Dealing with AI slop in the workplace sucks in part because it puts you in the position of basically having to ask someone to their face if they're lying: "this is unreadable nonsense, did you actually write it?"

This is really great—it is easy to become unmoored without a clear sense of what you stand for.

I love Sydney, I hate Sydney, beautiful city, trash city, Sydney is wasted on Sydney

being late to stuff is fine, actually

Five years with this beautiful man, who I have loved from the moment I met him. I'm very lucky.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

just because Jimmy Kimmel is back doesn't mean you should go back to giving money to the mouse. it's so important — and don't forget, easy — to learn how to steal from huge media conglomerates.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

in Adelaide for the week, what's cool here

My brother just called me for advice on what to do for an Elden Ring-themed cake for my nephew's birthday... these are the moments I think I was born to be an uncle

These women made me gay (complimentary)

Very hard to know from someone's posts if they're a total fuckin weirdo irl, always a pleasant surprise when someone turns out to be cool/normal

Reading a bunch of affect theory stuff, so much of it is near-unreadable nonsense that I thought it was just the nature of the thing, then you find people who write about it with such fantastic clarity that it's a reminder lots of theory writing is just bad

One of the most dystopian things about AI to me is that while anti-AI people online (and to be clear, I am anti-AI) are screaming at the craziest excesses of AI tech bros, low-key LLM use has become near-ubiquitous in most offices that I'm aware of in a very short space of time

But also (still on about this) I think all the time about a paper I saw Catherine Dodds give a few years ago about how so much HIV stigma research is bad because it is too implicated in the industry of the HIV response, and we can't lose the value of academic critique from "outsiders".

Had a weird convo recently with a junior scholar about how a specific area of public health discourse was being produced—I couldn't figure out why we weren't understanding each other then I realised that, as a researcher, he didn't consider himself part of the same apparatus as me, a "practitioner".

Sometimes I think it's crazy that I never pursued an academic career but whenever I get anywhere near academia I remember that I am temperamentally unsuited, I seem to have an uncontrollable knee-jerk reaction against academic authority. I wish I did not but maybe it's for the best.

I'll be sad not to be at this event! For better and for worse, editing Farrago in my early 20s had a bigger influence on the trajectory of my life than almost anything I've done

Being attracted to men is the worst thing about being gay

Been a bit behind on my tax returns and doing them has been a confronting reminder that even though I am almost 40 I was struggling to pay rent up until about 5 years ago 🙃 Poverty! It's no fun, 10/10 would recommend against

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

A shit day in a shit week in a shit month in a frankly shit couple of years so I have made one my comfort meals and I'm feeling a bit better

Stories about how Terry Pratchett was, by all accounts, an absolute legend, always make me cry. Few artists have had as big an impact on how I see the world.

For someone who consistently gets effusive compliments about my dick, I cannot take a good photo of it to save myself

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

I honestly do not understand why the liberal mind draws the line at starvation and not massacre.

I say this with all sincerity, Alex Ryvchin is one of the most malevolently evil dead-eyed monsters we are cursed to share air with

as a man who is sexually attracted to men this pains me but it is true

being sexually attracted to men is straight and being sexually attracted to women is gay, regardless of your gender

NSW Police is putting out the story that this powerful event came perilously close to disaster. NSW Police were the ones who made the mid-event decision to block the northern end of the Bridge, instead of having a plan to funnel protestors safely off it and to train stations on the north shore. 1/

I’ve seen estimate of 100,000-300,000 people in today’s march. A sobering thought: these are also the conservative (100k) realistic (300k) estimates of people israel massacred in Gaza.

It’s hard to capture in a pic the size/energy of the crowd ready to march over the Syd Harbour Bridge but the station announcer at Wynyard:“don’t worry about tapping off, Transport NSW will work it out, gates are open, you’re heading for George St to the park, keep going, let’s free Palestine” 💕💕

Sydney March for Humanity Sunday August 3rd Sydney Harbour Bridge

Massive crowd in Sydney, amazing turnout Free Palestine 🇵🇸

For a long time now I've been thinking about the idea of 'premature antifascism' www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

reminder that genocide is wrong and standing with the people committing a genocide is an objective moral wrong. It does not fucking matter whether genocidal solidarity is done for political expediency or self-serving careerism or genuine ideological conviction. It is always wrong.

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

If you're wondering why queers hate Buttigieg, this is one of many reasons why. Buttigieg isn't progress for queer liberation; he represents the entrenching of zero-sum politics, in which the most privileged gays are given a "pass" for being gay as long as they continue the cycle of oppression.

Hahahahaha I love Fallen London so much, it is insane, what is happening

best thing I've read on the itch situation yet. remind me to mull over these thoughts again in the future harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/t...

Doing one final re-read of the readings before reading group starts in an hour and fuck, Delany, fuckin genius. Effortlessly moves between iconic picaresque scenes and paragraphs of the most profound but low-key reflections on queerness.

The key thing to remember about being “asset-rich/ income-poor” is that (and I can’t stress this enough) you are still rich.

A value I hold more and more strongly as I get older is that people who organise things for others to do, or places for them to gather, whether for strangers or just their friends, are the glue that holds society together.

Come to Queer Reading Group Sydney tomorrow! It's the last time we ever get to have it at the Bearded Tit. Also if you've never been before, the whole idea is that you can do the readings on the way there—you could smash them in about 15 minutes if need be. 6.30pm at the Bearded Tit in Redfern :)

Come to Queer Reading Group Sydney tomorrow! It's the last time we ever get to have it at the Bearded Tit. Also if you've never been before, the whole idea is that you can do the readings on the way there—you could smash them in about 15 minutes if need be. 6.30pm at the Bearded Tit in Redfern :)

I fuckin hate exercising but I've been managing to go to the gym regularly for the past couple of years, then recently found out my workouts may have been making my fatigue worse, which is extremely demoralising. Need to completely rethink what I'm doing.

Totally forgot that moving to Tidal means I can listen to all my favourites that have been boycotting Spotify for ages (i.e. non-stop Joni Mitchell)

found my capo and my pathfinder dice, dw