Eva Lomski
@evalomski.bsky.social
Short stories, mainly. 🇦🇺🦘Shortlist Richell Prize ‘22. Published inc: Glimmer Train, Best Australian Stories, Cleaver, Sequestrum, Island, Hawaii Pacific Review, Earth’s Daughters, Kill Your Darlings. Forever falling & getting back on the horse 📝
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I know nothing of these books, but I do know that more & more, aside from the news, I need my reading to be gentle. Reading as an escape is still valid.
5 Books to Read When You Just Want Something Gentle
www.vice.com
5 Books to Read When You Just Want Something Gentle
twp.ai
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I know nothing of these books, but I do know that more & more, aside from the news, I need my reading to be gentle. Reading as an escape is still valid.
You have to love a well-written, witty, withering review.
#melaniamovie @williambibbiani.bsky.social
#melaniamovie @williambibbiani.bsky.social
‘Melania’ Review: A Tedious, Criminally Shallow Propaganda Puff Piece
The ‘Rush Hour’ director returns with a shameful cinematic suck-up masquerading as a real documentary.
www.thewrap.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 AM
You have to love a well-written, witty, withering review.
#melaniamovie @williambibbiani.bsky.social
#melaniamovie @williambibbiani.bsky.social
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God took the wrong person from "Home Alone 2." It's really that simple.
January 30, 2026 at 6:42 PM
God took the wrong person from "Home Alone 2." It's really that simple.
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“At three cinemas in Melbourne, nobody has reserved a seat. Two tickets have been sold at a fourth.”
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#melaniamovie
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#melaniamovie
Melania Trump's $57 million documentary on track to bomb at the box office
www.9news.com.au
January 28, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“At three cinemas in Melbourne, nobody has reserved a seat. Two tickets have been sold at a fourth.”
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#melaniamovie
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#melaniamovie
As AI takes hold: the “new” role of the fiction writer as a seeker and harbourer of truth ...
#writing #reading
#writing #reading
“Without knowing it, I was critically thinking. If we can’t trust our protagonist, can we even trust its author? How can we trust anyone? In a world full of “fake news”, redactions, #clickbait, podcasting prophets, AI slop … we are neck-deep in a murky media morass like never before.”
#reading
#reading
At 15, my world was upended. This was a lesson I’ll never forget
An English teacher taught me three simple rules. In the age of fake news, they have served me well.
www.theage.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 7:39 PM
“Without knowing it, I was critically thinking. If we can’t trust our protagonist, can we even trust its author? How can we trust anyone? In a world full of “fake news”, redactions, #clickbait, podcasting prophets, AI slop … we are neck-deep in a murky media morass like never before.”
#reading
#reading
At 15, my world was upended. This was a lesson I’ll never forget
An English teacher taught me three simple rules. In the age of fake news, they have served me well.
www.theage.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
“Without knowing it, I was critically thinking. If we can’t trust our protagonist, can we even trust its author? How can we trust anyone? In a world full of “fake news”, redactions, #clickbait, podcasting prophets, AI slop … we are neck-deep in a murky media morass like never before.”
#reading
#reading
Is it me you’re looking for?
'Hullo, hillo, holla': The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us?
www.bbc.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Is it me you’re looking for?
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
Nobody in Australia, at least not since Crocodile Dundee, says, “He was the pregnant sheila's hubby.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Nobody in Australia, at least not since Crocodile Dundee, says, “He was the pregnant sheila's hubby.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
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. Autumn evening~
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
. Autumn evening~
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
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how pleasurable
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
how pleasurable
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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The Real “Rules” of Haiku
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
The Real “Rules” of Haiku — The Poetry Place
This article is for: Beginner and Intermediate poets
www.writebetterpoems.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The Real “Rules” of Haiku
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
Wait, this article quotes sources other than the BBC?!? To me that suggests the authors of this “article” didn’t read the books themselves. How’s that a genuine critique? “18 of the best books of the year so far” … according to publicity releases & AI???
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Flashlight to Katabasis: 18 of the best books of the year so far
From an "epic" coming-of-age story to "delicious" dark academia – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Wait, this article quotes sources other than the BBC?!? To me that suggests the authors of this “article” didn’t read the books themselves. How’s that a genuine critique? “18 of the best books of the year so far” … according to publicity releases & AI???
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
September 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
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There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:
Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
www.theatlantic.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:
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It's not just Good Reads.
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated
Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.
www.thebookseller.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's not just Good Reads.
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
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Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:
Welcome to the Janky Web
The AI takeover is changing everything about the internet—and not necessarily for the better.
bit.ly
June 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:
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“There are good uses for AI at a newspaper, which is why it’s so puzzling that everyone keeps trying to make AI do not those tasks but the ones it is bad at, the ones that we humans most want to keep for ourselves,” @katzish.bsky.social writes:
Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile?
Reducing the role of human editorial judgment is the last thing opinion journalism needs.
bit.ly
June 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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