I don’t know where it is safe to say this but Taylor Swift’s music is my idea of hell on earth. I can’t believe there are adults I know who listen to it. I

Our entire society is a joke

Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this

i reckon you can tell when someone spends too much time with LLMs by the way they post. There's like an over-confident, staccato delivery style that comes from having a constant pep talk from a robot yes man.

Being horny is so embarrassing.

Starving people to death is the most obviously inhumane act a state could perpetrate. Yet our government does nothing. Israel’s supporters say nothing. Do they think people will not notice, or ignore it?

We are absolutely f**ked

Someone needs to take out these billionaires I’m not kidding

Australians are so funny man, they will pat themselves on the back for “rejecting Trumpian hate” at the election and then watch their PM unveil a highly Trumpian plan to ban, cancel, fire and criminalise people who oppose Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Israel is a fascist state committing genocide in broad daylight, and we're going to let their propagandists overhaul our education, media, and immigration policies just to ensure Australia keeps supporting that genocide.

Godddd

This is so fucking evil

If you use "A.I." to publish something it has to come with the professional death penalty. You cannot work in news ever again. Yes I know that's not how it actually goes – so many plagiarists are still thriving – but if it is up to me you are fucking done. Pack up your shit and hit the bricks.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

I hated the materialists

I for one I think it's cool and good that the largest engine of speculative wealth in America went all in on robots that lie to you to tell you what you want to hear just in time for people to be coming to terms with the tremendous social alienation and loss that was the pandemic.

I’ve got a long essay on AI slop and fascism and the rest in the new @meanjin.bsky.social Wrote it back in Jan but the core stupidity of this grifting industry has not changed. Check it out! meanjin.com.au/essays/%F0%9...

I’m off Instagram so I need this app to be more exciting

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza

I need Grian so bad

Kinda crazy that I have such a big Marvel movie star in my first short film

Watch my short film ya turkeys youtu.be/9Qre_c5IoVM

I hate Instagram so much rn im gonna start going turbo on bluesky.

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Journalists have been burned alive inside tents from bombs dropped by Israel. The footage of this is horrendous – and yet we are watching human beings live this every. single. day and our leaders and media do nothing.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

The resumption of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with the full backing of the US government, is an outrage. Israel’s ongoing assault will only deepen the devastation and suffering already inflicted on Gazans.

“I could not live with the level of violation I felt against my core values - that the artist’s voice must never be silenced.” Artist Lindy Lee’s statement after her resignation from the Creative Australia board, following the dumping of Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s artist at the Venice Biennale.

Opinion | "Creative Australia has hung Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry ... its actions reveal an institution ill-equipped to navigate the current political climate, let alone to defend the rights of artists against partisan attack," @beneltham.bsky.social and @catrionamp.bsky.social write.

I hope she’s okay

I’m actually pretty depressed about the abc and creative Aus stuff tbh

Just a week after announcing award-winning Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s pick for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has capitulated to media and political pressure and dumped him.

“An outrageous overreach that threatens the very foundation of independent arts funding.” National Association for the Visual Arts comes out swinging after Khaled Sabsabi was dumped as Australia’s artist for the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Wow, Daanyal Saeed has the scoop on the pre-planning behind that botched News Corp antisemitism sting on the Cairo. Someone has leaked the assignment brief 👀https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/news-corps-backfired-undercoverjew-operation/

#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated. #auspol

I don't think anyone is demanding that every person needs stacks of film, VHS, DVDs and Blurays but the fact is, owning physical media is the only way to guarantee access to what you wish to see in the future. We are seeing streaming getting yanked on a whim and it's only going to get worse.

Feels so shittttyyy to be a Lebanese creative in this country

AACTAs have quite a white male vibe this year.

ABC staff say the broadcaster's handling of the Antoinette Lattouf case "destroys any hope that the ABC intends to address the systemic racism identified by the Janke review of last year" www.meaa.org/mediaroom/ab...

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'So, you've dug yourself into a hole, and don't know how to get out. Well up next, our guest presenters from ABC senior management and their legal team will show you how you can - just keep digging!"

got news that a genocide is continuing. i'm gonna use this to score political points against a small group who didn't vote as enthusiastically as i wanted them to and made some posts i disliked.

If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level

The ABC is not a safe place for Lebanese people to work or engage with.

Sick of well made films with no vibe