Sarah Toa
@sarahtoa.bsky.social
🦘🦘🦘writer of books, essays and short stories, inlet dweller, living on Noongar Boodjar
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WE BLOODY WON!! 🤖👊💥
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
WE BLOODY WON!! 🤖👊💥
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
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poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
October 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
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“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”
The Corrupt Incentives Behind Grade Inflation
“We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”
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September 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”
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'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […].
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […].
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
My fave map ever
September 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My fave map ever
Um … illegal logging becomes ‘harvesting’
At the Press Club yesterday a reinforcement of the message from the Productivity Commission's interim report. To paraphrase: Australian creatives' work has already been harvested by foreign AI companies. We should change legislation locally to make Australian AI companies competitive.
Copyright reform could power local AI industry
Productivity Commissioner says critics have missed the point.
ia.acs.org.au
August 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Um … illegal logging becomes ‘harvesting’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size
Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
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Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt
August 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt
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Some osprey action shots from last month at Juanita Bay Park, Seattle.
August 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Some osprey action shots from last month at Juanita Bay Park, Seattle.
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“What are we meant to talk about now?”
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
July 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“What are we meant to talk about now?”
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
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The most interesting point? This is from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
“Why do you test for humans?” he asked.
“To set you free.”
“Free?”
“Once, men [because no women existed back then. ed] turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Huxley ah ha ha
“To set you free.”
“Free?”
“Once, men [because no women existed back then. ed] turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Huxley ah ha ha
June 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The most interesting point? This is from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
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everywhere I turn it’s “reading is dead, we’re doomed, authors are doomed, culture is doomed”
then I go to readings, do readings, do a blog post about a small press book, and get this vibrant response
literature is like punk: not fucking dead
then I go to readings, do readings, do a blog post about a small press book, and get this vibrant response
literature is like punk: not fucking dead
June 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
everywhere I turn it’s “reading is dead, we’re doomed, authors are doomed, culture is doomed”
then I go to readings, do readings, do a blog post about a small press book, and get this vibrant response
literature is like punk: not fucking dead
then I go to readings, do readings, do a blog post about a small press book, and get this vibrant response
literature is like punk: not fucking dead
The most interesting point? This is from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
“Why do you test for humans?” he asked.
“To set you free.”
“Free?”
“Once, men [because no women existed back then. ed] turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Huxley ah ha ha
“To set you free.”
“Free?”
“Once, men [because no women existed back then. ed] turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Huxley ah ha ha
June 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The most interesting point? This is from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
I could spread misinfo forever and no souls would notice 😳
Awesome!
For those who are into new Australian nature writing prizes, I'm judging this:
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Island magazine - Nature Writing Prize
We are delighted to present our inaugural NATURE WRITING PRIZE, run in partnership with Fullers Bookshop Hobart and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.
The prize will be judged ‘blind’, which means the j...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Awesome!