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drnomyn.bsky.social
Political sociologist. Moral panics and propaganda in Education. Theory of crisis. By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Associate Professor. Gardener. Reader. Artist. Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia
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Just bought a bookcase off a fashion influencer and walked away with a bag full of samples brands sent her. I'm having a good Sunday

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Watery tarts handing out swords does.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I'm enjoying all the clever "calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king" posts, but also thinking that from a medieval perspective, that is kind of exactly how it starts, so...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

First party to find a way to dump AUKUS wins the election. Australians don't want to be part of the Trump Reich

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I'm concerned that people are talking like there was only one fascism for the TrumpElon train to emulate. Talking about the one that didn't last long and not all the others where the dictator died in the job decades later. Ignoring US role in many of them.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

There is no rift between the US and Ukraine. The US has turned on Ukraine. Don't ever say that I never offer constructive suggestions to traditional media

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Emily Roddha is pretty much the only Australian YA novelist who gave copyright permission to Qld state school lesson plan package in 2012 (C2C for the punters) and so now every kid in Qld govt primary school does Rohan of Rin and has class sets of her books. Jon is onto a windfall

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I'm getting very concerned about the academic integrity workload coming down the pipeline now they've turned the AI detector on. I thought this stuff was supposed to reduce labour.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

In Newcastle, Australia for a couple of days of meetings and just found out the ocean baths are only open when I'm in the meetings. Most disappointed. I guess the ocean will be open. Here's a lovely view of the foreshore & the extractavist industry exporting climate change to the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment