Crikey • 9th November 2023 Sam Bankman-Fried, a puffed-up messiah who took the gullible down with him Crypto: it's all fun and games until it hurts real people. Which it does.
Crikey • 2nd November 2023 Donald Trump: a uniquely American buffoon On the spectacle of the Donald being told to sit down and shut up.
The Guardian • 27th October 2023 The music site Bandcamp is beloved and unique. I shudder at its corporate takeover Why culture is too important to entrust to the invisible hand.
The Guardian • 16th October 2023 Why is it now so hard to get my ADHD medication? ADHD part two, med shortage boogaloo.
Popular Science • 29th August 2023 Why our brains think fake hands are part of our bodies A piece for Popular Science about the body transfer illusion. Want to feel like you have three arms? Step this way, kids!
The Monthly • 30th June 2023 Chai standards In which I drive out to Werribee in search of decent chai, and get all the feels about India. मेरा भारत महान
The Baffler • 24th May 2023 Rippling Trumpism A looooot of words on conservatism in Australia vs conservatism in the USA, ScoMo's idiosyncratic approach to PR, how to draw a dick on a ballot paper, and much, much more.
Renew • 1st July 2022 Wishing on a bottled star I take it upon myself to write about nuclear fusion, because physics is fascinating! (PDF)
The Guardian • 25th March 2020 The Australian welfare system has always been needlessly cruel. Now it’s punishing half the country As if Coronavirus wasn''t bad enough...
The Guardian • 9th July 2019 Tuning out the static: It took 40 years before I found out that I have ADHD On being diagnosed with ADHD at 40. It's been a surprisingly positive development!
The Guardian • 5th March 2019 Science never quite clicked for me at school. Then I discovered science YouTube My latest obsession (or one of them, anyway): science YouTube!
Pitchfork • 15th January 2019 Çaykh: V I S C 0 9 Album Review | Pitchfork A review of a really fascinating mixtape for Pitchfork.
The Baffler • 14th January 2019 Americans Have More Guns A parody of a ridiculous New York Times op-ed about Australia.
The Guardian • 12th December 2018 Cat Condo is the stupidest, most cynical game... So why can’t I stop playing? For the love of god why can I not stop playing this goddamn game
The Guardian • 22nd November 2018 The Block: an Australian obsession, and for some, a life-changing disaster This week brought the news that “an alarming number” of former residents of Melbourne’s Gatwick Hotel are now in jail. It’s not like no one could see this coming.
Quartz • 14th August 2018 Our casual use of military jargon is normalizing the militarization of society Looking into a subject that has long fascinated me — the way in which military jargon has pervaded common vocabulary.
Double J • 14th August 2018 Elliott Smith - The J Files An in-depth examination of Elliott Smith's music and the way that it connects to the many different places he called home.
Rolling Stone • 2nd August 2016 Why the Most Important Olympic Basketball Team Wasn't the Dream Team Basketball has changed, and the Golden State Warriors are the latest step in a slow, decades-long evolution of the game. To understand it, you have to go back some 25 years, to the 1992 Olympics.
Flavorwire • 7th March 2016 Not With a Bang: What If the Apocalypse Already Happened, and No One Noticed? When it comes to pop-cultural conceptions of the end of the world, there’s almost always some sort of definitive event that sets the eschatological boulder rolling. But what if there wasn't?
Flavorwire • 22nd December 2015 2015 in Culture: Pounded in the Butt by Late Capitalism I wrote several of these annual "Year in Culture" essays in my time at Flavorwire. This is my favourite, for ... obvious reasons.
