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Still so thrilled that I can talk about our book that’s coming out on August 19!

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But I'm a Cheerleader, the campy, silly antidote to the Bury Your Gays trope, was ahead of its time. We explore the legacy of this 25-year-old cult classic.

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Wrote about how fucked it is (on several levels) that breastfeeding is still promoted as a weight loss method www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/he...

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I wrote a thing. ❤️

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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This is a good thread - this is one of the things I most enjoy about the research phase of a story, bc you'll go looking for a piece of info and end up going down 30 different rabbit holes in the process and eventually surface w a ton of fascinating info you wouldn't have thought to seek out

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Good time to cancel your subscription.

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Friendly reminder to Australian book lovers of a brilliant way to buy online from indie booksellers - yourbookstore.io . You can see which stores near you have the book you want in stock, and they’ll post it or you can collect.

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It’s the final day to enter The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers! Submit for the chance to win $1000, a 20-hour mentorship with an award-winning YA author, and a professional development package. The Prize closes 11.59pm AEDT tonight, Saturday 15 February 2025. www.stephboweprize.com #LoveOzYA

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This looks fantastic! Can't wait

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The deadline for entries to The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers has been extended to 15 February 2025. Enter now for the chance to win $1000, a 20-hour mentorship with an award-winning YA author, and a professional development package worth $200! www.stephboweprize.com #LoveOzYA

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Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

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The deadline for entries to The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers has been extended to 15 February 2025. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200. www.stephboweprize.com #LoveOzYA

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🌟MY BOOK IS OUT, MY BOOK IS OUT🌟 Grinning like a loon here 😄 ALL SHALL MOURN is out in the world. This book that was orphaned by my publisher, then supported by readers so much that I released it myself...It's finally arrived 😊 Hope you dig it🖤 linktr.ee/allshallmour...

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I like rom-coms very much just as they are (with no sequels) www.smh.com.au/culture/movi...

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"... My core mission includes teaching students how to (actually) read and (actually) think about and discuss what they read; to (actually) analyze rhetoric and literature; to (actually) conduct (their own) research; and to express (their original) thoughts in writing."

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The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers is now open! Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now enter. The winner receives $1000 in prize money, a 20-hour mentorship with an award-winning #LoveOzYA author, and a professional development package worth $200. www.stephboweprize.com

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“I don’t think this is something the Australian government is interested in fixing...But the implications are that we will lose Australian culture in the process.” Thank you @sophtree.bsky.social & @beneltham.bsky.social for stating the bleeding obvious: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Some very clever people quoted in here about the ongoing consolidation and conglomeration of the Australian book industry, and what that means for local stories.

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Books to read for Invasion Day as recommended by Magabala Books. magabala.com.au/collections/... @austlit.bsky.social #alwayswasalwayswillbe

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Alice Grundy on the implications of the Text / PRH merger theconversation.com/the-acquisit...

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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This makes three Australian indies swallowed up by major houses in a year (by my count, anyway, I could well have forgotten one) which is... sure something.

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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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maybe some sort of... marketing??? by publishers????

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Putting feelers out for returning from maternity leave - if any editors who follow me are open to freelance pitches on culture, parenting - anything you’ve seen me talk about - lmk! 🙏🙏🙏

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I'm going to use this line when I'm struggling with my next book and my publisher is asking where it is. "Oh I'm sorry, it's had a rapid unscheduled disassembly."

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the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.

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About as succinct as it gets

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The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

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oops looks like the Aus edition of The Worst Perfect Moment came out last week and I forgot ... So anyway, I have a book out! It's about a dead girl stuck in a shitty motel, mini golf, cats, officious angels who knit, and a search for happiness. Maybe consider picking up a copy at your local:

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CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!

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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

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If you know any budding writers aged 18-25 with a YA novel in the works, show them this fabulous prize that also honours the so very talented and deeply missed Steph Bowe:

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Why are Beatrice Sparks’ alarmist books for young adults, which are novels presented as diaries, still described by publishers and booksellers as ‘real’ stories?

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We don’t talk enough about the skills loss that AI is causing, and even less about the skills that won’t be created because people will cling to technology for the most basic information processing tasks. I wonder who will be the experts needed when the experts never quite materialise.

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Big news for Autists and those who love them, SOMEONE LIKE ME, the anthology of non fiction by Autistic writers that I'm co-editing with @jocaseau.bsky.social for UQP, is now available for pre-orders! www.uqp.com.au/books/someon...

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hello I decided to be more annoying than usual www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

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Blown away to see The Worst Perfect Moment make the Kirkus Best Teen & YA Fiction of 2024 list

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