Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social

What if the internet were built differently? ADM+S researchers argue how platform co-ops, public digital infrastructure and decentralised technologies could help create a fairer and more democratic online future. 👉 Read now: bit.ly/4tMJDru #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

There's a very specific late-capitalist archetype here: trust fund kids building personal brands around 'startup culture', hustle aesthetic, vapourware SaaS ideas, dropshipping, and performative antics aimed squarely at younger audiences who imagine themselves one lucky app away from escape velocity

Excited to share that my article, co-authored with @ashwinnag.bsky.social & @antmandan.bsky.social, is out in Discourse & Communication! If you work in digital media, AI, journalism, SEO, or just spend a lot of time Googling things, you'll want to give it a read.

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The Australian mainstream media's apoplectic reaction to Labor's milquetoast tweaks to negative gearing and CGT is the only proof required about how detached the media class is from ordinary Australians. And they wonder why trust in the news industry is collapsing.

So having kowtowed Labor and the Coalition, Gina and the billionaire class are now replacing them with their own hand picked candidates. The canary died long ago, and the coal mine should have been shut down as well. Wake up Australia. #farrer #auspol

These Machines Fight Traffic. Developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

I know it's coming from a positive place when someone says, shocked, "oh you rode a bicycle here?" but it just reveals how deep car brain runs in Australia. Yes, I travelled 4km, in fair weather, using one of the most common transport technologies in human history. I did not arrive by trebuchet.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Cancelling a work by a queer Indigenous author raises serious questions about whose voices are considered too difficult, too risky, or too inconvenient to publish. Intellectual freedom isn't tested when it's easy. It's tested in moments like this. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:

She seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart Genesis 19:86

Register now for this Australian Internet Observatory webinar, exploring how methods such as data donation, interviews, surveys and other approaches can be combined for digital platform research. 💻 👉Register now at admscentre.org/4dOWLrW

Your daily reminder that the Brisbane City Council wants you to be 100% car dependent, with all the negative health, economic, and social consequences that brings. And their car centric worldview would rather victim blame pedestrians for being killed here than drop the speed limit to 40kph.

Read more about a free webinar from AIO on 21st April 2026: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Albanese telling people to reconsider driving is incredible optics. Mate, you built a country where driving is mandatory. A country where cyclists, pedestrians, and anyone not using a car is treated as a second-class citizen. Car-dependence is baked into every major policy you have architected.

New research: Misleading political ads flooded social media during Australia’s 2025 federal election. Using 22,000+ ads collected directly from voters’ phones, researchers captured what Australians actually saw online beyond platform ad libraries apo.org.au/node/332660 #PoliticalAdvertising

I could not be more stoked to announce CONTINUE, a defiant, new games magazine that aims to celebrate and interrogate the culture, creativity and community of videogames. The Kickstarter is now live below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

What a fucking crock. Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.

New article alert! “Just Asking Questions”: Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots is now available to read open access! This study examined how a selection of popular chatbots responded to conspiratorial prompts.

"The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all" #moralpanic www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know it's technically not one word, but let me have a go at a word association anyway: Anthony Albanese = Lorem Ipsum

OMG, Channel 9's are making the Winter Olympics unwatchable. They have played the same 4 ads on repeat around 100+ times in the last hour. As a result I am determined to never shop at a particular chemist, nor purchase insurance from a particular provider that has a fascination with lighthouses

The duality of speed skating and track cycling at the Olympics is well known, but what if we closed the gap further and had the short track speed skaters follow a souped-up Zamboni like the derny in a Kierin race? @kathangus.bsky.social reckons we could call it the 'Keirink' 🥌🚲

Really enjoying watching the Winter Olympics, but damn the Aussie-centric parochial production of Channel 9 is really trying its hardest to ruin it. Every Aussie athlete is seemingly getting a full over-produced biopic, and so much air time is wasted on commentators, just let us watch the action!

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

NSW Police used pepper spray, helicopters, horses and blockades as part of a new program designed to bring the community together. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/10/s...

Watching the footage emerging of the police brutality from Sydney last night is truly sickening. People have a right to peacefully protest. And shame on the media for framing this as 'protesters clashed with police' when from the footage it was clear that 'peaceful protesters were bashed by police'

Brisbane showed up for Palestine tonight 🍉

R.I.P Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social “If I did a sequel it would probably involve a scientist swearing a great deal” allouryesterdays.info/2025/04/28/i... @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

Here in Australia, much has already been said about the recent wave of "hate speech" and anti-protest laws. Speaking as someone who studies political communication and misinformation, I want to add my deep concern: how these rushed responses may backfire institutionally and politically. #auspol

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Nothing says 'new world city' quite like encountering 5 separate footpath closures in one single walk home from the bus. I know the Brisbane LNP council hate active transport but this is next level even for them.

Can’t be said too often: Having the power to restrict protest indefinitely creates a very specific definition of “social cohesion”.

New Australia Institute research shows Australian high schools are the most expensive in the OECD. "I can't see any policy case for taxpayers giving money to a school that can afford an air-conditioned equestrian arena." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway! With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

ICE's $100M ad campaign is using the same playbook as the Gestapo & Stasi. The goal? To make repression sound reasonable and patriotic.

The proliferation of gigantic US "wankpanzer" trucks/utes onto Australian roads is an absolute menace, but it also reveals how transport ministers at state and federal levels are completely asleep at the wheel and blind to cart culture. This follows from the perverse tax incentives for giant utes.

Back to work today 🫠

"I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week" Louise Adler ✊ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You've got to be joking. So these grifters are getting rich promoting misery and suffering, breaking up families through problematic gambling, and then have the gall to pretend they care about kids.

Really important to stress that 36 Months accused academics and experts critical of the ban of being 'paid' by big tech. When asked for evidence of this, the MD said "I haven't looked into it." Meanwhile 36 Months itself was directly funded by a business helping promote the gambling industry.

I’ve published a new piece in IPS Journal (in English and German) on Australia's social media age-ban, a policy that disconnects millions of young people from key online spaces while giving us no real way to measure what it achieves. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...

Ban the Business Model, Not the Child. Read these wise (research based) words from colleague @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social on the social media ban in Australia @ascor.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/b...

Incredible. Pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months was selling sponsorship to a United Nations event run by the Australian government with the promise of “influence” and “access” to heads of states, according to a leaked document. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

Reflections on the day 1 of the age ban: experts sidelined again, nuance ignored, and the debate drowned by low-effort vox pops. Policy built on vibes not evidence gets sold as "protecting kids" with all the spectacle of a state propaganda march, loud, choreographed, & divorced from substance.

That social media ban thing? That starts today? Here’s what to expect from @antmandan.bsky.social

We have your morning commute listening for Wednesday lined up... 👂🔊 DMRC Director Daniel Angus (@antmandan.bsky.social) spoke with the Read Them Sideways podcast team about the social media ban, the implications, and what to expect in the future. open.spotify.com/episode/6IES...

The messy implementation of Australia’s under 16 social media ban. Demanding better, responsible, compliant social media platforms rather than a messy age ban is much needed. Which many Australian colleagues like @antmandan.bsky.social have said, repeatedly. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...