Kate Orman

It's terrific. Amazingly low body count!

"Anybody want some coffee?" ♀️☕️♀️

This movie is all over 70s Doctor Who

I ❤️ Paul Frees's voice

The Thing From Another World (1951) time! I always enjoy this style of rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue. Dr Carrington is a berk 🤣

I DNF Cat People (1982), but the 1942 original is loads better. I reckon the torn robe inspired the torn jacket in The Thing. Dr Judd is a berk! 🐈‍⬛️

Muslim community in shock after police opt not to arrest man accused of crashing Ballarat iftar dinner Tony Burke expected to discuss incident with Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett on Wednesday

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Very hard to understand why no charges were made against the man who terrorised a group of Muslim doctors in Ballarat. (More details in comment.) I've signed this petition asking for a full investigation: www.change.org/p/request-fo...

I just snorted through both nostrils. So undignified!

How our art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women artists

Dorrit Black, The Bridge, 1930. Oil on canvas on board, 60.0 x 81.0 cm. Bequest of the artist, 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

I woke up in the middle of the night, saw this, thought of a brilliant funny response, and went back to sleep. Thankfully I now have no idea what I was going to say.

Brian Cox: *lyrically describes the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* devouring an asteroid*

Jon (Sag A* voice) SEND MORE ASTEROIDS

I could not stop reading that

The small pleasure of discovering you never actually pressed send on that boring remark

I am old and wise and tired enough now to respond to stupid Reddit comments (including the "I didn't read the other responses first" ones) with a dignified silence my younger and incorrectly medicated self could never have achieved.

Hooray!

I'm studying in hopes of becoming a librarian. When I saw mentions of AI in the coursework, I was wary. But librarians haven't been taken in. Their task is to warn people about the limitations and hazards of AI, and to show them there are better alternatives.

Merci!

We also played the tape of Jesus Christ Superstar upsidedown and back to front and Dad said we'd broken the player. We hadn't, but he quite reasonably didn't want us destroying it with further experiments.

Sudden remembered the fun my small brothers and I had with my parents' reel-to-reel tapedeck, imitating the testy Peter Tuddenham announcement from The Ark in Space by experimenting with speeding up our voices. "This is a sterile area! Keep out!"

Just have to busk it, then. 😂

*smarty

... I'd quite like to write a book without a read-alike. (I'm easily bored, and I'm a smaty-boots to, er, boot.)

I wonder if I have in it me. I don't think my hypothetical agent or publisher would be pleased...

Today I learned the term "read-alike", which seems similar to how you're supposed to pitch your book as "fans of Greg Egan's "Diaspora" will love this!" In the flood of words, it's not a bad way to connect reads with readers. But...

Extraordinary language! I spend a lot of time on cryptic crosswords, and my brain keeps looking for anagrams or other hidden meanings.

At the risk of unserious responses, why no "d"?

Moved around some words in the first line of the story I'm working on and couldn't quite figure out why it sounded better that way. Realised the rhythm now loosely followed a couple of lines from "Blinded by the Light".

I'm keen to have a look at the original now!

Oh Jonny, she cried / Oh Jonny, I tried

Made it through half an hour before I gave up and watched Cat People (1982) which I also DNF

I think I'm allergic to Irwin Allen