This is a bonkers hill on which to die. I don't care if you think it, but I feel the need to be on record as saying I'm about as ethically and economically opposed to AI writing as a person can be. Unfortunately, what you're reading is just my personality.

I'm so sorry this is confusing for you. A doctorate is the highest research degree awarded by universities – you may know it as a PhD. Mine is in creative writing. Hope this helps!

lol, I have a doctorate in writing and am allergic to AI, but go off.

I’m a middle-aged mother who hoped boxing would fix anxiety. Instead it knocked me out | Anna Spargo-Ryan Friends said ‘most people will never get in the ring’ as if it was comforting instead of a reminder I’m extremely stupid I’ve spent most of my life being devoured by heart-exploding anxiety. “Doing scary things” has meant stuff like being out after dark and calling someone on the phone. It has never, for one minute, meant fist fighting in front of a crowd of people. But a while ago I decided to try countering the anxiety by doing new stuff. With that in mind, I went to a boxing class. At worst, I figured, I could write a column about being a middle-aged mother in a young man’s world. Anna Spargo-Ryan is the author of A Kind of Magic, The Gulf and The Paper House, and a winner of the Horne prize Continue reading...

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Thank you Ian!

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No it's not – this happened after the book was written!

If you fall in love with someone while they have a beard and then they shave it off, you should be allowed to change your mind no questions asked.

These plot lines have really got weird since they killed off Joel

hahah yeah same haha

Are you afraid they'll continue for 60 years, only to die of shock when they finally end?

Oh my god?! But also I think you're right! A mortuary seems like a very calm place for the human spirit really. And no one dies there.

People in the comments already shouting incorrectly about how Ghosts is not a documentary???

It was actually Me and You by NERO! Which also came out more than 10 years ago, feeling old 🫠

I thought ghosts were mean, restless and set on revenge. Then I watched the TV show | Anna Spargo-Ryan The longer I watched the US sitcom, the more the propaganda got to me. Maybe ghosts just want someone to listen to them?

I wrote about the ghost who lives in my house and the ghosts who live in the telly.

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No but it's a good reminder to listen to something by Skrillex

Oh my god it IS me and you by Nero, you have saved my sanity 🙏

Can anyone help me remember this song and soothe my brain?

It's a D&B track (of sorts?), came out maybe 10 years ago, had a huge filthy drop in it, I was sure it was called "You & Me" but that's not yielding anything.

It's not the Disclosure/Flume track.

Ty ty.

Promoting candidates to encourage people to vote for/preference them isn't how democracy is meant to work? Please, elaborate.

Getting a little sick and tired of this new unofficial Australian arts policy of "have no political opinion, or alternatively just shut up about Palestine"

Honestly one of THE MOST TEDIOUS things about which a person can be pedantic

This!

How fun! You're both the best

At Albert Park?

Fomo!!!

It's really down to the wire huh! Nail-biter.

206 🙃

Apparently there's a batch of postals due to arrive in time to be counted tonight 🤞

I agree!

Honestly about to cruise Goldstein and clothesline anyone who had a Tim Wilson corflute on their house