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Ceinwen Langley

@feedthewriter.bsky.social

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✍️ Australian Author & Scriptwriter 📚 Watches, reads, plays, makes stuff 🔨 Luddite

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Absolutely chuffed to announce that I have a story in this month's Aurealis magazine!

It's an Australian gothic historical horror that begins with something that has always scared the shit out of me: a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

aurealis.com.au

Aurealis — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 6h

I've stopped crossposting to Substack and could therefore use some help getting eyeballs on my newsletter, in which I post short reviews of the books, movies, TV shows and games I've partaken of each month. Sometimes I'm even funny!*

*Not often, though.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 7d

September's media round up is out! Featuring reviews of five varyingly good books, a tribute to my favourite Sandra Bullock movie (probably not the one you're thinking of), some fondness for Wes Anderson and a nice poem.

buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...

My Idea Of A Good Time (Sad), or, My September 2025 In Media

Being born in a literal desert was not enough to override the Welsh programming of my DNA, and therefore I spent September being the one person in my heat-...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18h

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 7h

Wildly embarrassing of the AFP.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Tech Won't Save Us, Better Offline and Panic World are my weekly listens for tech news and internet culture intersecting with real life stuff, and Empire of AI by Karen Hao is a good in-depth look at Sam Altman and OpenAI if you're up for books. I enjoyed her reading of the audiobook.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi has been executed by Israeli-backed militias in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 17h

Ugh, deepest sympathies.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 18h

WHAT

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Zinthings @zinthings.bsky.social · 19h

So, Bsky does not enjoy different file types, it seems. Anyway, new comm type: playable paper doll! $40usd gets you the base and one outfit, and then it's $5 per outfit after that! Next post for the ad thingy I made for it.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Common misunderstanding, it actually means sobbing on the beach to Mother because Agamemnon took your stuff in front of all the other boys.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I am one (1) sleeve closer to my second hand-knitted jumper 😮‍💨

A mustard coloured cable knit jumper/swearer is laid out on a dark red footstool. It has one sleeve.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

You know that was exactly the directive some exec gave to try to get the kids back into TV.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I escaped into the search bar after about ten seconds after it updated.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I complained about it in my discord and some other people had gotten it too, so it wasn’t even a blip!

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I attempted the first two episodes of Succession and I fear I am not Prestige enough for this.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @netflix.com, perhaps reconsider having anyone's homepage autoplay promo be a clip of "Ed Gain" wearing someone's face.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I've really stopped watching short-form video content in the past few months. I find myself studying every video for tells. Feels like I'm losing my damn mind.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

I finished The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna today, and this is the passive aggressive Christmas gift of 2025, folks. But also, it’s short and actually a really great intro to how LLM’s actually work and why they’re both an ethical nightmare on every level and a giant fucking scam.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

I need everyone to know that if I ever compare you to Miss Piggy in aesthetic and/or spirit, it is the highest compliment I am capable of giving.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds haunted.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never known any Australian government to show something like an ethical backbone in my lifetime, but watching this one actively crawl inside the sphincter of a US president leading the Western march to fascism is really something.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 3d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 3d

Were you cancelled, or did a significant number of people on the internet just agree you're a twat?

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