An investigation of poultry significance: the hospitality of 70-72 King Street

What did the ghouls of King Street want from me?

PlaceAriana HaghighiJune 4, 2023chicken shop, restaurant, hospitality

I worked at the SCP Foundation

The SCP Foundation is perhaps the largest and longest running community writing project of all time.

CultureEdward GayJune 4, 2023science fiction, horror, online communities

APRA Bails In Dollarmites School Banking Program After Fortnite Update Induced Run

APRA has committed $16 million dollars to ensure the safety of the deposits of over 800,000 school children.

ComedyMargaret PearsonJune 4, 2023APRA, Fortnite, Dollarmites, banking, economics

Finding new moves

I am fascinated by a specific benefit AIs have for literature which, unlike in chess, is not harnessed enough.

LiteratureAngus McGregorJune 4, 2023chess, AI, artificial intelligence, Literature

Have you seen my other Doc?

Somewhere, somehow, and for some strange reason, my beloved boot was wife-swapped, sole-swapped, or otherwise stolen.

FashionGenevieve RipardJune 4, 2023shoes, missing, doc martens

Nabokov and his butterflies

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. – Vladimir Nabokov

CultureAlexandra HornerJune 3, 2023Vladimir Nabokov, butterflies, Literature, nature

My Sims family has gained sentience and I fear they’re plotting against me

Who hasn’t blocked off the exits when there’s a fire? Or built a single room, one by one square metre walls on each side, with no light or nourishment? It was only a game.

ComedyHarry GayJune 3, 2023sims, gaming, home, life, asshole, family, friends, pool, construction, STEM, homepage featured

My mouth is an open wound

The SCP Foundation is perhaps the largest and longest running community writing project of all time.

ComedyHarry GayJune 3, 2023mouth, dental, tooth, ulcer, tongue, enamel, plaque, flash photography

The Bum Gun Manifesto

Water are you waiting for? Buy a bidet!

CultureMihir SardanaJune 3, 2023bidet, South Asian, toilet, bathroom, religion, history, Middle East, India

Food against itself

In classifying itself as an abstraction, haute cuisine blurs the lines between art and food without fully adhering to either.

How Libra hits the (odd) spot

These little facts, printed in blue type on shiny liner backs, wing tabs, or pad wrappers, stare up at you as you sit on the toilet, blood clots dripping into the water below.

CultureNicola BrayanJune 3, 2023Libra, menstruation, health, Odd Spots, blood, pads

On the origin of Bertie Beetle

To this day, the Bertie Beetle is by far the most iconic and well-known goodie at the Easter Show and it dazzles children at agricultural shows across Australia.

CultureImogen SabeyJune 3, 2023Bertie Beetle, Easter Show, nostalgia, chocolate, showbag, Peters

REVIEW: SUDS’ Double O’Bill: The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Soprano - A murder mystery and a middle-class satire walk into a Cellar

Brilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics