Mel Campbell
@incrediblemelk.bsky.social
Film/TV critic, copyeditor, author and shadow academic on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country
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I’m looking for work! If you need someone who can: produce news in written, video and audio format, thoughtfully review film/TV/theatre, produce radio & podcasts, write a great think piece, research in detail, or host/present on camera/in person, hire me! silvireports.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’m looking for work! If you need someone who can: produce news in written, video and audio format, thoughtfully review film/TV/theatre, produce radio & podcasts, write a great think piece, research in detail, or host/present on camera/in person, hire me! silvireports.com
I love how literal an author bio can be: you can trace a life through the sequence
"Greg is an author from Perth, now based in Melbourne"
"Greg lives in Melbourne with his cat Bruce"
"Greg lives in Trentham with his husband & their small daughter"
"Fran grew up in regional Victoria with her dads"
"Greg is an author from Perth, now based in Melbourne"
"Greg lives in Melbourne with his cat Bruce"
"Greg lives in Trentham with his husband & their small daughter"
"Fran grew up in regional Victoria with her dads"
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I love how literal an author bio can be: you can trace a life through the sequence
"Greg is an author from Perth, now based in Melbourne"
"Greg lives in Melbourne with his cat Bruce"
"Greg lives in Trentham with his husband & their small daughter"
"Fran grew up in regional Victoria with her dads"
"Greg is an author from Perth, now based in Melbourne"
"Greg lives in Melbourne with his cat Bruce"
"Greg lives in Trentham with his husband & their small daughter"
"Fran grew up in regional Victoria with her dads"
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"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
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🎶 O come all ye faithful 🎶
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🎶 O come all ye faithful 🎶
Wooooo, got in at Officeworks at the last minute to get a new mouse after mine decided to cark it today!
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Wooooo, got in at Officeworks at the last minute to get a new mouse after mine decided to cark it today!
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RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
Quite apart from anything else, I was tickled that they have such Gen X and millennial names as Bevan and Jordan
Bevan Shields steps down as Sydney Morning Herald editor, chief reporter Jordan Baker named as replacement
Bevan Shields steps down as Sydney Morning Herald editor, chief reporter Jordan Baker named as replacement
Shields told SMH staff in an email that working in the role had been the honour of his life
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The editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Bevan Shields, has resigned after four years and will be replaced in the role at Nine’s Sydney masthead by Jordan Baker, the chief reporter.
Shields told staff in an email the job had been the “honour of my life” and he now wanted to focus on his health and wellbeing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Quite apart from anything else, I was tickled that they have such Gen X and millennial names as Bevan and Jordan
FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS the cops have 'Designated' Melbourne's CBD & all nearby parkland a 'Zone' where you have to let them search you, empty your bags & pockets, & remove "headwear, jackets, scarves" 🤔 🇵🇸 & any "face covering" that protects you from injurious "crowd-controlling substances" ACAB
Public notice: Melbourne CBD - Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026
A public notice for Melbourne CBD and surrounds from Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026.
www.police.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS the cops have 'Designated' Melbourne's CBD & all nearby parkland a 'Zone' where you have to let them search you, empty your bags & pockets, & remove "headwear, jackets, scarves" 🤔 🇵🇸 & any "face covering" that protects you from injurious "crowd-controlling substances" ACAB
Wong can get tf down off that high horse, considering that as Foreign Minister, she refuses to sanction lsraeI for its genocide of PaIestinians – a failure of moral leadership (as well as international legal obligation) that has only emboldened racists like Hanson and Babet
Penny Wong spks of a 7yr old girl who after Pauline Hanson’s racist stunt, asked her mum “do all Christians hate Muslims?”
Ralph Babet interjects “I do!”
Not just a racist, an openly hateful one too. Our parliament is a clown show of filth.
Wong “And we see it again” Yup #Senate
Ralph Babet interjects “I do!”
Not just a racist, an openly hateful one too. Our parliament is a clown show of filth.
Wong “And we see it again” Yup #Senate
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Wong can get tf down off that high horse, considering that as Foreign Minister, she refuses to sanction lsraeI for its genocide of PaIestinians – a failure of moral leadership (as well as international legal obligation) that has only emboldened racists like Hanson and Babet
I'd love to have a dilute ginger cat! Like an apricot-coloured cat, or peaches and cream
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I'd love to have a dilute ginger cat! Like an apricot-coloured cat, or peaches and cream
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Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
That's more than 11 violations every single day.
The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
I bought some ‘keto meal replacement’ powder from Cheaper Buy Miles (for $8; costs $25 at Woolworths) and just decided to try some. My god! I was expecting a shake like other protein powders I have tried, but this is like a pudding. They need to warn people about the viscous texture
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I bought some ‘keto meal replacement’ powder from Cheaper Buy Miles (for $8; costs $25 at Woolworths) and just decided to try some. My god! I was expecting a shake like other protein powders I have tried, but this is like a pudding. They need to warn people about the viscous texture
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I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
“the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million”
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million”
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millions of belles dames a year are avec merci, yet the media focuses on the one or two who are sans merci
January 4, 2024 at 3:57 PM
millions of belles dames a year are avec merci, yet the media focuses on the one or two who are sans merci
Yesterday I was listening to the 2007 Yeasayer song ‘2080’ & realised I’d been singing a mondegreen all this time
Real lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 sons and be blood when they marry my daughters”
My lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 cents in your bag in American dollars”
Real lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 sons and be blood when they marry my daughters”
My lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 cents in your bag in American dollars”
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yesterday I was listening to the 2007 Yeasayer song ‘2080’ & realised I’d been singing a mondegreen all this time
Real lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 sons and be blood when they marry my daughters”
My lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 cents in your bag in American dollars”
Real lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 sons and be blood when they marry my daughters”
My lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 cents in your bag in American dollars”
Saw that my favourite Finnish rye crackers are back at Cheaper Buy Miles and said excitedly aloud, “OH MY GHODDD” only to look up and see a young man looking at me like 🗿
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Saw that my favourite Finnish rye crackers are back at Cheaper Buy Miles and said excitedly aloud, “OH MY GHODDD” only to look up and see a young man looking at me like 🗿
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
"Deliver us from evil"
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Deliver us from evil"
It always annoys me when fictional character names feel gimmicky, seemingly chosen to sound cool or pretty like a pet's name, for heavy-handed thematic meaning, or to make an in-joke over the character's head, rather than revealing the character's own family, history or culture
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It always annoys me when fictional character names feel gimmicky, seemingly chosen to sound cool or pretty like a pet's name, for heavy-handed thematic meaning, or to make an in-joke over the character's head, rather than revealing the character's own family, history or culture
Gmail constantly pushes its AI on me by making the word "Polish" hover near the text as I'm writing an email
this never fails to confuse me as for a split second I always think it's offering to translate the email into Polish
this never fails to confuse me as for a split second I always think it's offering to translate the email into Polish
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Gmail constantly pushes its AI on me by making the word "Polish" hover near the text as I'm writing an email
this never fails to confuse me as for a split second I always think it's offering to translate the email into Polish
this never fails to confuse me as for a split second I always think it's offering to translate the email into Polish
Macquarie University used to have a cool webpage on 'ethnocultural' AU accents with embedded audio clips of speakers from different cultural backgrounds, but they've taken the page down now & the archived version doesn't preserve the audio
I don't want to fall into a research rabbit hole on this, but the AU 'ethnocultural' accent is def influencing younger AU speakers the same way MLE is; in the '70s–'90s it was called the 'wog' accent but now it incorporates SW Asian, African, Māori & Pasifika influences
And I like it too!
And I like it too!
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Macquarie University used to have a cool webpage on 'ethnocultural' AU accents with embedded audio clips of speakers from different cultural backgrounds, but they've taken the page down now & the archived version doesn't preserve the audio