Kristin Carao
@mikaelakristin.bsky.social
Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Absolutely thrilled to be a guest columnist in today’s @guardian and to delve into the high-stakes world of the pub quiz 👇
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Pub quiz cheating may not be a matter of life and death - but it can feel that way | Janice Hallett
Weeks before the Manchester cheating story broke, I published a murder mystery novel with almost the same plot. It’s no coincidence
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November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Absolutely thrilled to be a guest columnist in today’s @guardian and to delve into the high-stakes world of the pub quiz 👇
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The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
Calls for new Darwin hospital as NT recovers from TC Fina
The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The Northern Territory's largest hospital is "literally creaking at the seams" after Tropical Cyclone Fina, prompting NT Health to call for more federal funding.
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The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
Trial of man accused of murdering 23yo international student begins in Darwin
The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The week-long murder trial of Brendan Kantilla, charged over the death of Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman in 2023, has begun in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
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Just found this and I love it: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Just found this and I love it: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Important to note, despite police being more likely to engage with brown & black people, those they stop were LESS likely to be found with prohibited items such as drugs or weapons, than white people.
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‘These rates are astonishing’: Victoria Police’s profiling problem laid bare in new report
Victoria Police says its officers are trained to respond to a person’s behaviour, not their background. The numbers tell a different story.
www.theage.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Important to note, despite police being more likely to engage with brown & black people, those they stop were LESS likely to be found with prohibited items such as drugs or weapons, than white people.
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Wonderful news for Indian-Australian filmmaking partnerships.
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
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Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
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Australia and India formalise new screen partnerships, including major theatrical pathway for Australian films - IF Magazine
An Australian delegation fronted by Rachel Griffiths and Lion director Garth Davis is attending the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) this week, where several agreements between the countrie...
if.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Wonderful news for Indian-Australian filmmaking partnerships.
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
if.com.au/australia-an...
Here's hoping that the West Aussie film industry gets its head in the game and builds on this partnership going forward. A bustling Indian film industry in WA would be a great, great thing.
if.com.au/australia-an...
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I was a big fan of Deborah Esquenazi's San Antonio Four documentary nearly ten years ago. So happy to see her return with NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, which I enjoyed just about as much. Another 'true crime' doc that reveals the horrors inflicted against queer suspects. redocumented.ghost.io/night-in-wes...
Night in West Texas (dir. Deborah S. Esquenazi)
This is not a review of The Yogurt Shop Murders, the four-part documentary series about an infamous Texas murder where people were sent to prison based on false confessions. It’s not a review of that,...
redocumented.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I was a big fan of Deborah Esquenazi's San Antonio Four documentary nearly ten years ago. So happy to see her return with NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, which I enjoyed just about as much. Another 'true crime' doc that reveals the horrors inflicted against queer suspects. redocumented.ghost.io/night-in-wes...
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Scarlett Johansson makes the transition from acting to directing with her directorial debut: Eleanor the Great.
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
‘Forgiveness is moving’: Scarlett Johansson on her directorial debut Eleanor the Great
If Auguste Rodin’s Thinker is the classical embodiment of concentration, then Scarlett Johansson answering a question might be its contemporary counterpart. In a small room of a Cannes hotel, she arri...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Scarlett Johansson makes the transition from acting to directing with her directorial debut: Eleanor the Great.
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
@andyhazel.bsky.social interviewed the Oscar nominee after the films premiere at Cannes earlier this year.
Read the conversation via the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/eleanor-the-...
Morning guys, another day and another rejection for a job application that I worked so hard on. 😭 I don't know what to do anymore other than keep on applying I guess?
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Morning guys, another day and another rejection for a job application that I worked so hard on. 😭 I don't know what to do anymore other than keep on applying I guess?
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Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in Ronan Day-Lewis' tonally clumsy Anemone.
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
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Ronan Day-Lewis' cinematic composition isn't enough to save the tonally clumsy Anemone
There’s no doubting Ronan Day-Lewis has an eye for cinematic composition. His debut film Anemone starring his father Daniel Day-Lewis, with Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Sean Bottomley looks strikin...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in Ronan Day-Lewis' tonally clumsy Anemone.
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews for the Curb here:
www.thecurb.com.au/anemone-revi...
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"I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to someone who I suspected was lying to me with each and every response. I also don’t know if I’ve interviewed anyone I so desperately wanted to hear the truth from."
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to someone who I suspected was lying to me with each and every response. I also don’t know if I’ve interviewed anyone I so desperately wanted to hear the truth from."
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New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
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For something different this week ten books and one anti-book that have shelf my reading tastes www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Ten Books A Reading Journey — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! This has been on my to do list for quite a few weeks. Earlier this year reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury did a blog on the ten fantasy books that took them on their reading journey. I wondered ...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For something different this week ten books and one anti-book that have shelf my reading tastes www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
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Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’
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“Based on Joan Lindsay’s popular novel, the haunting film follows a group of young Australian boarding schoolgirls who vanish without a trace during a Valentine’s Day picnic at Hanging Rock in 1900.”
Get into it!
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Get into it!
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Special Event: 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' 50th Anniversary - ABC Adelaide
The classic Australian movie ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ turns 50 this year and to celebrate ABC Radio Adelaide listeners are invited to an exclusive special event screening of the SA-shot film.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Based on Joan Lindsay’s popular novel, the haunting film follows a group of young Australian boarding schoolgirls who vanish without a trace during a Valentine’s Day picnic at Hanging Rock in 1900.”
Get into it!
www.abc.net.au/adelaide/spe...
Get into it!
www.abc.net.au/adelaide/spe...
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To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.
Also went to Warrandyte Theater Company's annual comedy sketch show, The Complete & Utter Follies at the Mechanics Institute, Warrandyte. Entertaining, some off the wall comedy. Performances were great.
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Also went to Warrandyte Theater Company's annual comedy sketch show, The Complete & Utter Follies at the Mechanics Institute, Warrandyte. Entertaining, some off the wall comedy. Performances were great.
Today's lunch: Salmon Royale (salmon, poached eggs, potato rosti) and meringue waffles from Cocoa Moon Cafè, Warrandyte.
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Today's lunch: Salmon Royale (salmon, poached eggs, potato rosti) and meringue waffles from Cocoa Moon Cafè, Warrandyte.
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Introducing the Manderley Press subscription - the ultimate gift for readers who love rediscovered literary gems, distinctive titles and beautifully made books. A carefully curated collection elegant reprints brought back to life especially for the 21st-century reader.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Introducing the Manderley Press subscription - the ultimate gift for readers who love rediscovered literary gems, distinctive titles and beautifully made books. A carefully curated collection elegant reprints brought back to life especially for the 21st-century reader.
manderleypress.com
#booksky
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#booksky
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Launching this tomorrow, but some of the books are free to download already! Go grab em <3
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Free ebooks and short stories by Filipino authors (November 22 to 24, 2025) - #romanceclass
Welcome to the RomanceClass Kilig for Free page! These books are free to download for a limited time. Some sites automatically run the giveaways based on different time zones, so if you see that the b...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Launching this tomorrow, but some of the books are free to download already! Go grab em <3
romanceclassbooks.com/free/
romanceclassbooks.com/free/
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.