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Okay. I'm going back to the optometrist. Pray for me. Actually, maybe pray for the Specsavers staff. I feel a Karen incident coming on.

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If you give Dale scritchies at the base of his tail and under his chin at the same time, he takes a screenshot.

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Heartsib @heartsib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, the optometrist was a bust (I have to go back this afternoon!) but at least the MRI tech saw a lot of current inflammation on my ankle.

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Matalas' proposal to get Raffi and Seven back together in a hypothetical spin-off being one step shy of DADT is reason enough to keep him away from Trek. No, I don't want to see the queer couple forced to keep their relationship secret for the sake of their careers, you tone-deaf twit.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it all plays perfectly into the underlying message of the entire season: What if we were different writers who didn't have to make Star Trek episodes.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Back at Specsavers to pick up my replacement new glasses, and this time they are EVEN WORSE

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Anika points out that this season has been full of duplicates, illusory/dream selves and split screens, and surely it means SOMETHING. But what? We are genuinely unsure, and also not certain we want to rewatch to figure it out.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting ready to query so I converted my MS into an ePub for a final read - I hoped this would help disengage Editor Brain. It must have worked because I found myself thinking, "Gee, this is bloody good, who wrote it?"

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My ankle was FINALLY strong enough to let me take a walk at lunch, so I popped around to the Le Creuset store. The Star Trek collection is unbelievably ugly IRL, I'm glad I didn't have the money to impulse purchase anything.

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I am never NOT thinking about this

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Watching Our Friends in the North, and, like, where’s Australia’s sprawling drama about the failures of the Labor Party?

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I love Jason Ritter, but between Matlock and Lanterns I need him to get a role where he’s not pathetic.

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Guess who has a PERFECTLY HEALTHY COLON and also gastritis, can't forget the gastritis, now to wait for my GP to get the full report

A stylised illustration of a stomach surrounded by flowers. The colours are all pastels. The text, inside the stomach in a 1960s hippie font, says, HOT GIRLS HAVE STOMACH ISSUES.

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What does Paramount+ have over Helen Mirren that she keeps appearing in their streaming series?

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My contribution to today’s discourse is that I heard “Choosin’ Texas” in a shop once but it left no impression.

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Sometimes I order something online and the warehouse is in my region so it arrives the next day. And then there’s the times I order something, only to find it’s coming from Perth…

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I gotta apologise to the team, I thought this was terrible CGI and in fact it was terrible practical make-up.

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Huge mistake to read a fantasy novel full of loving descriptions of food when I’m on a clear liquid diet, but Bodies of Magic by @freyamarske.bsky.social was brilliant, I cannot wait to reread it.

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Escapist Routes is up! This week I watched Lanterns, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Last Seen and season 1 of The Leftovers! And between you and me, I am maybe getting a bit tired of Angry Male Protagonists With Guns.

Escapist Routes #77

always get the fancy bone broth

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. I slept through it on account of being a baby. This is the only time I have been to a drive-in.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When a small child talks during Coyote vs Acme, it’s fine. They’re a child in a children’s movie. They’ll learn. When boomers have a whole conversation, however…

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TERRIBLE NEWS the Budget Off Tenth Doctor knock-off has a new partner! Where is Temu Scully? My number one insurance ad OTP!

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As foreshadowed: the season finale ALSO has this plot, but it finally works because it's Uhura herself forcing her to confront her issues (which boil down to worrying that she's not getting an A in being a well-rounded adult - relatable). It gets around the passivity problem.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t care about iced coffee at job interviews OR that list of best TV shows. Searching for the discourse that will wake me up.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now I'm safely home and can do the alt text, I can share the absolute shocker of the official PTV app recommending we go home from the Museum via the Skybus (privately run, expensive) rather than the trains (running just fine, thank you).

A screencap from the PTV app showing that our suggested route home involved taking a tram, and then taking the SkyBus from the city to Avalon Airport to Werribee RSL, then working seven minutes to our actual destination, the train station.

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Not about the SNW finale: I think it's very funny when people accuse the big Star Trek news sites of only giving positive reviews to retain access to screeners, because I have not had a good thing to say about SNW since episode 8 of season 2, and Paramount doesn't care.

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Four days of wearing an ankle brace inside my sneaker and I snapped and ordered a pair of Birkenstock clogs.

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BETTER IDEA: prestige streaming series. Millie Bobby Brown plays Carrie Fisher. Season 3 covers that time George Lucas made Marcia postpone their divorce until Return of the Jedi was released.

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What's interesting about this is that most of the people who love AI Google are substantially older and many are past retirement age. But who knows if that reflects the answers or the editor's preference.

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know I joke about being the whitest person alive, but lunch today was really taking the piss.

My lunch today: ham and sweet mustard pickle on white bread, a cup of melon, a bar of white chocolate and a can of sparkling lychee and coconut water.

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nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists

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My GP called (!) after 5 (!!) to say my X-ray results finally came, and showed nothing abnormal, so she sent those through along with a referral for an MRI. Genuinely impressed; I have always liked this clinic, but now I'm like, I can never leave Werribee because my doctors are so good.

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Woke up and IMMEDIATELY went to BlueSky to see if Sarah Jeong (who does not know me and does not need to) is still trapped in Iceland by British Airways

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Me: I'm gonna clear up some clutter by selling clothes I don't wear anymore on Vinted Vinted: We also sell secondhand books Me: I'm gonna replace my unworn clothes with books!

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Seasonal depression but it's because all the stores are bringing out their summer clothes and everything is brown or beige

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Prepping for a medical procedure on Monday that will have me on a clear liquid diet on Sunday. So I spent a fortune on bone broth, flavoured mineral water, apple juice and sports drinks. Way more than I'd normally drink, but ... I don't actually like broth.

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Two men who regard their own voters with contempt

Screenshot of Albanese’s obsequious selfie photo of he and Trump

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Three separate GPs have now agreed that my ankle is a medical mystery, and I appreciate that they're taking me seriously, but imagine if we had scan results to indicate next steps, eg, physio or specialist?

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Watching The Bold and the Beautiful at the doctor’s and SNW really did soaps dirty. Like, there is A Style here, but it’s much more subtle and interesting than the parody.

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