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Sue Young

@suetas.bsky.social
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Editor, publisher, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth in southern lutruwita Tasmania a bit better.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 22h
Australians – remember the CES?
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most Australians would think it was interesting if their friend married someone overseas and look forward to meeting them. When I married my Chinese husband in China in 1986, the visa process was neither long nor expensive. I feel so sad for the way Australia behaves now.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if car manufacturers just said 'Oops, car's gone rogue again!' when the steering failed on the highway.
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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm currently in the middle of PhD research that is showing unequivocally that this is not even close to a thing. Women are still massively underrepresented in the curriculum and almost every teacher I interviewed raised the manosphere's influence on male students as an explicit blocker.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
With so many women choosing the bear, demand is through the roof.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meanwhile, Hobart council has been trying to promote cycling and people are just about losing their minds over it.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just because big tech companies want to move at hyperspeed, doesn’t mean we need to fast track & roll out the red carpet for them. We need to consider very carefully the impact on workers, as well as the mega extraction of our intelligence, knowledge, culture, water and energy.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#auspol powerful read here! It's all so familiar...
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What gets me about this em dash thing is that all well-read humans know AI did not invent the em dash, AI writing doesn't even use em dashes that often anymore, and yet the em dash zombie Will Not Die.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm getting the feeling that writers are now so scared of being accused of writing with AI that they won't use em (or en) dashes at all, and keep misusing semicolons instead. Meanwhile, the AI stuff I see on social media has moved on, with hardly a dash to be seen. #amediting
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'No such thing as bad housing, just poor clothing choices.' A jumper isn't going to help with the killer heat that he's doing nothing to assuage.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The ground is pretty soft in the Huon right now. I've finally emailed a story back to the author after two earlier attempts were interrupted by people getting their cars stuck in my paddocks, with all the ensuing carry-on. 1/-
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Well here's an old book that escaped Anthropic! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Library book returned after 150 years, $28k fine waived
A NSW library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the 150 years since it was borrowed.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Back in Melbourne for a few days. I must be a proper Tasmanian now, was the only person wearing a beanie in the airport Uber queue. It was cold!
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Can't help but notice that in the novel I'm reading, no female character is introduced without some description of her hair. She might even be not so much a woman as a brunette, blonde or redhead. The men? I have no idea if they even have any hair, let alone what colour it is.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing, horrifying photo.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
These companies are out to mine our resources – our water, our space, our power generation capacity and our creativity – as cheaply and carelessly as they can and take the profits back home. Albanese must show some spine.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/06/2026
Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies and their rhetoric infringe on academia in harmful ways, mirroring past uncritical acceptance of industry logics, such as those of tobacco and petroleum. In this position piece, we tease apart and explain why phrases like 'generative AI' impede scholarly discussion because by design these expressions are used to dazzle and sidestep scrutiny. Furthermore, we contend with the AI industry's logics to enable rejecting frames such as: that we must embrace the future, that this hype cycle is unique, that anthropomorphism and circular reasoning hold water when discussing AI systems, and that students are now all cheating or all need to use AI. To these ends, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. For each point we raise, we include pointers to relevant work to further inform and convince our colleagues.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Phones were one of the first things to be enshittified. Once a direct, quick way of communicating, now people just don't take phone calls because they got tired of scammers.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That is next-level taking the piss.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Watching The Survivors on Netflix and enjoying spotting the Tasmanian locations fo different scenes.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sinking into quiet despair under the quiet weight of ChatGPT quietly sprinkling 'quiet' into everything I see online.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“Best life” Humans are so fucked up.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/06/2026
The hardest part about proving genocide is "Intent." Israel's fascist defense minister BenGvir just proved again his intent to mass murder everyone in Lebanon, declaring "ALL OF LEBANON MUST BURN." Block arms to Israel. Sanction these war criminals. Any politician denying this is complicit.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 18/06/2026
Fact remains that Pauline Hanson is a racist with a decades-long history of racism, so if you support her you're supporting that. There's no escaping it.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
OK, finally watching Pauline Hanson's speech. On Sky News's Youtube. Superb timing with the banner, whoever unrolled it just as Hanson was getting into The Desperate State of the Poor.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Great thread. If we ever move back into a town or city, I definitely want a cargo bike again.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yep. The only reason my husband got diagnosed fairly early with prostate cancer was that the GP he was now seeing for diabetes suggested a routine PSA test. Without the diabetes he'd never have been seeing a GP.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Wow! So when we've cooked the planet and died off like the proverbial boiled frog, these beasties will punch the air with their little supercoils and go Yay! Finally it's our turn!
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Davide Galati @davidegalati.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Notice, too, that politicians and commentators demand that peaceful protests against Israel’s genocide are banned as “hate marches”. Yet many of them have nothing to say when families are burned out of their homes in Belfast because of anti-migrant hysteria." #pogrom #ireland #migrants
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The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer
In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The news reported on Neale Daniher's 40th wedding anniversary, and hubs and I just realised our 40th came and went some time last week. We can't even remember the exact date. Still happily married though!
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Too many projects on deck: had one of my InDesign dreams in which I work on a totally imaginary project complete with made-up text and wake up wondering if it's a real task that I've simply forgotten to do. #amediting
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Cargo bikes are fabulous.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In the May issue of #AHAPerspectives, there are two articles from historian-teachers that take a critical eye to AI in education today. 🗃️ @johnfea1.bsky.social is retiring after nearly 3 decades in college classrooms, and AI was one factor in why he's stepping down now:
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In an Age of Distraction – AHA
The tension between AI and the teaching of historical thinking reflects a larger question: What is the purpose of higher education?
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Richard, mate, if you're going for cheap & simple I can let you have my granddaughter's yellow plastic ducky for a bargain $1 million. VGC, only used in the bath.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is appalling.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fergodsake the whole point of reading is to learn about other ways of being!
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
'No cuts to frontline staff' said state treasurer Eric Abetz - but here we are. In particular, this service helped members of our increasingly aged population avoid an ambulance callout and/or the 50k trip to the nearest hospital.
Cygnet Family Practice Urgent Care and After-Hours Service
Unfortunately, due to a lack of ongoing funding from the state government budget, this service will cease from 30th June 2026.
This nationally Medicare awarded, innovative service, led by nurse practitioners and community paramedics, has been available to the people of the Huon Valley for the past 4 years. It has provided access to an additional 100 'on the day' appointments for health care needs when waiting times to see GPs was 4 weeks.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This! ‘There's this recognition that on so many of these big challenges we are facing, it's not necessarily left versus right, it's actually vested interests and their stranglehold on the major parties versus the Australian people." #auspol #insiders www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Pocock open to party of independents as One Nation support climbs
The independent senator says Australians are frustrated with a political system that "does not work for them".
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Examples of striking Dutch bike-lane and urban biking infrastructure via Modacity Life.
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Aussie Gaza flotilla captives (including Sam Woripa) have now been released from Israeli detention. Humanitarian civilians should not have to risk abduction, detention + military violence simply to deliver aid whilst Australia continues business as usual - no sanctions, continued weapons trade.
Alt text: Stylised retro protest poster illustration of Indigenous Australian activist Sam Woripa Watson from the 2026 Gaza flotilla. Sam is shown in close-up portraiture with light brown hair, beard, glasses, stretched earlobes, and a keffiyeh scarf, rendered in flattened mid-century modern pop-art colours and grainy screenprint textures. Behind him are overlapping Aboriginal and Palestinian flags against a pale blue sky and stylised ocean waves. Large bold text at the top reads: “AID IS NOT A CRIME.” Beneath it: “STARVATION IS. TORTURE IS. ABDUCTION IS.” At the bottom: “SANCTION ISRAEL. JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE.” Handwritten text near the lower right reads: “Sam Woripa Watson - Gaza flotilla, 2026.”
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Went into the city yesterday and can I just say, I think women's interests would be better served by creating more public toilets than by fussing over who's allowed to use them.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reason number eleventy million and forty-two not to use AI for every damn thing and not to believe what it says.
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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This thread! Yes, James, you're supposed to have read the sources you cite, it's called scholarship! Old mate also says it's actual 'academic malpractice' not to have an AI check your paper.
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