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.

deeply deeply useless prime minister

can someone tell me if everything is better or worse than i think it is because i feel like i’m going insane

I made an archive of articles on our political crises. Special sections for Epstein and AI! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/weathering...

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle." On who's really in charge: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis.

Just catching up on this interview...ooft. If you were inventing a character like this it would not be believable. www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...

Markets are treating the war in Iran, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, like they treat climate change: not totally ignoring it, but not acknowledging the full scale of the crisis, either newrepublic.com/article/2082...

Should not be surprised the movie that basically treats revolutionary politics like cosplay and fetishizes, waters down and turns Black womens contributions to dual power politics into a farce would win Best Picture over a movie about the importance of marginalized art, yet I’m still disappointed.

MERRY (sort of) CHRISTMAS TO MEEEEE

tiktok keeps showing me wavy hair care routines and i’m really just not doing all that

every time someone in the office asks what music i want fall out boy inevitably comes up and the immediate response is “BANGEERRR”

do NOT make me buy a new phone

every day i wake up shocked and horrified to realise it’s still only january

i really don’t know how many more hair washes i’ve got left in me

fandom is one of the dumbest things to be bad at and yet, here i am,

omg animal crossing is BACK! (i’m fighting with people in r/animalcrossing again)

i fear i do not vibe with the new animal crossing update much at all

i am simply not being paid enough to be opening slack and salesforce at 7pm

guess who’s going to be extra useless at work tomorrow because i stayed up late playing the animal crossing update

it is so sinister and unnatural to have to get up before 7am

every january is a struggle to do anything but this january is next level

Very bizarre statement from the Greens, which confirms how frozen/neutered they have been this term. The Royal Commission will be in part used to go after them!

Kate Stewart getting turned into sand:

ok really actually properly truly for real need to start using this app more

sunrise on the reaping spoilers as told by the simpsons no context

“what’s the world war 1 battle with all the rain?”

2012 me 🤝 2025 me not enjoying the hunger games movies at all

lotta people on twitter talk about not using bsky because it’s some variation of “too nice and boring” but actually more pressingly idk how to tailor my timeline to be as anti-generative AI as possible

bluesky i promise to use you more if you save me from having to see anymore discourse around sabrina carpenter

tbh i think “at least do something cool in the death rattle” is a great encapsulation of what being alive in this post-breads & circuses world feels like

Israel has massacred another 120 in just the past 24 hours. Most while trying to access aid. Utterly barbaric. This is what genocide looks like.

Uh-huh. If they continue pursuing this shit I’m yoinking my donation.

Even after today’s increase, award wages are still lower in real terms than they were when Scott Morrison was Prime Minister. This means ordinary people remain worse off whilst the rich continue to make record-breaking profits from the labour of the working class.

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

fucking hell is twitter down AGAIN

Very odd to me the ABC has an entire podcast devoted to foreign affairs, hosted by two of its most prominent staff, that has not done a single episode on Gaza this year. Only reference was on the most recent episode, in the context of Trump visiting Saudi Arabia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

twitter DMs down so time to bluesky again

This is pretty much all we get from the media, a constant message of how extreme we are for wanting Australia to stop breaching international law and actually sanction Israel which is carrying out daily massacres and starving kids to death. None of our many other policies are mentioned.

I do not believe any conservative would say this as anything other than political calculation sensing changing winds, but that they're saying it at all is quite a shift. Free Palestine

"Hauntings are good because they evoke grief, and grief’s twin, love. Hauntings require memory and a sense of place. Hauntings require you stay human." The way Sarah describes and talks about grief (and love) in her work always speaks to me and the importance of grief right now.

Avoid using emoji as bullet points in social media posts. An emoji has a coded description that gets read by screen readers, and thus could confuse users who think that's part of the content. If you can't use standard lists, use dashes for bullet points or add line breaks.

I suggest folks start putting "anti-AI statements" in their publications and talks. For example, state that you didn't use AI for any aspect of your work and that you didn't cite any studies that used AI. This shows worker solidarity and makes visible the collective action against AI.