Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

The Gatehouse (from a couple of years ago) Oil and acrylic on canvas

I just found out that residents in Sunshine, Newport and Yarraville can drop off their olives at their local Council in May to be pressed into oil and collected in mid July. I love this. I should also read the council newsletter more often.

The winter sun is OUT. Dad used to go outside and stand facing the sun, arms outstretched, for 15 minutes, like a weirdo. I will now go do the same.

Me (trains 5 times a week): Sore knee, plantar fasciitis, dodgy shoulder, all within the last 12 months. Friend (never exercises): Nothing. No issues. Ever. 😒

Do something for a carer today. Something … caring. Remind them of what it feels like to be taken care of.

Some countries have their screen doors on the inside. This is news to an Australian.

Peter Hujar Canal Street Piers: David Wojnarowicz working on Krazy Kat Comic on Wall, 1983

Few people can risk their career. Even fewer will risk it even when they can. Don’t tell me to read Bourdieu’s Habitus again.

A large dolphin chases a school of flathead mullet, its dorsal fin arcing out of murky shallows close by Wrack's transom. The mullet bump along our hull, and breach in a sudden 'whoosh' of white water, as they make their frantic escape. Overhead, hundreds of flamingoes in loose V-formations.

I typed “burst into years” instead of “burst into tears” and decided to leave it as it was.

The intimacy of inheriting someone’s books should have its own word.

#10minutesfromhome #WindowsOnWednesday Manchester Central Library on Saturday

this view is therapy

“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.

Turning toward machines for love, care, and companionship is not evidence of societal ingenuity, it’s evidence of societal collapse.

Self-explanatory

I took today outside and put it in the bin where it belongs.

Client: We’d like you to come in and shine a light on the underlying cause of our problems. Me: Great. I can do that. [begins to get close to underlying cause] Client: We’d like you to leave now.

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

Mardi soir avec Fortuna.

when a friend tells you she's breaking up with her boyfriend and invites you to badmouth him, don't. twice i fell for that. twice

evening light

Thinking a lot about the gender valance on current tech criticism. I'm not sure I've ever seen a hype cycle countered by critics with such a depth of expertise and arsenal of research and theory, and so many of the critics are not white men.

The thing about rebranding is don't do it.

"Bookshelf: Spring 2026" is here! Browse our seasonal roundup of reviews of recent books on buildings, landscapes, and cities. This spring, our critics’ roundtable takes on fascism at home, revolution in Black bookstores, climate change in augmented reality, gentrification as metaphor, and more.

As I've been winding down tour, I've turned down most requests. But when @novaramedia.com asked me to return, I immediately said yes. My first conversation with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social was a favorite. Grateful we had a reunion to reflect on everything a year on. 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwK...

The studio is caught up in its surrounds. Its external walls both well-defined and porous. As both a physical place and a way of being, it reaches its hands beyond the brick façade into the surrounding streets, eateries, and homes. No place is self-contained.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe-Hands (1918) 📸

If you’re heading from The Netherlands to Melbourne could you please get me one of these? Thanks. www.silexshop.nl/product/klei...

“Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.” ~ Anne Carson

In the room heavy with life he slept.

“There was that period in mid-life where I wanted to make sure my work could measure up on the bigger stage of the national shows. And now I think I’m past that … I feel like ambition can be a kind of a trap. Hard to say.” ~ Jennifer Owen, Potter

To and fro-ing across the meadow throughout the day between workshop and house and marvelling every time on the spectacular grasses and the gorgeous colours .. clusters of flowers here and there .. and in the evening - a little summation in this shot!

The employees made a life sized “stressed” employee from stationery and sat it in front of a screen. I’m not suggesting you get busy creating material things to highlight problems (in this case a troubled culture with high turnover). I’m reminding you that protesting doesn’t have to be wordy.

I went to buy my sardines today and they were sold out. I knew I shouldn’t have posted about them.

“gluggaveður” (GLUGG-ah-ve-thur) is an Icelandic word that translates as "window weather" and refers to conditions that are pleasant to look at from inside but are less pleasant to be outside for.

The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. --J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

Being a university professor: design AI-resistant assignments, grade MA theses, justify teaching merits, analyze data, coordinate an edited volume, manage project budgets, respond to reviewers, mentor PhDs. One person can't sound like an orchestra. And no one should ask us to. #AcademicSky

Oliver Mayhall

This is as close as I have managed to get to a concrete look without glaze. It’s only bisque fired so still porous which isn’t great, but I love it. It wants to be a brutalist building.

I would like someone to go to the gym on my behalf today. Thanks.

The ANAO report on ANU is devastating

For years I left a friend’s husband’s boots on my porch to make it look like a large man lived in the house with me. What a world we live in where doing this makes a woman feel a little safer living alone. I also hung one of his shirts on the line so it also looked like that man had few outfits.

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Louise Hayward ‘Going Home on the Overground’ Wood engraving Size 10.5 x 23 cm www.re-printmakers.com/artists/79/w...

“I hate it when people don’t turn off the clicking sound on their phone while they’re texting. Click click click click click. Just turn it off. It’s so annoying.” 🥰

“What’s a meme?” is one of the many reasons I love Cillian Murphy

A gentle reminder that you have no idea what is going on in most people’s lives.