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Critical Autism & action studies researcher and screenwriter in Naarm. We wish to stay at the inn; our opinions are our own.
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Huge news: Milly had a bath
Milly, a shiny black kelpie cross dog, looks extra shiny after her bath. Shes curled up on a pale grey fur rug on a colourful couch, and looks directly at the camera.
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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The only eBay sellers to make Barbie and rock tour tee flippers' prices seem reasonable are the VHS dealers. Come on now, mate, I got this one for $2 at Vinnies (true story).
A screenshot of an eBay listing for the K-Tel VHS copy of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. For some reason the seller believes AUD$500 is an appropriate price.
September 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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As an act of defiance I'm going to start wearing items from my (considerable) collection of appalling Autism-themed t-shirts more regularly. Starting with this masterpiece, acquired in 2020.
A dark grey t-shirt. In a 'fun' font, it reads: Society Says I AM AUTISTIC God says I AM PERFECT In between the two lines of text there is a heart made of puzzle pieces in primary colours, wearing sunglasses, dabbing.
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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From the Spinotti interview, a great observation about the importance of believability in images. A key issue with a great amount of 21st century CGI-heavy "cinematography" (JURASSIC WORLD always my go-to) is the fact the brain implicitly understands the things a camera can't do!
“Like no other art form, film lives on reality,” says Dante Spinotti, AIC, the director of photography on Michael Mann's latest film, Heat, a crime thriller that showcases first-time co-stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, along with Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore. "The more you believe an act happening on the screen, the more you believe the story, and the more successful the communication will be between the storyteller and the audience."
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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A few examples to support my assertion
Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger pretending to hate each other in EMPIRE RECORDS (1995) Robert De Niro looks out over the ocean in HEAT (1995) The Plague arrives at the Gibson supercomputer security centre in HACKERS (1995) Val Kilmer smoulders as Batman in BATMAN FOREVER (1995)
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Anyway, me when I text you about restoring Bratz dolls/replicating Starbucks recipes/making my own Coke/cool facts about the writing of TOOTSIE/etc
A screenshot of Fox News' dumb as hell "AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT" with the busted faces of Trump and RFK Jr looking on like the Cryptkeepers
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Nearly all the push ads I see on Reddit these days are for AI companies. What a shame this Social Media Experience (TM) doesn't extend to a spell-checker.
A Reddit ad for GoDaddy Airo AI, which claims it will help you look like a social marketing "meastro"
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I got sucked in by those LED grow lights push ads, and I have to say... it's impossible to overstate just how almost-dead this begonia was. First photo is Aug 19, after about a week of light; that big lower leaf was the last one standing prior. Second photo is today! (And yes that's a chest burster)
A very poorly looking begonia plant in a dark red container. There are a few new leaves popping off at the top of the stem. The same begonia plant looking MUCH healthier after a month of solid grow-lighting: it's now covered in very robust looking leaves.
September 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!
University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on Meanjin Closure 11 September 2025 The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia's oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international reputation carries Australian stories and voices to the world. For 85 years, Meanjin has supported, elevated and launched the careers of a staggering number of writers, including many of our own staff and students; it's also an important resource for all teachers and students of Australian literature. The Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, Professor Tony Birch, says, 'Meanjin has been a major supporter of Blak writers and artists in Australia. Without the support of such a significant literary and cultural journal, many of us would not have been able to publish as emerging writers and may not have gone on to have a publishing life at all. We must ensure that such support continues. If Australian society is genuinely committed to truth-telling, these truths will be told by Blak artists.' As writers and creative writing academics, we know how precious journals like Meanjin are to the continuing development of Australian literature, although of course its scope goes far beyond that. While we hope new literary journals continue to emerge, Meanjin is irreplaceable. It has survived for almost a century, through the Second World War, the Cold War and numerous budget crises, and has retained its undeniable significance as part of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne University Press. It continues to publish vital, timely work that, to paraphrase Sylvia Martin, keeps the intellectual and aesthetic fires of this continent alight. We continue to hear from our students and will be sharing more of their responses. From two: "Meanjin has and will always be the one literary magazine I look up to when I think of literary perfection." "Meanjin was my dream publication. I feel that yet another opportunity has been taken from me before I can even get my foot in the door." These students are completing their degrees while our industry is in crisis. Now is the moment that we, the University of Melbourne, must step up. The cost of maintaining Meanjin to the University is minimal, but the value is enormous. As the University of Melbourne Public Humanities initiative puts it 'culture is something that we care for, just as it cares for us.' We call on the University of Melbourne to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly and housing this important journal within its Community and Cultural Partnerships portfolio and resourcing it appropriately for the long term. Meanjin is vital to each and every member of the creative writing program and we can't imagine our future without it. Dr Romy Ash, Dr Clem Bastow, Dr Quinn Eades, Dr Rachel Hennessy, Dr Andy Jackson, Dr Odette Kelada, Bec Kavanagh, Dr Emma Marie Jones, Dr Liz MacFarlane, Dr Helen Milte, Dr Cath Moore, Dr Nadia Niaz, Dr Radha O'Meara, Associate Professor Eddie Paterson, Dr Hayley Singer, Dr Soren Tae Smith, Associate Professor Maria Tumarkin, Associate Professor Julienne van Loon, Dr Jessica Zhan Mei Yu.
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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If anyone is looking to provide material support for Camp Sovereignty, consider the following requests via Black Peoples' Union on insta:
A screenshot of an Instagram story post by @blackpeoplesunion: Thanks to everyone reaching out to offer assistance. Rather than reply to individually to the many DMs we've received, we're putting a call out for the following: Tent donations welcomed (but not too many) Ryobi Petrol Generator Engine Lubricant (pictured) Fuel cards 20L Gerry cans (petrol) unleaded (urgent) Tea milk and sugar but not too urgent Pre-prepped meals are good as long as no microwave needed to heat/cook them (approx 20 people at Camp rn) Gamp is a place for connection, community and healing, so we encourage you to head down if you can, for the afternoon, evening or overnight. It's okay if you can only stay for a short while, the important thing is that we show these racist agitators that we are united in our protection of Camp Sovereignty and against hate
September 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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May I humbly present my old neighbour, Tigger
Tigger, a big orange tabby cat with a concerned expression, peers out from behind a fence post on a Brunswick side street.
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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We couldn’t have designed a worse government to meet this moment. Absolutely extraordinary.
A screenshot of a Ninefax headline: PM says some good people marched on Sunday, blames exploitation by neo-Nazis
September 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Anyway, here’s some 1:6 scale A1 bakery cheese pies I made for my dolls - first time using polymer clay since 1991!
A pair of tiny A1 Bakery cheese pies made out of polymer clay. One has had a bite taken out of it. For scale reference there is a 20c coin next to them. A pair of tiny A1 Bakery cheese pies made out of polymer clay. One has had a bite taken out of it.
September 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Quote post a pic of you from another era

(A prehistoric bitch about to be shown how they do things downtown; NYCC, 2013)
Clem cosplaying as Gozer from GHOSTBUSTERS at New York Comic Con in 2013.
August 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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LOLing at how the chirashi for STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN makes it look like a hard-hitting sci-fi/horror movie and not a Technicolour Hornblower adventure
The Japanese flyer-poster for STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. For some reason they've made it look like a sci-fi/horror movie, and at the bottom of the poster, Mr Saavik and Captain Kirk are shooting you IN THE FACE while Spock watches
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Glenn Frey as Arizona Cardinals general manager Dennis Wilburn in JERRY MAGUIRE
A screenshot from JERRY MAGUIRE: Arizona Cardinals general manager Dennis Wilburn (Glenn Frey) takes a phonecall at his messy desk. In the foreground of the shot are various jars of vitamins and medicines, and there seems to be an Arizona Cardinals branded vase full of Twizzlers (??) to the right.
August 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy:
In the glare of a paparazzi flashbulb, as she is hurried away by stern-looking and beefy security guys, Megan Fox accidentally ignores a kid trying to hand her a yellow long-stemmed rose
August 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Oh the Productivity Summit opens with a warning about NDIS spending, does it? How about you absolute remedials START FUCKING TAXING CORPORATIONS EARNING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS? Yours sincerely, an NDIS participant with about $1700 to their name who just received this text from the ATO 🥰
A screenshot of a text from the ATO. It reads: Hi CLEMENTINE, Payment of your 2024 income tax bill of $15,041.85 is due by 25 August 2025. Log in to your myGov account to pay easily. Australian Taxation Office
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Some wonderful people are raising mutual aid for Gazan families they are in touch with. Conquer the capitalist in your head and rather than thinking, "I don't have $30 to spare", maybe you have $2 or $4 or $10? Maybe 20 or 100 of you have that much? Account name KM, BSB 313140, Account 12281536.
community callout for mutual aid We're raising $2000 for mutual aid for families in Gaza Give as much as you can KM bsb 313140 acc 12281536
August 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I grew up on these streets
a screenshot of the very beginning of ALEX KIDD IN MIRACLE WORLD: Alex is making his way towards a "?" box that I'm pretty sure has a ghost inside it
August 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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I love placing an order for one [1] patch from one of my various mysterious metal patch purveyors and wondering at what point in the distant future it will arrive. Godspeed, Rigor Mortis patch, I'll see you in the '30s
Two woven metal patches sitting on a red tablecloth. It's a recreation of a Rigor Mortis artwork from the '80s: under the band's logo, a weird cryptkeeper looking dude in leather pants and a battle vest wields a fearsome axe as he prepares to, presumably, decapitate the hapless Ratt fan in front of him. In the 'tombstone' font we all know and love, the words 'DIE POSER' float above Mr Ratt
August 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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My face when 'The Mob Rules' fired up at the end of the first episode:
The smiling devil/imp emoji
August 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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how it feels waiting to hear if your NDIS plan is being renewed, expanded, shrunk, or cancelled completely
Wile E Coyote gazes upwards as the boulder trap he set for the Road Runner plummets towards him
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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As someone whose work has been stolen by Meta AI, and no doubt my data by everyone else, here's my response to the headline "Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it"!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A screenshot of Mink Stole screaming out the window in DESPERATE LIVING, only Clem has updated the caption to read "I hate the Productivity Commission!"
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM