Zja (they/she)
@zja.bsky.social
I was @obsidiantears83 on 🐦.
Disability, AuDHD, Star Wars, cosy gaming, geek culture, reading, writing, auspol, and intersectional far left discourse.
Living and working on the lands of the Dharug Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Disability, AuDHD, Star Wars, cosy gaming, geek culture, reading, writing, auspol, and intersectional far left discourse.
Living and working on the lands of the Dharug Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER
Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair
gofund.me
Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who is experiencing worsening health and extreme pain. Help them regain their mobility. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Sincere gratitude to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare on their own socials & networks 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
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Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.
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Many of y'all stepped up to help with my emergency extraction earlier this week- here's another person needing help with urgent dental issues. Let's make this happen.
I really hate asking this, esp before the holiday, but I’m having an emergency. My filling broke and I have a painful abscess that needs immediate care. I don’t have dental insurance and could really use a hand. I’m so sorry to ask. I can barely eat or sleep. #mutualaid
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ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Many of y'all stepped up to help with my emergency extraction earlier this week- here's another person needing help with urgent dental issues. Let's make this happen.
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Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who is experiencing worsening health and extreme pain. Help them regain their mobility. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Sincere gratitude to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare on their own socials & networks 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER
Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair
gofund.me
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who is experiencing worsening health and extreme pain. Help them regain their mobility. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Sincere gratitude to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare on their own socials & networks 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Right now, Australia's child #poverty rate is 16% - much higher than Scandinavia but half of UK's rate.
But current policy settings are pushing us towards the UK.
If the gutless Albanese govt continues to do nothing, they are presiding over the official end of 'the fair go'. #inequality #auspol
But current policy settings are pushing us towards the UK.
If the gutless Albanese govt continues to do nothing, they are presiding over the official end of 'the fair go'. #inequality #auspol
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Right now, Australia's child #poverty rate is 16% - much higher than Scandinavia but half of UK's rate.
But current policy settings are pushing us towards the UK.
If the gutless Albanese govt continues to do nothing, they are presiding over the official end of 'the fair go'. #inequality #auspol
But current policy settings are pushing us towards the UK.
If the gutless Albanese govt continues to do nothing, they are presiding over the official end of 'the fair go'. #inequality #auspol
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omfg. "wicked problem" are you fucking kidding me, jesus fucking christ
The real wicked problem here is Australia's mostly-white journalist class persistently stepping on the exact rakes the salivating white nationalists want them to step on. It is so nuts to me how none of this ever changes
The real wicked problem here is Australia's mostly-white journalist class persistently stepping on the exact rakes the salivating white nationalists want them to step on. It is so nuts to me how none of this ever changes
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
omfg. "wicked problem" are you fucking kidding me, jesus fucking christ
The real wicked problem here is Australia's mostly-white journalist class persistently stepping on the exact rakes the salivating white nationalists want them to step on. It is so nuts to me how none of this ever changes
The real wicked problem here is Australia's mostly-white journalist class persistently stepping on the exact rakes the salivating white nationalists want them to step on. It is so nuts to me how none of this ever changes
Exodus from Substack to Ghost. I'd delete my account if more of the voices I follow there moved to different platforms. It gives me the ick to give Substack views.
I owe Substack, but I owe the next writer too. I had to choose - and in the end, the choice was easy. See you on the other side.
open.substack.com/pub/theendis...
open.substack.com/pub/theendis...
I'm ghosting Substack
Kia ora friends!
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Exodus from Substack to Ghost. I'd delete my account if more of the voices I follow there moved to different platforms. It gives me the ick to give Substack views.
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new gmail update is 100% to force you to autogoobrain yourself and juke the slopstats because turning it off disables every single rule and dumps everything directly into the inbox, especially and particularly all of the spam it was supposed to be blocking.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
new gmail update is 100% to force you to autogoobrain yourself and juke the slopstats because turning it off disables every single rule and dumps everything directly into the inbox, especially and particularly all of the spam it was supposed to be blocking.
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It's hard to get neurotypicals to understand "I didn't do the task because I was so intensely aware of the need to do this that my brain built a wall around the concept of doing it", so we just say "I didn't do the task because I forgot."
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's hard to get neurotypicals to understand "I didn't do the task because I was so intensely aware of the need to do this that my brain built a wall around the concept of doing it", so we just say "I didn't do the task because I forgot."
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Yet somehow, this nazi managed to waltz in and out of Aotearoa without alarms being raised by the SIS, the GCSB, the Immigration department, or the Police. Meanwhile, money is being poured into expensive and repressive systems to stop asylum seekers from boarding flights to NZ.
August 26, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Yet somehow, this nazi managed to waltz in and out of Aotearoa without alarms being raised by the SIS, the GCSB, the Immigration department, or the Police. Meanwhile, money is being poured into expensive and repressive systems to stop asylum seekers from boarding flights to NZ.
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It's Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we remember those who were taken from us far too soon because of transphobia in the world.
For many of us, we are misgendered even in death, and disallowed from being who we actually are even when we are no longer here. This is why we remember our dead.
For many of us, we are misgendered even in death, and disallowed from being who we actually are even when we are no longer here. This is why we remember our dead.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we remember those who were taken from us far too soon because of transphobia in the world.
For many of us, we are misgendered even in death, and disallowed from being who we actually are even when we are no longer here. This is why we remember our dead.
For many of us, we are misgendered even in death, and disallowed from being who we actually are even when we are no longer here. This is why we remember our dead.
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I'm a runner who supports mutual aid. In February I'm seeking to raise over $1000 to support Blackfullas, Palestinians and Sudanese peoples.
For more information or to donate visit 👇
funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com/fun-run-4-mu...
For more information or to donate visit 👇
funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com/fun-run-4-mu...
Jasper Cohen-Hunter in Fun Run 4 Mutual Aid
I'm a runner who supports mutual aid. In February I'm seeking to raise over $1000 to support Blackfullas, Palestinians and Sudanese peoples.
The funds will be split between Bakri's Ongoing Fund for S...
funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm a runner who supports mutual aid. In February I'm seeking to raise over $1000 to support Blackfullas, Palestinians and Sudanese peoples.
For more information or to donate visit 👇
funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com/fun-run-4-mu...
For more information or to donate visit 👇
funrun4mutualaid.grassrootz.com/fun-run-4-mu...
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All this to say: get your shots and boosters. You don't even need an appointment at some places, you can just walk up to a Walmart pharmacy and ask them to jab you and they'll do it
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
All this to say: get your shots and boosters. You don't even need an appointment at some places, you can just walk up to a Walmart pharmacy and ask them to jab you and they'll do it
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I support games costing more if necessary to pay all the workers who make them, even much more. I do not support pumping them full of pink slime to make them cheaper. If you paid for this get a refund to send a message
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I support games costing more if necessary to pay all the workers who make them, even much more. I do not support pumping them full of pink slime to make them cheaper. If you paid for this get a refund to send a message
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who worsening health and extreme pain, and to help them get back their mobility. There is a sale so it is time sensitive. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Thanks to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER
Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair
gofund.me
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who worsening health and extreme pain, and to help them get back their mobility. There is a sale so it is time sensitive. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Thanks to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
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Help Tea access to a electric wheelchair! Please donate or reshare 💕 The chair is currently on sale so we're trying to raise the funds ASAP. This would give them their mobility back and greatly reduce their pain levels. We're halfway there!
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER
Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair
gofund.me
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Help Tea access to a electric wheelchair! Please donate or reshare 💕 The chair is currently on sale so we're trying to raise the funds ASAP. This would give them their mobility back and greatly reduce their pain levels. We're halfway there!
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
Help Tea access to a electric wheelchair! Please donate or reshare 💕 The chair is currently on sale so we're trying to raise the funds ASAP. This would give them their mobility back and greatly reduce their pain levels. We're halfway there!
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER
Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair
gofund.me
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Help Tea access to a electric wheelchair! Please donate or reshare 💕 The chair is currently on sale so we're trying to raise the funds ASAP. This would give them their mobility back and greatly reduce their pain levels. We're halfway there!
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
gofund.me/8ff53bc56
#mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp
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My Sunday romance recs are back for 2025! I do this every year - brief thoughts here, more extended ones on Instagram.
As with last year, in 2025, I'm aiming for at least one third of my romance reading to be by authors from Australia and Aotearoa. #Romancelandia
As with last year, in 2025, I'm aiming for at least one third of my romance reading to be by authors from Australia and Aotearoa. #Romancelandia
My Sunday romance recs are back for 2024! This is something I've been doing for a few years now - the quote post below is my complete list of recs for 2023.
Let's see if Bluesky's terrible threading will let me keep all my 2024 recs in the same place. 🧵
#Romancelandia
Let's see if Bluesky's terrible threading will let me keep all my 2024 recs in the same place. 🧵
#Romancelandia
So for the past couple of years, I've been recommending a romance novel every Sunday under the hashtag #DrJodisSundayRomanceRec. I do this on Instagram (and sometimes also TikTok) with detailed thoughts, but I've been cross-posting shorter thoughts to the bad place.
January 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My Sunday romance recs are back for 2025! I do this every year - brief thoughts here, more extended ones on Instagram.
As with last year, in 2025, I'm aiming for at least one third of my romance reading to be by authors from Australia and Aotearoa. #Romancelandia
As with last year, in 2025, I'm aiming for at least one third of my romance reading to be by authors from Australia and Aotearoa. #Romancelandia
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November 2, THE PRINCESS AND THE PI, Nikki Payne.
If you like romantic suspense, don't sleep on this - the perfect blend of romance and hard-boiled film noir vibes.
If you like romantic suspense, don't sleep on this - the perfect blend of romance and hard-boiled film noir vibes.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
November 2, THE PRINCESS AND THE PI, Nikki Payne.
If you like romantic suspense, don't sleep on this - the perfect blend of romance and hard-boiled film noir vibes.
If you like romantic suspense, don't sleep on this - the perfect blend of romance and hard-boiled film noir vibes.