People in the UK who care about the rights of creators to try to make a living from their work, here's a petition to parliament. Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data. Please sign and share widely. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI https://gizmodo.com/the-popes-ai-warning-could-help-workers-seek-religious-exemptions-from-using-ai-2000768283

I’ve decided Martha Wells is a genius. Having Murderbot interact with small children in the latest instalment? If they don’t put that in the tv show they are throwing away money, because Alexander Skarsgard holding a child while being protective and murdery? Yes.

#Queensland women, you'll need to fight. Your govt is discarding your rights and choices. Demand no public funds for this hospital until it provides contraception & full range of care. Extremist religious activists cannot be allowed to hijack public health to force girls & women to give birth.

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

This editor impersonation scam is extremely widespread at the moment writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

honestly, I should ask myself this questions more often

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I've been pulling at threads on Palantir's push into Australia for ages. Some of what I found is a previously undeclared new contract with Corrections Victoria for $9m and no evidence that Palantir has been assessed against the federal supplier code of conduct. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Makes me think of the Ursula Le Guin essay about Americans being afraid of dragons worlding808.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Did you know? In the Victorian era, Harriet Hosmer was not only a celebrated sculptor, but also part of a visible network of women in same-sex romantic relationships. After settling in Rome, she joined a circle of expatriate women, nicknamed the “White Marmorean Flock”. #Victorian #history

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Prince of Fortune made the 2026 ALA rainbow book list, which is lovely ☺️ (This news is very late, I kept forgetting to post this on here lol)

I’m so excited to find out this is in the works, I absolutely loved his last book 🎉🎉🎉

Did Bluesky ask anyone else (Australians, I assume?) to age verify recently and did it … just get stuck here????

"A business built on theft is not a business, it’s a scam." 💯👇

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin November 19, 2014

Good morning! Yes, this is he

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Post old memes to confuse young people

We make fun of elon but this is a clean win for him. Even after rebranding twitter as a goebbels computer with A.I. revenge porn journalists stayed on it frying their brains for retweets from jd vance and faulty sean spicer clones. Now they’re writing “Does AOC’s Brain Smell Different?”

Not thinking about these paintings for any reason today

books are the square jaw of the soul

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Alexandra has left off one very important book from her list. Bonus points for the audiobook having an Australian accent, which always gives things a little extra ⚡️⚡️⚡️

FANTASY ROMANCE Prince of Fortune: Heartwarming coming of age fantasy romance. Swordheart: Unlikely pairing of a middle-aged housekeeper & a snarky swordsman trapped in a blade. Spectred Isle: Gorgeous 1920s paranormal romance. Swordcrossed: Workaholic family man meets sword-wielding con-artist.

Victorians! Funding had been cut to our state’s writing centre, please sign the petition to try and get it back www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

After 40 years of publishing, Harlequin will end its iconic historical romance line in 2027: #Booksky

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Oh god. I’m either the food one or the children’s one aren’t I.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

I still get told that removing our music from spotify was like “leaving money on the table” and like lol, lmao

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

GROK IS GENERATING ABOUT ‘ONE NONCONSENSUAL SEXUALIZED IMAGE PER MINUTE www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Don’t forget to leave water out for animals and to blame fossil fuel companies. #heatwave #bushfires #Exxon #Shell #BP #SaudiAramco #Woodside #Santos

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

I hope 2026 is kind to us all