Gwyn McClelland

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

In our unit this week, Asia Decolonised? we are reading about legacies of violence out of the atomic bombings, and the consequent bombings on the Korean Peninsula, and now it is unfortunately even more relevant for the 45 students.

Australia—DO NOT go there, do not.
Do not go to war with a madman.

Opinion | Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President?

In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised voters that he would end wars, not start them. Over the past year, he has instead ordered military strikes in seven nations. His appetite for military intervention grows with the eating.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI Hours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute

This is critically important for our future. The struggle over ethical parameters for AI use will determine whether authoritarian states can enact mass surveillance of their populations at granular level and allow machines to decide to kill people.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral and the Commemorations of the Bombing of Nagasaki Within 500 m of Ground Zero in Nagasaki in 1945 after the US Army’s atomic bombing, there was the rubble of a Roman Catholic cathedral known as St Mary’s. The area was already noted f...

New publication on the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral published in the Encyclopaedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... @springernature.com @nobigdiehl.bsky.social

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Conference on same dates as ASAA - sorry to miss this year!

About 20 minutes until the start of the protest

"Australia’s national #climate risk assessment report, released last week, revealed a horrifying future if urgent action to address global heating was not taken"

#Australia 🇦🇺
#ClimateEmergency

"Your journalistic antennae are raised immediately when people don't want to give you answers."

Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty on the "troubling" reality that the US government is far more transparent about the AUKUS submarines deal than Australia's government is.

🎧 theaus.in/4rhMet1

'It was agony': Grandparents injured in Sydney anti-Herzog protest A Sydney grandmother says she suffered four broken vertebrae after being "violently" pushed to the ground while trying to leave a protest on Monday night.

A Sydney grandmother says she suffered four broken vertebrae after being "violently" pushed to the ground while trying to leave a protest on Monday night.

We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country

Huge numbers here in Melbourne protesting the state-sponsored visit of the war criminal Isaac Herzog, president of Israel. We have shut down the centre of the city 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🍉🍉🍉🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Black Radical Thought in Japan A revelatory map of Afro-Asian solidarityThis groundbreaking study traces the resonances of Black radicalism in postwar Japan, charting the surprising and co...

I just noticed this book that’s coming out in July. I’ll need to check it out, definitely!

Black Radical Thought in Japan: An Afro-Asian Intellectual History by Yuichiro Onishi

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

5'7" Yuki Kawamura, shortest player in Bulls history, wins a jumpball against 6'5'' Kasparas Jakučionis, and then strips Jaime Jaquez Jr. and draws the foul (with replays)

In a historic joint action, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), have lodged a formal legal complaint to have Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrested or barred from entering Australia.

Chotto Motto Crispy Chilli Oil Monster Size 500g The only thing better than Crispy Chilli Oil? MORE Crispy Chilli Oil! Now available in this 500g monster size jar our world famous Crispy Chilli Oil is an instant way to add a punch of flavour, textur...

Does it qualify as sauce? This is an amazing oil that I have used as a sauce. Def recommend although ちょっと高い!

Look what came in the mail!

'Aiming to replace all US videoconferencing services by 2027, the deployment is the EU's latest policy move in support of digital sovereignty. And there's more to come.'

Soooo, #Auspol got any plans to protect our data? Huh?

@theguardian.com

Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

Reporting on a #heatwave? This is how you do it.

All these books are taken now except Migrants, Television and Australian Stories.

Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

Crowd gathered for Invasion Day rally in Naarm, with the Imperial Hotel and Windsor Hotel in the background.

I can't manage a march today but the Invasion Day speeches were as inspiring as ever, and as I left the large crowd was still growing. The people who want truth, treaty and justice are far greater in number than the fascists.