Sacha Judd

This week: truth and confirmation bias and russian bots and house elves and Pilate changing the words. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/what...

Please read and share this excellent piece about the Tenderloin in @tlvoice.bsky.social by David Elliott Lewis

“AI is so good for recipes”

Really encouraging to see all the Whangārei electorate candidates turning up this morning in Waipu to the public meeting about the sand mining fast track process.

The High Court has ruled regulations banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria were unlawful.

i see we’re now advertising this stupid dog movie with “filmed in NZ”. still a no from me.

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...

Raffle to support the Basement Theatre has a prize so good I can’t stand it: basementtheatre.co.nz/blogs/news/g...

I’m so excited by this milestone. Today I got to send our artists their first Lume earnings statements and they got to see where their albums had sold all over the world. Best day.

You can just do things and nobody stops you.

I put together goodinternetting.com without any meaningful analytics, and the logs all purge after 7 days. All I know is that there are 12 installs of the dingus on other people's websites and that makes me very happy.

never the wrong time for this classic

Imagine playing chess against a seven-year-old who’s dancing around and barely paying attention to the board (bc it’s all in her head) and she just casually checkmates you like this. Oof. [reddit.com]

thank god for @graze.social, we’re lucky to still have them building important tools for creators and curators on the network 🤍

when ai leaves u behind

I like that this is how we measure things in Aotearoa now.

designing a new system for air travel where you earn badges for being good at airport and good at plane. badge holders get priority access. cannot book complex seats like row 1 without badges. lose badges for holding up security screening in any way.

So excited about our collab with Holiday Records. You can buy the vinyl, and get the Lume right away. www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...

harry ticket wars still hilarious

This week: hate reading in all its delicious forms. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/than...

This man won his primary by 30 points.

If it's helpful in mastering the gorgeous new City Rail Link station names, you can get 'em on a cute T-shirt (or a tote!) via @greaterauckland.bsky.social's merch shop. 😀 greaterauckland.digitees.co.nz

This week: fans direct-funding paps. Where on earth do we go from here? newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/papa...

In an inner city suburb 200m from a train station and a bus stop.

there is a blog post that says all of this but shorter I think it's reasonable to be mad at them not having a different policy, but "the tech companies should be in charge of which name gets used" is, imo, a policy with significant downsides! even if the official changes are stupid and bad

i feel like Reacher must smell pretty bad. dude doesn’t have a home, is always borrowing or stealing clothes, is always sweaty from fighting, and never showers.

This week -- who remembers singing The Gambler with Kenny the Busker? newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/a-li...

Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote. [tinyawards.net]

Many thanks to @sachajudd.com for this, in particular this conversation with Agnes Callard: www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosop... newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/one-...

If you’ve been holding off on trying Lume because you can’t find an artist you know, we’ve given everyone a free sampler. Try before you buy!

A remarkable essay. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This week: a great essay from @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social got me thinking about what ifs, infinite stories, multiverses and how we can still be surprised. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/in-a...

Partial eclipse!

This week: why AO3 doesn't have an app, and what it means to need to be in an app store when someone else is making the rules. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

I am getting nervous for my trip to be an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. But I am preparing to be a #MicrobialEvangelist there! I am bringing stickers and buttons to hand out…1/2

This week: why AO3 doesn't have an app, and what it means to need to be in an app store when someone else is making the rules. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

This was a fun one to write. MIC PACKS MY NEMESIS.

Check out our gig posters and our 🔥 round qr codes. See you at bFM Fancy New Band tonight.

Here’s something extremely cool. If you’ve bought Fables’ Lume, we just added a whole new live set. Just more stuff. In the album you’ve already paid for. Like magic. When we say the world of an album we mean it.

The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan? Ok, I’m in. [youtube.com]

Sure, Jared Leto is a creep with multiple allegations to his name over the course of two decades, but you have to understand that he's also a mediocre actor who's a nightmare to work with and whose movies are critical flops that don't make money.