Jane O'Sullivan
@sightlined.bsky.social
Writer / Art writing, cultural criticism & fiction in Art Guide, Vault, Apollo, Sydney Review of Books, Island, Adroit Journal, Flash Frog & Okay Donkey / Secret 🪡 habit janeosullivan.com.au
Stages of recovering from a cold: 1) washing favourite sweater 2) watering plants 3) watering self 4) fresh sheets 5) return to jeans/hard pants
I have never wanted to read anything less than Artforum's take on Fred again...
Watching another journal promoting their next issue without having sent submittable declines to writers in the queue
Cillian Murphy's Intense Stare
ALT: Cillian Murphy's Intense Stare
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The millennial belief that buying a new pillow will fix everything
Me in ArtsHub on destructive scanning for AI training. We probably need to avoid fetishising books, and warehouses full of Max Walker memoirs and WordPerfect For Dummies aren't the Library of Alexandria. But even for non-rare books, destroying them *purely to maintain legal cover* is just perverse.
AI companies are destroying old and rare books: who can stop them?
AI companies are now bulk buying and destroying old books – this is a very bad idea.
artshub.com.au
White says the issue raises “an interesting tension”. “If it’s a $20 book of which there’s … 500,000 copies in Australia, I wouldn’t cry,” he says ... “If it’s a book that has that storytelling element to it, or it’s a one-off, it’s horrific.”
Stephanie Convery@gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 4d agoNever not taking up an opportunity to write about rare books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Investing in my writing practice $ books $ submission fees $$ courses $$$ data recovery because we forgot to back up
Downplay a book or movie: "Self confidence & Sensible boundaries"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: "The Sound and the Slight Irritation"
I asked the lady in the optometrist if she sold many meta glasses and apparently it's mainly older people - they can take calls without having to find their phone
SPOILERS (lol it's only ~2,700 years old but hey just in case) Lots of people die in the Odyssey. Here's how Odysseus' crew declines over time, and how they all died 📊 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Next up in things my kid has taught me: Australian scientists from the CSIRO invented the word petrichor
The smell of rain: how our scientists invented a new word
Have you ever noticed that fresh smell of earth in the air just before it starts to rain? Well, there's a word for it - petrichor.
csiro.au
not loving that ai is now considered “an integrated part of workflow” in the new submittable ceo announcement
woke up to a dead laptop, now at the shop waiting to see if I've lost 40k words of edits, or if they can recover my data, send thoughts and prayers
YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people! Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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🎶 I got plans, they're multiplying And I'm losing control 🎶
For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Pride & Prejudice Commentary by Trung
docs.google.com
accidentally dropped a scrunched up bit of paper on the floor and got hit with a sudden wave of grief for my dead cat iykyk
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〰️ recent work 'Total Lunar Eclipse' in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Total Lunar Eclipse by Jane O’Sullivan
After our results came back, we took a spliff down to the beach to wait for the blood moon, but it was cloudy so all that happened was a hellish glow and some ratcheting paranoia. I was already in …
flash-frog.com
a dopamine deficient day but at least there were stripey clouds
Today's new word: acrophobia, the irrational fear of heights
MEAA stands with Nine Publishing members affected by today’s announcement that 30 editorial roles will be cut across The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAToday. Read more: meaa.io/4frrhXV
Culture changes so fast. Language is always morphing. Constant innovations. And yet I just heard my kid say "made you look you dirty chook"
