Keith Gow

I love that he's got both Kyle and Darrem making eyes at him - and Darrem is pansexual! It's a good queer show that hasn't tokenised the gay characters at all.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Even with the Getty Images watermark, I had to check this was real.

SNW (which I thought I wanted and enjoyed in its first season) is so beholden to feeling like an old Trek show that it has become a pale imitation. Almost a parody.

I came to like DIS when it felt more like Trek (exploration, ethical conundrums, planet of the week) but it never, ever felt like the 90s shows. It was always trying its own thing. Sometimes it was even great.

I think there's a scale here. I want it to feel like Star Trek, which SFA does. It doesn't need to be like the 60s show or the 90s shows. (Compare: first season DISCO, which didn't feel like Trek at all. Like, try something different, but remember which franchise you're in.)

"He's an asshole" - Captain Nahla Ake

Women are just so much harder to draw (on a deadline), Liz!

One of the great problem with journalism prizes is that they are mostly awarded based on the year a piece is published and not once their true power has been recognized.

But if ever there were a case for a special award...it should go to Julie.

It feels very Trek, too. It is using the setting to its advantage. I am blown away at how good it is, given how variable the quality of streaming Trek has been.

Truly bananas take.

Good opportunity for a left-ish party in Australia to start talking about a republic. They need something to start a conversation and inject themselves into the discourse. A radical re-imagination of how the country is governed and a break from sex-trafficking elites seems a good place to start.

Careful, you're going to get trapped with them for 25 years.

Here's where I'm at right now:
1. Come, Let’s Away
2. Beta Test
3. Vox in Excelso
4. Ko’Zeine
5. Kids These Days
6. Series Acclimation Mil *
7. Vitus Reflux

*this is weighed down by the awful B-plot

#StarfleetAcademy

That's why I like it a lot. Good contrast to last week's action-heavy episode.

Oh interesting! I'm not sure I'd put Ko'Zeine at the top, but I'm quite surprised how down people are on it.

I'm a bit surprised that the first reactions I'm seeing are from people who think this is the weakest episode so far. For me, this does a lot more for the characters than say 1x03 which was fun (I like fun!) but not much more. #StarfleetAcademy

Who is being an ideological gatekeeper, Alex?

How do I wear both at once?!

This show makes me really emotional. Something about young people and a hope for the future really gets to me. #StarfleetAcademy

After the high stakes of last week, I appreciated this slow-paced episode that gave the characters some room to recover. The character arcs have been mapped out so well. #StarfleetAcademy

"Klingons on Ibiza. That is not a sentence anyone ever imagined could exist." Love a shore leave episode that turns out to be something so much more. #StarfleetAcademy continues to nail it.

Blood from a stone. Govt rebuffs investigation over Australians serving in IDF - Michael West After 14 months of monkey business the Australian Government has batted off FOI requests for advice on Australian citizens serving in the IDF

#auspol Australian Muslim Women involved in ISIS (some trafficked) = "bad" but Australians serving with the IDF participating in a Genocide are fine! #HypocrisyRules
michaelwest.com.au/blood-from-a...

Don't wanna upset the Nazis.

Incredible how much the media has spent talking about hate speech laws and yet none of the thousands of articles on Hanson mention she recently was found by a federal court of breaching hate speech laws.

Is it all over for filmmakers? — SHOKUNIN STUDIO Another month and another model update accompanied by a massive amount of marketing, Linkedin spam, spin, and dubious claims. Two years ago I debunked claims that Sora would destroy filmmaking. I...

UPDATE: After all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Winter Olympics 2026 Danielle Scott lands aerials silver as family sacrifice pays off

I think silver is a pretty poor pay off for sacrificing your entire family.

free luigi

Why cultivate artists to make right-wing propaganda, if you can just make AI slop to do it for you?

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.