Eva Lomski
@evalomski.bsky.social
Short stories, mainly. 🇦🇺🦘Shortlist Richell Prize ‘22. Published inc: Glimmer Train, Best Australian Stories, Cleaver, Sequestrum, Island, Hawaii Pacific Review, Earth’s Daughters, Kill Your Darlings. Forever falling & getting back on the horse 📝
Nobody in Australia, at least not since Crocodile Dundee, says, “He was the pregnant sheila's hubby.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Nobody in Australia, at least not since Crocodile Dundee, says, “He was the pregnant sheila's hubby.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
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. Autumn evening~
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
. Autumn evening~
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
there's joy also
in loneliness.
Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry
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how pleasurable
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
how pleasurable
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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The Real “Rules” of Haiku
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
The Real “Rules” of Haiku — The Poetry Place
This article is for: Beginner and Intermediate poets
www.writebetterpoems.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The Real “Rules” of Haiku
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry
www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...
Wait, this article quotes sources other than the BBC?!? To me that suggests the authors of this “article” didn’t read the books themselves. How’s that a genuine critique? “18 of the best books of the year so far” … according to publicity releases & AI???
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Flashlight to Katabasis: 18 of the best books of the year so far
From an "epic" coming-of-age story to "delicious" dark academia – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Wait, this article quotes sources other than the BBC?!? To me that suggests the authors of this “article” didn’t read the books themselves. How’s that a genuine critique? “18 of the best books of the year so far” … according to publicity releases & AI???
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#bookreview #AI
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
September 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
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There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:
Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
www.theatlantic.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:
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It's not just Good Reads.
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated
Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.
www.thebookseller.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's not just Good Reads.
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
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Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:
Welcome to the Janky Web
The AI takeover is changing everything about the internet—and not necessarily for the better.
bit.ly
June 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:
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“There are good uses for AI at a newspaper, which is why it’s so puzzling that everyone keeps trying to make AI do not those tasks but the ones it is bad at, the ones that we humans most want to keep for ourselves,” @katzish.bsky.social writes:
Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile?
Reducing the role of human editorial judgment is the last thing opinion journalism needs.
bit.ly
June 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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“Researchers found that chatbots optimized for engagement would, perversely, behave in manipulative and deceptive ways with the most vulnerable users”
#ai #chatbot
#ai #chatbot
'You were supposed to break': ChatGPT’s dark turn with vulnerable users exposed https://twp.ai/4iocH6
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'You were supposed to break': ChatGPT’s dark turn with vulnerable users exposed
twp.ai
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Wikipedia Paused AI Summary Rollout After Editors Fought Back https://twp.ai/4iocNk
www.vice.com
Wikipedia Paused AI Summary Rollout After Editors Fought Back
twp.ai
June 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wikipedia Paused AI Summary Rollout After Editors Fought Back https://twp.ai/4iocNk
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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
“The 🇦🇺federal government says it will stand up for the Australian film industry.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/895865... #trump #tariff #movie #australia
May 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
“The 🇦🇺federal government says it will stand up for the Australian film industry.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/895865... #trump #tariff #movie #australia