Sue Young
@suetas.bsky.social
Editor, publisher, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth in southern lutruwita Tasmania a bit better.
I'm currently in the middle of PhD research that is showing unequivocally that this is not even close to a thing. Women are still massively underrepresented in the curriculum and almost every teacher I interviewed raised the manosphere's influence on male students as an explicit blocker.
Richard Chirgwin@rchirgwin.bsky.social · 8h agoCanavan really is a piece of work ... womensagenda.com.au/latest/femin...
With so many women choosing the bear, demand is through the roof.
Anton Strezhnev@astrezh.bsky.social · 2d agoDo they make the bears wear hard hats?
Meanwhile, Hobart council has been trying to promote cycling and people are just about losing their minds over it.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last wk.IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Just because big tech companies want to move at hyperspeed, doesn’t mean we need to fast track & roll out the red carpet for them. We need to consider very carefully the impact on workers, as well as the mega extraction of our intelligence, knowledge, culture, water and energy.
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
Yet another hit from Laura Tingle. You read through columns like this and you have to wonder why the rest of the press finds it so hard. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Israel's impunity has been virtually unaffected by collective concern
Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.
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#auspol powerful read here! It's all so familiar...
Supertanskiii@supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 2w agoI know what they’re like. I grew up with them. This is about poverty, class, boredom, radicalisation and the boys I used to know. I didn’t want to paywall an article about poverty, so this is free. If you can afford to subscribe, I’d appreciate it! supertanskiii.substack.com/p/the-men-wh...
What gets me about this em dash thing is that all well-read humans know AI did not invent the em dash, AI writing doesn't even use em dashes that often anymore, and yet the em dash zombie Will Not Die.
Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · 2w agoAI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
I'm getting the feeling that writers are now so scared of being accused of writing with AI that they won't use em (or en) dashes at all, and keep misusing semicolons instead. Meanwhile, the AI stuff I see on social media has moved on, with hardly a dash to be seen. #amediting
"—it reflects the corrosive effects of Sinophobia in Australia’s public discourse and the excessive securitisation of the Australia–China relationship." #auspol #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...
Chinese Australians a largely silent constituency in the AUKUS Debate
In this abridged submission to the public inquiry into AUKUS, Wanning Sun warns that the pact’s securitisation of China is discouraging Chinese Australians from political participation and constrainin...
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'No such thing as bad housing, just poor clothing choices.' A jumper isn't going to help with the killer heat that he's doing nothing to assuage.
Jessie L@jessielilley.bsky.social · 3w agoHonestly, fuck Tim Wilson. I rented in a sharehouse in Clifton Hill many years ago that was so fucking cold I had to lie in bed fully clothed with multiple layers and wearing a balaclava so my nose didn't freeze. Of course there should be standards you ghoul.
The ground is pretty soft in the Huon right now. I've finally emailed a story back to the author after two earlier attempts were interrupted by people getting their cars stuck in my paddocks, with all the ensuing carry-on. 1/-
Well here's an old book that escaped Anthropic! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Library book returned after 150 years, $28k fine waived
A NSW library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the 150 years since it was borrowed.
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Back in Melbourne for a few days. I must be a proper Tasmanian now, was the only person wearing a beanie in the airport Uber queue. It was cold!
Can't help but notice that in the novel I'm reading, no female character is introduced without some description of her hair. She might even be not so much a woman as a brunette, blonde or redhead. The men? I have no idea if they even have any hair, let alone what colour it is.
These companies are out to mine our resources – our water, our space, our power generation capacity and our creativity – as cheaply and carelessly as they can and take the profits back home. Albanese must show some spine.
Jennifer Mills@jennifermills.net.au · 2mo agoAnother one framing copyright as an obstacle. It’s not complicated. It’s our right as creators not to have our work stolen. You have to ask permission. Licensing is not difficult! We’re all extremely contactable! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 12mo agoFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Phones were one of the first things to be enshittified. Once a direct, quick way of communicating, now people just don't take phone calls because they got tired of scammers.
Kerrie B@wheels002.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m getting so tired of these scam callers who call after hours, even on weekends. Why is the government not doing something to address this? 8am, 9.30pm and all weekend. Fuck, make it stop #auspol
Watching The Survivors on Netflix and enjoying spotting the Tasmanian locations fo different scenes.
Sinking into quiet despair under the quiet weight of ChatGPT quietly sprinkling 'quiet' into everything I see online.
The hardest part about proving genocide is "Intent." Israel's fascist defense minister BenGvir just proved again his intent to mass murder everyone in Lebanon, declaring "ALL OF LEBANON MUST BURN." Block arms to Israel. Sanction these war criminals. Any politician denying this is complicit.
Fact remains that Pauline Hanson is a racist with a decades-long history of racism, so if you support her you're supporting that. There's no escaping it.
OK, finally watching Pauline Hanson's speech. On Sky News's Youtube. Superb timing with the banner, whoever unrolled it just as Hanson was getting into The Desperate State of the Poor.
Great thread. If we ever move back into a town or city, I definitely want a cargo bike again.
Robin Richardson she/her@canadarobin.bsky.social · last yr.Preface: In November 2020 I wrote this thread on that other site, at the urging of some cycling friends. My intention was to show that even the unlikeliest of people can become daily cyclists, and therefore safe streets advocates.
Yep. The only reason my husband got diagnosed fairly early with prostate cancer was that the GP he was now seeing for diabetes suggested a routine PSA test. Without the diabetes he'd never have been seeing a GP.
