Shane Carrow
@shanecarrow.bsky.social
Writer, admirer of art, collector of useless scraps of information.
Melbourne, Australia.
Check out my adventure/horror novels here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Shane-Carrow/author/B01MY49ARP
Melbourne, Australia.
Check out my adventure/horror novels here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Shane-Carrow/author/B01MY49ARP
More or less how every democratic foreign head of state has had to approach the situation
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
More or less how every democratic foreign head of state has had to approach the situation
The oldest European structure in Australia predates British settlement by 150 years; it’s a stone “fort” on an island in Western Australia built by loyalist Dutch marines in 1629 to defend against the mutineers of the Batavia
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The oldest European structure in Australia predates British settlement by 150 years; it’s a stone “fort” on an island in Western Australia built by loyalist Dutch marines in 1629 to defend against the mutineers of the Batavia
Maybe they finally decided that somebody who’s lived in London for 15 years probably doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the nation
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Maybe they finally decided that somebody who’s lived in London for 15 years probably doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the nation
More charitably: she 100% believed (as we all did) that Clinton would win and thought retiring under the first female president would bookend her feminist legacy. Oops!
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
More charitably: she 100% believed (as we all did) that Clinton would win and thought retiring under the first female president would bookend her feminist legacy. Oops!
I spent most of this film wondering when the opening expository montage was going to end
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I spent most of this film wondering when the opening expository montage was going to end
This also applies to home ownership btw. Young Canadians, Australians and Brits would kill for the “crisis” Americans have bsky.app/profile/whst...
This, too, doesn’t really appear to be true!
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This also applies to home ownership btw. Young Canadians, Australians and Brits would kill for the “crisis” Americans have bsky.app/profile/whst...
Ironically I have experienced two earthquakes in my life, both in earthquake-unprone Melbourne, despite the significant cumulative time I’ve spent in New Zealand, Japan and California
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ironically I have experienced two earthquakes in my life, both in earthquake-unprone Melbourne, despite the significant cumulative time I’ve spent in New Zealand, Japan and California
I still remember reading an oped in November 2016 that was like “Clinton will win tomorrow, but a third of this country will vote for Trump - and that’s a problem,” and you know, that writer was wrong but also right
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I still remember reading an oped in November 2016 that was like “Clinton will win tomorrow, but a third of this country will vote for Trump - and that’s a problem,” and you know, that writer was wrong but also right
This is what peak male performance looks like.
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is what peak male performance looks like.
On the other hand growing up in Perth, Western Australia, I related to it a lot!
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
On the other hand growing up in Perth, Western Australia, I related to it a lot!
If people worry MAGA is going to turn America into an un-free, un-democratic ethnostate, I don’t think China is the solution
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
If people worry MAGA is going to turn America into an un-free, un-democratic ethnostate, I don’t think China is the solution
I think of this as the Outer Inner City
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I think of this as the Outer Inner City
Also if we’re talking houses (not apartments) the big new developments will be in newer (cheaper) suburbs; smaller houses are definitionally older, in more established neighbourhoods which are more desirable and therefore expensive
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Also if we’re talking houses (not apartments) the big new developments will be in newer (cheaper) suburbs; smaller houses are definitionally older, in more established neighbourhoods which are more desirable and therefore expensive
It does seem to be a particular quirk of Fairfax that subscribers are informed every other week what a sacred task is selflessly being performed for them 🫡
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It does seem to be a particular quirk of Fairfax that subscribers are informed every other week what a sacred task is selflessly being performed for them 🫡
Tired: 1970s British nostalgia
Wired: Early 2000s British nostalgia
Wired: Early 2000s British nostalgia
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tired: 1970s British nostalgia
Wired: Early 2000s British nostalgia
Wired: Early 2000s British nostalgia
I should note for the record that my view, in the modern era, is that ice is a symbol of poverty rather than decadence - I use a *fridge* to keep my drinks cold
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I should note for the record that my view, in the modern era, is that ice is a symbol of poverty rather than decadence - I use a *fridge* to keep my drinks cold
The threading of the needle is to live in a place where having (and more importantly, storing) a car is easy and often makes life easier, but in which you can still easily walk to a train/tram station and a high street
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The threading of the needle is to live in a place where having (and more importantly, storing) a car is easy and often makes life easier, but in which you can still easily walk to a train/tram station and a high street
One which I’ll be giving a miss, though I would be interested in reading the introduction - there’s surely got to be something very specific making the Victorians/Edwardians go nutso for Pan
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
One which I’ll be giving a miss, though I would be interested in reading the introduction - there’s surely got to be something very specific making the Victorians/Edwardians go nutso for Pan