Sian C

Just write 250 words On drafting a novel piece by piece

"There are plenty of skills/achievements I claim I would like to obtain, yet never meaningfully work towards. But I don’t seriously believe that I want those skills/achievements; the evidence of my inaction shows I don’t." I liked this, from Naoise Dolan, a lot.

If the FBI agents who live in our phones are real mine needs to be fired immediately. Anyone doing their job properly would be aware I'm not and have never been in a position to emotionally handle these Punch the monkey videos & their continued presence in my algos is gross negligence at this point.

The Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers is back! Presented in partnership by Emerging Writers’ Festival and RMIT University.🔥

A literary prize for short speculative work, now open to Australian TAFE & university students.

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Here's a sentence that I didn't expect to write today:

Woolworths says that it will stop its AI phone assistant, Olive, from mentioning its "mother" to people ringing up about their grocery deliveries.

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(He has not watched or read Spiderman in any medium, which is apparently only tenuously relevant)

There is nothing anyone on this earth could say to convince my toddler that Spiderman is not a "bad guy". He will not be reasoned with. We're at an impasse

(And like obviously yes sorry for reinforcing the gender binary but take it up with the Olympic committee not this she/they 😇)

My 3 year old was really digging the winter olympics. He called all the athletes "mums" or "dads". He asked me to put on the snowboarding and I was like "do you want the boys or the girls" and he was like??? Girls obviously???? Anyway we love womens sports we love girls sports we love mums sports

Everything in the world is bad! Like everything. Every single thing. And then I open my phone and there's another Sherlock Holmes adaptation what do you want me to even do with that!

'You're still in bed at ten And work began at eight You've burned your breakfast So far, things are going great'

This lyric from 'I'll Be There For You' suggests that the subject of the song, (me/you), woke up at 10, two hours late for work, then chose to make a cooked breakfast. No wonder my/your life is always stuck in second gear

'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'

Does anyone really care about these attempts to feminise the Liberal party (re the blanket coverage of the resignation of a 'feminist' activist within the party)? What's the idea here - we want to be a build racist party that crushes working people, but women deserve a place in it?

This game is saving my ADHD ass right now. I'm obsessedddd

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

A Sydney 2000 Olympics enamel pin of Pikachu in front of the opera house with the Vegemite logo.

The back of the pin, dated 2000, copyright Kraft foods.

my most unlikely and ridiculous eBay alert just pinged ebay.us/m/bZlnQI

FUCK YEAH MEANJIN FUCK YEAH QUT

"While this is a remote job, you’ll be expected to be legally able to work in the U.S. on an agreed-upon schedule covering East Coast newsroom hours" 😭

If they hadn't beat up people calmly praying and thrown unnecessary punches at people's heads and bodies while they already had them pinned to the ground something TERRIBLE would have happened! You gotta believe me cos if u don't you're antisemitic. I will be taking no further questions at this time

Probably about once a week I think about the Jia Tolentino Airbnb thing. Lol what was that

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic.

Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

It bears saying

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LEAVE HER ALONE

That’s right folks. Kamala Harris has not only found, but captured and killed, the legendary ape man known as Bigfoot

This is, ahhhhh, not good

When the phone rings and it’s daycare