The Australien Government and the Opposition have made an ad about electoral reforms, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative (and they're hoping you don't hear about it) #auspol

Events and arts management folks, can you recommend a small local ticketing app or site that can handle multiple one-off events, and allow a discount for booking more than one? The ones I know are optimised for seasons - multiple sessions of the same event - and can’t do this.

I would just like to know why every large scale tabletop RPG I am interested seems to have a Kickstarter right now, and indeed several of them have launched one on the exact same day.

Happy Veilguard Day to all who celebrate!

A radio show or podcast I will likely never have the resources to make: “Weirdo Reverse” (working title). Every episode I interview a musician about the experience of being parodied by “Weird Al”, before inviting them to cover one of his songs.

Anecdotal but in the absence of any PH data that's the best we've got atm: "Covid is everywhere at the moment in Melbourne" Just a reminder Victorian Department of Health has given us *checks notes*, yep, no Covid update since 18 October. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

Here’s something great: a Māori roleplaying game from Māori-led @4phaseG! Tipua #TTRPG looks cool as, and they’re getting close to their crowdfunding goal with only a couple of days left to go. Check it out! kickstarter.com/projects/4phas…

Just 9 hours and about $500 NZD to go to crowdfund indie roleplaying game Tipua! #TTRPG Help Māori-led @4phaseG team bring to life this fantasy game inspired by traditional principles and lore. This is the kind of project crowdfunding was made for. kickstarter.com/projects/4phas…

I’m running my Melbourne International Comedy Festival 101 registration & marketing workshop again this sunday! This one will be longer so we have time for break-outs & will also include specific info about rego in time for the Nov 20 deadline feel free to share with anyone who might find it useful!

“Go befriend your bullies, small town gay.” Absolutely atrocious.

The Grand Trunk Semaphore only takes the best! We had to race for the job against Nicholas J. Johnson and Lawrence Leung in BackSpindle Games’ CLACKS, based on #TerryPratchett’s Going Postal. #Pratchat82 out now! #Discworld #boardgames pratchatpodcast.com/2024/12/08/pra…

If you’re not playing #realbirdfakebird from Studio Folly (Gubbins & RBFB) (of #Gubbins fame), get on it! Delightful little daily quizzes submitted by enthusiasts. realbirdfakebird.com

Captain Cook: "All they seem'd to want was for us to be gone." Botany Bay, 30 April 1770

Pleasantly surprised to find my very own live #DnD / #RPG impro show #DungeonCrawl mentioned in Em Friedman’s Polygon article about the pre-podcast era of live #actualplay! Lots of other interesting things mentioned too. polygon.com/actual-play/51…

Early Harvest is a professionally published fiction anthology written and edited by primary students. It was the first thing I worked on at 100 Story Building! It’s not running this year for the first time since 2011. We need your help to bring it back: chuffed.org/project/save-e…

I see CHOICE have tested various brands of #sunscreen and found some of them wanting in the #SPF department. They last did this back in 2016, and I wrote a little explainer then which might still be useful: medium.com/@benmckenzie/a…

The Patrician is missing! Can Liz, Ben or guest Richard McKenzie seize control of the city? Or will it fall into…er…more chaos? We complete our collection of #Discworld #boardgames with Martin Wallace’s 2011 game, Discworld: Ankh-Morpork. #Pratchat87 pratchatpodcast.com/2025/07/08/pra…

GNU #TomLehrer, probably the greatest musical comedian of all time. His songs are, incredibly, still funny and mostly unproblematic 60 years on, and in the public domain as of 2020. Hard to pick a favourite, but since I was exposed to COVID last week… youtu.be/R6qFG0uop9k