Ceinwen Langley
@feedthewriter.bsky.social
Grumpy Australian reads and writes genre fiction.
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Aurealis — Science Fiction & Fantasy
aurealis.com.au
Absolutely chuffed to announce that I have a story in this month's Aurealis magazine!
It's an Australian gothic historical horror that begins with something that has always scared the shit out of me: a knock on the door in the middle of the night.
aurealis.com.au
It's an Australian gothic historical horror that begins with something that has always scared the shit out of me: a knock on the door in the middle of the night.
aurealis.com.au
Curse this snotty nose, I want to go see the new Predator movie in a 🌟cinema🌟
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Curse this snotty nose, I want to go see the new Predator movie in a 🌟cinema🌟
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Ah yes. That famous centre-left anthem and its beautiful words, “thank you, I will do what you tell me”
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Ah yes. That famous centre-left anthem and its beautiful words, “thank you, I will do what you tell me”
I think about this passage from William L Shirer’s foreword of The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich… pretty often.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I think about this passage from William L Shirer’s foreword of The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich… pretty often.
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again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Only Monsters Play God, or, my October 2025 in media
I had planned for my October to follow a pretty standardly Halloween vibe: scary books, lightly spooky movies. But I am who I am, so after one attempt at...
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
I ditched Spotify just under a year ago and have not had one single regret.
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I ditched Spotify just under a year ago and have not had one single regret.
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Seven *more* families?
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.
How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?
Fuck all this.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.
How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?
Fuck all this.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Seven *more* families?
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.
How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?
Fuck all this.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.
How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?
Fuck all this.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Only Monsters Play God, or, my October 2025 in media
I had planned for my October to follow a pretty standardly Halloween vibe: scary books, lightly spooky movies. But I am who I am, so after one attempt at...
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
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I have a new story out!
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
The Growing Moon
Every apocalypse is a story of love lost.
www.phano.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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"One of the longest-running problems for #climate coverage in Australia is an excessive focus on position statements and far too little focus on the raw physicality of the problem."
@ketanjoshi.co
@ketanjoshi.co
“I cannot emphasise enough that what Repacholi says in a few short sentences is both fundamentally absurd, and deeply terrifying in how it flew into the climate space without a single raised eyebrow.” @ketanjoshi.co writes.
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd)
www.crikey.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"One of the longest-running problems for #climate coverage in Australia is an excessive focus on position statements and far too little focus on the raw physicality of the problem."
@ketanjoshi.co
@ketanjoshi.co
Having a minor existential crisis re: the swift slip of time triggered entirely by my dentist reminding me I’m due for my six-month check-up.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Having a minor existential crisis re: the swift slip of time triggered entirely by my dentist reminding me I’m due for my six-month check-up.
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Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
August 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
You ever just think about Kermit the Frog and start crying a bit?
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
You ever just think about Kermit the Frog and start crying a bit?
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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“Relying on chatbots isn’t fringe — it’s the predictable result of care made scarce, stigmatized, and costly. Recognizing that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing chatbot care, but it’s past time to name what’s happening: Privately owned chatbots are functioning as public health resources.”
‘AI psychosis’ discussions ignore a bigger problem with chatbots
Don’t frame chatbot failures as human “insanity.”
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Relying on chatbots isn’t fringe — it’s the predictable result of care made scarce, stigmatized, and costly. Recognizing that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing chatbot care, but it’s past time to name what’s happening: Privately owned chatbots are functioning as public health resources.”
I've started subscribing to (and picking up) print magazines and journals again this year, and it's so good? Interesting little bits! Cool, weird fiction! Poems! Lovely pictures! Mail! MAIL! Just stacks of paper full of stuff people wrote and created and put love and effort into.
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I've started subscribing to (and picking up) print magazines and journals again this year, and it's so good? Interesting little bits! Cool, weird fiction! Poems! Lovely pictures! Mail! MAIL! Just stacks of paper full of stuff people wrote and created and put love and effort into.
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biblically accurate cat
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
biblically accurate cat
Yet to be blocked, but jumper #2 is finished!
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Yet to be blocked, but jumper #2 is finished!
God, so the Liberal party is DEAD dead, huh.
Australian Jewish groups weren’t lining up to endorse Ley’s Joy Division criticisms on Tuesday. Contacted for comment, none of the major community organisations chose to back her criticisms of Albanese’s T-shirt
It featured an album released 46 years ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It featured an album released 46 years ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
God, so the Liberal party is DEAD dead, huh.
idk man, if a giant, verbose zombie dude crawled through a window on my ice-beached ship to lament over the dead, hot weirdo I picked up in the middle of nowhere I'm probably going to invite him to share a brandy and play a game of snap at the very least.
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
idk man, if a giant, verbose zombie dude crawled through a window on my ice-beached ship to lament over the dead, hot weirdo I picked up in the middle of nowhere I'm probably going to invite him to share a brandy and play a game of snap at the very least.