Want to make a submission into the inquiry on the "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was released yesterday? You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW) That is quite disgraceful www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

The definition of insanity is doing #portfolioday and expecting a different result. Anyway I draw all kinda stuff and need more work. Give me a job, give me a commission, let's party.

Because, but their definition of “tyranny,” it isn’t tyrannical. Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion should be one of those everyone-must-read books. To some ppl, freedom = freedom FROM oppression. For others (like MAGA), freedom = freedom TO oppress. There’s nothing hypocritical here.

"What of the old world, its things and its ways? To the litterbox with it all is perhaps too sweeping a claim. But everything needs a dusting and sorting. The future is not what is thrown away or kept from the past but what can be sublated. The novum...

I just filled this out and boy do I have strong opinions about how much I do not need "AI" on my Discord experience.

You might need this.

New Year’s Eve.

The news didn't tell you what happened in the world in 2025. fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme...

bringing this energy into 2026

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

"...many practitioners would have been indistinguishable from anyone else, for folk magic was in the home and hearth, it was the coins protecting the threshold and the sign of the cross over the proving bread. It was the way in which meaning could be given to a world of uncertainty."

If you like the MURDERBOT series (or fantasy by Martha Wells) you can own them all digitally plus donate to charity. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... #goodbooks #murderbot @marthawells.com

Frustrating. I am getting zero reach on my soap FB page because apparently Meta wants everyone to pay for reach. ($87 a month for Business Plus!) In other news, if you're in Australia, today is probably the last day I can guarantee delivery for Xmas. veronicafoaleessentials.com.au

The latest edition of my newsletter includes must-reads, organizing resources, year-end reflections, and a writing exercise for anyone trying to stay whole and take action in 2026.

Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark! | First Dog on the Moon

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site

The second #art poster inspired by the works of Walter Crane, "Labour is Entitled" (2024) is another three cat portrait commission. The slogan itself was first used in the early 19th century. It features three workers in industries vital to cats: fishing, biscuit making, and catnip production.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I'm taking some time to work on tasks and requests that have needed some attention. One of these is getting some new shirts in the shop. The first batch are now up. Also, after a long hiatus, Canadian customers can order shirts again from the shop.

Google search is broken. Social algorithms suppress links. Finding good independent writing online has never been harder. We built something to fix that: 🌍 ghost.org/changelog/gh...

I wrote a thread about LLMs (but pretended it was about something else).

“Google Gemini was by far the worst. It would make up an authoritative-sounding summary with completely fake and wrong references — much more than the other chatbots. It also used a satire source as a news source.” pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a... This company doesn’t get nearly enough blame imo

I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥

Youth Crime. Now that's definitely increasing. There's even been machete bans in Australia to try and curb this wild trend. What does the data say? Youth crime in developed nations has plummeted since the 1990s. Well I never. tinyurl.com/27w7g2l2

1. Great, let's do this 2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators 3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Writing Hookland. #Writing #Hookland.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Seven lawsuits allege OpenAI encouraged suicide and harmful delusions. The suits represent four people who died by suicide and three more who experienced psychological trauma following interactions with ChatGPT.

Good morning beautiful people! If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne, PARA is looking for furniture donations for Palestinian refugees. If you don’t have any furniture to donate, they have options to purchase items for the families directly. See below, poke me if you have questions.

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

"Become that something that doesn’t love a wall. Give it a name. A history. Tell us in verse why it hates walls so desperately. Why we all should." from “Poetry Prompts for Detained Children” by Joaquín Zihuatanejo

www.theguardian.com/environment/... It's ON. Vote for your bird, every day from today...

For anyone else out there who thinks in grids and continuums, this is a visual from ep. 3 of my asynchronous course, “MEETING THE MOMENT: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse,” and it’s a good peek into what the rest of the class/workshop is about. More: guante.info/meetingthemoment

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

For both creative writers looking to engage more deeply with political/social issues, AND organizers looking to explore creative writing as a tool in their toolbox: An asynchronous course - and there's no application, no requirements, no taking out a loan to pay for it: guante.info/meetingthemoment

Join us next Thursday with some of the nation’s leading thinkers as they share a big idea for a better Australia. @juliannes.bsky.social @thomasmayo.bsky.social @richarddenniss.bsky.social @alicektg.bsky.social Free webinar, RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

The end isn’t the part that matters most.

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, @australiainstitute.org.au published "What’s the Big Idea?"— leading thinkers on creating meaningful change. I'm giving away my chapter here 👇 because I want ideas to reach people who can use them (but pls buy the book)! #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/store

It’s been 1 year since a little orange fluffball climbed my leg in the parking lot at work. Since then Dandy has grown to be a part of Spike’s and my family. She’s also gained a bunch of aunts and uncles here and I hope has brought some joy into the world. Happy Gotcha Day Dandy!

strong contender for best thread ever

...just adding one more link to my pinned post: If people know me at all, it's usually via one random performance they happened to see here or there, but a ton of my work is accessible online; here's a page pointing to some highlights, plus a playlist of almost 50 (!) videos:

Been working on this behind-the-scenes project for a long time: guante.info/resources My site has always been a place to share resources that I use in my ed/facilitation work; here are 3 new "resource hubs:" on spoken word, counter-narrative masculinity, and plugging into activism/organizing.