This is a pretty good introduction to why Werner Herzog is so interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1W5...

This seems to be going swimmingly.

Good lord I have a lot of old stuff in my home office. (I have no idea why this survived more than 3 decades. It was a fun night out in the midst of a Georgia Winter but IIRC Neil Finn had a very bad cold. Peter Buck had to lend him a guitar, because his was missing somehow).

Read Mean Streak. The detail is all in there.

not content with uploading themselves into the computer, the venture capitalists began uploading everyone else first

I’m sure the shareholders of Boeing and Raytheon are going to be delighted.

Ben Mendelsohn and Nadine Garner, in Melbourne. I think I took this some time in 1989. We were all so very young.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Isn't Bitcoin supposed to be going up

My car has updated its privacy policy and I can’t drive it unless I accept the changes. Pages to scroll through, with links to click through on that aren’t actually available in the car 🙄

This is what happens when you think the answer to crime is more weapons. Let’s also talk about why NSW police has LRADs and who made the decision to purchase them. Because there’s no circumstance I can think of that would justify their use. (Gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22746/...

It is impossible to declare one Simpsons bit as "the best", it's folly, a fool's errand. That being said, the best Simpsons bit is "Planet of the Apes: the Musical"

We have passed out of the Anthropocene into the Idiotscene.

1970s bank robbery kit by Mattel

1995 It’s particularly sad.. for me to witness how comfortably the subcultural contempt for the normal, the hunger 4 novelty, th basic anarchistic temperament that was at th core of Mondo fits th smug, boundary-breaking, fast-moving, no-time-for-social-niceties world of mega-corporate info media...

SCIF now stands for “Some Curtains In Front”

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

It seems neither Ambrose Bierce or Mark Twain ever made the quip about war teaching Americans geography but surely the country has had enough lessons by now. The Iran that’s in Greenland could be next.

Me: *watching Pokémon with the boys* Me: He has no mouth. How does he eat? Son1: Shh! Son2: Absorbs energy directly from everywhere. Me: How do you know? Did they say that? Son2: You don't know how to watch shows, dad. Me: You've never had to manually tune a TV channel. Don't teach me about shows.

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

Amusing 🧵

The Bondi Royal Commission has confirmed it won’t be examining the Bondi attack. Top work, everyone.

Old Windmill, Gum Tree and a view of Gariwerd from Ledcourt Road Ledcourt, Victoria #bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #storm #landscapephotography #naturephotography #scape #EastCoastKin #fujifilm #dxo #gariwerd #stunday

wanna know who made the deal that we could have a website not owned by Elon but we would be doomed to repeat the same four discourses until we bring the social media gods enough offerings of touched grass

Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

Want to know when you're being misled about immigration? Maybe look at the actual data, rather than listen to the heavily weighted commentary now thick in Australian politics. (Gamblin, this morning...)

Christ. That’s enough internet.

Did none of these people learn how to deal with peer pressure growing up? Gah.

I’m sure I’ve posted this before but the mention of the decimal currency as reminded me of this - one of Philip Adams’s early ad campaigns. I’ve no idea whether or not it sold any cars but it left a big impression on 8 year old me. So modern! youtu.be/Kv2bceWIOgU?...

Went to put the recycling in the bin. Discovered a Tawny Frogmouth.

It is definitely worth reading if you’re a NSW resident. Minns is a dangerous fool. (Gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22584/...

Made omelettes (cheese, basil, some leftover roasted capsicum) for breakfast for the house guests, instead of going out. I almost never do cooked breakfasts. Everyone seemed to enjoy it but I feel like I won’t need to eat lunch.

Jon Kudelka described cartooning as the “rickety shed at the back of the fourth estate”. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

6 Kangaroos in the Mist Deep Lead, Victoria (See alt text 😉) #bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #storm #landscapephotography #naturephotography #scape #EastCoastKin #fujifilm #dxo #clouds

And then the Sun broke through… Deep Lead, Victoria #bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #rural #landscapephotography #naturephotography #scape #EastCoastKin #fujifilm #dxo #clouds #blueskyartshow #wood

He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.

Gawd. Angus bloody Taylor. That’s how low the Liberal Party has sunk. A man whose opinion of himself is ten times his ability. The personification of Dunning Kruger.

Angus Taylor resigns from nothing to be nothing

I received an email from QUT telling me they’re taking over Meanjin. This is good news.

This is a great loss ☹️

Costume Designers deeply explaining their decision-making is my love language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo7...

The best thing Glenn Wheatley was ever involved in (he played bass). youtu.be/oKE2hmgzUgo?...

Mandy Patinkin

“Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.” Laura Tingle cuts to the core of the issue as usual 👏👏 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Angus is a narcissistic dickhead, chapter 95 (Gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22540/...

Want to learn more about the International Olympic Committee's ridiculous insistence that the Olympics are *not political* & how that leads to exactly this sort of situation? I wrote this short primer: "What Are the Olympics For?" bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

Preparing for the March on Monday. legalobserversnsw.org/wp-content/u...

Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost — industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost

This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...