Matt Bevan

That's the second rave review I've heard for this show. 🎉
Grab your tickets, it's ONLY on this weekend/ next weekend.

Scrum on the bobsled run

Standing ovations are a rare thing in amateur theatre but I was there for one tonight at the performance of Fun Home at Young People’s Theatre (Newcastle). An extraordinary show. It closes on 15 Feb so get in quick. ypt.org.au/fun-home/

What about when giving a friend a hug? Do you make a sound as though they’re squeezing you too tight even if it’s a loose casual greeting hug? Please tell me I’m not insane.

It’s normal to make your own sound effects when you’re squeezing sideways though a tight gap between objects or people, right?

I read this as IKEA’d and yes

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Stephen Miller: Edgelord in Chief | If You're Listening

If you're looking for something to fill you with despair it's hard to go past this latest If You're Listening episode!

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A very out of date headshot of Matt Bevan.

If You're Listening will return to the @newwritersfest.bsky.social in our now-traditional role as the de facto closing ceremony, at 5pm on Sunday March 29.
The event will be ticketed to avoid any repeat of last year's chaos.

Nice

That's the meme that will never die.

Interesting to note that “6-7” seems to have disappeared from my kids vocabulary the SECOND they went back to school after the summer holiday.

Boris Johnson over the last 20 years somehow avoiding any connection to Jeffrey Epstein

I’m mitigating the threat of getting in reputational trouble because of the actions of my friends by not having any friends. Check mate, cancel culture.

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Doomsday Clock Gets Closer to Midnight | Black Swans 4 | If You're Listening

Hopeful stuff from @mattbevan.bsky.social on how badly we’ve historically misread p(doom) — the true likelihood of catastrophe. Though if #ifyourelistening is too successful with this message, we might all lose the very fear that helps prevent the worst 😅
youtu.be/I9VKeKGao9M?... #auspol

a robotic arm is holding a mannequin head in front of a computer ALT: a robotic arm is holding a mannequin head in front of a computer

Jeffrey Epstein writing every email he has ever written apparently

If You're Listening | ABC News In-depth - YouTube Assassins dressed for a game of tennis. Battleships trawling the oceans to snip internet cables. Global superpowers in a race to mine moon ice. When you pay ...

Well done to "If your listening" team for the wonderful Black Swan series
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@mattbevan.bsky.social

Chop off the sleeves and what have you got?

Yep they’re all there :)

A few seating options available for the Newcastle premiere of Melania tonight

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

It’s so strange. I’ll never forget standing at a crosswalk in Detroit and realising the guy next to me had a glock in a holster on his thigh. Bizarre.

Oh. Oh dear me.

Had to pause Sinners about halfway through last night. What a nice movie about black folks opening up a small business. Going back to it now.

Finally watched Sinners, whose main message seems to be that Irish people appreciate good music but are not always sensitive to local norms in their desire to join a rollicking party

Raygun

Victoria Beckham at her son’s wedding

Dunno what it is about Macron’s private texts but world leaders just love leaking them. ScoMo did it too.

This about the bike shop?

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Black Swans 2 | Why Nobody Predicted the Housing Crisis | If You're Listening

When people call apartments “communist” I feel it’s hyperbolic, but until now I thought it was at least original. A fascinating clip in this episode of @mattbevan.bsky.social’s Black Swans series reveals (to me, you probably knew) that the ¼-acre block was thought to attract… youtu.be/qr7oj5_o5x8

They’re actual recordings. We don’t have the physical letters, we only have the recordings made by the ABC of the writers reading them out.