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Robbie Moore
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Senior Lecturer in English at UTAS. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
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Stranger Things S5 is a chore, sadly. Already-bloated IP expanded into a joyless, airless, all-encompassing multiverse. What if worldbuilding was the enemy all along?
January 18, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Chaïm Soutine, "Windy day in Oxera" (1939)
Expressionist painting of yellow wind spiralling through a grove of trees
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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January 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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A.C. Grayling is short for “Air Conditioned Grayling” - few know this
A suited gentleman with a big grey lion’s quiff and his finger resting on a keyword in a book as he looks wryly at the camera. Depressing high-sheen old world scholarly digs. Suit guy might comment on his suit.
January 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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He looks like the dead-eyed robot politician from Parks and Rec
The dead-eyed robot politician from Parks and Rec, in power saving mode
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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It be the whale ghosts overland.org.au/previous-iss...
A Sydney Morning Herald headline: “Fire rips through Mosman marina, sinking superyachts” with a picture of some yachts getting crispy
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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But Outlook is anxious to know if you love it
When Outlook asks "Enjoying Outlook so far?" and you can answer "not so much" or "yes"
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Horror film about an ancient academic’s hand preserved in a claw-like lecturing gesture called THE WAYS IN VVHICH
Chart of hand gestures from Chirologia (1644)
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Matthew McConaughey doing his time is a flat circle thing
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I may have limited mobility and car dependence and pain that keeps me up at night, but have you ever seen a better parking spot
A disabled parking spot on the wharf right on Sydney harbour
December 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Down a haunted corridor next to the toilets in a Sydney shopping mall
A “bitcoin ATM”
December 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Oh for the days when your job was to count the smiles in The Iliad
First, some statistics: the Odyssey has more laughs than the Iliad, 23 to 11. But the Iliad has more smiles, 14 to 7. These figures are from an article on Homeric laughter by Professor Joseph William Hewitt that appeared in The classical journal in 1927? It is not a very entertaining article, alas, since most of the laughter in Homer struck Professor Hewitt as distinctly unpleasant. He was probably right
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The Darlene Love bubble is unsustainable
global listening stats from last.fm for darlene love
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Paul McCartney use is peaking
Wham! up 600%
Mariah Carey shows steady gains
global listening stats from last.fm for mccartney global listening stats from last.fm for wham! global listening stats from last.fm for mariah carey
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"psych-folk-dub-nunpop"

instantly raptured by this prose
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Her face replaced by Kuleshov
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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today trump truly became, A Big Boy
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Oh boy - the opening paragraph cuts deep
Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The English department had a lovely old brick building, but there were hallways of empty offices after colleagues left and weren’t replaced. Some beneficiaries were identifiable: upper administrators were paid much better than those at comparable institutions when just about everyone else was paid worse. It was easy to compare the university to its state’s mountains: a site of extraction, a public good that had been plundered by the wealthy and left as a shell.
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Ross Perot on the Simpsons
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Icarus? Can't say I've heard of him. Lots of ploughing to do
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Watching The Terror, many years late. Polar despair. Grim as heck. Episode 6 echoing the final shot of The Thing.
An encampment on fire in the blackness of an Arctic winter night
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Ambushed! On the Staircase
Cat peaking out from a pot plant The fearsome creature attac
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Last minute oppo drop: he likes soccer and cricket
NY Post headline: Faux show Mamdani poses as ‘cheap seats’ Knicks fan in cringefest political stunt with reporter, podcaster Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani posted from the cheap seats at MSG — but the lefty Dem is more about soccer and cricket than hoops.
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Wish people could see that AI poetry is as fragmentary, uncanny, glitchy, and cliched as AI video
chatgpt prompt: write a poem set in the world of the 90s sitcom Friends “Coffee and Consequences” In Central Perk, the foam swirls slow, Steam curls like thoughts we never show. Phoebe’s strumming life in G major— A song about a smelly neighbor. Chandler cracks a joke too quick, Hides heartbreak in his verbal tricks. Monica’s scrubbing dreams again, Trying to polish away "back then." Rachel folds her new life twice— Like sweaters, soft yet overpriced. Ross lectures love like bones in dirt, But every word just seems to hurt.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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TERF pallet
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM