One more time because I don't want it buried or lost... Conversion Therapy isn't 'therapy' - it's torture. Declaring it protected by Freedom of Speech is saying that it's 'ok' to torture members of the LGBTQ+ community...like my daughter... That dog don't hunt. #LGBTQ+ #Conversiontherapy

NSW premier “Chris Minns’ protest ban has the premise that preventing the murder of Jews in Sydney means consenting to the murder of Palestinians in Gaza. It is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted.” Opposing genocide and supporting justice for all is not a crime.

Just finished a book that came with high recommendations from trusted sources. It was bloody awful soap, written to formula, not at all the literary triumph they claimed. Am convinced that the majority of adults read books like this because they don't really don't want to be adults.

With conversion therapy bans likely to be declared unconstitutional, states and their professional boards still have meaningful room to protect thepublic. But they have to be careful to regulate professional conduct and informed consent, not ideological speech. How? 1/14 #conversiontherapy

perfection #drag #bowie #trentreznor

Saw an Aston Martin 4-door in traffic this morning. Driving one of those is a dead giveaway that life didn’t go the way you hoped it would.

Yesterday I filled out a Sino-Nasal Outcome Test. The short name is SNOT-22. They do this deliberately so that inner Kim always remains a 12-year-old and never, ever grows up.

"By attempting to brainwash gay youth into becoming “normal”, conversion practices promotes Trump’s war on the LGBTQ+ community. That explains why, relying on junk science, a Health & Human Services Dept report issued last spring appeared to support the practice." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A motion passed at today's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras AGM. Markedly more abstentions for this than the other motions - tacit opposition or couldn't care less?

It’s the commercialisation of this special day that makes us so sad…

This isna repeated finding. We need money to provide services.

500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany

Look what I got in my inbox this morning: The Australian Christian Lobby agitating to get its supporter base to support efforts to loosen the laws on gay conversion practices - properly called Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change efforts. (1/4)

And I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know Hey, I ought to leave young thing alone But ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Police Academy 1 Police Academy 2 Police Academy 3 Police Academy 4

I did not know the Cisco Kid was Romanian. But I know now why every native Spanish speaker I have heard since my childhood sounds a bit weird.

Police don't need more powers to stop nazis. They can already stop them. They just don't want to. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

in short: if you're looking for love, get your nuts out by the fire.

Nathan Lyon should be sponsored by Lion Nathan.

Disgusted with the history profession. Years of arguing over what is or is not fascism, what is or is not genocide, yet doing nothing to stop the world burning. And my own work on minorities who are being persecuted around the world is deemed 'not strategic' enough to support.

But tell me why cops should march in Mardi Gras... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

In light of #SCOTUS hearing the ludicrous lawsuit that seeks to make #conversiontherapy legal for minors, I thought I’d share my new book a/b conversion therapy: SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY. Would you help me spread the word? bookshop.org/p/books/sham...

January 7, 2026, will be the first International Day to End Conversion Therapy. That date was chosen as that is the day Canada's ban came into effect in 2022. As a survivor and one of the architects of the ban, I'm incredibly happy to be helping with organizing this day. Keep watching for more info

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/xx #smbc

Just took some paracetamol, gonna get me some more autisms.

I wish evangelical Christians obsessed with the Rapture would take more of an interest in the things Jesus actually taught.

Where do I begin with these despicables? Sydney Anglicans complaining that the law doesn't allow them to be cruel to people anymore. Simply evil. #ConversionPractices sydneyanglicans.net/news/we-will...

Sydney Anglicans continue to campaign to inflict psychological torture on LGBTQ+ people - and seem to be in open defiance of state law prohibiting conversion practices. #nswpol sydneyanglicans.net/news/we-will...

I am calling for a moratorium on new tote bags. We all have more than enough tote bags already. Stop giving me tote bags at conferences. I do not want or need any more tote bags.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.

Being the Special Envoy for Antisemitism and refusing to address nazis is like being the Special Envoy for Black Lung Disease refusing to address coal. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just checking, mainstream media - when writing about Mitch Brown coming out as bisexual (🎉) did any of you talk to people from the bisexual community? #BiVisibilityMonth

This is un-Australian.

I'm not sure how many of my fellow historians are poker players, but that's a game that's tailor-made for us. Sitting at a table for long hours, drawing out one disappointment after another and then finally getting a holy shit holy shit this is amazing and then another three hours of boredom ...

James Dobson and the 'Followers' Who Led Him to Be Cruel How authoritarian, fear‑driven expectations from supporters -- not Biblical values -- shaped Dobson’s “family values” empire

James Dobson devoted his life to promoting domestic violence against wives and children, teaching men to rule by fear and cruelty. And he relentlessly promoted the harmful fraud of conversion therapy. Dobson created a whole industry of mental health pros who counseled his victims seeking recovery.

Some thoughts on the problems with our current system of academic peer review. There aren't any easy answers but I think revealing the identity of reviewers might at least make it more civil. thecritic.co.uk/the-pitfalls...

'Mrs Armstrong was inclined to apologise for her wealth, and to give freely to charities, without realising she was the cause of them.' (Patrick White, The Tree of Man) Ouch.

OK so I wrote up the whole conversion therapy/gender bit for those who are curious

Chris Minns is a dill. He should know that if you want the kids not to do something, you don't keep saying 'It's bad, don't do it.' Especially when your cool aunty (the Supeme Court) says 'Your dad's full of shit, do it.'

My latest rabbit hole: YouTube videos of people hearing Steely Dan for the first time and having their minds blown. They always lose their shit over the drum solos in Aja.

democracy is failing us. free palestine (with love and blood)

I'm not a make-up kind of guy, but I looked at the photo on my new driver's license and thought, That would look better with something around the eyes.