Sarah Toa
@sarahtoa.bsky.social
🦘🦘🦘writer of books, essays and short stories, inlet dweller, living on Noongar Boodjar
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Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
June 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
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By the way, I feel like I'm one of the most accessible medical historians out there. If you have a question, you can ask me. THE REAL ME!
I genuinely feel sick.
A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
May 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
By the way, I feel like I'm one of the most accessible medical historians out there. If you have a question, you can ask me. THE REAL ME!
Our town servos just run out of fuel
Independent petrol stations running dry as suppliers cut off fuel to regional Australia www.9news.com.au/national/fue...
'Disgraceful': Petrol stations running dry as suppliers cut off fuel
www.9news.com.au
March 9, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Our town servos just run out of fuel
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Annual reminder for Australian writers and artists: join the Copyright Agency (it's free!) & register your works by 31 March to receive an annual lump-sum payment for their reuse
Copyright is even more precious as generative AI companies steal creative work!
Separate info below…
Copyright is even more precious as generative AI companies steal creative work!
Separate info below…
March 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Annual reminder for Australian writers and artists: join the Copyright Agency (it's free!) & register your works by 31 March to receive an annual lump-sum payment for their reuse
Copyright is even more precious as generative AI companies steal creative work!
Separate info below…
Copyright is even more precious as generative AI companies steal creative work!
Separate info below…
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And the rooms all smell like diesel
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window…
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
‘One for every year he's away’ she said…
― Tom Waits, Ninth & Hennepin (from “Rain Dogs”)
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window…
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
‘One for every year he's away’ she said…
― Tom Waits, Ninth & Hennepin (from “Rain Dogs”)
February 5, 2026 at 5:22 AM
And the rooms all smell like diesel
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window…
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
‘One for every year he's away’ she said…
― Tom Waits, Ninth & Hennepin (from “Rain Dogs”)
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window…
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
‘One for every year he's away’ she said…
― Tom Waits, Ninth & Hennepin (from “Rain Dogs”)
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Had to buy more biscuits today.
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Had to buy more biscuits today.
Boss move
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Boss move
I always knew his eyes looked too close together
January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I always knew his eyes looked too close together
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The moon seems to have a dedicated PR team, with news outlets hyping Wolf Moons, Super Blood Moons, Cold Moons, and more, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes. She explores what's behind the moon hype:
Stop Talking About the Moon
Just look at it.
bit.ly
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM
The moon seems to have a dedicated PR team, with news outlets hyping Wolf Moons, Super Blood Moons, Cold Moons, and more, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes. She explores what's behind the moon hype:
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WE BLOODY WON!! 🤖👊💥
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
WE BLOODY WON!! 🤖👊💥
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
Awesome news for Aussie writers & artists today: the Federal Government listened to us & agreed to back writers on the issue of copyright vs AI and big tech.
Well done to the Aussie arts community for collectively speaking out & standing our ground on this: we did it! 💪💪
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poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
October 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
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“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”
The Corrupt Incentives Behind Grade Inflation
“We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”
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'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […].
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
'Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. […].
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
#BookSky
My fave map ever
September 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My fave map ever
Um … illegal logging becomes ‘harvesting’
At the Press Club yesterday a reinforcement of the message from the Productivity Commission's interim report. To paraphrase: Australian creatives' work has already been harvested by foreign AI companies. We should change legislation locally to make Australian AI companies competitive.
Copyright reform could power local AI industry
Productivity Commissioner says critics have missed the point.
ia.acs.org.au
August 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Um … illegal logging becomes ‘harvesting’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size
Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
There goes Jared Diamond’s thesis
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Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt
August 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt
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Some osprey action shots from last month at Juanita Bay Park, Seattle.
August 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Some osprey action shots from last month at Juanita Bay Park, Seattle.
