Ali from the 'burbs
@grissallia.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Ambigenderous trans misfit. Mood whiplash generator. Three coffees in a trenchcoat. Australian. Parent. AuDHD. Pronouns: any
In a time of performative cruelty, kindness is an act of resistance.
In a time of performative cruelty, kindness is an act of resistance.
Pinned
I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
“If you don’t do those, I’ll add another S”
Sussan Ley is talking about reforming industrial relations. Does she want lower wages? Lower levels of strikes? A return to WorkChoices?
Desperate times yield particularly desperate measures for Sussan Ley
www.crikey.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“If you don’t do those, I’ll add another S”
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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I’m a disabled homeless trans woman living in a motel in the short term. If anyone can help me out with funds to extend my stay and cover necessities, I would be immensely grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕
#crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
#crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m a disabled homeless trans woman living in a motel in the short term. If anyone can help me out with funds to extend my stay and cover necessities, I would be immensely grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕
#crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
#crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
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November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but it’s wild to see a mayor like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who just unashamedly loves his city?
I can’t imagine it in Australia. I didn’t even know who Melbourne’s Lord Mayor was without looking it up.
I can’t imagine it in Australia. I didn’t even know who Melbourne’s Lord Mayor was without looking it up.
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but it’s wild to see a mayor like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who just unashamedly loves his city?
I can’t imagine it in Australia. I didn’t even know who Melbourne’s Lord Mayor was without looking it up.
I can’t imagine it in Australia. I didn’t even know who Melbourne’s Lord Mayor was without looking it up.
I never understood why, just that I must.
if you're transgender you have to post. if you accomplish something else then good. if you accomplish nothing else then good. but you have to post.
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I never understood why, just that I must.
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one thing I want to do in the future is to make the public case for a government owned mastodon instance that political leaders should at the very least cross-post their social media communications to (and the agency that runs it will be called the Posts Office)
would’ve been a good opportunity to actually make a public app designed for youth before all this came into effect
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
one thing I want to do in the future is to make the public case for a government owned mastodon instance that political leaders should at the very least cross-post their social media communications to (and the agency that runs it will be called the Posts Office)
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Honestly, the great thing about AI is it’s going to free up so much spare time for us to be misinformed and out of work.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Honestly, the great thing about AI is it’s going to free up so much spare time for us to be misinformed and out of work.
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I heard there was a secret chat
That David knew, and it pleased his cat
But you don't really PSPSPSPSP do you?
That David knew, and it pleased his cat
But you don't really PSPSPSPSP do you?
December 15, 2024 at 9:09 PM
I heard there was a secret chat
That David knew, and it pleased his cat
But you don't really PSPSPSPSP do you?
That David knew, and it pleased his cat
But you don't really PSPSPSPSP do you?
Australia: technical skills required too, I believe...
Some other countries to consider:
* Canada (visas VERY tough without specific technical skills)
* Australia
* Spain
* Thailand (good culturally, problematic government, cheap and beautiful)
* Costa Rica (beautiful, lots of English speakers)
* Netherlands via Dutch Antilles
* Canada (visas VERY tough without specific technical skills)
* Australia
* Spain
* Thailand (good culturally, problematic government, cheap and beautiful)
* Costa Rica (beautiful, lots of English speakers)
* Netherlands via Dutch Antilles
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Australia: technical skills required too, I believe...
Incomprehensibly Australian post
In this way Ned Kelly is very much the Bert Newton of doing crimes
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Incomprehensibly Australian post
13yo is almost finished Year 7. They keep getting merit awards in music.
At 12yo, in Year 6, their teacher kept on criticising them, and giving them demerits.
How odd...
At 12yo, in Year 6, their teacher kept on criticising them, and giving them demerits.
How odd...
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
13yo is almost finished Year 7. They keep getting merit awards in music.
At 12yo, in Year 6, their teacher kept on criticising them, and giving them demerits.
How odd...
At 12yo, in Year 6, their teacher kept on criticising them, and giving them demerits.
How odd...
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Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image
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Hmm Telstra no longer allows access to their secret starter plan (cheaper than cheapest online) without a concession. But if you have a health card or pensioner card on top they will knock $19 off. Im kinda stuck with Telstra as my folks wont change and i manage the account so have to be in it
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hmm Telstra no longer allows access to their secret starter plan (cheaper than cheapest online) without a concession. But if you have a health card or pensioner card on top they will knock $19 off. Im kinda stuck with Telstra as my folks wont change and i manage the account so have to be in it
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One doom I didn’t anticipate is AI slop making it impossible to even learn from context clues. Imagine you’re a kid trying to learn to read and school failed you and this is presented as a legitimate poster, what are you meant to make of that? Literally nonsensifying the world.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One doom I didn’t anticipate is AI slop making it impossible to even learn from context clues. Imagine you’re a kid trying to learn to read and school failed you and this is presented as a legitimate poster, what are you meant to make of that? Literally nonsensifying the world.
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Instagram has become such a mess …. it’s becoming unusable …
Me: walking my dog, in the suburb I live in, in Australia just happens by chance to stumble across a stingray in the Sydney harbour so I take 30 secs video of it and share it on my insta profile.
Instagram: you don’t own this content.
Me: walking my dog, in the suburb I live in, in Australia just happens by chance to stumble across a stingray in the Sydney harbour so I take 30 secs video of it and share it on my insta profile.
Instagram: you don’t own this content.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Instagram has become such a mess …. it’s becoming unusable …
Me: walking my dog, in the suburb I live in, in Australia just happens by chance to stumble across a stingray in the Sydney harbour so I take 30 secs video of it and share it on my insta profile.
Instagram: you don’t own this content.
Me: walking my dog, in the suburb I live in, in Australia just happens by chance to stumble across a stingray in the Sydney harbour so I take 30 secs video of it and share it on my insta profile.
Instagram: you don’t own this content.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
Where have you gone therizinosaurus
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
happy thanksgiving from therizinosaurus, the forbidden turkey 🦃 therizinosaurus was a pot-bellied, 5-tonne herbivore from late cretaceous mongolia, best-known for the scythe-like claws on its hands
(art by @kaek.bsky.social)
(art by @kaek.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Where have you gone therizinosaurus
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
Coming Soon: CT Scan 2 - The Hunt for Kidney Stone
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Coming Soon: CT Scan 2 - The Hunt for Kidney Stone
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
Outside, getting some fresh air.
Context: FLA escaped and is now under the house.
Context: FLA escaped and is now under the house.
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Outside, getting some fresh air.
Context: FLA escaped and is now under the house.
Context: FLA escaped and is now under the house.
I do SO love being yelled at on the phone for not keeping a commitment to a client on deliverables.
A couple of small points of order:
- I didn't make the commitment to delivery
- I wasn't informed of the commitment to delivery
But the person who didn't get their deliverables didn't seem to care.
A couple of small points of order:
- I didn't make the commitment to delivery
- I wasn't informed of the commitment to delivery
But the person who didn't get their deliverables didn't seem to care.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I do SO love being yelled at on the phone for not keeping a commitment to a client on deliverables.
A couple of small points of order:
- I didn't make the commitment to delivery
- I wasn't informed of the commitment to delivery
But the person who didn't get their deliverables didn't seem to care.
A couple of small points of order:
- I didn't make the commitment to delivery
- I wasn't informed of the commitment to delivery
But the person who didn't get their deliverables didn't seem to care.
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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Life aspiration to get to this level
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Life aspiration to get to this level