Jamie Sands Author

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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Auckland Queer Writers Anthology Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

Hey all, we are still needing a bit more support in order to meet the goal for our anthology of queer storytelling! Any donations, even just a few bucks, would be appreciated. All proceeds from the finished book with go to Outline, an organization who've helped me out a bit personally.

You gotta be a little bit in love with your friends, it's what they deserve

its so effed up

“I will not pay artists, and instead steal from them through the theft-plagiarism machine that harms the environment”

Bro there is no middle ground.

Evil is evil. Simple as that.

#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:

- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%

Laser-focused on the cost of living

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Auckland Queer Writers Anthology Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

Hey folks and people click through here to check out me talking a bit about this project! Yes you get to see me on camera! Remember, you still have time to support queer writers in Tāmaki Makaurau!

A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Making my brain do the thing it has to for the financial forecasts and balance sheets bit of my business course is harder than writing a blurb, and that's saying a lot!

Aotearoa: disaster occurs --> local marae opens its doors to the victims. Every. Single. Time.

Describe your cat's personality with one photo

this is everything

Auckland Queer Writers Anthology Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

Hey folks and people, I and a whole lot of other cool people have written some cool things for this anthology and it would be great if you could help us out with covering costs! Click through for details!

Just a few more weeks and I'll be back to bookshop and writing as my only two jobs. This bookshop, exam supervision, toymaker, con prep, business course and barely any writing lifestyle is bad for my health 😭

Jet lagged.
Watching The Antiques Roadshow.
Did NOT expect to have a happy little tear as the two daughters of Spike Milligan showed the presenter a tiny box with an equally tiny letter Spike had written to one of them from the fairy kingdom, when one of them lost a tooth.
It was the sweetest thing.

Auckland Queer Writers Anthology Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

Oh shit, we launching!
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I'm delighted to say that I'm one of the writers whose work will be included in a queer anthology organised by Jade du Preez, @jamiedsands.bsky.social, and @hiriadunning.bsky.social, and we need to raise some more cash to make sure it happens!

My spooky cute urban fantasy is on sale right now as part of FarRoBub!

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rough sketch of a table eith the front panel divided into four to imitate a possible sign divide. The first quadrant says "weave magic", the second "fall in love". Third quadrant says "lose yourself" with a fanged smiling mouth and the last says "soft toys I guess?"

Trying to work out a design for a new table cloth for markets 🤣

my brand is... eclectic

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Today's wind is a warning of what's to come, and of the need to cut emissions fast.

The most effective cuts we can make to quickly limit damage is to cut methane. Which means shrinking the dairy industry. But national is doing the exact opposite.

Wondering whether anyone will be asking the regime about the weather in #nzqt today, and why they are killing climate change policy in the middle of a climate disaster.

Pic from strike

Pic from strike

Pic from strike

Pic from strike

Some pics from my partner #nzstrike #megastrikeNZ

CHATGPT IS NOT A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE

BE: It will help if it's a short sharp review. No public submissions or field trips CB: Definitely not, 3 people - you and 3 others. No involvement from KO. Independent

Bill English getting $500,000 to write a report on Kainga Ora that somehow echoed Chris Bishop's preconceived views is peak National Party #nzpol #kiwi

Also, just based on what I saw today, it's good for people to associate your political movement with having fun as a community, and also people enjoy it, which has real material value