Terribly sad and shocking news, so sudden and so young. May she rest in peace, cognisant of her profound impact on our world.

GSC SEMINAR: ‘Extreme Misogyny, Problematic Feminisms and Governmentality of Gender in Post-Socialist China’ Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri) Time: 13:00-14:00 Online registration: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Oh this is terribly sad. Vale Linda Williams, your work was so integral to my thinking and writing on the libidinal economy of the moving image. Rest in peace 😢

Looking forward to this one!!!!

All of these attacks were used by politicians on both sides and basically every media outlet to justify attacks on pro-Palestinian campaigners, pass repressive new laws and criminalise the anti-genocide movement. Now it’s revealed they were all orchestrated by one criminal syndicate

Just bleak as fuck: “It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”

I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.

Donna coded

Vale Sandra Harding, a giant of feminist science studies and the history and philosophy of epistemology. 1935-2025.

Dawn kisses from my sweet Aušrinė, goddess of the morning star

19thc/20thc eugenicists believed that philanthropy and welfare for the "unfit" were "dysgenic" forces--that these contributed to the overall unfitness of a population by "allowing" those they perceived as "unfit" to not only live, but procreate, when it was better to let those classes die.

Truly taking on the United States and its tech industry cannot be done in isolation. Countries must form a new alliance not just to develop an alternative tech infrastructure, but to fundamentally change who that technology serves — the public, not profiteers. www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...

Canada and its allies should start looking at sanctions against US political and economic leaders, to make them feel the consequences of their actions. That should include tech billionaires, especially Elon Musk. www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...

The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico. It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.

Demi Moore can still win if she takes Pennsylvania

Arrived at work nice and early for the first day of semester and was greeted by a gorgeous (huge!) butterfly trying to get into my office building 🦋

Had a nightmare that Elon Musk was my boss and he was trying to hack me up with a chainsaw. Nearly escaped with my wit and ingenuity but then his minions stole my escape vehicle and I ended up also wielding a chainsaw, induced into lateral violence against my peers.

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

My new casquettes arrived from AliExpress :)))))) 🧢 🚲

I find this deeply cringe but my therapists both chastised me for prefacing personal disclosures with “this is so cringe” so consider this therapeutic praxis: when im frustrated or devo I’m going to occasionally STOP, REFLECT, and list 3 GOOD THINGS that recently caught my attention. 🧵

I really need better phone-bed nexus hygiene. Lately I’ve found myself doomscrolling in bed before I sleep, which gives me night terrors. Worse still I keep waking up incredibly early (3am, 4am, 5am). Too early to actually get out of bed, and so I doomscroll again, obliterating my optimism and mood.

I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.

The Ukrainian ambassador now just has her head in her hands in the Oval Office. A global embarassment. (📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)

Scientists and educators in Australia and NZ! Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do? We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s always a pleasure to have @niedermeyer.online on the show, but especially as Elon Musk remakes the US government, we need to understand there are means at our disposal to curtail his power by targeting his companies — Tesla in particular.

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Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Trying very hard not to get too frustrated by my latest injury… tripped over less than 2 mins into my Saturday morning run and hit the pavement. Now I have a bung knee >.<

Great episode of The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social with Danielle Carr @daniellecarr.bsky.social on psychiatry and the politico-scientific looping preceding our current bleak horizon. thedigradio.com/podcast/psyc...

Today’s Melbourne rally to protect trans kids was huge!

Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.

#BuJo update: I kept at it for an entire week so I bought myself this new one with my name engraved as a special little treat

This chart 📊 jumped out, showing the explosion of incarceration in the Northern Territory where 1% of the population is now in jail, worse than the United States. It should be a global disgrace for Australia #auspol

In Australia today, corporate lobbyists can cheaply access politicians in private while peaceful public protestors face draconian penalties, write @jack-thrower.bsky.social and Viv Clarke for @australiainstitute.org.au australiainstitute.org.au/post/compare...

I rarely write online film crit any more but made an exception for The Substance, which is a documentary. If anyone under 50 tries to tell you its not "feminist" or not "reflective of women's lived experience", your wise old horror-nonna here has words to the contrary filmint.nu/coralie-farg...

Now would be a great time for australian progressives to stop mainlining the frenetic dispatches from panicked liberals in the USA and start organising towards an ALP minority govt with meaningful input required from independents and minor parties.

I made this late one night when I was procrastinating working on my PhD thesis, it’s now racked up 50,000+ views which makes it my most successful media endeavour thus far 😜 😝 youtu.be/o5hsoeOB33s #SatC #fabulous

HDR/ECR scholars of gender and politics can apply for this prize of up to $US5000. Due Feb 1 ⬇️

Some pretty inspiring stuff happening in Serbia at the moment, with a general strike in support of the striking university students scheduled for Friday 24 January (image via @yugo.nostalgia on instagram) #podrškastudentima

Filling my apartment with essence of twink because Cignessa Amagrossi just moved in next door and seems to spend all day on our adjoining balconies puffing. #TsuLangeYor #TroyeSivan

Adventures in reading Freud… is the German word for “labia” really “shame lips”??? Can a German speaker confirm….. #shamelips #schamlippen #freud #labia

Convincing myself that I’ll actually keep up the #BuJo momentum beyond January this year… 🙏

Touching grass etc

American teens are flocking to a new video app