Susannah Birch

When life hands you trauma, you make Halloween costumes.

📸 Photo by my daughter Lara, budding photographer.

World Mental Health Day reminder: don’t sacrifice your own mental health trying to hold someone else's together.

Someone please tell me it's normal to think certain flavours of potato chips are better thin cut, and others are better crinkle cut?

I've been so busy on Threads, I keep forgetting about Bluesky.

Social Media platforms need to create a short course called "How to identify AI and scammers on our platform" whenever people sign up, but they won't, because that would make them look bad for not fixing the problem.

I just dropped one of my teenage daughter's friends home after a movie and the first thing he said when he got in my car was, "Wow, a real manual car, I've never seen one before."

Now I feel old.

When someone builds an ad blocker for smart glasses, I just want the option to swap all the billboard ads for something better.

Today I only want to see waterfalls. Tomorrow? Puppies.

It’s not easy grieving — whether someone’s dead, alive, estranged, or somewhere in between. On Mother’s Day, it can hit harder. This short and practical episode from Kirsten Hunter Author has some solid tips on how to get through grief.

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1737686/epis...

#MothersDay

I asked #ChatGPT, "Based on what you know about me, what advice would you give me?" and then asked it to turn it into a JPG, and now I feel personally attacked.

I’m so tired of Mother’s Day comps asking “What’s your favourite memory with your Mum?”
Honestly? I’m about ready to start one of my own:
“Who mothered you when your mum couldn’t?”
A friend. A sister. Yourself. Still valid. Still powerful.

Fixed it. #ChatGPT

Molly Russell: Meta and Pinterest make secret charity donation Meta and Pinterest have agreed to donate to a charity set up in the name of schoolgirl Molly Russell.

Well if that's not an admission of guilt, I don't know what is. #socialmedia

My 15-year-old daughter just told me "You're giving cool grandma, but not in a bad way" so I told her "You look like a skater boy who listens to Nirvana".

My 15-year-old daughter just got fired from her first job, at Hungry Jack's.

She was offered the job on January 8th, and let go yesterday without ever having worked a single shift.

In the email, they said it was because they had hired too many other people. 😡

Spotted down at the local shopping centre. 🤣

Someone needs to invent emails that self-destruct when they're no longer relevant, instead of piling up as eternal red notifications.

I just found out what Witchetty Grubs grow into and I am now questioning how I was never taught this as a child.

PM promises $3b to 'finish' NBN and speed up internet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises a $3 billion injection to "finish" the National Broadband Network and speed up internet services, as Labor and the Coalition swing into election campaign mode.

Oh look just in time for the election. #Auspol

Tempted to start a weekly email titled "How I'm surviving this week" because I'd totally read that.

As a child, I always thought "Orientare" was an exotic location full of wise men.

One million public Bluesky posts scraped for AI training The data was posted to an AI company, then later removed after an outcry.

What I'm hearing is that I need to talk about important changes we need to make in the world, so AI can help make it happen.

mashable.com/article/blue... #AI #BlueSky

Toxic people can be nice but they can never be kind.

The most important reason to share your story over and over is so that other people can be brave enough to come out of the shadows and tell their own.

Shout it from the rooftops!

As of today I don't need a man to open my jars.

Just walked past a bakery throwing around 30 pies from the cabinet into black bin bags. 😭

Experiment shows time alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when using social media People in their late teens experience an increased sensitivity to threats after just a few hours left in a room on their own—an effect that endures even if they are interacting online with friends and family.

Kids need conversations that they can't leave by closing a window, healthier dopamine cycles, and the physical and mental skills learnt by interacting with the world. #SocialMediaBan #AusPol

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...

Remember that while the Government pushes for Social Media bans, porn sites still allow our kids on with a simple "Are you over 18? Yes/No" popup box. #AusPol

Does anyone else get stressed watching TV characters ask endless questions without writing anything down? How do they remember it all? Because I would forget everything before the next scene! 😅 #TV

I'm creating a list of people who tweet about #MentalHealth, let me know if you want to be added!

My favourite ChatGPT hack so far: a script that auto-deletes all my subscription list emails every 30 days. Inbox freedom, finally!