You look into the void of the Goonhole and sometimes it winks back

two photos in one: young Iggy and older Iggy

Happy birthday to Mr. Osterberg. Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges was a life changing album for me. It was the first time I heard rock and roll played the way I heard it in my head, and it made me feel a little less alone in the world.

Those are both true stories

Lonely Stretch YouTube video by The Triffids - Topic

You want to really fuck yourself up, read the details on the AFP missing persons list

So many people just there one minute gone the next

Little children vanishing into the desert scrub without a sound or a footprint

A man looking for his car stops answering his wife behind

youtu.be/Kf8Buwamocc

It's one of the awful things about Australia: it's vast, and the land is unforgiving.

People can disappear into it deliberately for years or unexpectedly forever. Things can be done out of sight just ten steps from a long road, but often the country needs no human hand to do the taking.

I gave that up as impossible. Mine is me at 11. A Kerr Avon bowl cut and eyes like pissholes in the snow.

Murder commissions also make great gifts for the goths in your life! Folks have hired me to (fictionally) murder their parents, partners, and even their kids!

Man killed by carriage, horse arrested at scene

America would’ve been a much nicer country if their rulers hadn’t structured their entire economy and society and culture around pleasing the auto industry and then we wouldn’t have had sentences like this

I can't jack in anymore cos of the persistent antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection my old pimp gave me for holding out on him

Had to have the socket pulled by a former dentist above a laundromat in Baltimore

Inglourious Basterds made at least one workable policy suggestion that might be relevant in this century and knives are cheap

If you like horror at all then Alan has got a book for you, just statistically

Probably several

kaiju (but make it haiku)

you plundered the sea
risen from my ocean bed
my sighs boil the waves

Fucking pavlova and don't @ me

What is the point of that shit

It's meringue but worse and coated in kiwifruit slurry

My Gran used to cook like that

Thought I hated Brussels sprouts till my 30s when I discovered they can actually be delicious with butter if you don't boil them grey first

Someone once told me their generation did that cos of the child mortality rate before food safety regs

Boiling the bugs out

He won't remember a damn thing, he has dementia

My abiding memory of Piers Morgan is him arriving face-first down the stairs to a Kinky Friedman gig at the Basement

Absolutely maggoted, upside down, shirt riding up

I was there with a journo from the Herald, who glanced over and said, matter-of-factly, "I see Piers is here"

I've got cosmic horror, crime horror, dark urban fantasy, occult, supernatural, folk horror, small town horror, creature feature, military horror, city horror, and more, all in short stories, novellas, standalone novels and series. Tell me what you like and I bet I have a book for you.

Couldn't point you to one off the top of my head but I have a feeling that's the basis of a fair bit of Australian fiction, dating back to Picnic at Hanging Rock

Vibes Tim Winton

The thing about AI checkers is you're just feeding the output of one AI into another one

If the fuckup rate is 20% on each of them then the result of the check is gonna be 36% likelihood of fuckup

You're just compounding fuckups

10 more checks and you're at 100% bullshit, mathematically

Mood

Read the article that made pro-fash tech company palantir sue The Republic newspaper in Switzerland

Original post: infosec.exchange/@adfichter/1...

IDK, that's why I liked them

I mean they did COLERIDGE ffs

in that way that civilisations often look back at history and find it too barbaric once we all know better, I shudder to imagine future generations looking back at the mid-2020s and saying 'in grandpappy's day they used to put money down on whether their neighbours were going to brutally die'

your regular reminder that the cheaper the client the worse they are to work with, let them pivot to AI tbh they deserve each other

Would immediately buy the mid-century novel that began with this sentence.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

“I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.”

what a great workaround 🤗

I can't quite believe (a) how quickly so many people started outsourcing their decision-making and critical thinking to machines owned by psychopathic oligarchs, and (b) how quickly that made everyone really, really dumb.