MJ O’Neill 🏳️⚧️
@mjoneillchw.bsky.social
A superhuman musician who sometimes does other things but loves making music most ❤️
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If you’ve ever been curious about my music but didn’t know where to start, I put together this youtube playlist of 15 songs that people tend to especially dig and/or put in their theatre shows or videogames or movies or whatever.
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AI videos suck for soooo many reasons, but one of the worst so far is telling my mum the parrot she’s been following on IG is AI, and her saying ‘it’s okay, I just feel stupid’. Stop making my very clever mum fell stupid, you bastards!!
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
AI videos suck for soooo many reasons, but one of the worst so far is telling my mum the parrot she’s been following on IG is AI, and her saying ‘it’s okay, I just feel stupid’. Stop making my very clever mum fell stupid, you bastards!!
Immaculate.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Immaculate.
I want to make a time loop movie where everything is slightly different on each loop and people get gradually older and stuff and everyone remembers what happened in the previous loops.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I want to make a time loop movie where everything is slightly different on each loop and people get gradually older and stuff and everyone remembers what happened in the previous loops.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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liberal zionism has now concluded that mass murdering fascists like Netanyahu are not only acceptable allies, but are more deserving of unswerving fealty than innocent Palestinian children.
Don't ever defend atrocities. Foot in the door theory is real. Eventually, you end up here.
Don't ever defend atrocities. Foot in the door theory is real. Eventually, you end up here.
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
liberal zionism has now concluded that mass murdering fascists like Netanyahu are not only acceptable allies, but are more deserving of unswerving fealty than innocent Palestinian children.
Don't ever defend atrocities. Foot in the door theory is real. Eventually, you end up here.
Don't ever defend atrocities. Foot in the door theory is real. Eventually, you end up here.
A Quick Case Study in Fake/Real Evaluation
Just got presented this ad. It struck me as odd. I think it’s an ai-generated image. Here’s how I investigate that.
Just got presented this ad. It struck me as odd. I think it’s an ai-generated image. Here’s how I investigate that.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A Quick Case Study in Fake/Real Evaluation
Just got presented this ad. It struck me as odd. I think it’s an ai-generated image. Here’s how I investigate that.
Just got presented this ad. It struck me as odd. I think it’s an ai-generated image. Here’s how I investigate that.
A lot of people think disinformation is fought by being individually smarter or making individuals smarter. But, actually, community and collective engagement is the only true defence. Truth is fluid in today’s world because individuals are isolated and disconnected from each other. Solve that.
Taiwan recognized the threat of disinformation from china around 2000-ish and engaged in a society-wide cognitive inoculation strategy that focuses on prebunking and media literacy education.
www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/beyond-...
www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/beyond-...
Beyond Censorship: Taiwan’s Model for Combating Disinformation — FOREIGN AFFAIRS REVIEW
In today's digital and globalised world, disinformation is a greater threat than ever. In 2024, when major democracies held elections, fears of its impact were especially strong. According to the Co...
www.foreignaffairsreview.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A lot of people think disinformation is fought by being individually smarter or making individuals smarter. But, actually, community and collective engagement is the only true defence. Truth is fluid in today’s world because individuals are isolated and disconnected from each other. Solve that.
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Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.
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Most creative industries run on a business model that demands creatives constantly feed it with pitched ideas or free work on spec, but offers them no long-term employment or financial security. These industries are *subsidized* by the other work artists are forced to take on to support themselves.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Most creative industries run on a business model that demands creatives constantly feed it with pitched ideas or free work on spec, but offers them no long-term employment or financial security. These industries are *subsidized* by the other work artists are forced to take on to support themselves.
Today I had a very emotional conversation at work and at the end they said ‘we really value you - it’s okay to tell us when you feel upset or unsafe here and we’ll always do our best to help you feel safer and more secure’ and that sincere, caring, thoughtful response has wrecked my ptsd ass.
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Today I had a very emotional conversation at work and at the end they said ‘we really value you - it’s okay to tell us when you feel upset or unsafe here and we’ll always do our best to help you feel safer and more secure’ and that sincere, caring, thoughtful response has wrecked my ptsd ass.
Pfft, they always say this, and then we always do, and then there’s always new and terrifying extreme weather events, and then we always approve more coal and gas projects, and then we always etc etc
Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies
Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies
Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed to meet 2035 goal
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Pfft, they always say this, and then we always do, and then there’s always new and terrifying extreme weather events, and then we always approve more coal and gas projects, and then we always etc etc
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
Dracula’s gonna finally find love with a 13 year old who he’ll later dump when she’s older so he can date the 19 year old lead of fifth element.
You know. Like Luc Besson did. Because he is shit.
You know. Like Luc Besson did. Because he is shit.
Wow where did he get an amazing idea like that
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Dracula’s gonna finally find love with a 13 year old who he’ll later dump when she’s older so he can date the 19 year old lead of fifth element.
You know. Like Luc Besson did. Because he is shit.
You know. Like Luc Besson did. Because he is shit.
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three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1315...
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1315...
My work is awesome because you can just spend a couple of hours chatting to an amazing woman about the idea of personalised healthcare as it relates to colonialism and she'll also be practicing acrobatics on a rope, 6 feet above the ground, right in front of you, the entire time, casual af.
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
My work is awesome because you can just spend a couple of hours chatting to an amazing woman about the idea of personalised healthcare as it relates to colonialism and she'll also be practicing acrobatics on a rope, 6 feet above the ground, right in front of you, the entire time, casual af.
I want ruin all subtlety and point out that this is emblematic of why the Peter Jackson movies are actually terrible adaptations
I’m being hunted by phantoms. They’re very close. But I think I’ve worked out a plan to escape them. I’ll simply use my magic ring, which sends me into the phantom dimension, where phantoms are from, and where I’ll only be visible by people who have phantom vision, such as phantoms
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I want ruin all subtlety and point out that this is emblematic of why the Peter Jackson movies are actually terrible adaptations
Speak for yourself. This is me trying to talk to my millennial cousins as a millennial.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Speak for yourself. This is me trying to talk to my millennial cousins as a millennial.
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If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️
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imagine if Labor cabinet ministers & MPs had an ounce of the character & courage of Senator Fatima Payman—they could prevent harms, achieve positive changes or at the least represent their constituents instead of Big Business, miners, weapons corps, financiers, property developers, landlords etc
Senator Payman: "The more I’ve lived and worked in public life, the more I’ve come to realise that bravery isn’t about never feeling afraid. It’s about recognising fear for what it is and choosing to act anyway. It’s a choice open to us all, not just those whose names end up in the history books."
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
imagine if Labor cabinet ministers & MPs had an ounce of the character & courage of Senator Fatima Payman—they could prevent harms, achieve positive changes or at the least represent their constituents instead of Big Business, miners, weapons corps, financiers, property developers, landlords etc
“Well, if welfare was nice, then unemployed people wouldn’t feel bad??”
This government is incapable of understanding that actively making people feel bad for being unemployed is a strange and monstrous policy.
This government is incapable of understanding that actively making people feel bad for being unemployed is a strange and monstrous policy.
Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because
"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"
gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here
"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"
gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Well, if welfare was nice, then unemployed people wouldn’t feel bad??”
This government is incapable of understanding that actively making people feel bad for being unemployed is a strange and monstrous policy.
This government is incapable of understanding that actively making people feel bad for being unemployed is a strange and monstrous policy.
This is a story about a lovely man with a lovely body of work but is also emblematic of a contemporary music press populated predominantly by privileged white dudes. Much of the article is still built around a premise of meritocracy and good rising to the top that is just… so absurd in today’s era.
"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is a story about a lovely man with a lovely body of work but is also emblematic of a contemporary music press populated predominantly by privileged white dudes. Much of the article is still built around a premise of meritocracy and good rising to the top that is just… so absurd in today’s era.
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When you watch zionist billionaires buy up and control almost all of social media, it makes complete sense that she felt comfortable saying this on a public stage
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Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
When you watch zionist billionaires buy up and control almost all of social media, it makes complete sense that she felt comfortable saying this on a public stage
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Wait a minute. I was just there. I'm not paying you for something I already know.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Wait a minute. I was just there. I'm not paying you for something I already know.
To put it another way: People don’t think you’re useless because they don’t know what you’re doing, Albo. They think you’re useless because they *do* know what you’re doing. It’s not a marketing or PR problem. It’s a product problem.
It feels illustrative that the Qld LNP govt and the federal Labor govt seem to have the same comms rn. Both are pumping out message after message of ‘look, we’re helping, we’re doing stuff, look’. Suggests they’re both getting feedback of ‘you’re not doing anything useful’. And, not examining why…
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
To put it another way: People don’t think you’re useless because they don’t know what you’re doing, Albo. They think you’re useless because they *do* know what you’re doing. It’s not a marketing or PR problem. It’s a product problem.