Someone I know, who I will not name despite very much wanting to, waxes lyrical about the dangers of AI in writing, and worries deeply about students using it, only to illustrate articles and produce videos with very *very* obviously GenAI art. Unbearable stuff happening.

I asked the man on the left for a photo of his jumper. I did not ask the man on the right but here he is anyway.

Spotted post march

Finding the slow breakdown of Starmer’s government quite amusing. Please no return to the lettuce though. It was funny at the time, then became an infuriating symbol of online liberalism paraded by people more keen to criticise Lady Jane Truss than the then and also now prime minister Keir Starmer.

Saw Deborah Lipstadt giving a talk at the watershed in 2019, in which she compared Jeremy Corbyn with Trump. I was 18 and trying to get my head around international politics at the time, and bought her book, which I thankfully never read.

open.substack.com/pub/daisyste... meep meep new post alert

"The interview is a cynical PR exercise giving voice to a man who has spent his media career taking up air time - a kindness not extended to the multiple women accusing him of sexual violence.” From @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social's new Substack 👇

For anyone interested in the anti-trans movement in the UK, here's a thread of all my investigative work on the topic. 🧵 Starting with Bayswater Part 1: How the Tories let abusive anti-trans parents dictate education policy www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

🔴New substack alert! In which I mine my friend for content and try to write like an AI. substack.com/@daisysteinh...

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social you’ve made it into Suzanne Moore’s latest column on Russell Brand

🚨NEW SUBSTACK ALERT. I wrote about the cultural politics of the recent Piers Morgan Russell Brand interview. Please consider subscribing if you’d like to support my work. This first post is free; future posts will be paywalled. Please share! substack.com/@daisysteinh...

🚨NEW SUBSTACK ALERT. I wrote about the cultural politics of the recent Piers Morgan Russell Brand interview. Please consider subscribing if you’d like to support my work. This first post is free; future posts will be paywalled. Please share! substack.com/@daisysteinh...

It’s weird seeing your face on election leaflets, but I’m really proud to be standing as a candidate in the area I grew up, where for the first time in decades a party other than Labour has a real chance of winning.

Given the total decimation of The Creative Industries, I am duty bound at this point to put on my marketing hat and say: if you enjoy my writing, why not recommend it to a friend?

In the run up to @cineredis.bsky.social’s 10th edition, I thought it was as good a time as any to revisit this piece I wrote in 2024 about Illustrious Corpses (1976) and The Years of Lead. letterboxd.com/cineredis/st...

Very excited to attend this year’s @cineredis.bsky.social! I’ve been commissioned to write about the incredible and also absolutely devastating Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977), so keep an eye out for that in the coming months. Possibly Diane Keaton’s best performance.

ICYMI and are interested in horny messaging 🙃

🔴New blog post! I wrote about the weird and wonderful branding on old photography packaging I've found when digitising family photos. Also touches on my deep hatred of AI. 4 minute read! medium.com/@daisywrites...

Euphoria worked well as a high school drama. Whatever this is is not working well lol

Doing a final ICYMI on this piece before I lay it to rest. It’s a really interesting little microcosm that much of the criticism missed the subtleties of.

Out leafletting in Lambeth for the Myatts Fields @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social candidates.

Finding SNL UK deeply unfunny. Just really embarrassing stuff

Wonderful things happening on LinkedIn. If anyone wants to actually read my article, here it is: medium.com/@daisywrites...

“Just as Weimar and Nazi films pandered to white-collar workers who refused to confront a new economic reality, evangelical films pander to a rural class that clings to an outmoded notion of small-town affluence—and thereby to a bygone socio-economic order.” www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

I am aware I’m falling for ragebait here, but nonetheless, this is just insane. Instead of examining the art-commerce dialectic, Marche opts for a cynical false equivalence based on his own disinterest in engaging with art. Not surprised he’s so keen on AI with that attitude.

ICYMI

🚨NEW: I wrote about Heel (2025) and everyday British fascism. Please give it a read :) medium.com/@daisywrites...

🚨NEW: I wrote about Heel (2025) and everyday British fascism. Please give it a read :) medium.com/@daisywrites...

Activists occupied NHS England’s HQ yesterday in protest of restrictions on gender affirming care, and the media coverage from what I can see is exactly zero.

Industry is my favourite new horror series. Just absolutely bone-chilling stuff. I’ve met these people! They are awful irl too!

It Was Just An Accident (2025)

I’m standing as a Green Party council candidate for the May local elections in the ward in Lambeth where I’ve grown up and lived most of my life. Labour has taken our communities for granted and racked up over £1 billion in council debt. It’s time for a change.

It’s a beautiful day for anti-vaxxers to find creative and novel ways to be normal about the meningitis vaccines.

Today I saw If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, shortly followed by a bin on fire.

Vladimir is clunky but fun. Sort of captures the motivating force of obsessive sexual fantasy and the sublimation of desire to The Written Word, sort of just drags along for at least two more episodes than it should. Rachel Weisz is on top form as horny academia milf tho.

Letterboxd reviews of Vladimir acting like Phoebe Waller-Bridge invented breaking the fourth wall

for @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social who I know is a fan of nominative determinism

Had a very @markbould.bsky.social coded women in sci fi round at tonight’s pub quiz!

Hiring a private security company to evacuate my dog from Dubai

Every so often I’m reminded of how insane it is that this is how significant geopolitical events are communicated by the US president.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Every generation is told this time the threat is uniquely urgent, diplomacy has uniquely failed. And every time, it's civilians who pay the price while the imperialists who launched the strikes call it liberation. It should go without saying that you do not liberate people by bombing their schools.

Sirāt (2025)

I’m so glad Jane Schoenbrun is getting to make films. Especially films with Gillian Anderson in.

Absolutely extraordinary things happening in the AI world.

Watched Possession for the first time last night and stayed up late reading this really good analysis of it. www.vaultofculture.com/vault/onscre...

Made the mistake of spending a considerable portion of my day on Twitter. There’s someone making Epstein’s bran muffin recipe and another who’s made a Ghislaine Maxwell compilation video soundtracked by Charli XCX. Normal reactions to horrific abuse on an emotionally deadening platform.

Btw the author of this “journalism” is in fact not Neil Gaiman, just one of the many men on the left who are normal about women 👍🏻

In the midst of the Epstein media storm, formerly silent alleged serial rapist and fantasy author Neil Gaiman is making non-apologies for his non-behaviour on Instagram. Bets are on as to how long it’ll take him to join Russell Brand on the Christian right because nobody else will have him.

Really good article about Mubi’s evolution and the public backlash following its investment deal with Sequoia Capital. www.vulture.com/article/mubi...