A further 8 hours of feature building on the Hive Report Record

In seven days, the electricity companies will collude to bring down the usage rates of power. They see this as an absolute win for consumers. The rhetoric is excellent news for all involved. Usage costs

Media exists not in isolation, but a primordial soup of influence. We can devour the same text, listen to the same tune, but the chain link fence of causality bars us from the past as it is unrolled, upright

Environment is like a vase. Histeris and entropy will come for it. Not only for the Earth and all the beauty we observe here, but for the local star, our sun,, the galaxy, and whatever we can observe of

Fractured realities. Lost identities. Handsome show business figures. A man who doesn't exist. Confusion. What would it be like to wake up and have nobody know who you are? To have your entire history

Blue light unsettles. It is something phone manufacturers try to reduce so that when you're doom scrolling a feed of insignificant things, searching for meaning and connection, it is one of the eleven

If you've followed me for years, I am so sorry for all the words you've read, and even more sorry for the words that you may ignore. For a long time, an insurmountable task has confounded me. The only

This is a novel that took me far too long to get through. Three months. A slow, meandering burn through the start of one season and the end of another. Summer to winter, and through the cycle it continued,

Soulhackers 2 sits on my entertainment console. The disc was purchased second hand from somewhere, and spins quietly in the PlayStation 5. For the last few days, I've had my first exposure to the Persona

Uneven terrain rumbled the chasis of the automated truck. Once, a diesel electric powertrain. Now the sounds hydraualics only. The sound of screeching, eager to be replaced brakes replaced by whirring

Our housesitting, parkrunning adventure

Major chords sound happy. Minor chords sound sad. Power metal tends to be filled with major chords, driving riffs, a bass drum that sounds like a horse galloping joyfully, and a room full of similing faces,

@consciouscat and @new.things know how to Hive. At the risk of writing a burdensome, lengthy rambling post about human connection, I will try, defiantly, against my natural instinct to remain succinct.

Lacuna Coil, a band from Milan, Italy, made the trek across the planet to arrive at Adelaide's dearly loved live music venue, The Governor Hindmarsh hotel, known simply to locals as The Gov. Supported

I started my new job November 10. I've not met a person there that I don't like. The work itself is easy, but very demanding mentally. I have been getting up at between 4:30AM and 5:20AM since November

Titles are interesting things that can tell much, or perhaps very little of a story. In City of Illusions, Ursula K LeGuin tells the tale of an Earth under the dominion of an alien race known as The Shing.

She is a siren in a bottle. A liquid, syrup with layers of flavour, touches of fruit, the vessel of grape, and the chilled bottle conducts the heat from my hand. I am surrounded by open-ness, yet this

In October, when I reviewed The Last Dinner Party's sophomore effort, From the Pyre, I was looking forward to the 13th of January. Between those dates, Australia's been through a bit. A heatwave, the worst

Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story of two races under the threat of a multitude

Since my father's funeral, I've owned an Ursula K LeGuin collection. Until recently, I learned it was not the collection I've wanted to read. That book was The Earthsea Quartet, and the one I just concluded

When I purchased Breachway, it looked like everything that I wanted from a Slay The Spire - like game. Replayability, a new setting, science-fiction, space battles, and perhaps a little bit more depth,