John Birmingham
@birmo.bsky.social
I write for food and shelter.
Willow had a little home visit from the vet today.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Willow had a little home visit from the vet today.
This is the second cafe I’ve been in this week rockin’ out to the Doobie Brothers. The 70s are back, baby!
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is the second cafe I’ve been in this week rockin’ out to the Doobie Brothers. The 70s are back, baby!
Honestly, I’m with Carol. She’s killed about 20 million people, but she’s makes some good points in Ep 2.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Honestly, I’m with Carol. She’s killed about 20 million people, but she’s makes some good points in Ep 2.
This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
Aggressively unkempt: I did not expect this particular regret so late in life. I have so many other, graver, more operatic failings to lament. And yet, here I am, at sixty-one, uncomfortably aware that I’ve never really had… style.
Aggressively unkempt
I did not expect this particular regret so late in life.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Aggressively unkempt: I did not expect this particular regret so late in life. I have so many other, graver, more operatic failings to lament. And yet, here I am, at sixty-one, uncomfortably aware that I’ve never really had… style.
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Finally getting around to reading the End of Days series by @birmo.bsky.social, and finished Zero Day Code last night quite late but then started straight in on Fail State because I was so into it. So I’ve had fuck all sleep but I’ll be repeating the process tonight! Go read them!
Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)
Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed …
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November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Finally getting around to reading the End of Days series by @birmo.bsky.social, and finished Zero Day Code last night quite late but then started straight in on Fail State because I was so into it. So I’ve had fuck all sleep but I’ll be repeating the process tonight! Go read them!
Down at the coast for the weekend and came across this amazing bookstore. It’s fantastic. And it’s in Pacific Fair, of all places!
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Down at the coast for the weekend and came across this amazing bookstore. It’s fantastic. And it’s in Pacific Fair, of all places!
Cape Byron Serendipity single malt and Brookies macadamia liqueur, the Mystic Mac at Social Eating House, Broadbeach. My new favourite.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Cape Byron Serendipity single malt and Brookies macadamia liqueur, the Mystic Mac at Social Eating House, Broadbeach. My new favourite.
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Dear @birmo.bsky.social, this is a crime lol.
“A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-very-spe...
“A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-very-spe...
A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.
G’day, Australia and soft-rock-and-sensible-trousers Australians up and down the FM band everywhere.
aliensideboob.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Dear @birmo.bsky.social, this is a crime lol.
“A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-very-spe...
“A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.” aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-very-spe...
I want to be your sledgehammer, soft rock loving Australia
A Very Special Request from Opposition Leader Sussan Ley: Tell Us the Band Name on the Shirt That Destroyed Your Marriage, Career, or National Political Coalition.
G’day, Australia and soft-rock-and-sensible-trousers Australians up and down the FM band everywhere.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I want to be your sledgehammer, soft rock loving Australia
Watched A House of Dynamite. It was good. But now I’m not.
October 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Watched A House of Dynamite. It was good. But now I’m not.
My problem with AI isn’t grifters it to flood to the market with shit. 90% of everything has always been shit. My problem is grifters flooding my email with their shitty marketing scams. I have half a dozen emails this morning offering tailored campaigns to improve the sales of particular books.
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My problem with AI isn’t grifters it to flood to the market with shit. 90% of everything has always been shit. My problem is grifters flooding my email with their shitty marketing scams. I have half a dozen emails this morning offering tailored campaigns to improve the sales of particular books.
I remember my first driving lesson. Tony, my instructor, picked me up at four in the afternoon as a giant grey-green anvil of thunderheads piled up in the western sky. It was fine, thanks to Tony, who was an utter and degenerate rogue of a man.
Late learner.
I came late to driving.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I remember my first driving lesson. Tony, my instructor, picked me up at four in the afternoon as a giant grey-green anvil of thunderheads piled up in the western sky. It was fine, thanks to Tony, who was an utter and degenerate rogue of a man.
I don’t know why more coffee shops or any coffee shops really don’t make their iced black coffee with fizzy water. It’s right there people! a fizzy iced long black. it would be like a Coke but without all the shit and it would be great. I really need someone to do this
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I don’t know why more coffee shops or any coffee shops really don’t make their iced black coffee with fizzy water. It’s right there people! a fizzy iced long black. it would be like a Coke but without all the shit and it would be great. I really need someone to do this
JFC I’m in an Uber and drive time FM is on and I sort of understand why our civilization is doomed
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
JFC I’m in an Uber and drive time FM is on and I sort of understand why our civilization is doomed
Finished watching Boots. It was good.
October 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Finished watching Boots. It was good.
Times are tough for everyone. Prince Harry’s catching the bus.
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Times are tough for everyone. Prince Harry’s catching the bus.
I’ve had a LOT of new followers this week. Has there been a botsplosion or something?
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ve had a LOT of new followers this week. Has there been a botsplosion or something?
Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.
Submit a Claim
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October 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.
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So read these & tell me why the Nobel Committee ignored @birmo.bsky.social for yet another year
Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...
The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files)
The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files) eBook : Birmingham, J.P.: Amazon.com.au: Books
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October 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
So read these & tell me why the Nobel Committee ignored @birmo.bsky.social for yet another year
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Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...
The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files)
The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files) eBook : Birmingham, J.P.: Amazon.com.au: Books
www.amazon.com.au
October 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...
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Every bit of this by @birmo.bsky.social, because I keep wondering how the Bible and its engagement levels would have turned out if the storytelling model used by the Apostles et al for their LLM (Large Lord Morality) was based on the TikTok of Gilgamesh.
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story
End of Story?
Sorry. Had to get thinky this week.
aliensideboob.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Every bit of this by @birmo.bsky.social, because I keep wondering how the Bible and its engagement levels would have turned out if the storytelling model used by the Apostles et al for their LLM (Large Lord Morality) was based on the TikTok of Gilgamesh.
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story
I read the phrase “plot-based media” for the first time this week, and I died a little inside. The context was the unleashening of Sora, OpenAI’s new hybrid video extruder and anti-social network...
End of Story?
Sorry. Had to get thinky this week.
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I read the phrase “plot-based media” for the first time this week, and I died a little inside. The context was the unleashening of Sora, OpenAI’s new hybrid video extruder and anti-social network...
This is gonna be one of those weeks when I get the day wrong every day isn’t it
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is gonna be one of those weeks when I get the day wrong every day isn’t it