ALSO we are delighted to be back on our original bullshit (objectifying Sarek)

Super excited to revisit season 1! Rewatching the premiere, I realise that, among its many problems, it wildly overestimated the media literacy of its audience. Television will never make that mistake again.

Congratulations! I'm so happy for you!

I finished Holy Terrors the other day and it was SO GOOD, this is the best Lodestar shortlist yet.

They could have done some really cool disabled representation with Hammer, but it was more important for him to be inspiration porn for abled bodied characters.

I’m so sorry you were done so dirty.

There’s a day spa near me called Soul Stone, and every time I pass it, I think of you. (But also I want to try their facials. My skin needs some love. I’ll report back on whether I find Gamora and Natasha.)

Congratulations! Totally deserved!

Dark Winds is George R R Martin’s finest contribution to popular culture

Why? It’s not hard to find a scale. I already ordered one.

Last year I had five chest infections, culminating in festive Christmas pneumonia, so I am also masking a lot more than I used to.

Everything I know about Philadelphia I have learned from Well There’s Your Problem and hockey fandom, and agreed. (Go Birds.)

My premise would literally start with Molly's adult daughter moving back to Wandin Valley with her kids and starting a new practice as the town's psychologist.

I need a new set of bathroom scales, and I want the dumbest, most basic set. I don't want it to guess my percentage of body fat or calculate my BMI or infiltrate my phone. I just want to weigh myself once a month, report to my doctor, and otherwise ignore them.

A Country Practice continuation. Continuing the original premise of small town shenanigans, romance and overtly progressive politics.

I've noticed this on TikTok, if I've posted a slideshow instead of a podcast clip, I'm either mistaken for a man, OR dismissed for having womanly opinions.

Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’

There's a very specific context to the freedom of speech rallies in Queensland over the weekend, but ALSO if the first people being arrested over using an "antisemitic slogan" are Jewish, maybe your laws aren't doing their job.

I've heard this from a few friends! My tiny ears boggle at the thought, but I'm glad we all have options now.

I can't believe you got blocked for saying something true. (I personally don't like the shape of those Apple earphones. So I paid the same amount to get a pair from a different brand, in a shape I like.)

1. Yes, that is Joh Bjelke-Petersen to Teller's right.

2. Here is coverage of the talk from a student newspaper, whose other articles include calls for legalisation of marijuana, complaints about the QLD hospital system, and a deep dive into rape culture. Plus ça change.

zach (@blip_tm) on twitter: "dune 3 is only the "epic conclusion" because they're too scared to make a movie that's just two straight hours of a sandworm arguing with jason momoa"

But your delivery was flawless!

Sometimes I think I miss lockdown, but actually what I miss is getting enough sleep and having a sense of solidarity with my neighbours.

This is the second consecutive day The Age has run a positive mention of Judd. Did she buy shares in Nine?

The CIA did not actually need to bring down the Whitlam government, but I completely believe Kissinger formulated a plan, just in case.

Everyone boards the V/Line. Then has to get off and stand in the cold for another 30 seconds before we can board again. Why? I genuinely don’t understand why the V/Line does this.

Got to the station ten minutes earlier than yesterday. Wound up in the exact same parking spot.

Apparently there's a feud between Florence and the Machine fandom and Philadelphia Flyers fans, and I do need to know all the particulars. And where does Gritty stand? You can't tell me he doesn't rock out to "What Kind of Man".

Me: Maybe I need the $389 Swarovski crystal bok choy.

Also me: will not spend $5 on the plastic bok choy hair clip at Kmart even though I look at it every time I'm there and want it very much

Not an ep, but "You will never take the Greatest Gen alive, Ben would rather die" / "Ben would rather -- what?!" has never failed to make me laugh. Sometimes I sing it to my cats.

Italics. I can’t focus on large blocks of italic text.