Tiia
@tiiakel.bsky.social
library tech + writer
also @roughcutfilm.bsky.social (on hiatus)
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also @roughcutfilm.bsky.social (on hiatus)
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I'm in @theconversation.com this week sharing findings from RentTech research that @chandnigupta.bsky.social and I worked on together for @cprc-research.bsky.social
Dark patterns, vague privacy policies, dodgy personality quizzes + reward programs are just some of the things renters deal with!
Dark patterns, vague privacy policies, dodgy personality quizzes + reward programs are just some of the things renters deal with!
Personality tests, dodgy reward programs, AI bots: how rent tech platforms make renting a ‘dehumanising’ experience
Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
theconversation.com
September 22, 2026 at 5:35 AM
I'm in @theconversation.com this week sharing findings from RentTech research that @chandnigupta.bsky.social and I worked on together for @cprc-research.bsky.social
Dark patterns, vague privacy policies, dodgy personality quizzes + reward programs are just some of the things renters deal with!
Dark patterns, vague privacy policies, dodgy personality quizzes + reward programs are just some of the things renters deal with!
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No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries by @gossippractice.bsky.social
September 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries by @gossippractice.bsky.social
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Whoever at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk assigned this to Anne Carson, thank you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · On Rosalía
We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Whoever at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk assigned this to Anne Carson, thank you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The lawn is an ontological panopticon, a diorama of class conflict, a site of bourgeois status-panic grafted onto the colonial-capitalist impulse.”
This glorious essay from Overland 259 is part of our magazine's ongoing war on lawns:
This glorious essay from Overland 259 is part of our magazine's ongoing war on lawns:
Sir, the thorax - Overland literary journal
The inevitable morning, for example. Winter’s stars fi-nally trapped in droplets, their globular prisons beaded at bladepoint on knives of grass, a horrid boogie.
overland.org.au
August 20, 2026 at 2:02 AM
“The lawn is an ontological panopticon, a diorama of class conflict, a site of bourgeois status-panic grafted onto the colonial-capitalist impulse.”
This glorious essay from Overland 259 is part of our magazine's ongoing war on lawns:
This glorious essay from Overland 259 is part of our magazine's ongoing war on lawns:
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Also: it’s harmful + naive for the govt to conflate machine learning for cancer research with sycophantic chatbots. This broad “AI” umbrella terminology is some misleading spin that only benefits companies like Anthropic.
Albanese's AI investment won't create mass jobs - the 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centres, writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Don't be fooled, Albanese's 'AI investment' won't create mass jobs - Greg Jericho
The 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centres
www.deepcutnews.com
July 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Also: it’s harmful + naive for the govt to conflate machine learning for cancer research with sycophantic chatbots. This broad “AI” umbrella terminology is some misleading spin that only benefits companies like Anthropic.
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and now for some good Maine news www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
www.bangordailynews.com
July 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
and now for some good Maine news www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
need a high res copy of the Newman one…
The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it.
movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...
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June 21, 2026 at 6:52 AM
need a high res copy of the Newman one…
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Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
May 24, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
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In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
tante.cc
April 21, 2026 at 9:14 PM
In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
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In our final piece in collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social, Tara Grace explores loss, embodiment, and continuity in the 2025 @melbcinematheque.bsky.social season, 'Mother Tongue: Australian Women in Animation', guest programmed by Dr Ruth Richards.
tinyurl.com/4khyk4jp
tinyurl.com/4khyk4jp
“Stories Help. We Live”: Somatic Memory in Australian Women’s Animation
Tara Grace reflects on themes of loss and circularity in a standout Melbourne Cinémathèque season.
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March 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
In our final piece in collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social, Tara Grace explores loss, embodiment, and continuity in the 2025 @melbcinematheque.bsky.social season, 'Mother Tongue: Australian Women in Animation', guest programmed by Dr Ruth Richards.
tinyurl.com/4khyk4jp
tinyurl.com/4khyk4jp
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"Where Joaquin sought to haunt, Avellana instead immortalised."
Gabe Tejada delves into Nick Joaquin's revered play, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO, and what its 1965 adaptation loses by negating the writer's experiments with form and temporality.
tinyurl.com/4ye29cat
Gabe Tejada delves into Nick Joaquin's revered play, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO, and what its 1965 adaptation loses by negating the writer's experiments with form and temporality.
tinyurl.com/4ye29cat
To See or Not to See: Looking at ‘A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino’
On the politics and aesthetics of Nick Joaquin’s landmark play, and what its 1965 film adaptation ignores.
tinyurl.com
March 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
"Where Joaquin sought to haunt, Avellana instead immortalised."
Gabe Tejada delves into Nick Joaquin's revered play, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO, and what its 1965 adaptation loses by negating the writer's experiments with form and temporality.
tinyurl.com/4ye29cat
Gabe Tejada delves into Nick Joaquin's revered play, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO, and what its 1965 adaptation loses by negating the writer's experiments with form and temporality.
tinyurl.com/4ye29cat
fried some eggs for friends on our weekend away and EIGHT out of ten eggs had double yolks in them which has to signal either wonderful good fortune or unthinkable misery ahead
March 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
fried some eggs for friends on our weekend away and EIGHT out of ten eggs had double yolks in them which has to signal either wonderful good fortune or unthinkable misery ahead
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Dylan Rowen maps itinerant traces of 'home' throughout the oeuvre of Chantal Akerman, from 1968's SAUTE MA VILLE to her final film, 2015's NO HOME MOVIE, examining her lifelong interests in the themes of place, embodiment, queer desire, and matriarchal lineages.
tinyurl.com/ypa6a7ze
tinyurl.com/ypa6a7ze
Traces and Outlines: Chantal Akerman’s Fractured Oeuvre
Dylan Rowen observes and queries the meaning of home throughout the Belgian director’s vast, inimitable body of work.
tinyurl.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Dylan Rowen maps itinerant traces of 'home' throughout the oeuvre of Chantal Akerman, from 1968's SAUTE MA VILLE to her final film, 2015's NO HOME MOVIE, examining her lifelong interests in the themes of place, embodiment, queer desire, and matriarchal lineages.
tinyurl.com/ypa6a7ze
tinyurl.com/ypa6a7ze
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"Cameras are weapons, so film the police, and don’t let them film you."
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera image as seen in Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
tinyurl.com/745jxt6b
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera image as seen in Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
tinyurl.com/745jxt6b
Dead Dreams: Netflix’s ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ and the Body Camera Image
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
tinyurl.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 PM
"Cameras are weapons, so film the police, and don’t let them film you."
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera image as seen in Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
tinyurl.com/745jxt6b
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera image as seen in Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
tinyurl.com/745jxt6b
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As part of our collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social and @melbcinematheque.bsky.social, Liên Ta reflects on themes of religious devotion and sacrifice in several films screened during the Cinémathèque's season ‘Cine de Oro: Treasures of Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age.'
tinyurl.com/2hycfntr
tinyurl.com/2hycfntr
At the Cinémathèque: Faith and Futility in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
In another instalment of our partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Liên Ta reflects on the September season’s miracles and tragedies.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
As part of our collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social and @melbcinematheque.bsky.social, Liên Ta reflects on themes of religious devotion and sacrifice in several films screened during the Cinémathèque's season ‘Cine de Oro: Treasures of Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age.'
tinyurl.com/2hycfntr
tinyurl.com/2hycfntr
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bloody heck, nearing 100 (out of 124) withdrawals including pretty much all the big names and some surprises (to me)
Writers' Week under threat of collapse as list of writers leaving nears 100 - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A multitude of high-profile authors has joined the flood of names demolishing the Writers' Week lineup.
www.indailysa.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
bloody heck, nearing 100 (out of 124) withdrawals including pretty much all the big names and some surprises (to me)
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Absolutely insane.
Announcement by Adelaide Writers Festival cancelling invitation to Randa Abdel-
Fattah
Fattah
Adelaide Festival Board Statement
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Absolutely insane.
a wonderful holiday companion
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
a wonderful holiday companion
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"The picket line [...] becomes not just a place of protest but of community and shared knowledge."
Maudie Osborne on SALT OF THE EARTH, a blacklisted 1954 film that dramatised the real events of a New Mexico miners' strike with women at its centre.
tinyurl.com/yc8x9t3k
Maudie Osborne on SALT OF THE EARTH, a blacklisted 1954 film that dramatised the real events of a New Mexico miners' strike with women at its centre.
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Hold the Line: The Feminist Legacy of ‘Salt of the Earth’
In this 1950s collaboration between blacklisted filmmakers and miners’ rights activists, women are key to the fight for workers’ liberation.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"The picket line [...] becomes not just a place of protest but of community and shared knowledge."
Maudie Osborne on SALT OF THE EARTH, a blacklisted 1954 film that dramatised the real events of a New Mexico miners' strike with women at its centre.
tinyurl.com/yc8x9t3k
Maudie Osborne on SALT OF THE EARTH, a blacklisted 1954 film that dramatised the real events of a New Mexico miners' strike with women at its centre.
tinyurl.com/yc8x9t3k
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"Happiness, community, and fantasy are no less present in spaces like this."
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Lino Brocka season.
tinyurl.com/4j6ru4k2
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Lino Brocka season.
tinyurl.com/4j6ru4k2
At the Cinémathèque: Lino Brocka’s Scenes of Defiance
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the Melbourne Cinémathèque’s season ‘Marx, Melodrama and Marcos: Li…
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December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Happiness, community, and fantasy are no less present in spaces like this."
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Lino Brocka season.
tinyurl.com/4j6ru4k2
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Lino Brocka season.
tinyurl.com/4j6ru4k2
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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🚨 Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
🚨 Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
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“I still want to remind people that this is a collective ritual.”
Oscar Bloomfield talks to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about being present, hearing music everywhere, and revisiting his first short, BULLET, ahead of a rare Sydney screening next week.
tinyurl.com/3yp5njay
Oscar Bloomfield talks to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about being present, hearing music everywhere, and revisiting his first short, BULLET, ahead of a rare Sydney screening next week.
tinyurl.com/3yp5njay
“Cinema as a Recorder of Humanity”: An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Oscar Bloomfield speaks with the visionary interdisciplinary artist about his very first film, hearing music everywhere, and being present.
tinyurl.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“I still want to remind people that this is a collective ritual.”
Oscar Bloomfield talks to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about being present, hearing music everywhere, and revisiting his first short, BULLET, ahead of a rare Sydney screening next week.
tinyurl.com/3yp5njay
Oscar Bloomfield talks to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about being present, hearing music everywhere, and revisiting his first short, BULLET, ahead of a rare Sydney screening next week.
tinyurl.com/3yp5njay
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I'm currently looking to talk with renters who have used a digital portal / app to conduct their own routine rental inspection without the real estate agent coming to your house. This is sometimes called a 'Remote Inspection'
If this is you, please get in touch!
If this is you, please get in touch!
I’m researching ways that digital technologies in Australia's private rental sector are impacting renters and housing justice.
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani
Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!
www.samanthafloreani.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm currently looking to talk with renters who have used a digital portal / app to conduct their own routine rental inspection without the real estate agent coming to your house. This is sometimes called a 'Remote Inspection'
If this is you, please get in touch!
If this is you, please get in touch!