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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 1h

Hello! I enjoyed meeting you last year. Hope to run into you next year.

Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like the training emails that aren’t real phishing emails? I’m basically curious to know if they’re, like, a training method in and of themselves or if they’re collecting data somewhere about who is failing the test.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m extremely curious to know if anything would happen if I just clicked all of these; like whether work would reach out with some additional training or a reprimand. But. I’m too chicken to try …

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 02/10/2026

Steam Fall sale is ON! Too brain tired after Nighthawks launch to do a proper marketing for this right now. In the meantime, I will have blind faith that public desire for our games transcendes the need for me to tell everyone to buy them. There. Nailed it. store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(To be fair, on both occasions I had one or other baby strapped to my back, but IDK if Dad-reviewer also gets escorted out by mistake …)

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello! Keep up the good work! (I do not think of myself as a great game reviewer, more as someone who reviewed regularly for 15 years and semi regularly for the past 4.) And I have 2 stories of accidentally being escorted out of press events because people thought I was a lost mum. Not amazing.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OMG, Dark Matter. Loved S2 E5. Massive ‘mum angle’ on the multiverse story.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, that Wikipedia page is interesting. Well, I definitely don’t want to cross out anyone’s deity …

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

… in metal work so he submitted the teacher’s example rain gauge and got a B. After 25 years I didn’t think I could be shocked any more but apparently I can.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, that’s great. That’s a very charming imperfection. My mum was crafty in the 70s. We have various poetic embroideries and also some of my husband Ken’s weird woodworking artefacts; rolling pins etc. He was telling me the other day that he couldn’t be bothered making a rain gauge …

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh. Cool bowl, though. Similarly, I remember this terrifying primary school scripture teacher who told me I was ‘evil’ because I had ‘crossed the Christ out of Christmas’ because ‘Xmas’ fitted better on the card I was making. I am not religious but even writing ‘Xmas’ on this post freaks me out.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Like. The curator of trash games but also trash games as a cultural phenomenon and valid way of creating. Lots of examples and interviews with that creator.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hmm. I wonder if it’s been removed. But I have no idea why it would be … It’s old. But it was a great article.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can anyone help me find an article on Vice about ‘trash games’? I link this to a student approximately once every 18 months without saving it; and today I cannot find it.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think ‘being a teacher’ is already becoming weird, thanks to AI. I think it will become weirder.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t think there’s a lot of point trying. Mostly because ‘what is morality’ is already a big question. Eg. ‘Socially constructed rule following’ vs ‘having a conscience’ and feeling bad when you do something wrong. Then ‘learning/application’ as human vs machine, based on context.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was aware of Victoria Peak. But ‘giant gold Buddha’?! I’m totally into that.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People. I’m going to Hong Kong for a week to watch my 19yo do sports (for 2 days). Climb to the very large Buddha, eat one of everything, what else do I need to do? Has anyone been a tourist in Hong Kong recently?

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh really? Amazing. WA? Interesting. Are you games? I’m trying to research games and higher ed. There are actually so many interesting people around. (Especially all of the Tassie people.) It’d be good to find more ways to connect.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello! In my 7th year of teaching my own game music composition class at Sydney Con. I let The Institute of Music go this year because of bad health. (Which is now much better, thankfully.) I did one semester in intro game design at MQ last year. Loved it. Where/what are you (if you are) teaching?

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My dad gave me a Qbasic manual and told me to make something so I made a game that was supposed to guess your favourite colour but frequently guessed animals. My dad was like, ‘That’s not what programming is for.’ :) (I also made spy mysteries with ACS which my dad liked more.)

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also very explicitly banned the word ‘industry’ from my class (partly because of Brendan’s book) and then I was sitting in the back of a lecture and students booed the teacher’s use of the word and I was like ‘uh oh’. Words matter, at any rate.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To be fair to my colleagues there’s a lot of peer reviewed academic writing which includes the word ‘hallucinate’ which is annoying. Getting the right word is a bit of a fixation for me. For example I have no idea why anyone would ever use the word ‘seminal’ when ‘foundational’ is perfectly fine.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(Disclaimer, these systems being ‘amoral’ is also not really correct, but somewhat moreso in my argument against describing their actions as human …)

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Slightly tangential but I accidentally made some people at work annoyed by insisting that ‘hallucinate’ is the wrong word because hallucinations are situated in biological and social (even spiritual) contexts. And not at all akin to ‘amoral pattern errors’.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do have a sense that your thoughts are backed up my lots more thoughts. (Communicating ideas/research is a challenge …) But yeah. Higher education in Aus is not one thing, it’s partially categories of things, but also just a big complex picture. I think this complexity gets lost a lot.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also. Thanks for this thread. I am trying to write up a thing at the moment (I’m a very novice researcher) and I was trying to address ‘broader higher ed’ in a way that seems to be very logistical call difficult (and a big design flaw of my research) so your first point is productive to think about.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m starting to get very fixated on the question of ‘what is teaching’ (which is my day job in Aus higher ed). I used to wonder ‘what is learning’ and I still do, just both now …

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still on this topic, and after having marked a bunch of very normal games this morning, this is also something that really is happening. I am interesting to know how education actually could evolve to some new better place. (Worse for sure, but also better?) www.smh.com.au/national/che...

smh.com.au

‘Cheating jackets’, button cameras, rice-sized earpieces: Is this the end of uni exams?

Seconds after students sat down in the exam hall in Sydney in July this year, the paper appeared on Chinese social media site RedNote.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meanwhile, my son changed his picture on whatsapp to a random guy and I didn't notice for several months.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another human thought gets lost into whatever social media structure this actually is, at any rate. And, I'm off to get coffee and engage with student art.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've been vaguely trying to read academic research around the pedagogical impacts of the basic current free tools, but even academics' blog posts (which don't require years long review etc) seem to become irrelevant very fast, if they even were relevant in the first place. Often seems hard to tell.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can relate to environmental and plagiarism discourse around AI. But, where is the larger future being discussed? I'm not even sure why anyone would claim to really understand what the future may hold yet.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This week's framing of AI as an 'arms race' (with unknowable parameters) makes more sense to me. I've never understood why my workplaces have so enthusiastically adopted tools they don't seem to understand, or why people are angry with their granny for making a shopping list with an obsequious LLM.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m so exhausted by the more pointless and fixable problems in universities. Very grateful for the NTEU.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That’s an interesting idea. There’s a full strike for us Wednesday.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m enjoying Silo. (The TV series. I only read Book 1.) But this is SO bleak. That’s a weird dynamic for a story. I think few stories are THIS bleak.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Btw. I was just hiking and listening to ‘the price of honey’ which is a slightly cynical but interesting speculative fiction take on future relationships …

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My kids eat those. I don’t eat nuts, so my suggestion is ‘an apple’, I’m afraid.

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh. Is S3 out soon? My 16yo and I were loving it.

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