The Coalition of the Willing should be feeling pretty snubbed right now

Happy New Year! If you'd like to hear what I've been enjoying listening to in 2025, from playlists to gigs to my family's exploits, you can find it here in all its gory detail. #music #BestOf2025

Same old England, always rehabilitating Bazball after the #Ashes have been lost

Hopefully Head and Boland may finally be the opening pair Australia have been looking for #Ashes

Batting should get easier from here now the shine's come off the new ball #Ashes

3rd most balls faced in this innings so far has been Root's 15 ball duck #Ashes

That doesn't mean it has magic powers, England #Ashes

Stokes: Did you nick it? J Smith: Yeah, well, you know, worth a shot yeah? Give it a go. See what happens. Could get lucky. Stokes: REVIEW IT #Ashes

Stokes, 6/12/25: Bazball? Never heard of it #Ashes

The review system at its absolute best tonight #Ashes

There it is! #Ashes

Come on Doggett, let's get an entire scorecard of double figures #Ashes

Amazingly this test looks like it's going to last two whole days #Ashes

Jon Stewart is masterful at satirising this self-satirising president. He's got the best despairing pause face since a freshly-shot Daffy Duck.

Doggett and Duckett sounds like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon crime-fighting duo #Ashes

Mark Wood has been trying to take that Starc C&B all morning #Ashes

Gee Google's good these days #AI

Just hit 50,000 words in my book, well ahead of the end of #NaNoWriMo! ...It still counts if you started two years ago, yeah? #WriteSky

Must be the first time ever that the two lead candidates both had surnames ending in triple-L @cnn.com #NJGov

It's the 10th anniversary edition of Melbourne WebFest this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing loads of great web series and I'm extra-chuffed that Bruce has been selected as one of the highlights of the decade for Sunday's Legacy Screenings. Tickets and full program at melbournewebfest.com

The difference between training an #AI model on original IP and the end use of that model is equivalent to the difference between mining ore and driving a car. Pleased to see the Productivity Commission have now published my response to their deeply-flawed Interim Report.

Today's #Connections really going hard on seminal power pop

Worth watching Senators Hanson-Young, Henderson and Pocock call the Productivity Commission out on the BS underpinning their Interim Report on AI and Data, based on estimates of productivity impacts for AI when they don't even know the productivity of the creative industry (2.5% of GDP). #auspol

My response to the Productivity Commission's Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies, focussing on AI regulation, productivity impacts and protecting and enriching Australia's cultural and creative landscape.

We've got til Monday 5pm to submit to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into AI & Data. Their Interim Report recommended allowing #AI companies free rein to steal IP and exploit it. Thanks @drwaus.bsky.social for this submission template: digitalrightswatch.org.au/tools-guides...

I had such a fun weekend seeing two terrific contemporary Aussie comedies, Birthright and One More Shot, as a #MIFF double feature - then the next night celebrating my earliest Antipodean comedy hero with But Also John Clarke. Full cinemas cracking up, great stuff.

Wow, America is now selling entire cities in Australian supermarkets

Just finished Until the Red Leaves Fall by the brilliant @alliparkerwriter.bsky.social, a moving story about storytelling, authenticity, secrets, of Australia's hideous WWII internment camps wrapped in a ripping yarn of the 1950s theatre scene. Bravo! #booksky #AussieAuthor

I certainly don't begrudge Scar for spoiling my run #Hottest100

2 for 2 so far, also locking in Never Tear Us Apart #Hottest100

It feels like the top 10 in the #Hottest100 gonna include: Long Way To The Top Flame Trees Khe Sahn Somebody That I Used To Know Don't Dream It's Over My Happiness How To Make Gravy Buy Me A Pony The Worst Person Alive and one other...

Kinda hoped The Angels were #1 in the #Hottest100 just because the key lyric was contributed by some rando in the crowd

When I said "drain the swamp" I was referring to Swamp B

Went to shoot a toast to The Project in my favourite cup. Knocked it over and broke the handle off. In tribute, I guess.

I just knew they wouldn't leave us hanging at World War II

Sad to hear my friends and former colleagues who found out this week that they lost their jobs with the cancellation of The Project. I was there for just over half of its 16 year lifespan, and worked with so many lovely folks with a huge range of skills and talents. Here's what it was like.

Wild to be in @nightwatchman.bsky.social two weeks in a row... this time by name. Thanks Glenn, hopefully you will quote this blurt in next week's edition and we can continue this dance in perpetuity.

I'm rapt to have been chosen as one of the creative folks to launch Milestones Page, a site that allows creatives to bring together everything they've done into one schmick-looking web page. Almost like an entire Media Empire... media-empire.net/my-milestones/

March 29: "Does anyone believe that Anthony Albanese can form a majority government after the election?" May 3: ALP thumping majority, Dutton loses seat. May 20: Coalition splits, Liberals left with less than 20% of seats. If a week is a long time in #auspol, eight is a geologic eon.

Leader-wise, the Coalition just couldn't support different-sex marriage #auspol

We are going to see some world-record-setting barrel-scraping for the shadow ministry now #auspol

Proud Parent Moment

seems like the ABC results computer is frozen still @ 4.9% counted where there's been 11.2% #ausvotes #auspol

Locking in my #ausvotes predictions. Seats to flip: COAL -> IND: Bradfield, Cowper, Wannon ALP -> COAL: Aston COAL -> ALP: Sturt, Deakin ALP -> GRN: Macnamara Seat count: ALP 78, COAL 53, GRN 5, Others 14 #auspol

Dutton hopelessly flailing on Hate Media AM, saying this election is like 2019 "when quiet Australians went into the polling booth and said 'you know what, I'm not going to reward the Prime Minister for the previous three years'." Um, wot? 4:45 here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #auspol #ausvotes

While our crack team have almost managed to finish crunching the numbers on who won more of 60 votes, here's the winner of Top Memelord #auspol

Awesome work @caseybriggs.com & co, showing how the #auspol system has enabled Aussies to embrace a whole different democratic dimension compared to, say, the US, stuck in 1D.

It feels like this election has been Australia waking up and going "Oh, that's right, Peter Dutton, he's that absolute cunt." #auspol

"Your Vote Goes a Long Way" - seemingly on a 5 week holiday #auspol #WApol

We have 1 lonely but very principled vote for the Stop Pedophiles! Protect Kiddies! party #WAvotes