This. Stop eroding every other civil liberty we have in response to lone-wolf terrorist acts. How about investigating the security orgs that already have too much power and DIDN’T prevent this. #auspol

For a lot of these billionaires, publicly acting like a cruel piece of shit is just another way for them to signal wealth status.

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My 2025 Book Sales Barnes & Noble: 1 Kobo: 1 Apple: 7 Amazon (Jan-June): 7 Direct (Oct-Dec): 4 Itch (May-Dec): 380 Indie authors, these stats are why I recommend Itch bundles 😉. Also, these are almost entirely sales resulting from social media posts. I had maybe 2 sales via newsletter.

There is no time or place for arming cops with more powerful weapons... especially on NYE. In the past 12 months, 22 people have died in police custody or police operations. Minns calling this "safety" is bullshit. More weapons mean more escalation, not protection. #nswpol #auspol

as promised: I'm back and I have Opinions fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

Please don’t give civilians guns. Please don’t selectively give paramilitary groups guns either

$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed Another one of my charts of the year

Here’s to 2026

This is probably one of the best photos I have ever taken! Some finches on our window feeder! #bird #birds #birder #birding

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746

Christmas 2025 Spooky Part 1/?

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

scribe who writes 'men are hot', scratches it out, writes 'women are hot', scratches it out and writes 'men are hot', scratches it out and writes 'women are hot' again etc., call that bisexual erasure

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

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Just a reminder that I block anyone who uses generative AI. Nothing personal. You're just an ass.

The way I see, it's simple: if you criminalise peaceful protest, you don't discourage the anger behind it, you just discourage peaceful action. This incentivises more radical forms of protest, and that leads nowhere good.

the birds in victoria are AGGRESSIVELY tame sometimes

new blog up: in which I am angry about gen AI fozmeadows.substack.com/p/generative...

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Here’s an idea: we build a society where people aren’t rich and can’t buy private islands and have private planes

It honestly reprehensible, @sfwa.org , to even tacitly allow works with any kind of LLM to be placed on the ballot. Disclosure does not solve the issue, and the issue matters. LLM are plagiarism machines. We cannot, and should not, give any ground here at all.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No. Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality. Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.

I’m all for making Jewish Australians safer. It is their fundamental right to be safe and free from attacks. But what I am NOT for is allowing a radical, right-wing Zionist wish-list become policy in Australia because their voices (and donations) are the biggest.

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The kids public primary school is 35ºC inside for the final assembly. Meanwhile the Federal Government has been pouring literally millions and millions into private school up the road so they can build a second music room. But not an extra cent for us.

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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

I won't pretend The Economist has been worth reading for decades, but it at least used to have dignity. No more, apparently.

The only thing I want to hear from the Australian gun lobby is grovelling contrition. Otherwise they would do well to shut the fuck up and let the rest of us mourn.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

I agree that we're likely setting ourselves up for a very long process of asbestos-like remediation efforts around "incredibly stupidly and carelessly implemented LLM tools that were rolled out after 2022"

2026, the year of Linux on the Desktop.

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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

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Did you know there’s an accessibility setting to toggle on that reminds you to add Alt Text before posting an image? Toggling this option on has made adding alt text to my images second nature after many years of using it. Turn yours on and start making your posts more accessible and inclusive!

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot - connection to your subconscious - therapeutic or confessional as need be - patterns of meaning - self-determined takeaways - no need to google facts afterwards

They have historic dominance over their Opposition and they still behave like they have a .2% margin. They are so contemptibly governed by cowardice.

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.