The universe is punishing me and as a good Catholic boy I can only say I deserve it

I check the weather app every single day. Sometimes quarterly but they’re all bonkers and the weather here is apparently hard to predict.

ha ha ha ha ha dead

Just saw one of those painted human statue dudes, made out to look like a coal miner, off on his way to work up the stairs to the Sacre Cœur, just walking normally before clocking on with his bucket of fake spray painted coal

If this was insufferable to read because I was having too much fun please know that currently I'm as sick as I have been in a long, long time

Grandparent! Which one!

Picture of the Canal Saint Martin in Paris at sunset on a warm day, the banks are filled with people sitting outside in groups talking and drinking.

A run of sun and warm days sent everyone mad, myself included. It was a collective psychosis the likes of which I've never experienced. Plus my advice on making friends in Paris: just stay still. rick-morton.ghost.io/thirst-du-so...

Judgment of the NSW Court of Appeal declaring that anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW Government in the wake of the Bondi Massacre impermissibly burden the implied freedom of political communication #auslaw #nswpol www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d...

Viktor Orbán leaves an oversized legacy for the global far-right Since 2010, we haven't been living in Obama’s world, but Orbán’s.

I wrote about Orbán's hideous global legacy.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/v...

When I was reporting this stuff more deeply people kept asking me 'what the fuck even is it' and I remain unsure myself. I beg you to ask!

what a cluster, in other words

why did I think this photo was of philomena cunk

I mean they basically did with Francis so we are on the doorstep of something truly special!

even if I somehow figured out I was very, very good at rowing (perhaps by trying it once?) or even the world’s BEST rower, I would never do it on account of the men’s uniforms

The real counterfactual is to communicate whatever information is necessary in the ordinary course of being prime minister, such as at a press conference or in the parliament

albo yelling that there is NO fire in a crowded theatre, chuckling to himself at his ingenuity

Man, bless you

lol

I had genuinely forgotten this precise moment and it brings me JOY now

Who is quoting me and what is wrong with them

I don't know what that is but it sounds like science-y stuff and go for your life. But using a plagiarism machine to do plagiarism stuff is not it.

That last line 👏

Exactement! It would just add to the workload. And besides, that’s my favourite part!

I got grumpy last night and kept flagging Google's gemini email prompts that they were wrong and offensive and then telling them to get fucked. Not sure I'm achieving anything, but felt good.

For what it's worth, I won't even use it for research. Seeing shit with my own human eyes and understanding how it fits together is the only thing I'm good at??

I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.

Not only is it sustainable anything else is a non-starter. Jo Tarnawsky is not a journalist and clearly doesn't get that using AI 'to check and refine' her work IS A HUGE PROBLEM. The work IS the work ffs

Queensland cops are investigating an artist

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NACC for Misunderstanding At a tiny natural wine bar in Bologna, a French couple from Paris walked in while I was sat at the counter and struck up a conversation with the Italian server. 'I hate Paris,' he said with a big smi...

In which I continue to have thoughts (a lot, as it turns out) about the NACC and that porridge-brain robodebt report. The NACC is an expensive exercise in lickspittle. Also: assorted goings on. Sign up to my newsletter, if you dare! rick-morton.ghost.io/nacc-for-mis...