Writer covering tech, gaming, geek culture, & more. Latest on @Lifewiretech. Yogi. Meditator. Gay not queer. 🇩đŸ‡șđŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ Also @moonkittynet 📔Matthew 5:44

Melbourne, Australia
Joined May 2007
The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels. I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so. Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this). The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman. The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos. Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive. This particular scene became ICONIC. 98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist. This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.
“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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Sounds like one of those tracks that curses you when played in reverse. #AppleMusic
Introducing a new identity for Apple Music, physically shaped by an original composition from @fredagainagain1 and NEST Acoustics.
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Some cute local Australian wildlife in front of my apartment building today 🇩đŸ‡ș – at Melbourne, Victoria
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It’s that time of year again
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This needs to be a hard reboot and all the returning actors should play teens again. Go full-on camp. #Glee
EXCLUSIVE: Lea Michele is returning as Rachel Berry in the #Glee reboot. Variety has confirmed the news with multiple sources hours after Disney+ and Hulu announced the reboot was in development. One source told us: "It’s still early-ish days, but it feels good and we’re happy to get the band back together.” Michele was nominated for an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her work on “Glee.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/lea

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What’s your favourite type of vampire movie? #Halloween #film
28%Sexy vampires
51%Scary vampires
5%Emo vampires
15%Funny vampires
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This could either be really fun or really bad. #Glee
Currently gleeking out!
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Brad Stephenson retweeted
This is what makes me so livid on the fucking American bourgeois who cheered on the riots. It destroyed small business owners, migrants, minority owned businesses. You guys know nothing about France. Stop pushing your fantasies onto us.
«J'ai mis 9 ans à construire ce magasin, petit à petit, je dois tout recommencer à zéro.» Sohal Hoque, co-gérant de «75Multimedia» à Paris Boulevard de Magenta, est effondré. Des casseurs ont saccagé et pillé sa boutique. Il estime le coût des travaux à plus de 150.000 euros.
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There are only about half a million Jews in France, so this is around 1% of France’s Jewish population moving to Israel in a single year. With total anarchy in the streets and rampant Islamism, this has all the makings of a mass exodus.
Over 4,000 Jews moved from France to Israel this year so far, and the number is expected to reach 5,000 by the end of the year. This is the 1st year since the fall of the Soviet Union that any country other than Russia is the origin of the most immigrants. (Source: @MakorRishon)
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The jump from $80 to $100 per year is annoying but I’m honestly saving 10x that with the free Prime shipping on my Amazon orders and Prime Video has quite a few shows and films now that I’m watching. It’s still great value.
Amazon Prime Just Got A Price Increase In Australia press-start.com.au/news/2026

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Even if you don’t use some of its other features.
Amazon keeps emailing me about how their music and podcasts are part of my Amazon Prime subscription and words honestly can’t express how uninterested I am in those features.
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Which phrase should be banned from screenplays?
17%“Let’s go home.”
39%“We need to talk.”
33%“In English?!”
11%Other
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While transhumanists are a thing IRL, the aesthetic of the group in VisionQuest E4 is so similar to the one in Agents of SHIELD S3E18 that it’s hard to believe they aren’t the same or at least aren’t connected. #AgentsofSHIELD #VisionQuest #MCU
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So this charm on Tommy’s female friend’s mobile is a clue, right? At first I thought it was the Hala Star which could mean either a Kree (they had their own AI after all) or a Skrull (they’re super fans of Captain Marvel who has the star on her uniform) but it does look more like the star on the Nova Corps uniform. A Nova project has been rumoured for a while now. Undercover Nova Corps agent? đŸ€”
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So this charm on Tommy’s female friend’s mobile is a clue, right? At first I thought it was the Hala Star which could mean either a Kree (they had their own AI after all) or a Skrull (they’re super fans of Captain Marvel who has the star on her uniform) but it does look more like the star on the Nova Corps uniform. A Nova project has been rumoured for a while now. Undercover Nova Corps agent? đŸ€”
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Or maybe Quasar? đŸ€” The female Quasar, Phyla-Vell, also went by Captain Marvel in the comics (like Monica who was introduced in WandaVision). That young girl character in Guardians 3 was loosely based on her but they did make a point to change her name slightly to Phylla. It also wouldn’t be the first time that a single comics character has inspired multiple MCU ones.
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đŸ‡«đŸ‡· Je suis en larmes
 voici les rares photos de la mairie de Limoges, vue de l’intĂ©rieur. 143 ans d’histoire et de beautĂ©, ravagĂ©s en une nuit. Elle avait survĂ©cu Ă  deux guerres mondiales. InaugurĂ©e le 14 juillet 1883 grĂące au legs d’Alfred Fournier, pensĂ©e par l’architecte Charles-Alfred Leclerc (Grand Prix de Rome), elle Ă©tait le chĂąteau de la RĂ©publique des Limougeauds : style nĂ©o-Renaissance inspirĂ© de l’ancien HĂŽtel de Ville de Paris, escalier d’honneur aux marbres roses, toiles marouflĂ©es d’Henri-Paul Motte sur le palier (l’union du Limousin Ă  la France et l’atelier de LĂ©onard Limosin), plafond du Salon Bleu, salle des mariages peinte avec son « Ubi Fides Ubi Amor »  Tout cela, les ors, les boiseries, les allĂ©gories de l’orfĂšvrerie et de l’émaillerie, le campanile de 43 mĂštres, parti en fumĂ©e. La partie historique est quasi entiĂšrement dĂ©truite Ă  l’intĂ©rieur. La toiture s’est effondrĂ©e, le beffroi est tombĂ©. Il ne reste qu’une coquille vide lĂ  oĂč des gĂ©nĂ©rations se sont mariĂ©es, ont fait enregistrer leurs enfants, ont siĂ©gĂ© pour dĂ©cider de l’avenir de la ville. Un monument historique depuis 1975, symbole de la maison commune, brĂ»lĂ© volontairement en quelques heures. Les Limougeauds sont sous le choc, en colĂšre et en deuil. La RĂ©publique tient encore, disent certains, mais le cƓur patrimonial de la ville a Ă©tĂ© arrachĂ©. On parle dĂ©jĂ  de reconstruction, mais rien ne remplacera ces dĂ©cors, ces souvenirs, cette lumiĂšre particuliĂšre qui filtrait dans ces salles.
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I demand Paris glass for the next gen iPhone screens
와 파멬 ëŁšìŽëč„톔 ìœ ëŠŹ 두êșŒìšŽê±° 뎐띌
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