@drstephr
Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions
Important to remember that most consumer-facing "A.i." is monstrously flawed and the billionaires who push it don't care, so if you sign a deal to sloppify yourself, there's a non-zero chance that your sloppergänger will eventually tell some kid to kill themself.
Justice for Hareton
Sexy shenanigans with fuckboys during the Revolution! Sign me up.
It sounded really interesting, too - a study of Sydney department stores in the 1950s!
The latest issue of the Journal of Historical Fictions is out now! Featuring work on fiction on Tudor artists, Greek myths, and how new ways of doing research are changing historical fiction. Read more here (open access): historicalfictionsresearch.org/archive-the-... @historicalfic.bsky.social
Yes, it was rather startling to find that I wrote a book in 2018 that I have no knowledge of!
Telling on yourself here
A student handed in an essay with a hallucinated reference to a book I supposedly wrote. I did not.
Meanwhile, the Australian PM lining up to give his unconditional support to this dude who loves boasting about doing war crimes.
If Albanese offered our support, before even knowing why this catastrophic war was launched — what is his foreign policy?
It suggests he would support any use of force Donald Trump tells him to.
No questions asked, no reasons needed.
Albanese supported an illegal war with no clear objective or end. It's a grim new low
www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...
An important piece in a string of important pieces by @garethhutchens.bsky.social, who’s doing the lord’s work stitching together threads by @jeremywalker.bsky.social @lucyham.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social for a bigger readership www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people
OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths
apnews.com/article/isra...
They don’t want a world where bad guys get killed, they want a world where they get to kill whoever they want. They also want a world where lots of people say that the people they kill are bad. Rigged game, don’t play
Everyone I have this really good feeling that this time we are going to bomb people into democracy.
Truly seems the most appropriate way to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of Australia being the US’s ‘deputy sheriff’ - whole heartedly supporting the US bombing another country, despite not being clued in, even as it kills scores of children
Seems to be going all the opposite way atm
The uni experience now and the one I had (I started undergrad in 2002) is so completely different it should be called a different thing.
Jfc
They approched me!
😂😂
Deserved!!
I absolutely hated Fennell's Wuthering Heights and I talked about it here: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026...
WEIR: I was, yeah. Toto took mine. So, I think it's 12 or 13 questions, one-word answers if possible. Let's go. PRIME MINISTER: I’ll try. WEIR: You'll try. Sussan Ley. PRIME MINISTER: Best wishes. WEIR: Angus Taylor. PRIME MINISTER: Leader. WEIR: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. PRIME MINISTER: Grub. WEIR: It was clearly a popular announcement earlier this week about the letter you sent to the UK Prime Minister, British Prime Minister. Craig Tiley? PRIME MINISTER: Legend. WEIR: Oscar Piastri. PRIME MINISTER: Winner. WEIR: We hope! One Nation voters? PRIME MINISTER: Frustrated. WEIR: Pauline Hanson. PRIME MINISTER: Divisive. WEIR: Australia Day. PRIME MINISTER: Great. WEIR: Grace Tame. PRIME MINISTER: Difficult. WEIR: Donald Trump. PRIME MINISTER: President.
These are so revealing. Absolutely petrified of saying something that might cost him votes on the right.
Also
"WEIR: ISIS brides?
PRIME MINISTER: Made their bed, they’re lying in it."
He really is the Scott Morrison of John Howards.
Pleased to hear that I am hurting the feelings of techbros! 💗
A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.
We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
Deleting every email I get about "AI Resources" and teaching and it feels so good
To think that there are people who believe that college professors only work the hours they are in a classroom in front of their students!
Save the date! HFRN will be hosting a round-table discussion on 23 April on the topic of the historical novel since 2016. Details will be available soon.