But this is the comedy festival and all was not lost; we went to the Elephant & Wheelbarrow for a comedy showcase instead. And I laughed. Catching a lineup of tight 10s is good actually and so is Melbourne.

I booked tickets. I invited my mum and sister. I prepaid for a city carpark. I took the toll road from work to the city. I planned to meet for ramen so we'd make the show on time.

I parked my car and got a text that the SHOW WAS CANCELLED

(not Reuben Kaye's fault feel better soon king)

A frame of The Simpsons showing Lisa facing a crowd of girls - and Smithers at the back, eagerly pointing. It's captioned, "But she's got a new hat"

Me when I make Same Lasagne as Last Night but Now With Side Salad

Fantastic! Can you email me at emily.vandernagel@monash.edu and I'll include you for an inspection copy?

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON.

Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en

Would love to know

Hey well done Seamus!! Great to have that milestone done! 🎉🎉🎉

Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation [Report]

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With the #socialmediaban for teens kicking in on 10 December, hearing their perspectives on it, and social media generally, is so vital!

💡 Read the full report here: doi.org/10.60836/tr3...

Thank you! I'm stoked!

BARRIE AND YOU!!!! I *love* the sound of sexuality and civics education pedagogies, what a fantastic project, HUGE congratulations to you!

Thank you, thank you to @brkeogh.bsky.social Robbie Fordyce @hmberents.bsky.social @bradyjay.bsky.social @dangolding.com Paul Long, Zala Volcic, Kerry O'Brien for their mentorship and support through the process ♥️

It is such an achievement to even submit one of these applications. So many researchers didn't get entirely worthy projects up, which is tough to bear and does not reflect the hard work and intellectual effort of the process.

So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

Thank you so much Axel!

This is SUCH a good question

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"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

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So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility'

Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

So well done Ben. Proud to be your colleague.

Thanks, Eileen. He had a good death - said goodbye to his family and chose how he went out ❤️

Omg honestly wild that I spent SO much time Getting It Right on that app and logging things correctly but for WHAT. I NEVER looked at a single data point again after the moment I recorded it.

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻

Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Terribly rude to slight ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) in this manner

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The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...

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