Michelle Watson

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

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FYI while enjoyable this is all fake - made with AI.

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

This was, ultimately, the point of substack: throw money at reactionary bloggers, claim that this is a new media and not just fissioning off the clicky bits from legacy publications, then let the price of media giants drop enough for all the worst people to buy them up and install their media pets.

What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels

Olaf the Northern Saw-Whet Owl is wrapped in baby blue cloth that's styled like a head scarf. According to the uploader Paige Bucalo this makes him look like a babushka. His golden-yellow eyes are piercing, pupils wide, and feathers fluffy. What a cutie.

6th of Owltober!

Olaf was missing some feathers that affected his ability to fly well enough to catch prey in the wild so became an ambassador at World Bird Sanctuary. Want to donate to WBS? worldbirdsanctuary.org/ways-to-give/ Source: fb.com/120623111273... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

People have no idea how hard it is for Black women to always have to break glass ceilings, set new records, and "be the change."

It literally weathers us, kills us from the inside out.

History Workshop students learning about Sydney’s indigenous history with Aunty Maxine today , proud Dharawal elder born at the La Perouse mission

The headstone of Lilian Violet Cooper and Mary Josephine Bedford - Life-long friends, buried together in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Portion 8, Section 69, Grave 13&14.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6 - Gender

The headstone of Lilian Violet Cooper and Mary Josephine Bedford - Life-long friends, buried together in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Portion 8, Section 69, Grave 13&14.

Dig deeper: www.fotc.au/research/lil...

last week, I wrote about how the rushed/bizarre teen social media ban policy process could lead to bad outcomes for Australians.

One scenario? Platforms forced to check users ages leak private data. Anyway, there's now a leak of some Discord user's passports

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Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

It’s a bit of an easy sport to dunk on Wikipedia but if you are completely new to a topic, it’s a great place to start - to get some pointers in the right direction. Because honestly, between the general degradation of search engines and the rise of AI, there really aren’t that many options left.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

And even worse if they see a bunch of free range dicks heading in their direction.

In English, the claim they have not mistreated any of the flotilla crew. In Hebrew, they admit to brutalising them. Australian citizens are telling DFAT they are being tortured, DFAT and the government have said nothing. Makes you wonder, does Albo put Israel head of Australians?

Catching up on some blogging for my #SLVResidency ... Here's a post about some work I did a couple of weeks back creating bounding boxes for parish maps from the point, size, and scale metadata. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/10/06/creating-bounding-boxes-for-parish.html #maps #libraries […]

Maybe pivot ISP from keeping protestors out, to keeping ICE in?

Maybe mandate that a certain percentage of profits must be spent on emergency infrastructure.

Isn’t there a word for taking money for a product you don’t provide…

Seperate the metadata (ie. names) from the actual filename. Git it some sort of standard code snd put the metadata in a spreadsheet. Added benefit is it makes importing inti other systems easier.

The Female Convict of 1825 We found an interesting series of documents tucked away in the Towns Clerk’s correspondence file of 1825.

200 years ago a woman named Margaret McDonald was transported to Australia for using and passing on forged bank notes. We found her in some rare documents in the archives. This is her story. #Dundee #Archives

Might self domesticate? Might?!? We had one that took up residence in the rafters of the Uni coffee shop - inside a building.

Questions for Mai – ABR essay Loved writing this more (for me) personal and reflective essay for Australian Book Review. It begins: Zoom in. The most unusual detail in this painting is the left hand, with tattooed dots carefull…

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"What has been too often neglected is the sitter himself—Mai. While most observers of the portrait mention Mai’s two-year stay in Britain from 1774 to 1776, courtesy of James Cook’s second returning Pacific voyage, they usually skip over Mai’s motivations or post-visit life." 🗃️

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Emily and I were briefly in Healesville today so we popped into Healesville Sanctuary and it is very important for you all to know that they currently have BABY TASMANIAN DEVILS

What I hear from multiple sources in the Scottish Government is that it feels defeated by the limitless spending power of the transphobes who, of course, are explicitly or implicitly underwritten by JK Rowling's vast fortune.

Australia has suspended PARCEL service, not standard mail.

“i asked ChatGPT —“ blocked