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'The best conspiracy books of 2025' for @theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
'The best conspiracy books of 2025' for @theguardian.com
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Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, gave a lecture in Stockholm on Sunday in one of his rare public appearances.
Nobel laureates arrive for a week of events and awards in Stockholm and Oslo
Nobel week is underway in Stockholm and Oslo, with laureates holding news conferences and lectures before receiving their prestigious prizes.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, gave a lecture in Stockholm on Sunday in one of his rare public appearances.
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
Nice to see Australia's mate in the Quad agreement, India, getting on so fabulously with Russia. And the Quad is USA, India, Australia, and the country with the new conservative PM, Japan.
Today’s Russian papers are loving the new US national security strategy. One Russian paper on the implications for Europe: “Trump isn’t their Daddy any more.” Kremlin spokesman comments: “The adjustments in the updated strategy correspond in many ways to our vision” #ReadingRussia
“Trump’s not their Daddy any more.” Russian paper on Europe, over new US national security strategy
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December 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Nice to see Australia's mate in the Quad agreement, India, getting on so fabulously with Russia. And the Quad is USA, India, Australia, and the country with the new conservative PM, Japan.
What is it about Sydney CBD escalators? The one to Muji and Kinokuniya was out of order again today, the other chronic case one up to Palace Cinemas Central was working after months of outage. ABC Local Radio ran a whole show about the many others, including long (not) running Domain Travelator
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
What is it about Sydney CBD escalators? The one to Muji and Kinokuniya was out of order again today, the other chronic case one up to Palace Cinemas Central was working after months of outage. ABC Local Radio ran a whole show about the many others, including long (not) running Domain Travelator
This is a brewing story of immense importance to Australia. The references to 'modern slavery' are not exaggerated. How did a scheme to help Pasifika folk and Australian agriculture go so wrong? Kudos to SBS for pursuing it.
📢 There is a growing number of new residents in regional Australia who are completely undocumented because they're born to disengaged migrant workers. There are more than 7,000 workers who have disengaged from the federal government's Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme but stayed working…
Children of disengaged PALM workers left in undocumented limbo as concerns grow for female workers
www.sbs.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is a brewing story of immense importance to Australia. The references to 'modern slavery' are not exaggerated. How did a scheme to help Pasifika folk and Australian agriculture go so wrong? Kudos to SBS for pursuing it.
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Parents - do not let your children and their stuffed toys play doctors & nurses with a bottle of Ricin, however much fun they appear to be having in this picture
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Parents - do not let your children and their stuffed toys play doctors & nurses with a bottle of Ricin, however much fun they appear to be having in this picture
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Obviously a matter of psychiatric problems and not fitting click bait for a public broadcaster hoping to retain any semblance of responsibility. Get a grip ABC, even if it's the Sunday dregs shift working today.
A video circulated on social media shows a naked male using his head to smash the windscreen of a moving ambulance.
Naked man smashes ambulance windscreen in Kalgoorlie-Boulder
A video circulated on social media shows a naked male using his head to smash the windscreen of a moving ambulance.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Obviously a matter of psychiatric problems and not fitting click bait for a public broadcaster hoping to retain any semblance of responsibility. Get a grip ABC, even if it's the Sunday dregs shift working today.
Makers of short films (ahem, I just erased my opening 'short filmmakers') take note: Tropfest has returned, but you'll have to get busy very soon. Conditions state that non Australian entries OK but 'out of competition' Nevertheless exposure.
www.tropfest.com
www.tropfest.com
Tropfest | The World's Largest Short Film Festival
Australia's premier short film festival, Tropfest, showcasing emerging talent, with live events, workshops, and global audience engagement.
www.tropfest.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Makers of short films (ahem, I just erased my opening 'short filmmakers') take note: Tropfest has returned, but you'll have to get busy very soon. Conditions state that non Australian entries OK but 'out of competition' Nevertheless exposure.
www.tropfest.com
www.tropfest.com
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read gormenghast
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The Complete Gormenghast Novels
Check out The Complete Gormenghast Novels - <b>"A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary imagination" (<i>The New Yorker</i>), <i>The Gormenghast Novels</i> collects Mervyn Peake's ...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
read gormenghast
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Probably not in the style book but welcome to hear one program on Australian public broadcaster ABC Radio National refer to 'Aotearoa/New Zealand'
ABC across all programs, radio & TV, use both indigenous and European bequeathed city/region Australian names.
ABC across all programs, radio & TV, use both indigenous and European bequeathed city/region Australian names.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Probably not in the style book but welcome to hear one program on Australian public broadcaster ABC Radio National refer to 'Aotearoa/New Zealand'
ABC across all programs, radio & TV, use both indigenous and European bequeathed city/region Australian names.
ABC across all programs, radio & TV, use both indigenous and European bequeathed city/region Australian names.
Potemkin's showing at Art Gallery of NSW for one night
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www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
Film screening: Battleship Potemkin | Art Gallery of NSW
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Potemkin's showing at Art Gallery of NSW for one night
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
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Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt
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'No Other Land' is streaming in Australia free on SBS On Demand
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Watch No Other Land
Watch No Other Land for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
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December 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
'No Other Land' is streaming in Australia free on SBS On Demand
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
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& for the next 35 years NZ had a brief egalitarian heart
A slightly late #OnThisDay. On 6 December 1935 Michael Joseph Savage, leader of the Labour Party, was sworn in as the 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand, succeeding George William Forbes of the United Party. #OTD #history #nzpol #nzpolitics #politics
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
& for the next 35 years NZ had a brief egalitarian heart
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A major deal between Netflix and Warner Bros has sent shock waves through Hollywood and sparked backlash.
Why Hollywood has called the Netflix-Warner Bros merger a disaster
A major deal between Netflix and Warner Bros has sent shock waves through Hollywood and sparked backlash.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A major deal between Netflix and Warner Bros has sent shock waves through Hollywood and sparked backlash.
They could have waited until Christmas and used trifle
An organisation called Take Back Power, which describes itself as a civil resistance group, posted footage of the incident on social media and said two of its members had smothered the Imperial State Crown display case with apple crumble and custard.
Four arrested in London after apple crumble thrown at Crown Jewels display
An organisation called Take Back Power, which describes itself as a civil resistance group, posted footage of the incident on social media and said two of its members had smothered the Imperial State Crown display case with apple crumble and custard.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
They could have waited until Christmas and used trifle
Whatever the virtues of Australia's social media ban on people under 16 years of age the phrase 'delayed access' is straight out of Orwell's Newspeak. The age for a driver's licence is 16 too, aka 'delayed hooning'?
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Whatever the virtues of Australia's social media ban on people under 16 years of age the phrase 'delayed access' is straight out of Orwell's Newspeak. The age for a driver's licence is 16 too, aka 'delayed hooning'?
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So, the thing about execs is that they will get this bee in their bonnet and nothing can dissuade them from their vision. Carl Laemmle kept hiring distant cousins. Sarandos is obsessed with getting rid of the theatrical experience, presumably because an usher dumped him in tenth grade.
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So, the thing about execs is that they will get this bee in their bonnet and nothing can dissuade them from their vision. Carl Laemmle kept hiring distant cousins. Sarandos is obsessed with getting rid of the theatrical experience, presumably because an usher dumped him in tenth grade.
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
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See, this is what the internet is really about: a lovely older gentleman showing off the massive purple cabbage he grew whilst wearing a purple cabbage print hat and coat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYw...
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Join me and My 15 POUND RED CABBAGE
YouTube video by Gerald Stratford
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December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
See, this is what the internet is really about: a lovely older gentleman showing off the massive purple cabbage he grew whilst wearing a purple cabbage print hat and coat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYw...
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It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.
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I'm no cerealolgist, but I'm not sure if iridium offers the same benefits as iron.
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'm no cerealolgist, but I'm not sure if iridium offers the same benefits as iron.