Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
“We’ve wasted 20 years. It’s time to rebuild our great nation” proclaims Peter Costello today.
"To recover ... we need first to understand what happened.”
What happened Peter is you blew it
#CGT #auspol #housing #AFR
michaelwest.com.au/reform-austr...
Looking back at my naivety in the 90s, I was expecting the future to come along and carry us on its wave as a crest.
Remembering the great Lee Marvin on his birthday. Here's a fascinating anecdote from the filming of Point Blank told by John Boorman.
cinephiliabeyond.org/point-blank/
Listening to mother nature v listening to A.I.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!
It’s my profession and craft, from which I get enormous self-esteem.
This is how you live a life
Can I add that I think The Man With A Movie Camera is a blast and like watching (and joining in with) a person’s (Vertov’s) enthusiasm of playing with a then reasonably new art form and seeing what he can do with it. ‘Hey, what does this button do?’
here is how you get into Wiseman
Knowing fuck all about any of this (so maybe I’m asking an obvious question), what was/were Epstein’s ‘legitimate’ business dealings that made him so wealthy to do things like this?
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
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hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
Swalwell: "My Republican colleagues are a joke. History will harshly judge them ... these guys are so lucky they're not under oath, because they would have to tell you what they really think of Trump. They call him crooked, they call him cruel, they call him a scumbag ... you're tiny, small."
Some top class performances, a proper Newcastle United showed up. And Lewis Miley, Captain 🖤🤍 #nufc
Honestly if “fighting AGAINST taxing billionaires in 2026” has you crying “purity test” you need to really examine what your values actually are
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Janet C. Hauck, in loving memory of Alicia Guggenheim and Fred Hauck, 1991 © 2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Number 18 by Jackson Pollock, 1950
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137445
I really really am not interested in seeing screenshots of fucking twitter on here and I wish people would stop it
Laura Tingle with a bit of Australian understatement:
“It’s not really legal to nick someone else’s head of state.”
Of course The Australian would publish an opinion piece like this — the role of News Ltd and The Australian is to be the PR agency for right-wing financial capital.
#auspol
alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...
Noticed that @letterboxd.social has ‘Adieu Philippine’ available to rent. Along with him appearing in Nouvelle Vague’, are we on the verge of the movie-watching population noticing Rozier at long, long last? I know I have a lot of blank spaces to fill in.
Oops, realised I didn’t post the photo I’d taken.
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social … got this wished-for present Xmas morning. Having first followed your YouTube reviews and blog, through to your published reviews and thoughts, thrilled that I now have your book. Merry Christmas from Western Australia.
Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."
23 years ago today, one of the greatest died
In memory of Joe Strummer 🖤
... gone but not forgotten...
📸 Anthony Saint James
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegend #joestrummer #theclash #punkrockhistory #history #otd
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Sorry for your loss, Harry.
