Mmmm that review of The Vines (and more specifically Craig Nicholls' performance/behaviour) has sure aged like milk in light of Craig's Autism diagnosis www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Deeply loved PREDATOR: BADLANDS, the film that dares to ask "What if we made a coming-of-age movie about the importance of found family, starring a Yautja?"

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Now @justiceandequity.bsky.social has added its name to the list of groups opposing this draconian and underhanded move. These are the groups @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has dismissed. She refuses to address concerns about separation of powers, due process and unintended consequences.

It is imperative that I share this clip of Rie Ôta's intimidating rawr inside Baragon's suit from Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.

Fifteen years since Australian television peaked with the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AUSTRALIA 2010 grand final episode’s opening sequence

We should never be surprised by the cruelty of humans - anyone who has read about Rhythm O, the 1970s performance art piece created by Marina Abramović could tell you that. She still bares the scars of people's glee at permitted punishment

[Butthole Surfers thru a megaphone voice] RFK, lying on the topic of disease, Jarod gettin’ money from the Saudis and Chinese. Kristi hates the NFL, prez’s brains are fog…

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The episode of the Middletown Centre for Autism podcast about Someone Like Me is up! Cat @naturetable.bsky.social Hughes, always an excellent host, interviews the editors @clembastow.bsky.social and @jocaseau.bsky.social. I've been looking forward to this! www.middletownautism.com/social-media...

Any of you nerds know of a good CD hifi repair person in Naarm? Looking to get a turn of the century (lmao lmao) Telefunken system serviced. I think it's too modern for Multisonics.

NDIS can now deliver debts to disabled people if they get things wrong, even though new permanent rules aren't in place ndis.gov.au/news/10949-n...

Watching the Particle6 AI-generated "comedy sketch"--which was the debut of "Tilly Norwood"--is particularly bleak when you realise how much of the "humour" hinges on notions of consent (or lack thereof). It also looks like hot garbage

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Tapping the sign for the nth time this year.

In a time when children need to learn how to be a part of a community and what that means, these Caucasian men are going into schools and teaching white supremacy.

FANTASTIC NEWS: some heroic local VHS-ripper has uploaded a good quality version of the 1994 SFX doco MASTERS OF ILLUSION, hosted by Roy Scheider and Jonathan Brandis. My brother and I watched our taped-off-TV version until it broke.

AI has ruined all comms. Here's the SEO slug for Arnott's Biscuits: "Delighting Aussies for 150+ years, Arnott's Biscuits is the go-to treat for every cherished moment. From Tim Tam to Shapes, embrace the classics that define…" – 'embrace' is a top 10 ChatGPT word – 'from X to Y' – 'Biscuits is' ?

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

God I would love the energy to write literally anything

Nightmare update from the Show 2025: presumably AI generated “songs” plugging various products (ie chips on a stick) blasting from stalls

Hooray!!! SOMEONE LIKE ME is out in the UK!! Thank you Verve for filming the IRL launch at Lighthouse starring two of our amazing new contributors @fergus.oolong.co.uk and @juliefarrell.bsky.social !!

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Man, ALIEN3 and SLIPSTREAM would be an incredible “future dystopia that make you feel like you haven’t showered for a month” double bill

The only eBay sellers to make Barbie and rock tour tee flippers' prices seem reasonable are the VHS dealers. Come on now, mate, I got this one for $2 at Vinnies (true story).

Never forget the bisexual Zuul Klippan (I'm also bisexual)

"All arts and cultural value reporting has its limitations. But it’s time to properly recognise forms of value beyond price. What’s more, assessments of broader cultural value need to be routinely accessible and visible, to a broad range of stakeholders."

At a time when trust in the media is already in freefall, it’s an outright betrayal of public responsibility for a national broadcaster to be an *active participant in fueling even more distrust* by bending to political influence. ABC cutting its own legs off, in this climate. atrocious stuff.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

"The Palestinians have cages on their windows because they're under constant attack." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Irish actor Denise Gough tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social what she witnessed during her recent trip to Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Watch: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As an act of defiance I'm going to start wearing items from my (considerable) collection of appalling Autism-themed t-shirts more regularly. Starting with this masterpiece, acquired in 2020.

This is so lovely ❤️♾️

Still trying to find this out thought I might try here

With all this talk of questionable research into Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) today, I thought I would share one of my all-time faves, from back in 2013: taking acetaminophen can help reduce existential thoughts of death

“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.

me: “why am i, an Autistic person, currently experiencing the worst mental health in living memory” [goes online] also me: “oh right”

We are all enjoying ourselves & don't want it to end.

Autistic people speak for their own community. Non-autistic parents of autistic kids are adjacent to the community, but they're not *the* community. Interviewing a disabled parent of disabled kids is always a good perspective, though.

Paging @crissfresh.bsky.social

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Reaching for the pill to become specially interested in space

(Speaking of Autism...) I think 1995 represents the pinnacle of the Hollywood colour grade. Everything just looked so fucking beautiful - back when blue and red were allowed to play with teal and orange. Related: rad American Cinematographer int with HEAT's Dante Spinotti from 1996