My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

neat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.

Victorian Govt under fire over shock VicHealth decision... www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...

Super excited for this future @ijhs.bsky.social special issue on women’s basketball 🏀 history. If you’re working on this topic, please submit an abstract before the Dec 17 deadline! #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told

Can’t wait to listen to this! Swim is so amazing.

Join us for our latest Queer as…a podcast with brilliant writer and poet, and talking about their latest for an into writing the brilliant play, swim - it’s EvN! queer-as.org/a-podcast/evn/

A colleague of mine grew up in a proudly Zionist family and now says that it’s taken her more than 50 years to realize “we were lied to.” A generation or two later and it’s on a speed run.

It’s really the opposite, if you only get one side of the history (and many of us do) it is completely shocking to realize much of what you “know” isn’t true or isn’t the whole story, and many young jews feel a sense of betrayal over that bsky.app/profile/prem...

New regulations mandating employers in Victoria to take practical steps to prevent and reduce psychosocial risks in workplaces are now in effect www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/news/2025-12...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

After dragging this wage theft case out for years Monash University are finally set to pay what they owe - and more! www.afr.com/work-and-car... #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #universities #Academia #universitiesmatter @alisonbarnes.bsky.social

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

From The Department of 'I'm not a member of the NSN, but ...' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Out of 178 countries, only the US, Israel & Argentina opposed a UN Vote against the use of Torture.

Social media platforms support genocides by suppressing content about victims & promoting supporters of genocides. 21st century genocides would be much harder to carry out if social media platforms would side with victims and not the genocidaires. From Burma/Myanmar to Ethiopia, Palestine & Sudan.

A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

Policymakers, if you want to base your decisions on AI slop, generate it yourselves instead of paying Deloitte through the nose to do it. #healthpolicy theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

Jasmine Garner is extraordinary. Somehow hasn't won the W award as the best player in any given season, but she's the best player in the league.

Proud to feature @shireenahmed.bsky.social's latest on how World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest against Israel’s participation, whose team boasts active IDF soldiers. www.sportspolitika.news/p/ultimate-f...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

My phone calling my car an accessory when I plug it in is a power move

"If we are serious about meeting the huge challenges ahead, from climate change to AI and robotics, the government must invest in the people doing the science." Thank you, @davidpocock.bsky.social. How this is not obvious to a Labor government just boggles the mind. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"A luminary of disability justice mvt” who wanted to see a world where people w disabilities, esp those of marginalized demographics who were people of color, LGBTQ+ people & immigrants, could live freely and have full autonomy over their lives and decisions." * www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

C'est moi

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken. “New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.

New book day 📚 Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

He was a vain, dishonest fool, too sexist and racist even for the likes of E.O. Wilson. Like many 'great' 20th-century scientists, his credulous and craven colleagues repeatedly forgave him for his shitty personality and vile opinions, all because he was associated with a much overblown 'discovery'.

I was wondering when phrenology would be back in. Everything old is new again... eventually.

ETTE Media Live "IT'S A NO FROM ME" The @ettemedia.bsky.social dynamic duo @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social & @janfran.bsky.social in an evening of sharp, frank and funny witticism and criticism in a world turning to shiticism. #JournalismMatters fane.com.au/whats-on/ett...

If only we had some form of envoy or such tasked with, say, combatting antisemitism, maybe they could let us know their thoughts on this

"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." ~ Albert Einstein

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

also this would clearly be a field where the expertise of faculty from historically excluded groups would be a huge benefit, given the bias that has been consistently demonstrated in AI because of its source materials, killing two birds with one stone But YOU KNOW that will not happen 🙄

The Australian Human Rights Commission has voiced an urgent need for legislative privacy law reforms after releasing its own – world first – study into potential impacts from the application of neurotechnology www.qlsproctor.com.au/2025/11/laws...

my university just sent out a newsletter with multiple stories about how AI is helping innovation in design courses, classroom innovation, and most heartbreakingly to protect Indigenous languages. there is rarely, if ever, anything about the harms of AI :(

I hope the universe is telling us that cruelty and hatred are losing issues.

I had the honor of protesting next to Rabbi Waskow in 2019 to shut down ICE HQ in DC. As I risked arrest while Rabbi Waskow sang prayers I grew up learning in shul, it cemented for me that my activism & my Judaism were indistinguishable from one another. May his memory be a blessing.

These authors are fighting tooth and nail for their work to get out there. And it’s incredible work that challenges the literary structures right now not willing to take risks. That alone is catnip for editors and yet! Kudos to the verge for getting this. They got the best writer to do it, too.

The first thing I did when I saw this story was share it and then immediately tell @taliabhatt.itch.io how happy I was it got published. I’ve pitched this story before to CRICKETS. With how big it’s resonated here I hope editors realize the hunger there is for trans stories to be told. Please.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.