Keith Gow
@keithgow.bsky.social
Playwright and theatre critic (writing in The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Australian Arts Review, Theatre First).
Bi. He/him.
Melbourne, Australia.
Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel.
http://www.keithgow.com/
Bi. He/him.
Melbourne, Australia.
Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel.
http://www.keithgow.com/
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Keith Gow
@keithgow.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Reintroduction now that we're all determined to move here: I'm a playwright & theatre critic. I'd love to find more theatre nerds here!
Big fan of Twin Peaks, Star Trek and film/TV in general.
Recently holidayed in Canada with a side quest to Bangor, reigniting my love of Stephen King.
Big fan of Twin Peaks, Star Trek and film/TV in general.
Recently holidayed in Canada with a side quest to Bangor, reigniting my love of Stephen King.
I don't trust Warner Bros with this one little bit.
'V for Vendetta' Is Becoming a TV Show
'V for Vendetta' Is Becoming a TV Show
DC Studios will produce a new adaptation of the classic comic for HBO.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I don't trust Warner Bros with this one little bit.
Using phones as a scapegoat for rhetoric that is spewed by governments, sporting bodies and hateful authors is just ridiculous. Acting as if banning phones is the magic bullet is a total abdication of thought, real action and responsibility.
Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.
Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Using phones as a scapegoat for rhetoric that is spewed by governments, sporting bodies and hateful authors is just ridiculous. Acting as if banning phones is the magic bullet is a total abdication of thought, real action and responsibility.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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fellas is it maximum alpha to be crammed into a wooden horse with fifty other sweaty guys at 1.25x speed
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
fellas is it maximum alpha to be crammed into a wooden horse with fifty other sweaty guys at 1.25x speed
This is ridiculous. There's no real continuity between the films of different actors. Just start again. Introduce him again as has been done a half dozen times before.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This is ridiculous. There's no real continuity between the films of different actors. Just start again. Introduce him again as has been done a half dozen times before.
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A fun fact is that when the full text of The Iliad was found (the Ottomans had it, ofc) during the Renaissance, a lot of people were dismayed to find it was a devastating critique of warfare and masculinity.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A fun fact is that when the full text of The Iliad was found (the Ottomans had it, ofc) during the Renaissance, a lot of people were dismayed to find it was a devastating critique of warfare and masculinity.
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
Entertainment journalism is broken.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Entertainment journalism is broken.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
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"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
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First time seeing this large language model text notice on Wikipedia.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
First time seeing this large language model text notice on Wikipedia.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
At what point do the Dems realise that running to the centre is what allowed Republicans to shift further and further right?!
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
At what point do the Dems realise that running to the centre is what allowed Republicans to shift further and further right?!
I don't even live that close, but that fucking bar noise travels and it's slowly poisoning our democracy, too.
"Why do you talk about American politics so much? You're Canadian?"
If I lived next to a noisy bar I'd probably talk about the noisy bar a lot too
If I lived next to a noisy bar I'd probably talk about the noisy bar a lot too
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I don't even live that close, but that fucking bar noise travels and it's slowly poisoning our democracy, too.
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“appearing to”
LOOK AT YOUR OWN DAMN PICTURE!
LOOK AT YOUR OWN DAMN PICTURE!
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“appearing to”
LOOK AT YOUR OWN DAMN PICTURE!
LOOK AT YOUR OWN DAMN PICTURE!
Good riddance.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Good riddance.
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I don’t know what I’m doing here
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I don’t know what I’m doing here
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Australian talkback radio host John Laws has died.
Hey, do you remember when Laws accused his rival of being a homosexual as a way to slander him?
Or the time he called a gay personality a "pillow biter" and "pompous little pansy prig"
Or when he said a sexual abuse victim was 'rape baiting'
Hey, do you remember when Laws accused his rival of being a homosexual as a way to slander him?
Or the time he called a gay personality a "pillow biter" and "pompous little pansy prig"
Or when he said a sexual abuse victim was 'rape baiting'
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Australian talkback radio host John Laws has died.
Hey, do you remember when Laws accused his rival of being a homosexual as a way to slander him?
Or the time he called a gay personality a "pillow biter" and "pompous little pansy prig"
Or when he said a sexual abuse victim was 'rape baiting'
Hey, do you remember when Laws accused his rival of being a homosexual as a way to slander him?
Or the time he called a gay personality a "pillow biter" and "pompous little pansy prig"
Or when he said a sexual abuse victim was 'rape baiting'
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There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.
Finished season two of Nobody Wants This recently and though it felt a bit more like a sitcom this season, I still enjoyed it a lot. Shame it's only eight episodes, though.
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Finished season two of Nobody Wants This recently and though it felt a bit more like a sitcom this season, I still enjoyed it a lot. Shame it's only eight episodes, though.
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the median age of a first-time home buyer in the United States is 40.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
the median age of a first-time home buyer in the United States is 40.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
I've never understood the appeal of these things.
The Funko Pop economy is dying repost to make it die faster
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I've never understood the appeal of these things.