Oh, I just spent five hours writing 200 words that will likely be cut by my editor five months from now. How's your day going?

Fantastic article from Oshan Jarow. Been thinking about lots of similar things lately. Now that the road to medicalisation is paved these are the real pertinent questions to be asking.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Press release from the FDA re the autism/paracetamol thing. Note the extraordinary caveat paragraph at the end. In any normal reality that kind of note would render all preceding paragraphs defunct. Instead we now live in a world where the facts are just a BTW footnote to the stupid.

This Sky News article discussing how far left ideology has infiltrated Australia mainstream media is legitimately insane. Not gonna link to it (they don't need the traffic) but the *chef's kiss* cherry on top is the author bio at the end. The dissonance is surreal.

Apropos of nothing, rewatched this last night for the first time in years. Acts now as a fascinating time capsule and also a key plank in understanding how we got to where we are today. This is your Rosetta stone explaining how we ended up in a world of super billionaires youtu.be/6v8e7dUwq_Q?...

Was interviewed by Double Blind Magazine about the mushrooms extend lifespan hype. They wrote a delightful piece about how much mushroom was given. To quote them "That’s a fuckton of mushrooms for 95% of people". I wonder about how the last 5% are doing? doubleblindmag.com/was-the-life...

OK we must keep Ed Sheeran alive at all costs! Do you hear me. Whatever it takes. Call off the assassin and get the transhumanists in. This album must never see the light of day.

A philosopher ends up rediscovering Catholicism through psychedelics. A prescient take. Interested in reading this one.

They say draft a post and then walk away for an hour or two before publishing. In this case, fuck it, I've just woken up and this is the first thing I see. A species this stupid doesn't deserve to survive. The saying, 'fuck around and find out' comes to mind. We're about to find out here.

I've seen first hand how Australian universities are exploiting staff and degrading course quality to the point students are getting terrible outcomes. While universities are reaping billions in profits they are making micro cuts to sessional tutors. We've privatised the world into the toilet.

The Queensland government just rammed an amendment through banning pill testing in the state despite all health bodies recommending the practice. In classic undemocratic fashion they buried the law change in another bill hidden from parliamentary debate.

And in other news...

You'd think this would be a story that the paywall would be lifted for? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

A story no one is talking about - last week's high school shooting in Denver. 16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

We know GLP-1 drugs reduce brain inflammation. But I didn't anticipate bipolar disorder as a possible indication in the future www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The list of crimes in this article is wild. So the bank is struck with a record $250 million dollar fine. Its profits for last calendar year crossed $6.5 billion dollars. This is just a write off. The behaviour stays the same.

Who chooses this picture to go with this headline? What is going on here?

Rearranged bookshelf. Stumbled across old copy of Huxley's Doors of Perception. Reread it. It's still one of the best accounts of tripping ever put to paper.

I disagree with most of the arguments presented in this article but it's certainly an interesting read. It fundamentally misunderstands the many functions of social media. It falsely frames cancel culture as a real thing that existed. And it weirdly assumes the left isn't organising right now.

Alien: Earth is set in 2120. Nation states run by governments have failed and dissolved. The world is organised into 5 corporate states run as a plutocracy; controlled by a few uber rich individuals. This is fiction. In 2025 Elon Musk just called for the dissolution of an elected government.

Syndelics are not a thing. Don't do that. Just talk normally please. news.oregonstate.edu/news/analysi...

Meta *very* quietly (no media drops) just uploaded its 2025 sustainability data. They removed the "How we're taking action" section from their website...... Data update coming soon, I promise! sustainability.atmeta.com web.archive.org/web/20250910...

How a tiny, singular change to a molecule can result in such a profoundly different subjective experience is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.

Kash Patel always looks to me like a stoner who has faked his way into the FBI building as a joke but the joke has gone too far and he's getting paranoid someone is gonna catch him.

For a second I thought this quiz was about instances where these two things go together... Cause believe me there is definitely a crossover in that Venn diagram.

Stop the fucking presses! Jimmy Fallon grew two tomatoes!

Incredible writing recounting a tale that is a real wild bit of Australian psychedelic history.

Fuck it. Let's be reductive and generalise. I believe all modern social divisions are underpinned by wealth inequality. When life "feels" hard, we look for reasons why things seem unfair. Culture wars are concocted. Racism is stoked. Community fractures. Meritocracy is a myth.

If you read 1 thing today, please make it this: my so-talented colleague @ericboodman.bsky.social explains why babies in the US are vaccinated at birth against hep B — and what the human costs of changing that policy would be. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

Gonna have to media black out this one until I can see it. Everything here is so my jam you can shoot this one straight into my veins. A 3hr action/comedy from one of the best living directors based on a Pynchon novel about how counter-culture idealism atrophies with age.

I often default to crying out "the system is broken" but I need to correct myself. It's not broken. It is working exactly as intended. This is a really sharp article laying out how our systems are not designed to help humans but instead are there to protect and ensure capital growth.

NAB made over $5 billion dollars in profit last year. Plus it got caught underpaying workers. Now it's cutting hundreds of jobs.

Haven't we banned TV shows from in media res openings that then drop a "## days/weeks/months earlier" title card? One of the worst modern TV tropes!

What's the definition of a rogue state?

My money is on Hanks...

This sort of modelling is obviously quite uncertain, but overwhelmingly it shows that vaccines have a massive saving in economic terms. The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!

You're about to see a torrent of "Tylenol causes autism" stories. This is not a new area of research. I did this story back in 2021 on the associations between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental issues in children. The relationship is... complicated.

Considering the phase 2 LSD for anxiety study has been published and is in the news a bit right now, here's a piece from last year where I spoke to the CMO of MindMed about the trial's somewhat unique protocol. Bit more detail here about how the dose sessions worked than in the actual study.

If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social

No one who would watch this, wants this, and no one who wants this would watch it...

However you feel about microdosing you gotta admit that the grift is massive in that world.

In his Prison Notebooks, written under the repression of Italian Fascist regime, Antonio Gramsci said politics is downstream of culture But while politics may be downstream of culture, culture is downstream of rapport. If you don’t have rapport, then culture ends up being about difference.

One episode into The Paper and I think it's got all the ingredients for a great hang. The jokes are strong... And Tim Key is an absolute master. The subject matter hits pretty close to home too. That scroll down joke through the tip article could be a clip from a real documentary.

thanks again to Rogan and his 2 stooges Von, Dillon and their griftin' pals for providing "sick bro" cover for the fascist psychopath to roll in.

Can't stop looking at this cover image. The discordance between the serious gaze and the absurd headline is absolutely delicious! I don't need to read more...

Is sharing too much of a threat to the global economy, or too small to make a difference? Both critiques are trapped in the mindset of scale. As if everything has to or is going to happen all at once. It doesn’t. 📺 Watch, stream, and subscribe Team Human now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGF...

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters