Julia D
@juliadassin.bsky.social
Slightly secretive Sydneysider. 🎥 🎶 🍳 🐕
I know a tiny amount about many things so I guess that makes me a scatty fox rather than a deep-thinking hedgehog.
I know a tiny amount about many things so I guess that makes me a scatty fox rather than a deep-thinking hedgehog.
Pinned
Julia D
@juliadassin.bsky.social
· Aug 1
I suppose I should be doing some actual work, really.
He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.
Gawd. Angus bloody Taylor. That’s how low the Liberal Party has sunk. A man whose opinion of himself is ten times his ability.
The personification of Dunning Kruger.
The personification of Dunning Kruger.
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Gawd. Angus bloody Taylor. That’s how low the Liberal Party has sunk. A man whose opinion of himself is ten times his ability.
The personification of Dunning Kruger.
The personification of Dunning Kruger.
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Angus Taylor resigns from nothing to be nothing
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Angus Taylor resigns from nothing to be nothing
I received an email from QUT telling me they’re taking over Meanjin. This is good news.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM
I received an email from QUT telling me they’re taking over Meanjin. This is good news.
This is a great loss ☹️
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This is a great loss ☹️
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Costume Designers deeply explaining their decision-making is my love language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo7...
Behind the Scenes: True Grit (Coens, 2010) with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon
YouTube video by Serious Feather
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Costume Designers deeply explaining their decision-making is my love language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo7...
The Master's Apprentices - It's Because I Love You
YouTube video by Julie Williams
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Mandy Patinkin
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Mandy Patinkin
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“Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.”
Laura Tingle cuts to the core of the issue as usual 👏👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Laura Tingle cuts to the core of the issue as usual 👏👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Herzog's Australia visit unfortunately links two previously separate events
Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.
www.abc.net.au
February 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM
“Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.”
Laura Tingle cuts to the core of the issue as usual 👏👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Laura Tingle cuts to the core of the issue as usual 👏👏
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Want to learn more about the International Olympic Committee's ridiculous insistence that the Olympics are *not political* & how that leads to exactly this sort of situation? I wrote this short primer: "What Are the Olympics For?" bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...
What Are the Olympics For?
What Are the Olympics For?; While attention is on Olympic triumphs and tribulations, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling. Boykoff tells us that radical steps are requ...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Want to learn more about the International Olympic Committee's ridiculous insistence that the Olympics are *not political* & how that leads to exactly this sort of situation? I wrote this short primer: "What Are the Olympics For?" bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...
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Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost
— industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost
— industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost
February 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost
— industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost
— industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost
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This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.
Tulips from Lincolnshire on sale in a cafe/deli around the corner from my office in London for... yes, **£50** a bunch 🌷🌷😬😲
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I love old maps like this. An alternative history of Stdney where public transport had been prioritized is really something to conjure.
The City Railway and Underground Tramways. Approved 1914
By John Job Crew Bradfield (1867 - 1943) antiqueprintmaproom.com/product/the-...
By John Job Crew Bradfield (1867 - 1943) antiqueprintmaproom.com/product/the-...
February 4, 2026 at 9:56 AM
I love old maps like this. An alternative history of Stdney where public transport had been prioritized is really something to conjure.
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Wuthering Heights is a novel about how living in Yorkshire will kill you
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Wuthering Heights is a novel about how living in Yorkshire will kill you
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One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Movies seen this week:
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Code 3 (2025)
Diablo (2025)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Egghead Republic (2025)
Greenland Migration (2026)
Los Muertos (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The X-files (1998)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Code 3 (2025)
Diablo (2025)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Egghead Republic (2025)
Greenland Migration (2026)
Los Muertos (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The X-files (1998)
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Movies seen this week:
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Code 3 (2025)
Diablo (2025)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Egghead Republic (2025)
Greenland Migration (2026)
Los Muertos (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The X-files (1998)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Code 3 (2025)
Diablo (2025)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Egghead Republic (2025)
Greenland Migration (2026)
Los Muertos (2004)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The X-files (1998)
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On the platforms used by real estate agents for renters, documents are exposed and accessible without any form of login, according to research.
I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Real estate agents in Australia using apps that leave millions of lease documents at risk, digital researcher says
‘This is a blatant and disturbing disregard for the law and for people’s security,’ digital rights advocate says
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM
On the platforms used by real estate agents for renters, documents are exposed and accessible without any form of login, according to research.
I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
My god Melbourne. 45 degrees one day. Feels like 9.8 degrees indeed.
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
My god Melbourne. 45 degrees one day. Feels like 9.8 degrees indeed.
This is all accurate. Simon is considerably less skeptical about LLMs than me, so when he sound an alarm we should all be worried.
The Australian Government wouldn’t do anything stupid like this would they? (That’s a rhetorical question).
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The Australian Government wouldn’t do anything stupid like this would they? (That’s a rhetorical question).
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …
simonwillison.net
February 1, 2026 at 1:51 AM
This is all accurate. Simon is considerably less skeptical about LLMs than me, so when he sound an alarm we should all be worried.
The Australian Government wouldn’t do anything stupid like this would they? (That’s a rhetorical question).
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The Australian Government wouldn’t do anything stupid like this would they? (That’s a rhetorical question).
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
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Shout that video title.
One. Word. At. A. Time.
encl: headlesschickenmonsterseacucumbereatingonseafloor
One. Word. At. A. Time.
encl: headlesschickenmonsterseacucumbereatingonseafloor
January 31, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Shout that video title.
One. Word. At. A. Time.
encl: headlesschickenmonsterseacucumbereatingonseafloor
One. Word. At. A. Time.
encl: headlesschickenmonsterseacucumbereatingonseafloor
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James Frey, it's your time to shine!
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
James Frey, it's your time to shine!