Liz

I wondered about that!

Turns out this glass skin mask is legit. I had to remove it after two hours because I misread the clock and have to go out, but my skin is so soft and moisturised?

Everyone else in support of the SLV: what a wonderful thing that we have a space which is for EVERYONE.

Guy: what the fuck are these losers doing here

Oh, I really like Sydney's trains! The upper deck is fun, and being able to flip the direction of seats is handy. I think their stations seem cleaner, too, though that might just be because I never leave the inner CBD.

Comparing the computer section to "a Lagos internet cafe" feels highkey racist, tbh

Hell and Hijinx at the Victorian State Library Taking the biscuits, experience engineers, animated Ned Head, having a Gandel at the librocide

Can someone please tell Guy Rundle that "too many ordinary people are using the library" is NOT what went wrong with the SLV? His take is offensive and as outdated as Helen Garner complaining that it's no longer silent.

Can you wear a Korean glass skin mask with glasses? Turns out yes. Can you then blow your nose? Not so much!

From Guardian Australia’s interview with Wayne Swan: Asked what risks Labor faced if it failed to evolve at an organisational level and with its policies, Swan was blunt. "We end up looking like the Democrats in the US or any number of once large, proud, centre-right parties around the world that have collapsed," he said.

Close up of the words “centre-right parties” in Swan’s interview

Krusty the Clown delivering the famous line “oops I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.”

One of the reasons I hung onto my subscription was access to the archives, so I get it!

I have also parted ways with Vanity Fair

I do wonder how her kids are doing. I hope they’re okay.

I have decided that Whamageddon is homophobic and I will not participate. HOWEVER I have invented a game where I deserve a nice little treat for every time I have to hear “Wonderful Christmastime”. I’m up to two treats so far.

Yeah, I wanted to be like, save it for the group chat, guys, you don’t have to do this in public

This is crazy.

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sorry about your cookies this is probably TMI

I had guessed that Sohla el-Waylly had left NYT Cooking, but “working conditions which endangered her health and pregnancy” wasn’t on my bingo card, holy shit sohla.substack.com/p/sorry-abou...

The dentist said my teeth are great, but confirmed I've been clenching my jaw -- and then saw it in action, when I was holding my mouth open, the muscles got so tight my jaw began to twitch. Which isn't great when there's a scrapey thing next to your gums.

I want to staple this to the foreheads of the “I cancelled Spotify and went back to pirating music” crowd on Tumblr

Calling my mum and asking her to tell TikTok I’m 43

Like the jackets and cheerleader skirts, I think it's deliberately using the established imagery of US teen dramas to position itself.

It's wild how this happens to the biggest Black-led movie in years and not, say, Stranger Things

Right! I hope that it's good and that I enjoy it (these may or may not be related), but when are we going to learn not to judge everything from pre-release marketing?

You should also mix it up with screengrabs from cerebral, intellectual episodes of TNG and DS9 like "Starship Mine" and "Little Green Men"!

Colin: pretty relaxed, starts demanding dinner an hour early

Dale: you've ruined a perfectly good lion. Look at him. He's got anxiety.

At the "do I have to explain archetypes and visual shorthand to Trekkies" stage of the morning.

I think it's so funny that the cats have developed strong food preferences. As recently as May, they lived outdoors and had to hunt their own food. Now they only empty their bowls if it's chicken paté.

I feel like something went awry with Photoshop for sure!

We need another Snakes on a Plane to remind people that letting the internet drive creative choices is a bad move!

I recently realised that the very first American to play the captain in a Star Trek was Avery Brooks. Mind. Blown.

I'm so old, I remember 2020, when Trekkies were furious about the existence of Star Trek: Lower Decks, insisting that no one wanted it and that it would be the ruin of the franchise.

12!