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A thread that sums up many of my concerns about AI.

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I'm not just being romantic, you literally cannot function as a whole human being without consuming and producing art. You will be extremely fucked up without it. That's why religious groups that ban art are so fucked in the head (you can guess how I know)

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

I love this 🧶 #knit

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

In other big crafting news today, the big four sewing pattern companies have been sold to a liquidator, citing tariffs and the closure of Joann as factors, as well as softening in the craft market generally. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

I don't normally click on substack links (b/c nazi platform) I don't normally read "I made chatGPT do something as an experiment" pieces (b/c ethical nightmare/boring). but I'm glad I read this one. This is gross technology, and says so much about the sqirmy, nasty, disingenous minds behind it.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

the Minns government is refusing to find $30 million pa to retain public system psychiatrists while announcing over $100 million for prisons - places that cause and exacerbate mental health conditions - in case you were wondering about NSW Labor priorities.

submitted 24 days ago • 30 comments

Researchers from two Aussie universities are conducting a survey of creative workers whose work or income has been impacted by AI. Original post on LinkedIn by @beneltham.bsky.social 👇 Contact [email protected] to take part 💚

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Museum folk, esp living museums: I'm seeking academically sound evaluation approaches for the effectiveness of activations interpreting female trades/skills in living museums. I haven't found much yet so any refs/experiences gratefully received!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Amazon Prime wiped the start of Ridley Scott's 2010 Robin Hood. The intro is now a shot of blank parchment. Before it had the words "In times of tyranny and injustice, when the law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history." www.youtube.com/shorts/h_ht3...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

the only people making the world confusing for teenage boys are adult men who are telling them that the world they inhabit is broken and has turned against them because people’s values have evolved in the ~30 years that they’ve ceased to be teenagers and they no longer feel in control

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

🚨Liberal Party-funded disinformation group “Advance” sent an email to tens of thousands of Australians sowing division over ANZAC Day just hours before Friday’s dawn service. Advance and Coalition running campaign together against Indigenous ceremony... theklaxon.com.au/x37s

submitted 60 days ago • 13 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 60 days ago • 72 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 62 days ago • 398 comments

National Library Week was in early April and Little Miss Crabby Pants was feeling some kind of way. My rant against "libraries are more than books!" over at the blog wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/happ... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

Everyone raised on the AP Style Guide is having a moment with this one, thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 108 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 86 days ago • 466 comments

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

submitted 91 days ago • 137 comments

I love librarians. "12 different professions in a trenchcoat" - oh, yes.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

The pages are completely blank. It's a perfect image for Peter Dutton's campaign. No notes. #auspol #election2025 #ausvotes

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

Seven of my books have been included

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

navsa.org/2025/03/18/c... Please spread the word about this lovely conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century University of St. Andrews 28-29 August 2025

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I don't need history to prove me right because I am fully capable of judging right from wrong now, in real time. Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. It is threatening people with ethnic cleansing by forced removal as the BEST case scenario or complete annihilation.

submitted 99 days ago • 15 comments

For the record, Joe Hockey is a defence lobbyist who stands to make millions from defence contracts with the US and other allies. To just describe him in interviews as a former US ambassador and not his CURRENT vested interest role is not just irresponsible, it's lying.

submitted 99 days ago • 89 comments

One of my next projects - a muslin cap from La Mode Illustrée, 1861, number 48. Stitching helps to keep me sane during these stressful times.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Dutton wants to cut 36,000 jobs from the public service. A Coalition govt wld then contract that work out to multinational corporations- NOT small contractors. They’ve done it b4. Morrison govt spent $20.8b in ONE year on contractors. This was 37% of the public service budget. DON’T trust Dutton

submitted 115 days ago • 16 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 117 days ago • 2059 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

submitted 139 days ago • 10 comments

MEDIA RELEASE: Australia must support Palestinian self-determination & facilitate long-term peacebuilding in the Middle East After Donald Trump declared the US will "take over" Gaza, Australia must act with urgency to uphold its values on the global stage & support the human rights of Palestinians.

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for a conference on "Textile Ecologies", intersections between textiles and the environment, and the past, present, and future of cloth, February 5-7, free online: full program and link to register: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip... #envhist #textiles #ecologies #envhum #sustainability

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

Watch this video, it's under 60 seconds. Summary - the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is there to support the Liberal Party. And one of their major donors? Yep. The lovely Gina. So whenever the IPA pops up, remember this. #auspol

submitted 156 days ago • 5 comments

As Conservatives try to blame inflation on pay rises for aged care workers instead of AUKUS and subsidies for fossil fuels it’s important to remember that the Right don’t hate pubic spending, they hate public spending on people they hate. When they want something done, they love government spending

submitted 162 days ago • 24 comments

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 182 days ago • 89 comments

My husband is doing some real street preaching over on Facebook today:

submitted 193 days ago • 8 comments

Any Aussies looking for a tree change? We're selling our beautiful place - The Wolery, in a 100 acre wood, in northern NSW. 3br home plus large shed and a/c office/studio, plenty of water. www.realestate.com.au/property-lif...

submitted 213 days ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use language accordingly. Don’t refer to ‘during the pandemic’ or ‘post-COVID’ or ‘since COVID’. We are still in the thick of it - wave after wave. People are still dying or becoming disabled from Long COVID

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