One day all Australian animals will merge together to rule the digital landscape as one hideous unclassifiable megabeast. #NotTheAIApocalypse

NB: yes, the image was generated by Al, yes it does have a glaring error in it, yes we thought leaving that error in might provoke people to think about the use of AI for this issue!

Huge thank you to my amazing PhD supervisors Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social and Crystal Abidin, as well as Eleanor Sandry @zigzaggery.space, and especially all of the friends and colleagues whose support helped me reach this dream milestone. 💖 Excited for what comes next!! ✨

Quite a few of us did spend a lot of 2025 writing "This is the worst. Do not open." on the box.

No one reads the labels.

I apologize for our terrible (possible) export.

Sorry to hear that, and I very much feel your pain.

Watching Haidt (and Twenge) get centred staged while most of Australia's media and communications research got summarily ignored for the past two years was ... is ... not great.

Maybe that's the unofficial slogan to critical AI thinking this year? ;)

The " (not to scale)" really helped! ;)

No, it doesn't 'without question' do anything. (Cyber)bullying goes where people go: messaging apps are exempt, games are exempt; the most likely outcome is the same level of bullying takes place on messaging apps like Whatsapp, but it's just less visible to those outside of the bullying dynamic.

I had a chance to visit a few weeks ago, and absolutely loved it. I was shamed by the lightsaber display at the end, though: several from characters I'd never heard of!