Dave Dun

I keep coming back to saying this, but "none of us is free until all of us are free" isn't just a theory about power, it's a statement of the threat to humanity posed by our tolerance for injustice against others.

This level of centralised command & control has me pretty convinced that I wouldn’t be able to teach in the UK. Seems like a huge, centralised middle finger to neurodivergent teachers. Disability provisions? Reasonable accommodations? Nope. Slide 1, cold call, slide 2, turn & talk, slide 3, notes.

Really straightforward thread on why we shouldn’t use “biological male/female” when talking about trans folks.

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

I love my boys and try to be a good dad. If they go anywhere near the pervert glasses I will consider myself to be a complete failure as a parent. These devices should not exist and anyone who has them needs to learn very quickly from the rest of us that their use will *not* be tolerated.

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

This whips.

Ma’a Nonu performing a solo haka at age 44 before the ABs game vs the Sharks. Any All Black younger than 24 was not even born when he made bis international debut. Epic. Almost mythological. Can’t imagine what it must have felt like to be on the field.

So, rather than planting a flag and defending trans rights you disseminate and bloviate about “protecting” women. Well played, UK Labour. Slow clap.

I can’t begin to put into words how meaningful (& fun) it has been to get to work on this show. @jamesstout.bsky.social is such a rare talent & wonderful human. open.spotify.com/episode/5Xk2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... pca.st/podcast/c2ea... www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Nice to see the AFP’s Social Coercion squad busy trying to jail folks who send emails to their MP asking for something, get the thing, thank the MP, then stop emailing. Ain’t cohesion grand.

I am not by nature a violent person. Truly. But if I encounter a pair of these knockoff pervert glasses in the wild they will be knocked off the wearer.

More than doubling international competitions, moving to debt financing and a Kushner company to run commercial operations. And no mention of women’s football. Abolish FIFA. Forever. It’s time to start over with football administration.

The idea that social media is bad for teens is a textbook manufactured moral panic that is not based in reality in the slightest, and it's been pushed entirely by people who have a strong reason to want to end anonymity online and exert much stronger control over the speech of marginalized people.

Chef’s kiss 👩‍🍳 💋

Thoughtful thread from one who reviews synthetic text infected academic writing as part of his job. It’s bleak. The sooner the AI bubble bursts, the better.

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I don't write for Independent Australia anymore. Here's why. Free-to-access read on my Patreon... where you might find me a bit more often from now on! READ: www.patreon.com/posts/163502...

okay - old-school OK - traditional Ok - transitional ok - nonchalant ok! - enough k - loose as a goose k? - we good? kk - got it K - assertive ok… - unconvinced okaaay - intrigued 0k - file not saved

Nurses and midwives rock. ✊

NAILS it!

Absolutely tragic scenes as investors stop buying Melbourne houses. This devastating news is truly heartbreaking. How will they recover www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Hmm. A rich Catholic organisation appears to have engaged in financial and/or real estate fraud in order to cheat abuse victims out of compensation payments. Not sure how to describe how I feel about this, but it certainly isn’t ‘shocked’.

This is Oliver. How he learned his wizardry I have no idea. Top freaking tier.

Media: "This heatwave is unprecedented" All the experts who've spent the last five decades precedenting it:

Every year now there’s at least one book about how no one is heterosexual anymore. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of a ludicrously false premise. The issue is not that heterosexuality is uncool, the “issue” is that women finally have choices

Perfect ("satirical") summary of the AI bubble. The whole thing is gold: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

AI is mainly championed by ppl who bluffed their way through life, never understanding how anything works. When AI promised to offload thinking from humans, they went "Finally, we can ALL drop the act!" only to be met with blank stares. So it's either embrace AI or admit they are failures as people.

If Labor’s NDIS cuts are to reduce “fraud and waste” then I humbly suggest that throwing folks with disabilities and their careers under the bus is perhaps not the most efficient way to do so…

> [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my outward appearances, but [is] neither me nor a valuable model of me[.] doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

My local bowling alley has a repro floppy of Leisure Suit Larry in the vending machine

I’m on the committee of a local football club. If we ran the Tigers this way we’d be chased out of town. Interesting that these clowns are allowed to let their lazy prejudices and a brutal neoliberal framing destroy tertiary education and my alma mater. Oh well. Community football goes on…

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32M research outputs globally This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked. Share, repost, comment-every interaction counts doi.org/10.1080/1328...

The incomparable pathologist Richard Scolyer's Letter to All Australians (and the world): www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

They’ll need this everywhere if the US is to change for the better. But it’s a start. Solidarity to LA stadium workers and workers everywhere. ✊ Join your #union

Why am I just now hearing amazing this amazingly multi-talented writer and performer? She sounds amazing!

Not often that I agree with a Pope… 😉

Nos ha gustado mucho esto de Rodri en The Players' Tribune (solo está en inglés).

Currently 3.4 billion people – 40% of the world’s population – live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education. More aid wouldn't solve neo-colonialism - but aid cuts exacerbate the suffering it causes. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/aid-cuts-b...

How long will it be until we’re compelled by our bosses to carry around the digital homunculus as a condition of employment? AI wearables? Absolutely not. No thank you.