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Caitlin Welsh

@caitlinwelsh.bsky.social
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editor, writer, anxious DJ, snack wizard, the Ricky Bobby of pub trivia playlists etc @sydneymusic.net [DMs not on because Australia]

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h
RIP to my man Jonathon Joss
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't even know if I will be a reporter in a year. I love writing, talking to other people and figuring out how to put it all together, but advertising is not going to be enough to pay for a high-quality product, and if I start making video content, I risk stalkers and AI accounts ripping me off.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
wolfman on halloween. infinitegossip.substack.com/p/wolfman-on...
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 02/10/2026
Does she know?
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
tumblr post:
weepingchoir
Aug 31, 2023
Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs
Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

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Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head.
You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 02/10/2026
The way my brain turned inside out seeing Loreena McKennitt mentioned in Swan Boy
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Non-album single The Deep also got a nomination the following year as well - underwater fantasy /sci-fi story about the sea dwelling descendants of enslaved pregnant African women thrown off ships in the Atlantic
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Splendor + Misery (2016) - mostly narrated from the perspective of a ship AI carrying one surviving enslaved human. Only the second album to be nominated for a Hugo! Pretty sure Daveed Diggs is the only person ever to be both Tony & Hugo nominated, let alone within the space of two years.
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s perfect
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The latter in particular makes me wonder how you feel about Clipping’s sci fi storytelling / concept albums, if you’re familiar? (And obv recommend them if you’re not!)
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 02/10/2026
I'm a language junkie, that's my hit.
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S01E06 The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth 4 March 2004
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Paul Rudd as John Lennon says 'Great Record'
ALT: Paul Rudd as John Lennon says 'Great Record'
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Al Newstead @alnewstead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today’s new albums, capiche? 🎼Quadeca ⬆️Sycco 🪽Asha Jefferies ✝️Logic1000 👩‍💻DJ_Dave 🍷The Sweet Enoughs 🎈Dev Lemons 🔊Victoria Monét 🌎Kyle Gordon 🏁Vacations 🎊Soul Wun 🤠Ella Hooper 🅿️Old Mervs 🏪Johnny Marr 🐾Fat Dog 💍Quavo 👥The Album Leaf ✨Deerhoof 👤Spike Fuck 🍀Wishy
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trouble with this is that nothing the onion could make up would be truly out of the realms of possibility for Robert Pattinson to actually say on a press tour
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
george
@stackofbears.bsky.social
Me: So, yeah, I'd say the mango basically approaches "favorite fruit" territory for me

Guy interviewing me in my imagination:
That's incredible. And you say this because you're eating one now?

Me: Exactly. I invented you—gave you mind-birth—for that reason. This habit is one of my many perversions
6:48 PM • Jul 15, 2026
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, not a great look here.
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Rivers of Suggestion @youngweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our daughter and friends (also not on social media) use Canva comments to chat like this Life uhhh finds a way
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...
Who will clean any of this up? 
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home he must have just been working on. Laboring on. There’s a dumpster out front and a red white and blue flag themed porta-potty from a company called Patriot Portables. Three ladders still leaning up against the building. 

It looks like it would have been a pretty tasty lunch. Even tossed aside like that and wasted now. A smear of orange hot sauce on the cracked styrofoam container. Not yet taken away by the wind. Such a beautiful seeming neighborhood too. I imagine it’s a very nice place to live. They say that Chicago is still surprisingly affordable. 

It shows me home listings when I scroll now because I clicked on one or two at some point and so the computer believes that this is an integral datapoint that explains who I am. I just saw one hanging ten off a bluff that has been pummeled by eons of waves and so will not exist for much longer. Neither house nor bluff. Overlooking the water on Cape Cod. You could squeeze a couple of good years out of it still I thought. Until one awful night. I can’t afford it even now despite the implication but it’s a nice little nightmare to have. 

I thought of a friend who was recently diagnosed with a terrible albeit not yet terminal disease but maybe that’s a bad analogy. A beach house is worth so much more than a person. 

I don’t know how much longer it will sit there. Either the house or the guy’s lunch. Maybe everyone passing by assumes another worker is going to arrive soon to take care of it but it could be he’s already been disappeared himself.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shout out to @fatbearweek.bsky.social and @explore.org who prolly had a stressful day yesterday but then came up with workarounds so we can still play our fun bear game 😝 **website problem fixed** **Day 1 voting is extended through today!** (Go vote!!)
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean this sincerely: If you are using a thingy to set your fantasy lineup for you, *what is the point* of fantasy sports? Especially if everybody in your league starts doing it? You are telling all your computers to play with each other! I do not understand what about this appeals to anyone.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/09/2026
This seems like a great product if you’re a fucking loser
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hot car diet coke @sunbear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/luke...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I had to know what "rapper Jethro Sheeran" looked like and I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this
JETHRO???
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a poem called 'midvinterblot by carl larsson, 1915'
midvinterblot by carl larsson, 1915

In the disaster year, in the famine
foreshadow, for all the questions in
the air, only one still haunts me: Is there
Is there life out there in Oakland
There In Oakland California or still
The Bay or after the Bay or after Portland
or after the chaz after Toronto after Brooklyn
Is there life in Oakland California
Is there life after the weekend even
if it never dies, is there life in the squat
even if it never dies, is there life in the
scene even if it never dies is there
Life in the Castro or in Greenwich
Village or life in the tunnels beneath
Las Vegas where holdout soldiers
make a final stand for demon dope
Is anyone there for those gay people
on my phone are they getting enough
and can they get by, can we cut them
a break or can we know if they die
or if they live at the end of it all
when the shouting is done and the
rumors go to mill can we know if
they die or do we need to ask some
soft machine or hard-eyed actress
Is there life out there in Oakland
Still in Oakland California
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do you think that Greta Gerwig will keep the bit in the Narnia books where they don’t let Susan come back to Narnia because her tits came in
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Demon King of the New Platform @clothedvillainy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australia’s social services system is built around bizarre notions of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving poor’. The undeserving don’t work because they’re insufficiently motivated, and we motivate them by starving them and making them risk homelessness.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026
AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Dean Napolitano @dinonapolitano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“A three-pound wildcat with leopardlike spots from Bolivia who once lived briefly as a house pet isn’t just adorable. He is also, scientists say, the standard-bearer for the first new feline species discovered in a century.” By Kate Golembiewski in @nytimes.com
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century (Gift Article)
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18/09/2026
*smashes bottle against table* STOP STEALING OUR GOOGLY EYES AND USING THEM TO PRETEND YOU MADE GOD
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they drew the name from a hat and now they don’t know whether that’s the winner or the person eliminated, which imho should disqualify them all
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I keep hearing this idea that "I don't like AI, but maybe it can solve climate change" and I just... what? Surely there is nothing about "solving" climate change that needs more computing power or ideas. It's purely about the interaction of power structures and social realities. Can we not?
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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you've got a spare couple of dollars this month, I would love for you to direct it over to the amazing team at @scarleteen.com! Read more about how to support them here: pro.gofundme.com/campaign/sca...
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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MAKE SOME NEW GLORY DAYS WHY ARE YOU GIVING UP
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just got a press release for a new bar that “pays homage to the glory days of NYC nightlife” and listen, I’m sure this bar is perfectly nice, but I’m losing my goddamn mind. I’m sick of remakes! I’m sick of homages! Stop building monuments to beauty instead of trying to build beauty itself!!!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The pedestrianisation of George St has been such an unquestionable success that this is like the 4th or 5th time it'll be extended!
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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