My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
30 years today since the canteen quiz where no one one the big cash prize youtu.be/YfLQ9TVbgA0?...
The First Big Weekend
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Was thinking and chatting about Shifty over the weekend, then this appeared on linkmachinego. dnyuz.com/2026/05/14/h...
How to Escape the 21st Century: Adam Curtis Talks to Dean Kissick
“Maybe the self or the idea of the self has become this terrible prison that we’re trapped in”—Adam Curtis This
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Exciting day at home as swift group install 2 more swift boxes to our house AND we have THREE rescue hedgehogs in boxes in the kitchen to be released tonight
Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".
This post is for the determined little blood clot trying to make its way to a vital organ inside the most vile and putrid creature who breathes: I know you tried for the heart and couldn't find one. Don't be discouraged. Your job is too important. Just move toward the pudding. That's the brain.
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
A geomagnetic storm large enough to fry all the computers would fix us.
Left my phone in a cafe en route to Cornwall and enjoyed a perfect 72 hours by the sea without it. Now it’s back in my hand, I think I need better strategies to mitigate its use.
Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should stop pretending & speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese & Russian tourists. And that is the best outcome I can see right now therecord.media/spain-awards...
Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.
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I'm firmly in the 'Neil Young was absolutely the right musician to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage on Saturday night' camp, in case anyone was wondering.
Just a wonderfully satisfying, emotionally resonant, politically relevant, thoroughly entertaining Saturday at Glastonbury. (Wish I was actually there).
I mean I'm a hardened atheist who at this point believes like 80% unironically that Trump is the/an antichrist, so...
It's .........very cosplay so far here at Trump's birthday parade. Those wigs must be so damn hot Let's do this! 🧵
Met 2 black cats on my morning walk. Some people would consider that bad luck. Those people are stupid.
PALPATINE HOLOGRAM: 𝑨𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑻𝑶 𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑸𝑼𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑳𝒀 𝑲𝑷𝑰𝑺? IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord. PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.
Mike D: Prospect Park down to Park Slope, it’s time to listen to All 3 Beastie Boys:
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
CBS News@cbsnews.com · last yr.Trump administration in talks with Rwanda to take deportees from U.S.
would love to see an Elon bio-pic with this Naked Gun / Austin Powers-style tone baked right in
Terrence Nowicki, Jr.@deephurting.bsky.social · last yr."Smart tech guys" who lack the competence or at least insight required to operate a Pop-Tart without injuring themselves.
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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