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The Right Is Now ‘Transvestigating’ Erika Kirk And Sydney Sweeney The trend has been going on for a while, but wildly, now the right seems to be eating its own.

I was recently interviewed by HuffPost on this recent, insidious manifestation of conspiracy culture. Give it a read!

www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-...

Loving the vibe on RMIT University’s Melbourne CBD campus as the new students celebrate Orientation Week. Go forth and prosper!

A few weeks ago, I saw some dude in a car with roof down blaring The Real McCoy’s ‘Another Night’!

I concur with your analysis and recommend publication with no amendments.

Adding to my Summer reading list - thanks @timothyjgraham.bsky.social for sharing!

Huge thanks to Professor Panizza Allmark for launching my book at the CSAA 2025 conference today and for her kind words. I’m feeling grateful.

Oh I love it!

X erupts after the platform reveals the locations where accounts are based X, formerly Twitter, launched a feature that shows accounts' locations, in an effort to promote transparency.

X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as “neutral” infrastructure.

www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...

So, my Monday began with my cat tearing up my latest council rates notice. Does that mean I get out of paying it? #thecatatemyhomework

‘See the wonderful possible’ sounds like a 1980s romcom.

I can hear Grace Slick’s majestic vocals, too!

Vale, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025

Friday lifts me up

Awesome shot of the student precinct!

And that is Bluesky thinking (sees himself out).

Well done, Jean and all - tonight’s reading is sorted!

The far-right poses serious ethical challenges for the media - ABC Religion & Ethics Western democracies are now entering a new phase of far-right mobilisation. Journalists and media outlets have a responsibility to avoid amplifying and legitimising the far-right’s hateful propaganda ...

www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...

The platforming is the point: News media, ‘the oxygen of amplification’, and interviewing the far-right - Jay Daniel Thompson, Kurt Sengul, 2025 This paper critically interrogates the role of news media in mainstreaming, normalizing and amplifying contemporary far-right political actors, parties, and mov...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

No surprises here. There are grave ethical issues with platforming extremists, as Kurt Sengul and I have elsewhere argued (see the links in comments). The Australian media has blood on its hands.

Are you eating on your own? :)

‘I genuinely did hold my breath’: a sordid, sexy queer debut evokes Hitchcock and Christos Tsiolkas When twentysomething Ash arrives in Melbourne seeking a ‘new version’ of himself, he’s fleeing a country town and a joyless upbringing.

PUBLICATION TODAY: My review of the disturbing and disturbingly good debut novel for Melbourne author Thomas Vowles. Enjoy!

theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...

I love the title!

Oh, bless! (Sees himself out …)

I wonder what their H Index is?

Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!

Why the ‘Epstein files’ should not distract us from the danger of conspiracy theories - ABC Religion & Ethics It seems that Donald Trump’s penchant for turning conspiracies into political weapons has exploded in his face — but as the “Epstein files” furore demonstrates, conspiracy theories are about a lot mor...

PUBLICATION TODAY: On the Epstein files and the dangers of conspiracy.

www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...

Well done, Hannah - it’s been another year of kicking goals for you! I’m excited to read. :)

IKR! I hate it when that happens!