Cat McGinn

The new Terminator movie comes out this year. It’s a documentary

And lo! it came to pass with the Epstein files. The Liar’s Dividend playing out before our eyes.
BRB changing my name to Cassandra.

This brought me a lot of joy. Consider this my seal of approval. 🦭

Your daily reminder that if billionaires truly wanted everyone to have universal basic income, we’d already have it.
What they want would be better characterised as universal basic serfdom.

My absolute disinterest in new Gabaldon spin-off Blood of my Blood reveals that I’m less an Outlander fan, and more a Sam Heughan in a ginger wig fan. Do I need to renounce my Scottishness now?

Sam Altman tweet reads “someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want. this is a very remarkable thing.”

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

My new personal KPI for any future piece of writing is how many men DM me to explain that they’re not the problem.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Strong female leads. Batshit supernatural plot.
RIP my music platform algorithm…

Thank you, a few new options. Thelma belongs in the face clawing category IMO. We went for K-Pop Demon Hunters (v fun, banging soundtrack)

Any recommendations for films you can watch with a seven and eleven year old without wanting to claw your own face off?

At the risk of being all old man shouts at cloud about this, when did we collectively decide headphones weren’t mandatory for watching videos on the train, and could we please reconsider?

AI is my boyfriend* PartnerOS: anticipatory care, zero sulkware

I’ve started a new Substack (because the world needs more people writing about AI on Substack…): first post, mostly satirical:
l1m1nal.substack.com/p/ai-is-my-b...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ | CNN Business OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

I love how Sam Altman’s relationship to AI accountability is basically “a big boy did it and ran away.”

www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/t...

Opinion | The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness

“I picked my head up and I loved the world that I knew wouldn’t always be mine.”
A beautiful essay:
The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

Barnaby Joyce vows to wind back ‘lunatic crusade’ of net zero with private member’s bill Coalition’s decades-long brawl over climate change and energy policy laid bare as former deputy prime minister sends out clarion call on Facebook

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How. Many. Times. Do. We. Have . To. Go. Through. This.

Here’s some Indigenous truth-telling: structural police racism had a hand in the death of Kumanjayi Walker | Lorena Allam After the inquest into the Aboriginal teenager’s death, the coroner found constable Zachary Rolfe operated in a system that failed on a number of occasions to ‘rein him in’

From Lorena Allam - "Here’s some Indigenous truth-telling: structural police racism had a hand in the death of Kumanjayi Walker"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Black and tan kelpie stands on the beach looking up at the photographer. He has a sandy snout and looks relaxed and happy

“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse?
We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect

A large black-and-tan kelpie dog lies on a patterned rug surrounded by scattered colourful paper swatches and art supplies. A child’s hands are visible assembling a collage in a sketchbook, with a glue stick and a decorated cardboard box nearby.

A (brief) moment of school holiday crafting calm. Monty cares not a jot that he’s being immortalised through the medium of collage.
How absurdly, disproportionately fortunate we are, and what an obscenity that all children don’t have this basic safety.

This is a great thread. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and the amazing storytelling @swingingstorm.bsky.social
(Think I need “AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP” on a t-shirt, as a British person living on stolen land.)

Haven’t been here in a hot minute but now @firebirdasusual.bsky.social is here, the vibes are guaranteed to improve. Genocides and polycrises notwithstanding, how’s everyone?

I realise “scumbag billionaire” is tautologous

Crackpot theory du jour: genAI was invented at the behest of scumbag billionaires with serious misdeeds and skeletons in closets to give them plausible deniability when evidence of their crimes get leaked.

Take The Stand Survivors of rape and sexual assault participate in the criminal justice system of their own free will. The system would collapse in regards to sexual crimes, without their voluntary involvement. Many...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ta...

Did Pantone just ship literal shit and hope no one would notice? Truly we are living in a simulation.

I really didn’t expect “are Nazis bad?” to be the polarising topic of 2025.
Can someone please do a hard reset for the year please, before things get any worse?

At my local independent cinema to watch We Live In Time, in part because a scheduled cry is in order.

I like my cars like I like my (wo)men: well travelled and filthy.

Just back from an awfully big adventure in Kosciuszko national park, the lands of the Wiradjuri, Wolgalu, Ngunnawal and Monaro Ngarigo people.

Extraordinary beauty in wild country. Hiking, swimming, stargazing.

HNY friends.

If you are in greater LA and have N95 masks or better, please consider distributing some to the unhoused. The air quality is horrific and only sixty hotel vouchers have been available so far.

I used to despise emojis. Thought they were a lazy and trivial form of communication. Now, so often, so very often, the atrocities of the world leave me levelled and wordless;
left only with this
💔

Just risked life and limb by clambering onto my roof to get rid of piles of leaves and flammable debris ahead of next week’s heatwave & likely bushfires. It turns out I will chance death rather than do my overdue tax return. So maybe only one thing is inevitable, Mr Franklin.