Jessica Halupka
@jessicahalupka.bsky.social
Teacher, life-learner, lover of food. PhD candidate at the University of Canberra
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I’m so tired…
And sad.
And tired of being sad.
And sad.
And tired of being sad.
Another First Nations woman dead in police custody taking the total to 59 Indigenous deaths in the hands of police in just 2 years.
We have shown how quickly we can act against racism towards Jewish Australians.
Why has that same urgency never existed for First Nations ppl?
We have shown how quickly we can act against racism towards Jewish Australians.
Why has that same urgency never existed for First Nations ppl?
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m so tired…
And sad.
And tired of being sad.
And sad.
And tired of being sad.
Our concerns shouldn’t be ignored. Why is that everyone who isn’t part of education thinks they know everything to do with education?
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
December 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Our concerns shouldn’t be ignored. Why is that everyone who isn’t part of education thinks they know everything to do with education?
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Actually my sense that tech has a serious problem with the humanities and no respect for us comes from decades of teaching STEM students history, arts and the humanities. From seeing people in AI gleefully proclaim the end of humanities/arts on social media.
But do go on.
But do go on.
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Actually my sense that tech has a serious problem with the humanities and no respect for us comes from decades of teaching STEM students history, arts and the humanities. From seeing people in AI gleefully proclaim the end of humanities/arts on social media.
But do go on.
But do go on.
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When you think GenAI is Socrates rather than a fancier and fawning version of autocorrect.
In that frame, education should be actively engaging with AI, but not in "write me my essay" mode or an "assistant" type posture. Instead as a thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition when done right.
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When you think GenAI is Socrates rather than a fancier and fawning version of autocorrect.
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This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
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Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄
Be fucking serious for a moment.
Be fucking serious for a moment.
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄
Be fucking serious for a moment.
Be fucking serious for a moment.
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Just had a student email this to me unprovoked. The kids are gonna be alright.
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just had a student email this to me unprovoked. The kids are gonna be alright.
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“Let them be kids!”
But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails.
Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children?
Or simply not seen or heard at all?
But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails.
Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children?
Or simply not seen or heard at all?
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Let them be kids!”
But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails.
Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children?
Or simply not seen or heard at all?
But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails.
Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children?
Or simply not seen or heard at all?
“The tide is turning, hence the pushback, hence the fascism, so we’re clearly more powerful than they want us to know.”
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“The tide is turning, hence the pushback, hence the fascism, so we’re clearly more powerful than they want us to know.”
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Society: *treats disabled people like shit*
Also society: People just wanna be disabled so they can feel SPECIAL!
Also society: People just wanna be disabled so they can feel SPECIAL!
December 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Society: *treats disabled people like shit*
Also society: People just wanna be disabled so they can feel SPECIAL!
Also society: People just wanna be disabled so they can feel SPECIAL!
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this is my biggest issue with "AI" in higher education, the amount of time it eats up--time and energy I DO NOT HAVE
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is my biggest issue with "AI" in higher education, the amount of time it eats up--time and energy I DO NOT HAVE
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There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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It's destroying any joy there was in marking assignments.
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's destroying any joy there was in marking assignments.
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
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Stella Prize-shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Stella Prize-shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
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"Find out who you are and do it on purpose" 🌼 One thing I've always admired about Dolly Parton is how she's always lived so loudly being unapologetically herself. Pure sunshine in human form - may she be protected in good health for many years to come 🤍 | tinyurl.com/595x3p2v
October 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose" 🌼 One thing I've always admired about Dolly Parton is how she's always lived so loudly being unapologetically herself. Pure sunshine in human form - may she be protected in good health for many years to come 🤍 | tinyurl.com/595x3p2v
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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What we do to Aboriginal children in this country is abominable and all we do is continue to traumatise them and then blame them for dysfunction that comes from forcing trauma on them.
It’s really good to see the ABC reporting using ‘child’ and ‘cell’. Too often reporting describes children as ‘young people’ and prison cells as ‘detention facilities’. Across Australia governments are putting children, alone, in prison cells. It must stop. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Child held in solitary cell for three days, denied food and medications
An Aboriginal child was held in a solitary cell for more than three days and denied food and medication as a coercion "strategy", an investigation into the NT's notorious Don Dale youth prison has fou...
www.abc.net.au
September 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What we do to Aboriginal children in this country is abominable and all we do is continue to traumatise them and then blame them for dysfunction that comes from forcing trauma on them.
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The whiplash from how quickly Aussie media will label any pro-Palestine protest as ‘antisemitic’ but when actual Neo-Nazis are protesting on some white supremacist shit the media is like ‘woah woah woah. let’s not go throwing any labels around’
August 31, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The whiplash from how quickly Aussie media will label any pro-Palestine protest as ‘antisemitic’ but when actual Neo-Nazis are protesting on some white supremacist shit the media is like ‘woah woah woah. let’s not go throwing any labels around’
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“tHey’Re nOt raCisT”
Oh yeah:
Nazis & flagwits are currently attacking Camp Sovereignty.
Nazis & flagwits are currently attacking Camp Sovereignty.
August 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“tHey’Re nOt raCisT”
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Thank the goddesses that Labor is in charge while Netanyahu tries his damnedest to divide Australians.
We don’t want that hatred and violence to divide us here.
We want the killing to stop - that’s Australia’s message to Netanyahu.
We don’t want that hatred and violence to divide us here.
We want the killing to stop - that’s Australia’s message to Netanyahu.
August 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Thank the goddesses that Labor is in charge while Netanyahu tries his damnedest to divide Australians.
We don’t want that hatred and violence to divide us here.
We want the killing to stop - that’s Australia’s message to Netanyahu.
We don’t want that hatred and violence to divide us here.
We want the killing to stop - that’s Australia’s message to Netanyahu.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Can we please start funding our public schools. This is appalling and we should be ashamed.
Can we please start funding our public schools. This is appalling and we should be ashamed.
Classes combined, teachers cancelled amid public schools' budget woes
Fewer than one in five public schools in the ACT are expected to meet budget this year, and now union representatives say classes are being merged and teachers cancelled to deal with the deficit.
www.abc.net.au
July 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Can we please start funding our public schools. This is appalling and we should be ashamed.
Can we please start funding our public schools. This is appalling and we should be ashamed.
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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
July 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
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With all of Greta’s privilege, she stands for what’s right every time. Every time she’s asked about herself she answers by redirecting straight to the people she’s standing up for. ‘How are you?’ ‘Better than the people in Palestine, specifically Gaza.’
👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind
👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind
June 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
With all of Greta’s privilege, she stands for what’s right every time. Every time she’s asked about herself she answers by redirecting straight to the people she’s standing up for. ‘How are you?’ ‘Better than the people in Palestine, specifically Gaza.’
👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind
👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind