Melbourne on my Mind
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Library eyeliner queen, chocolate fiend, nerd. Can be found reading about 36 hours a day.
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Australians, hearing Trump whine that the Aus government won't negotiate on PBS medicine prices:
August 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Australians, hearing Trump whine that the Aus government won't negotiate on PBS medicine prices:
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there is not a single teacher alive who is surprised by this information.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
ChatGPT’s Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
there is not a single teacher alive who is surprised by this information.
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It's important for authoritarian regimes to crush both imagination/creativity and workers' rights, if you were wondering why AI exists.
May 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's important for authoritarian regimes to crush both imagination/creativity and workers' rights, if you were wondering why AI exists.
If you want to lose all hope in the future of society, allow me to recommend four classes of Year 7s back to back on a Friday, asking you endless questions about using AI to write their assignments for them 🫠
May 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If you want to lose all hope in the future of society, allow me to recommend four classes of Year 7s back to back on a Friday, asking you endless questions about using AI to write their assignments for them 🫠
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Here she is! The North American cover for Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, in all her glory. The novel is due out in the US and Canada on July 8, published by HarperVia.
May 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Here she is! The North American cover for Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, in all her glory. The novel is due out in the US and Canada on July 8, published by HarperVia.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Canada walked so Australia could Nutbush
May 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Canada walked so Australia could Nutbush
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Things I have learnt today: fossicking is a uniquely Australian (possibly Antipodean?? Pls weigh in, Kiwis) word. This is wild to me.
April 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Things I have learnt today: fossicking is a uniquely Australian (possibly Antipodean?? Pls weigh in, Kiwis) word. This is wild to me.
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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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I cannot think of a more bizarre group to go after than asexuals. All they want is for people to be nice to them and Joanne is like, 'hmm, no thanks'
April 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I cannot think of a more bizarre group to go after than asexuals. All they want is for people to be nice to them and Joanne is like, 'hmm, no thanks'
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In the movie Psycho, Janet Leigh stands directly under the shower head and then turns the water on. That is why the movie is called Psycho, one assumes. I turned it off. Stupid.
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the movie Psycho, Janet Leigh stands directly under the shower head and then turns the water on. That is why the movie is called Psycho, one assumes. I turned it off. Stupid.
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Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.
March 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.
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A week later and this is EVEN TRUER THAN BEFORE #911onABC
9-1-1 is either telling the greatest gay slowburn romance story ever filmed for network TV or I am being subjected to the kind of queerbait that is so revolutionary it defies the laws of nature #911onABC
March 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A week later and this is EVEN TRUER THAN BEFORE #911onABC
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one of my favourite quirks of Australian and NZ English is the distinction between mate (friend) and mate in italics (person who has five seconds to live)
March 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
one of my favourite quirks of Australian and NZ English is the distinction between mate (friend) and mate in italics (person who has five seconds to live)
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My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. It's been a decade. GNU, Sir Terry.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. It's been a decade. GNU, Sir Terry.
I was already done with human interaction for the day after having 950 teenagers back in my life. Then a woman removed her bra on the tram. Pulled it out the sleeve of her dress and shoved it in her bag. I......what.
February 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I was already done with human interaction for the day after having 950 teenagers back in my life. Then a woman removed her bra on the tram. Pulled it out the sleeve of her dress and shoved it in her bag. I......what.
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What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
Nothing like the adrenaline rush from dropping a (glass) jar of peanut butter on the (ceramic tile) kitchen floor at 6.15am to really get you going for the day.
(The jar didn't break. Praise the giant flying spaghetti monster)
(The jar didn't break. Praise the giant flying spaghetti monster)
January 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Nothing like the adrenaline rush from dropping a (glass) jar of peanut butter on the (ceramic tile) kitchen floor at 6.15am to really get you going for the day.
(The jar didn't break. Praise the giant flying spaghetti monster)
(The jar didn't break. Praise the giant flying spaghetti monster)
School starts back tomorrow and I cannot emphasise enough how much I do not want to sit through four hours of bullshit meetings followed by Mass followed by more bullshit meetings. Just let me do my job pls.
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
School starts back tomorrow and I cannot emphasise enough how much I do not want to sit through four hours of bullshit meetings followed by Mass followed by more bullshit meetings. Just let me do my job pls.
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This is the moment for everyone in this country to learn that the decrease in birth rate is almost entirely from lowering teen pregnancies. So what they’re asking for is children to have more children.
JD Vance in his FIRST public address as VP says he “wants more babies in America”.
I cannot express how much I dislike this man.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
I cannot express how much I dislike this man.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
“I want more babies in America,” JD Vance says in his first public address as vice-president
Speaking at the yearly anti-abortion event, Vance commended President Donald Trump for appointing conservative judges and increasing the Child Tax Credit.
www.cleveland.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the moment for everyone in this country to learn that the decrease in birth rate is almost entirely from lowering teen pregnancies. So what they’re asking for is children to have more children.