Reposted by Barrie ShannonJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13hmy favorite thought experiment at the moment is the cognitive dissonance between "we will force our sentient unpaid ai agents to make millions of restaurant reservations for us. that will be their only purpose. they will live in a tamagotchi." But we also must make sure they are happy doing this 1335354
Reposted by Barrie ShannonCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comCriminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ... 415687
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9352353210
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAshley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The "controversy" is the typical racist misogynists manufacturing outrage for YouTube views. Stop pretending these are real people challenge 2026. 215345
Reposted by Barrie ShannonThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Recent open access article by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.: Young People and Social Media Bans: The Need For A Youth Centred Approach www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/you...youthandpolicy.orgYoung People and Social Media Bans: The Need For A Youth Centred ApproachWith the global introduction of social media bans for young people, Atherton, Hanckel, Berriman, Moore and Suppers ask: where are young people in these debates? 001
Reposted by Barrie ShannonPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons. 965066849
Reposted by Barrie ShannonDamien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Pre-orders are open for my book ‘Queer Stories in Australian TV Drama: Production Culture, Policy, and Distribution’. If you are associated with a university anywhere in the world, you can do me a massive favour by requesting the uni library purchases this book. www.routledge.com/Queer-Storie... 011
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 27/08/2026whenever there's a story about american religious conservatives lobbying to restrict what gay people do with their leisure time because they can't just mind their own fucking business, i think about this all-time @theonion.com classictheonion.comWhy Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?Look, I’m not a hateful person or anything–I believe we should all live and let live. But lately, I’ve been having a real problem with these homosexuals. You see, just about wherever I go these days, ... 030
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 24/08/2026I have a PhD scholarship available for a student who is interested in pursuing a project aligned with my research on sexuality and civics education, informal education, or broader sociopolitical schooling cultures for LGBTQ+ youth! 🌈🎓 barrieshannon.com/2026/08/24/p...barrieshannon.comRecruiting a PhD student – scholarship availableI’m currently looking to recruit a PhD student to join me here in the School of Education at Adelaide University! I’m offering a full scholarship ($36,500AUD p/a) that is attached to my… 2187
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 17/08/2026lmao "nooo our clients are gonna find out we're not actually doing the work they're paying us to do :(" 030
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAshley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud. 242152734
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAnupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Arday’s story is a warning about the consequences of symbolic inclusion without structural change of elevating individuals without support, the dangers of treating representation as spectacle,the failures of institutions that abandon those they once celebrated " paulddf.substack.com/p/who-killed...paulddf.substack.comWho Killed Jason Arday?Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a... 094
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 14/08/2026"The classic is, it will get the side of the body incorrect and say right when you've said left … so you need to check things pretty closely, especially things like drug doses." HELLO??? 010
Reposted by Barrie ShannonSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/08/2026KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKSwired.comThe AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an ImpactPlatforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. 2663362781
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 10/08/2026proof of life selfie, i've been alternating between writing a lot, watching hours of reels and playing scam-adjacent mobile games 010
Reposted by Barrie ShannonPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks! 98145523383
Reposted by Barrie ShannonARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In case you missed it, the ARC now has rough time-lines for introducing the new schemes 👇 285
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 20/07/2026finally paid off my HECS debt, it only took 16 years 🥲 000
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 17/07/2026i love deliberately ignoring e-mails from predatory journals asking me to do stuff for free and seeing their increasingly desperate (and frankly rude) follow-ups 150
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 17/07/2026Registrations are open for SS4. Join us in Adelaide for what is shaping up to be an exciting conference on gender, sexuality, pedagogies, schooling, teachers' work and the barriers to equity within the broader education system. 🌈🎓 @australianare.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Barrie Shannonliz holmes stan account @theranos.top · 16/07/2026I GET SO GAY OFF THAT DR PEPPER 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️ 3398
Reposted by Barrie ShannonRachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"For all of Segal’s assertions about how the local Jewish community was being conflated with the state of Israel and blamed for Israel’s action, it was her testimony that insisted on the link between them, as if any criticism of Israel’s actions constituted antisemitism" Read to the kicker on this🔥 410751
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 10/07/2026So excited to be organising Schooling and Sexualities 4 - a decennial legacy conference about gender and sexuality justice and schooling. Please share this call for papers and consider joining us in Adelaide. 011
Reposted by Barrie Shannonmarque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/07/2026You'd almost think Israel was doing something bad. 1220153
Reposted by Barrie ShannonDanielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier 71103842523
Reposted by Barrie Shannonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard 7235031006
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 26/06/2026any sport that can end with a 0-0 draw is not worth watching 🤷 010
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 26/06/2026"outsider politics" and it's far-right grifters who are regurgitating the exact regressive, racist ideas that form the basis of our entire society 020
Reposted by Barrie ShannonDr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Australia are doubling down on their social media ban, while a new study just dropped about its effectiveness - it's worse than the last one #nzpol (Cross post from instagram) 25233
Reposted by Barrie ShannonSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026when AI companies go bankrupt 143145164808
Reposted by Barrie ShannonDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Brianna Ghey found safety online. She found acceptance and support, and reasons to go on living. She was murdered by her actual classmates, who hated her for existing in her own body. Anything else is a lie. 232999
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAshley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Defeat them in the marketplace of ideas." They don't have ideas. They don't have arguments. They don't have beliefs. They just have performance which requires you to adhere to the social contract so they can profit off you as content. Getting their shit rocked is the only language they hear. 816932
Reposted by Barrie ShannonAshley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I know violence doesn't solve anything and all that, but these pieces of shit rely on the social contract to protect them and their bigotry and where's that gotten us? Fascism and genocide. Maybe the best thing for them is to beat the ever loving shit out of these edgelords so they think twice. 28363101
Reposted by Barrie ShannonBrendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I don't want to pretend this *isn't* shocking or ghastly but, like, when digital media experts are expressing concern generally about the data a game like Pokemon Go is collecting from day one, this is precisely the kind of end game they are thinking about. 527288
Reposted by Barrie ShannonNewcastle Youth Studies Centre @newcastleyouth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026If you use fintech, live in Australia, and are between 18 and 30 years old, please sign up to be interviewed in our project. Interviewees get a $50 gift card while workshops participants get $75! youthfintechfutures.wordpress.com/participate/youthfintechfutures.wordpress.comParticipateClick this link to do the screening survey 033
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 05/06/2026Mid-career researchers who are doing work in gender, sexuality or queer studies in education, please check out this call for nominations. Full details are at this link! 🌈🎓 163
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 05/06/2026literally every single guideline about using genAI in research is like "AI will save you hours, days, weeks of reading time!" and then immediately add "but you need to carefully check it's not just making shit up and fabricating data and citations". so what's the point? 🥴 1153
Reposted by Barrie ShannonThe Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026“Some women might not be comfortable sharing spaces with trans women!” We settled the question of whether a majority’s personal feelings or beliefs should inhibit a minority’s rights when equality laws were introduced. And the answer is: no, that doesn’t get to happen. They have to deal with it 1707
Reposted by Barrie Shannonbenjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 02/06/2026ABC fellas stop chumming with far-right domestic abusers challenge 520165
Reposted by Barrie Shannon☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 01/06/2026its insane how this man basically funded the entire american transphobia movement bc he hates his trans daughter 252108419