourself as an animist, a knower of scarelore and someone whose immunity to the strange is a lot less complete than imagined.

The @cameronwilson.bsky.social / @crikey.com.au coverage of the wildly vested interests behind Australia's teen social media ban has been amazing www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p... www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

So cool that if I wanna see my chats again I gotta let some weird company scan either my face, credit card or driver's licence. Cheers Albo!

fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season

Peter Lewis off the long run, exploiting an angle that's been pissing me off for some time:

So cool that once it loses connection, it smashes one of those sparkling water bottles with enough force to bust it open 😅

Doc gave me the arvo dexies. Took one 15 mins ago and uhhh here we go again

Taking a moment to acknowledge that today marks 50 years since Brisbane/meanjin’s original community radio station @4zzzradio.bsky.social began broadcasting from studios at UQ’s St Lucia campus. Brisbane’s thriving music scene and independent news landscape (and my youth) owe a lot to the Zeds 🖤

Gen Z doesn't even talk about the 2000 movie Coyote Ugly written by Kevin Smith (uncredited. Nah really)

this has become a very important video to me

How to get grain even in digital photography

Playing final fantasy vii remake. I just encountered the character Chadley and burst out laughing.

Found one of these while op-shopping today. I'm very pleased