Kristin Carao
@mikaelakristin.bsky.social
Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
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REVIEW: Takeaway by Angela Hui @TrapezeBooks @orionbooks #read #book #review #bookreview #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal #readingchallenge #FOOD #Takeaway bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Review: Takeaway by Angela Hui
Title: Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter Author: Angela Hui Published: 21st July 2022, Trapeze Status: Read November 2025 ++++++++ My Thoughts: Chinese takeaway restaurants are …
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
REVIEW: Takeaway by Angela Hui @TrapezeBooks @orionbooks #read #book #review #bookreview #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal #readingchallenge #FOOD #Takeaway bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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JFC people - I haven’t spent 40 years cooking, decades of taking food pics, and a year of culinary school hell to use bloody AI food photos.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
JFC people - I haven’t spent 40 years cooking, decades of taking food pics, and a year of culinary school hell to use bloody AI food photos.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
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"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."
How to Give Thanks by Cooking Food No One Knows How to Cook and Eating Food No One Likes to Eat
To remind everyone how grateful we should be for all the readily available, appealing food that is easy to prepare and that everyone enjoys eating,...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."
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Things online are often not as they appear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Things online are often not as they appear.
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I don’t usually talk about meeting talent but I spoke to Jafar Panahi today before the screening of IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social (my 5th time seeing it) and I was in awe.
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t usually talk about meeting talent but I spoke to Jafar Panahi today before the screening of IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social (my 5th time seeing it) and I was in awe.
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
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Housing in Australia is unaffiordable mainly because it has been the official and explicit policy of every government for a generation that dwelling prices must always rise www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Extraordinary' housing values crush home ownership dreams
Home prices have risen by almost 50 per cent in the past five years, with more than a decade now needed to save for a standard 20 per cent deposit for a house in most capital cities, according to a ne...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Housing in Australia is unaffiordable mainly because it has been the official and explicit policy of every government for a generation that dwelling prices must always rise www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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How a moment of frustration led to one of Australia’s most trusted and long-running arts publications.
Read the full article here: vist.ly/4fqda
Read the full article here: vist.ly/4fqda
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
How a moment of frustration led to one of Australia’s most trusted and long-running arts publications.
Read the full article here: vist.ly/4fqda
Read the full article here: vist.ly/4fqda
Happy 25th to one of the best publications on culture and arts in Australia! @artshub.bsky.social! 🎂🥳
ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts share.google/iVQV1XwlTJ5Y...
ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts share.google/iVQV1XwlTJ5Y...
ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts
How a moment of frustration led to one of Australia’s most trusted and long-running arts publications.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Happy 25th to one of the best publications on culture and arts in Australia! @artshub.bsky.social! 🎂🥳
ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts share.google/iVQV1XwlTJ5Y...
ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts share.google/iVQV1XwlTJ5Y...
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Absolutely thrilled to be a guest columnist in today’s @guardian and to delve into the high-stakes world of the pub quiz 👇
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Pub quiz cheating may not be a matter of life and death - but it can feel that way | Janice Hallett
Weeks before the Manchester cheating story broke, I published a murder mystery novel with almost the same plot. It’s no coincidence
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November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Absolutely thrilled to be a guest columnist in today’s @guardian and to delve into the high-stakes world of the pub quiz 👇
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The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
Calls for new Darwin hospital as NT recovers from TC Fina
The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
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The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
Trial of man accused of murdering 23yo international student begins in Darwin
The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
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Just found this and I love it: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Just found this and I love it: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Important to note, despite police being more likely to engage with brown & black people, those they stop were LESS likely to be found with prohibited items such as drugs or weapons, than white people.
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
‘These rates are astonishing’: Victoria Police’s profiling problem laid bare in new report
Victoria Police says its officers are trained to respond to a person’s behaviour, not their background. The numbers tell a different story.
www.theage.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Important to note, despite police being more likely to engage with brown & black people, those they stop were LESS likely to be found with prohibited items such as drugs or weapons, than white people.
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
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Wonderful news for Indian-Australian filmmaking partnerships.
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
if.com.au/australia-an...
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
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Australia and India formalise new screen partnerships, including major theatrical pathway for Australian films - IF Magazine
An Australian delegation fronted by Rachel Griffiths and Lion director Garth Davis is attending the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) this week, where several agreements between the countrie...
if.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Wonderful news for Indian-Australian filmmaking partnerships.
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
if.com.au/australia-an...
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
if.com.au/australia-an...
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I was a big fan of Deborah Esquenazi's San Antonio Four documentary nearly ten years ago. So happy to see her return with NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, which I enjoyed just about as much. Another 'true crime' doc that reveals the horrors inflicted against queer suspects. redocumented.ghost.io/night-in-wes...
Night in West Texas (dir. Deborah S. Esquenazi)
This is not a review of The Yogurt Shop Murders, the four-part documentary series about an infamous Texas murder where people were sent to prison based on false confessions. It’s not a review of that,...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I was a big fan of Deborah Esquenazi's San Antonio Four documentary nearly ten years ago. So happy to see her return with NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, which I enjoyed just about as much. Another 'true crime' doc that reveals the horrors inflicted against queer suspects. redocumented.ghost.io/night-in-wes...
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Scarlett Johansson makes the transition from acting to directing with her directorial debut: Eleanor the Great.
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
‘Forgiveness is moving’: Scarlett Johansson on her directorial debut Eleanor the Great
If Auguste Rodin’s Thinker is the classical embodiment of concentration, then Scarlett Johansson answering a question might be its contemporary counterpart. In a small room of a Cannes hotel, she arri...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Scarlett Johansson makes the transition from acting to directing with her directorial debut: Eleanor the Great.
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
Morning guys, another day and another rejection for a job application that I worked so hard on. 😭 I don't know what to do anymore other than keep on applying I guess?
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Morning guys, another day and another rejection for a job application that I worked so hard on. 😭 I don't know what to do anymore other than keep on applying I guess?
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Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in Ronan Day-Lewis' tonally clumsy Anemone.
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
Ronan Day-Lewis' cinematic composition isn't enough to save the tonally clumsy Anemone
There’s no doubting Ronan Day-Lewis has an eye for cinematic composition. His debut film Anemone starring his father Daniel Day-Lewis, with Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Sean Bottomley looks strikin...
www.thecurb.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in Ronan Day-Lewis' tonally clumsy Anemone.
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
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"I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to someone who I suspected was lying to me with each and every response. I also don’t know if I’ve interviewed anyone I so desperately wanted to hear the truth from."
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to someone who I suspected was lying to me with each and every response. I also don’t know if I’ve interviewed anyone I so desperately wanted to hear the truth from."
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New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
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For something different this week ten books and one anti-book that have shelf my reading tastes www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Ten Books A Reading Journey — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! This has been on my to do list for quite a few weeks. Earlier this year reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury did a blog on the ten fantasy books that took them on their reading journey. I wondered ...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For something different this week ten books and one anti-book that have shelf my reading tastes www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...