Sian Cain
@siancain
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Deputy culture editor @guardianaus. Keeping this account to like your silly tweets and to stop freaks pretending to be me. Fuck Musk
Melbourne
Joined November 2010
I interviewed Tim Winton about his new novel, Juice. It was a conversation that will stay with me for a long time. A real mensch https://t.co/yo1fcixx1q
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After years of wrestling with difficult subject matter in secrecy, the Australian novelist talks about the grim future he has imagined for his latest novel, and how it can be avoided
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Breaking - Adelaide star Izak Rankine is under investigation for an alleged homophobic slur in Saturday night’s win over Collingwood @7NewsMelbourne @7NewsAdelaide @7AFL
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Tina Fey’s read during her IDTSH continues to be the most accurate Emerald Fennell take
First test screening for Emerald Fennell’s ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ gets negative reaction and is being described as “aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive” : ‘It’s a deliberately unromantic take on Brontë’s novel, stripped of emotional nuance and full of salacious detours
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Obviously using chatbots makes you more dumb, everyone is skipping over the funniest part: the study authors are such dedicated LLM haters they set up traps to expose AI users lol
MIT just studied how ChatGPT impacts our brains https://t.co/JXeTALBPds
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this is why i find it so hard to give a single fuck about the criticisms given to female pop stars because men will rape, beat and abuse women and still sell out stadiums every night. why am i hearing more about album artwork and merch designs than THIS?!
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This is a long shot - but in 2014, reforms to the Disability Support Pension resulted in the removal of younger recipients with some work capacity from the DSP. If you were removed, I would really love to speak with you. Email cait.kelly@theguardian.com or dm.
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Khaled Sabsabi show that was postponed by Monash University in March - one month after he was sacked by Creative Australia - is will open next week, after Monash finished consultations with 'relevant' staff and students https://t.co/YSAt680voA
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Flat Earth: Stolon Press, which was called off after Sabsabi was dumped as Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale, will now open on 29 May
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They’re gonna tell Tom the names and addresses of everyone who did the Ghibli AI meme. He’s coming for you.
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And they want you to believe the real villains are college students, musicians, activists and aid workers.
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Hi - I am looking to speak to people whose job providers have made them do courses - about what they were like, what the content was, if you got anything out of it. If you have done one recently please ping me - would love to chat!
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His victim had to have her tampon surgically removed.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
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Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
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Lovely interview with Ian Smith, aka Neighbours Harold Bishop, by @siancain
https://t.co/UJRDS7gEs0
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As the show’s beloved star Harold Bishop, Smith has seen actors from Margot Robbie to Guy Pearce come and go. Offscreen, he has battled grief, finding out he was adopted in his 50s and now a terminal...
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I spoke to Khaled Sabsabi on Full Story last week about his artistic practice, faith, and activism. He said he never thought he would be selected because “of who I am”. His words were prescient. https://t.co/GeGUXMmDkg
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Nour Haydar spoke to the artist in the days before Creative Australia made the abrupt decision to rescind his appointment.
Just a week after announcing award winning Lebanese-Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s pick for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has capitulated to media and political pressure and dumped him.
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Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI." “There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is
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This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis. Please do continue to read and share.
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Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
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R.I.P. David Lynch, January 20, 1946 — January 2025. Here is Angelo Badalamenti sharing his and David’s composition process for “Twin Peaks.”
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Israel killed more journalists in a year than any other regime has in totality since records began. More than 140 media workers were martyred for refusing to abandon their responsibility. This ceasefire is here because of their tenacity and bravery. We should know their names.
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