Samara McIlroy
@heren0w.bsky.social
Loved Twitter in 2010, and hoping to find similar here. Especially lists! Resides in #Tasmania / Lutruwita at the mouth of the kanamaluka / Tamar River. My LinkedIn bio here https://www.linkedin.com/in/samaramcilroy
This one’s taken time to write. I have so many thoughts and opinions. My intention is to inform and support people to take actions around their own digital legacy. Please consider before you respond. open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
Creepy or Comforting? What Ethical AI Resurrection Could Look Like
What happens when AI resurrects the dead—and what does that mean for memory, grief, and consent?
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This one’s taken time to write. I have so many thoughts and opinions. My intention is to inform and support people to take actions around their own digital legacy. Please consider before you respond. open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
Still searching for work. This is what LinkedIn serves up. Joyless times. substack.com/@samaramcilr...
Samara McIlroy (@samaramcilroy1)
Still searching for a job. This is what LinkedIn serves up. Joyless times.
substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Still searching for work. This is what LinkedIn serves up. Joyless times. substack.com/@samaramcilr...
Using simple, curious questions to tackle difficult conversations about death and digital legacy. Yes, grave goods are a thing.
open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
The Objects We Take With Us
Grave goods can open conversations about death
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Using simple, curious questions to tackle difficult conversations about death and digital legacy. Yes, grave goods are a thing.
open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
I’m publishing on Substack about planning your digital legacy- check it out! open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
Why Digital Afterlife Matters Now
What we keep. What we delete. Why it matters.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’m publishing on Substack about planning your digital legacy- check it out! open.substack.com/pub/yourdigi...
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
Tanya Plibersek refused to assess Marinus Link and NW Transmission line as one project under EPBC but AER has no such reticence. AER has approved cost recovery from community by TasNetworks for its early works on transmission line in spite of no final investment decision. #StitchUp #politas
March 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives.
If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:
If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:
The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani
Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!
www.samanthafloreani.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives.
If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:
If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
We heard you wanted 3 min videos
March 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We heard you wanted 3 min videos
Via the Tasmanian Times, this blog post about corruption in Tasmania resonates blogs.sussex.ac.uk/centre-for-t...
Tasmania – the corruption isle? | Centre for the Study of Corruption
blogs.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Via the Tasmanian Times, this blog post about corruption in Tasmania resonates blogs.sussex.ac.uk/centre-for-t...
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
If you’re not a member, join! Wildcare Tas members get this amazing opportunity to survey OBPs in Strahan wildcaretas.org.au/events/orang...
Orange-bellied Parrot Survey – Strahan #1 - Wildcare
wildcaretas.org.au
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you’re not a member, join! Wildcare Tas members get this amazing opportunity to survey OBPs in Strahan wildcaretas.org.au/events/orang...
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
Hallucinating copy/paste plagiarism robots are everywhere! What a time to be alive! | First Dog on the Moon
Hallucinating copy/paste plagiarism robots are everywhere! What a time to be alive! | First Dog on the Moon
Or is it? I’m exhausted actually
* Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published
* Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Hallucinating copy/paste plagiarism robots are everywhere! What a time to be alive! | First Dog on the Moon
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
What’s the best way to resist the fickle billionaires who control the internet?
Using their platforms less and putting your own hard-won dollars towards building new billionaire-proof social media infrastructure. #FreeOurFeeds
Using their platforms less and putting your own hard-won dollars towards building new billionaire-proof social media infrastructure. #FreeOurFeeds
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
www.technologyreview.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What’s the best way to resist the fickle billionaires who control the internet?
Using their platforms less and putting your own hard-won dollars towards building new billionaire-proof social media infrastructure. #FreeOurFeeds
Using their platforms less and putting your own hard-won dollars towards building new billionaire-proof social media infrastructure. #FreeOurFeeds
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
For this year’s photo contest, we put out a call asking readers to show us how technology is impacting their world. We received 227 entries from 45 countries — here are the winners
restofworld.org/2025/tech-ph...
restofworld.org/2025/tech-ph...
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For this year’s photo contest, we put out a call asking readers to show us how technology is impacting their world. We received 227 entries from 45 countries — here are the winners
restofworld.org/2025/tech-ph...
restofworld.org/2025/tech-ph...
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
Trump hates women. Who knew 🤔
Just hours after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump took down reproductiverights.gov — a website to help women find health care and understand their rights.
They’re wasting no time assaulting freedom.
They’re wasting no time assaulting freedom.
January 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Trump hates women. Who knew 🤔
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
I use skeets on iPad and it's a solid piece of tech. It does what it says and makes things pretty easy.
I'm looking forward to flashes! I may be able to ditch instagram which I have always hated.
I hope flashes has an iPad app and that you can actually zoom in on images.
I'm looking forward to flashes! I may be able to ditch instagram which I have always hated.
I hope flashes has an iPad app and that you can actually zoom in on images.
January 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I use skeets on iPad and it's a solid piece of tech. It does what it says and makes things pretty easy.
I'm looking forward to flashes! I may be able to ditch instagram which I have always hated.
I hope flashes has an iPad app and that you can actually zoom in on images.
I'm looking forward to flashes! I may be able to ditch instagram which I have always hated.
I hope flashes has an iPad app and that you can actually zoom in on images.
Reposted by Samara McIlroy
Here’s a thought experiment: imagine if any of these things had happened in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra? What would be the general reaction? It wouldn’t be embarrassed silence, that’s for sure.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/true-stori...
nickfeik.substack.com/p/true-stori...
True stories from Tasmania
... that would be massive scandals if the national media was paying better attention
nickfeik.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Here’s a thought experiment: imagine if any of these things had happened in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra? What would be the general reaction? It wouldn’t be embarrassed silence, that’s for sure.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/true-stori...
nickfeik.substack.com/p/true-stori...
Okay getting the hang of @bluesky. More journalists than you can poke a stick at. Actual journalism. 🙏
December 6, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Okay getting the hang of @bluesky. More journalists than you can poke a stick at. Actual journalism. 🙏
Still a watching brief here on bluesky-are these my people? but🙏 to those who followed me back even with the flaky bio. And no posts.
December 4, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Still a watching brief here on bluesky-are these my people? but🙏 to those who followed me back even with the flaky bio. And no posts.
To find some tassie people I searched #pademelon - and discovered they have become an adorable meme rival to the quokka.
November 26, 2024 at 7:12 PM
To find some tassie people I searched #pademelon - and discovered they have become an adorable meme rival to the quokka.