Caitlin Welsh

'This is influence': Leaked 36 Months sponsorship document reveals promises to sell access to United Nations event The Wippa-led pro-teen social media ban group was selling a 'United Nations General Assembly Sponsorship' for $150,000 in the lead-up to the Australian government-hosted event.

Incredible. Pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months was selling sponsorship to a United Nations event run by the Australian government with the promise of “influence” and “access” to heads of states, according to a leaked document.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

Special guest star Brad Dourif

The 5 words every woman wants to hear

Unreal lmao. Literally using the ban as cover.

Discord, who recently leaked a heap of personal data in a security breach, wants my personal data to let me access a channel I created in a server I created. Thank you, Australian government.

Australia’s social media ban won’t stop cyberbullying A technical fix can’t solve a social problem.

It’s actually awful to pretend to bereaved parents and to worried parents that this “ban” will stop cyber bullying. As this article suggests, it won’t at all, and could just make it less easy to find and manage.

You don’t fix a social problem with a (badly designed) tech fix.

"Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud" www.themandarin.com.au/304738-targe...

Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections

love seeing great people recognized for great work @meganpiont.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social

Same tbh

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

she was only 31, you sick fuck

interesting choice to project "LET THEM BE KIDS" onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations of the teen social media ban

It's not a line that came from Albanese or the government — it's the name of News Corp's campaign for the ban.

rebooting childhood is it

Screenshot of a news story from Guardian Australian. Header image is a white woman in a fuchsia blazer giving a press conference HEADLINE: Under-16s who slipped through cracks of social media ban will be ‘booted off in time’, eSafety commissioner says Julie Inman Grant unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions as Anthony Albanese says commencement of ban a ‘proud day’ Reader callout: How is Australia’s social media ban affecting you and your family?

The Simpsons’ Australian flag with a boot and a bum from Bart vs. Australia

The prophecy is fulfilled

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”

US SouthCom a few tweets way from using a Sonnenrad patch in their imagery.

Bluesky message: you must complete age assurance in order to access this screen. Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you're able to verify you're an adult.

Thanks, Australian government. Now we're all expected to deliver our ID to random companies on the internet for safe keeping.

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Developing an irreversible twitch from having to use my own two eyeballs to read comments describing paywalling articles as “gatekeeping knowledge”

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.

I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

jesus christ

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

the opposite of posting through it

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

“A specific risk is that generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. Because their purpose is to generate content, they cannot indicate that no information exists”

The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media.

This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students

www.crikey.com.au/20...

What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong