Hannah Shelley, MLIS(Mistletoe, Lights & Inevitable Socialising)
@hannahshelley.site
Librarian, creative technologist, aspiring shitposter
📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)
Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org
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📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)
Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org
Bot that compliments you with nonsense https://bsky.app/profile/absurdcompliments.bsky.social
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Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Going to send this to people as an insult
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Going to send this to people as an insult
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Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
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Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
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That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
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6497 year old Elrond trying to hang with a bunch of 30-140 year olds
November 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM
6497 year old Elrond trying to hang with a bunch of 30-140 year olds
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Look, it's a *bit* more complicated than this, but on average if you look at this graphic before writing something about a ChatGPT conversation you had you'll avoid being an absolute idiot.
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Look, it's a *bit* more complicated than this, but on average if you look at this graphic before writing something about a ChatGPT conversation you had you'll avoid being an absolute idiot.
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ChatGPT is 3 years old this week — what was the world like in late 2022, and how did that shape what ChatGPT has become? I wrote about ChatGPT as a pandemic technology, centered on expectations of social isolation in ways that continue to define it. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-cha...
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
ChatGPT is 3 years old this week — what was the world like in late 2022, and how did that shape what ChatGPT has become? I wrote about ChatGPT as a pandemic technology, centered on expectations of social isolation in ways that continue to define it. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-cha...
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GUYS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
GUYS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
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AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Shoot first, ask Christian Slater
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Shoot first, ask Christian Slater
Shuffle mode ass weather
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Shuffle mode ass weather
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Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies
when you accidentally write "tanks" instead of "thanks" in an email, and now your colleague fears you are going to show up at their desk with an army of tanks
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
when you accidentally write "tanks" instead of "thanks" in an email, and now your colleague fears you are going to show up at their desk with an army of tanks
November 30th / December 1st
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
November 30th / December 1st
I love to hate this movie so much, which is its own form of joy
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I love to hate this movie so much, which is its own form of joy
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I came across this promo I made for my shop in 2023 incorporating then-new niche “AI video,” reveling in its comically offputting garbage outputs while it was already being hyped as “tHe fUtUrE oF hOlLyWoOd,” but actually this was the aesthetic peak of the tech, it should have stopped right here.
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I came across this promo I made for my shop in 2023 incorporating then-new niche “AI video,” reveling in its comically offputting garbage outputs while it was already being hyped as “tHe fUtUrE oF hOlLyWoOd,” but actually this was the aesthetic peak of the tech, it should have stopped right here.
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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Oh hi, I wrote this in 2017.
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
www.theatlantic.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Oh hi, I wrote this in 2017.
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
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For 4000 years man has craved one thing above all others: a mug that's also a little guy.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
For 4000 years man has craved one thing above all others: a mug that's also a little guy.
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
Poor bot has been without power since Wednesday 😞
It's back now, but very lonely - ask it for a compliment!
It's back now, but very lonely - ask it for a compliment!
You're the industrial-grade honeycomb of gettin' it done
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Poor bot has been without power since Wednesday 😞
It's back now, but very lonely - ask it for a compliment!
It's back now, but very lonely - ask it for a compliment!