"What if Jonathan Bryan wasn't communicating in his own words at all?" A startling investigation by @garynunn.bsky.social into the so-called "miracle cure" known as Facilitated Communication:

My ABC News investigation reveals 2 major fertility clinics have sent sperm donors inaccurate family lists of the children born from their donation; in one case, 3 times over. One major clinic recently lost all a donor’s newly donated blood for screening www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Non-verbal Alex's speech facilitator claimed he'd said-via an ABC board-he wanted to live in a town away from his family “He’d have died if that happened” mum Mary Busk says As she learnt, it very nearly did #facilitatedcommunication My @theipaper feature: liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/363...

“Gaga for the woo woo” should be the title for the LNP election review www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... via @garynunn.bsky.social

As France is told that their adult-only hotels and restaurants are ‘violence against children’, @garynunn.bsky.social says that’s another country off his bucket-and-spade list www.independent.co.uk/voices/franc...

Last year, I broke my wrist when mountain biking 🚵‍♀️ down a volcano 🌋 in Peru 🏥 Almost 8 months on, I’m still in physio & my wrist still isn’t fully functional 😭 🤦🏼‍♂️ I wrote for today’s UK Guardian ‘Why I quit’ series about what it taught me 😳 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@garynunn.bsky.social thank you for this. I spent years mentoring the ‘working class gifted’ and telling them how much more they were worth to employers vs well supported kids with the same grades. This observation isn’t made often enough: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/i-was-a-soci...

Today’s @abcnews long read is on #ADHD and is written by me. It specifically looks at a way of managing the condition without medication: the ADHD coach. They do 9 months of training, zero marketing to recruit clients & charge $190+ per hour. More here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

From Jan 2025, I could be sued for suggesting in any news article that the Y.M.C.A. is a gay anthem - by the co-writer of the song, who'll perform it at Trump's inauguration this month. My piece for the @smh www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...

Misogynistic? Reclaimed? Feminist? Sexy? Empowering for LGBTQI people? Vulgar? The history of the word CUNT in broadcast media: my story for @newscomauHQ www.news.com.au/entertainmen...

Thank you @garynunn.bsky.social from me & so many other DCP I know, fighting to end the unethical practice of creating children with the intent to deny them access to identity www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/o...

When it comes to anonymous sperm donation, the U.S. should look to countries like Australia to inspire better regulation, @garynunn.bsky.social writes in a guest essay.

My first piece for The New York Times From 1 January 2025, Colorado will become the first U.S. state to outlaw anonymous sperm donations Abolishing anonymous donation worldwide will help donor conceived people to know their genetic identities www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/o... @nytimes

For the new @DNAmagazine, I meet the gay men who voted & campaigned for @realdomaldtrump.bsky.social including the Log Cabin Republicans & Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin Here’s a teaser & the editor’s letter. Subscribe here www.dnamagazine.com.au/product-cate...

Here is Trump’s nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel calling for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media."

I spoke to Australian digital nomads in Bali, Thailand, Colombia and, of course, Argentina to discover what life on the road is really like. For many, it’s one of the best ways to feel alive: to go on a new adventure / challenge yourself. For news.com.au www.news.com.au/finance/work...

Clear, sensible piece about how charities work and why so-called overhead costs are essential to their success by @garynunn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia's Macquarie Dictionary crowns #enshittification as the word of 2024 As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”

Here's an important message from @garynunn.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com - "I worked in charities for years – here’s how I make sure my money is going to a good cause, not Captain Tom’s family" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just 16c in every $1 was donated to charities from Shane Warne’s foundation. Celeste Barber's $51.3m could only be used for training/admin/equipment for NSW rural fire service In today's @theguardian.com: why overhead costs at well-established charities matter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Recently, Australian broadcasters panicked: next year, “our inflation rate could have a 3 in front of it." I’m so used to triple-digit figure inflation in Argentina, I had to check if they meant 300 But the projected figure they’re worrying about is 3.7% thehustle.co/originals/i-...

Can any current third sector bods chime in here with the latest?

2024 hasn’t been great for UK celebrity fronted charity foundations Captain Tom Moore’s family & Naomi Campbell used charitable capital on luxurious personal spas for themselves. Both are banned from being charity trustees My piece for today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is there an app that just follows any of the X accounts I follow who are on Bluesky? Because I really can't be arsed.

Why I cannot wait for driverless cabs to arrive in Australia. My piece for today’s Sydney Morning Herald / The Age www.smh.com.au/national/i-c...

“We thought we wanted kids until our friends started having them. It helped us realise we want to stay child-free.” My ‘as told to’ feature with Jasmine Parasram, 35, from Melbourne for @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.nl/we-thought-w...

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

As told to me for @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/stay-at-home...

I spent the weeks leading to the #USElection2024 interviewing two influential gay men who were key players in Trump’s election because they influenced many other gay men to vote for him, touting him as a 'gay-friendly president' #Trump thebigsmoke.com.au/2024/11/14/t...

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