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Discworld anime. Most faithful adaptation you've ever seen except it uses the honorifics and the anime sound effects. "Nobby-kun", people going "kyaaa", things of that nature

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I still wish Smallville had the courage to end with Clark becoming #Batman

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Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

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I’m fascinated by #StarWars inspired baby name trends. Between 1976 and 1980, the name “Luke” saw a 6x increase. And, while extremely common today, the millennial unisex name “Joruus C’baoth” was virtually unknown until the 1991 publication of the novel “Heir to the Empire”.

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Okay, which one of you told my child I was ticklish?

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Just reading this thread brings an incredible sense of vicarious childhood closure. Thank you for your service.

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March 23 is only weeks away, folks. What do YOU have planned for the 25th anniversary of “Mr. Accident” starring Yahoo Serious? #AustralianFilm #Cinephile

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Remember when my gf and I fell in love in different countries during covid and couldn’t be together for 9 months and for my bday she hand drew this map of her house for me? Poet ass behaviours. We just hung it on our bedroom wall where we live 🥰

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I’m at a wedding and trying to look busy so I don’t have to dance the Macarena. Quick, Bluesky: kiss me.

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I want to mute the word “musk” to avoid a weird and gross billionaire. But am I unfairly shutting out important discourse on the weird and gross Australian lolly range?

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I’m absolutely furious on behalf the kid out there who might have read Rose’s story at the right time and thought “I can be like her”. The many other kids, the many other platforms, the many other role models; those thousand tiny painful cuts will rapidly add up if left unchallenged.

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Men only want one thing and it’s disgusting.

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if we work together and make eye contact too early at different ends of a hallway, there is a high chance i will lean into the awkwardness and salute

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Whatever missteps I may have made and will make as a parent, I can comfortably say this: my four-year-old claps at the right place in David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

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Weirdly compelled once again to troll my future self.

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I truly love that Mr Bean, not Hitchcock or Spielberg, was my formative childhood #filmmaking introduction to the dolly zoom effect.

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Important work going on this month over at the official Dan Beeston account.

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You just know from looking at them: every one of these billionaires claps along to songs on the first and third beat.

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From 1998-2001, every website automatically played a low-quality MIDI of a popular TV theme song. Each got precisely one note wrong. There was a subtle art to choosing that note and its precise level of wrongness; an art that will die with us if we don't take urgent action. In this TED Talk, I will

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You’re staring out a cafe window, unable to shake the sadness. Then, through a narrow gap in traffic, you see it: a personal message that cuts through the fog and, for one beautiful moment, makes you feel seen. Then the light goes green and the traffic moves on to reveal…

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Fuck yeah look at this thing

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Exciting news for #JaneAusten fans.

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having a great time imagining this guy saying this line and then, as black, making this move

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What phrase in your search history shows your true colours?

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Long ago, I was entrusted with Jeff Goldblum‘s phone number. Is it real? We can never know. Those who hold this precious artifact are bound by the unspoken pact to never call it. (1/2)

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After a decade immersed in comedy writing, I have yet to encounter anything funnier than the “NOOOO!” of a toddler urgently correcting an adult who has called a duck a cow.

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How many seasoned #JaneAusten audiobook narrators over the years have collapsed into juvenile giggling right here? The people deserve to know. #ReleaseTheBlooperReel

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Let’s spare a thought for the many people who live at one of the world’s many 69 Butt Streets. All those rideshare requests dismissed as pranks. The promising dates believed snubbed. The “don’t hang up”s beforehand. The “yes, really”s after. The sighs of new homeowners as the penny drops.

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Protect Trans Youth - National Day of Action across Australia Sat Feb 8. See the events and ways to participate here (via @transjusticeau.bsky.social) - transjustice.org.au/youth/

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I have touched Bruce Springsteen’s left buttock. I will not be offering any further context at this time. Thank you.

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Part of my day job involves moderating comments from older white Australians upset that Fraser Island has reverted to its traditional name, K’gari. They say the name their family grew up with is being erased. So many people SO CLOSE to an epiphany, yet so far. And while we’re here: #changethedate

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It’s happened! That rare twice-a-decade event where I snap a selfie that kind of aligns with my own self-image!!!

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I love David Lynch’s obsession with doddering old men. I love the way he stops Twin Peaks to show their excruciatingly slow passage across large spaces. I love that, when given an entire movie of this, the architect of distressing fever dreams turned in the warmest cuddle of a film imaginable.

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Dear Death, Are you absolutely, positively sure you claimed the right 78-year-old filed under “D” last week? Would it be too late to double check?

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#Hobbiton is so, so… real. It’s really real. Quite an experience to watch the movie immediately after visiting, full geographical comprehension of these living, breathing hills suddenly unlocked.

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I’m ten days into a cruise and have yet to achieve the same level of despair that compelled David Foster Wallace to write one of his best essays: harpers.org/wp-content/u... Alas, I’m with family, still tethered to routine and reality, and must begrudgingly accept a fun and largely untortured time.

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#TheFabelmans caught me at a sublimely vulnerable moment. The death of David Lynch, poster child for creative living, really did a number on this newly-40 writer struggling to make room for art. It left a hole in my heart the exact shape of a personal follow-your-dreams statement like this.

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Join me for a celebration of All the Colours of the Rainbow, in-conversation with the wonderful Sophie Beer! 🌈 Wednesday 12th February 6pm 🌈 Where the Wild Things Are 📅 Grab your tickets - wherethewildthingsare.com.au/pages/11344-...

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Gift link to Kyle MacLachlan's essay on #DavidLynch in the NYT. "It’s why he never wanted to explain his work. He wasn’t trying to be surly or obtuse....It’s just that explaining his art after the fact seemed antithetical to the very point of making it."

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