"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

We should do a temperance movement for gambling, I’m not remotely kidding

Happy Superb Owl Sunday to all who celebrate.

Loot that I drop when you defeat me: - water bottle - a handful of pens - emergency snacks for a toddler - whatever historical fiction I am currently reading - encyclopaedic memory of Taylor Swift lyrics - five million half finished lip balms

A local moms’ group challenged everyone to use ChatGPT to create images of themselves at their jobs, and all the responses are on the environmental impacts of AI as well as the insidious surveillance impacts. Not what I expected here in Missouri, but yes.

Having to spend a week's wages every time you leave the house has altered my internal monologue somewhat

Girl math is when you study math, learn programming, get hired to work on a NASA contract, add some defensive code because you think through the whole thing, and then your code corrects an issue when the computer gets overloaded and saves the Apollo 11 landing.

Drove an hour with the toddler to pick up a free, much higher quality mattress for her. Then had to drive the hour home with her screaming because she didn't understand why I wouldn't let her lie down on the mattress for the ride home and insisted she be buckled into her seat 🙃

We are home safe from our roadtrip and I have never been more glad that my toddler has childcare tomorrow 🙃

Still baffles me that when I had a major mental health crash, & the ONLY change was taking antibiotics & I immediately improved once I stopped taking antibiotics & found plenty of anecdotal evidence online of people experiencing similar things, my GP still wasn't convinced it was the antibiotics 🙃

And it’s amazing to me how many adults think “I have changed my mind” and “I have done harm to you, is there something I can do to repair the harm I’ve caused?” Are the same thing.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Update: in a rural Australian country town experiencing a heatwave. It's so so hot. 41 degrees Celsius, going to get up to 46 degrees. I am so unwell from the heat I have been throwing up everything I eat. Just focusing on fluids.

You cannot detain or arrest a baby, you can only kidnap her. These people need to wear a scarlet letter, need to ring a bell to loudly declare their moral bankruptcy. Everyone must be allowed to avoid them until they have made amends.

A 5 year old is practically a baby. He probably can't communicate completely clearly. He very well may need to wear pull-ups at night, he may still be taking naps, he probably needs help getting dressed, and might not be independent in the bathroom yet. It's child abuse, plain and simple

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Holiday is going well, but with usual level of toddler chaos. Sitting by myself in the holiday park laundry room while our clothes wash and my husband puts baby girl down for a nap feels like the most relaxing moment I have had so far 😄

Not a restaurant but a cafe - called Black Sheep - in inner city Brisbane where a group of friends and I met regularly on Thursday mornings to write, co-work or study together. Those people ended up becoming some of my best friends (and my sister in law, and my husband) +

It was a long bedtime but we survived. Now to explore all the playgrounds in this Australian country town (all two of them)

2016 was a weird year for me, and feels like longer than ten years ago. But here's what I looked like back then:

Husband, toddler and I drove six hours from Sydney to rural Australia to visit a friend who is pastoring an extremely small church in an extremely small town. Very different vibes to our usual rhythm of life, bur a positive one I hope! My husband is preaching for our friend this weekend and next +

2016 was a weird year for me, and feels like longer than ten years ago. But here's what I looked like back then:

"I don’t have to carry anyone– they are racing each other across uneven pavement (still just as prone to falling down and screaming bloody murder, though). It isn’t the cold exercise sending a surge of warmth to my heart." New post from @amycolleen.bsky.social today: www.the-pom.com/p/i-promise-...

Today I am packing for our 12 day road trip we leave for tomorrow, and I am getting so overwhelmed by how many decisions I have to make.

I wrote about the magic of a child's third Christmas! searchingforgrace.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

I am at a co-working day hosted by a women's Theological college in my city and the vibes are truly excellent

We have survived the heatwave. The temperature dropped NINETEEN DEGREES overnight, which feels crazy. Yesterday had a top of 42 degrees Celsius and today is only a top of 23 degrees? The weather is crazy. Also hoping the drop means those battling bushfires in various places have an easier time.

Surviving the heat (juat) by hunkering down inside with fans etc, but predictably my toddler is absolutely feral and I am not coping at all

Look I know there is so much going on elsewhere, but if you have a moment to pray for me please do: it is going to get up to 40 degrees Celsius here in Sydney today and we don't have air con and I am just dreading such a long hot day. It's not even 9am yet, and it is 32 degrees Celsius.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

It is Too Hot but I am now on the air conditioned light rail with an iced latte and my toddler, on my way to the air conditioned Maritime Museum that is running summer holiday programs for kids. So just doing our best!

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil... —Isaiah 5:20

Toddler is at (air conditioned) childcare today, so I am working from my husband’s mostly empty, also air conditioned office today because 33 degrees is too many degrees

Bought halloumi to fry for wraps for lunch and it is powering me through my to do list this morning

Oh yeah, Australia decided to start the year with a heatwave BTW

Too hot to cook food, too hungry too not cook food 🙃

New piece is up! I explore what cleaning and editing have in common: searchingforgrace.substack.com/p/tidying-as...

Not sure who was more excited about the return to childcare this morning: my extroverted toddler or me, the introverted mother 😄

Used up the last of the gingerbread ingredients leftover from Christmas by making GingerCorns with my toddler 😄🦄

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

My cat put his whole tail in my coffee mug this morning. Seems like an omen.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Had an appointment on Friday (medical admin) and my doctor is right next to both a cafe and a bookstore (one of the reasons I love my neighbourhood) so my husband and toddler walked me down, we had a coffee and then browsed at the bookstore. It has a kid's corner with books and toys +

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Artists as the world crumbles around us

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

if you get on my timeline defending gAI you will be blocked. as an artist and someone who cares about our planet remaining livable, among other things, i can’t support its use in any capacity and i don’t care what your argument is to the contrary. the harm far outweighs any perceived benefit.

Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.

Set myself a Swiftie challenge of planning a Life of a Showgirl tour setlist including all LOAS songs and only songs from Lover onwards that Taylor didn't include in the main Eras Tour setlist. Open to feedback! Each chunk would be together as same Set design/costume/lighting I think.