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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 11/09/2026

10 points for guessing which one is Casey and which one is the other guy based on their outfits

Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 19/08/2026

My new journal article, ‘The utopianism of LGBTQ+ NFT collectors’, is out now in Convergence. The article examines how queer users imagined blockchain as a platform for alternative economic possibility, while their efforts were constrained by the system's capitalist logics. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 11/02/2026

Really good article by @bronicee.bsky.social on the world's largest data centre to be built in Sydney and its environmental impact. Spoiler: it's massive! But at least we'll have funny videos of dogs dancing while we burn... 😌 stories.theconversation.com/can-australi... @aunz.theconversation.com

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Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres?

Even if we can pull of the logistical feat, given the social and environmental impact, the question remains: should we?

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 11/12/2025

Not entirely sure what to put in the trash yet...

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 11/12/2025

Finally made a new personal website!

Personal website styled like a late 90s operating system with many overlapping, open windows.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 10/12/2025

The face scanner verified my twink-death for good.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 09/12/2025

This amounts to a techno-solutionist response that risks cutting young people off from support, identity and community, while leaving the wider digital ecology toxic for everyone.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 09/12/2025

Surveying 2,500+ Australians, we found 2/3 support the ban—including many who say online free speech is “very important”. We argue this reflects moral panic and a tendency to treat young people as passive recipients of content rather than active producers of culture, care and political engagement.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 09/12/2025

I have a new co-authored article out in Continuum, with Rob Cover, Ingrid Richardson and Daniel X Harris. We examine Australia’s social media age ban and ask why it gained such strong adult support, despite limited evidence that blanket bans reduce harm. Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Restricting young people from digital platforms in Australia: the experience of digital harms and freedom of expression in community support for youth social media age bans

In 2024, the Australian government introduced legislation requiring digital platforms to restrict Australian users under sixteen years from holding social media accounts to protect from digital har...

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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

i'm not afraid to say what you're all thinking... recaptcha getting too hard

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 26/09/2025

Feels like OpenAI just discovered push notifications 🤔

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 22/05/2025

Great cover Sofia! Can’t wait to give it a read

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 08/05/2025

Idk - I keep reading that this means Labor can be as progressive as ever. But really, it feels more like this mandate is for them to be as centrist as possible

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Me assuring my advisors that I'll send them a finished chapter draft by the weekend.

George R.R. Martin in a plaid shirt and a black jacket in a castle overlooking an enormous valley.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 28/01/2025

When you set up FaceID and have to move your head around in a circle

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Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Please read and know that the rush to make the internet 'safe' through bad legislation and platform censorship policies will make the internet worse for many - especially LGBTQ+ teens and young people who rely on digital media for crucial information and support

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 21/01/2025

But actually, I enjoyed the comparison between these crypto scams featuring Koch and the real ads for 'Kochie's Business Builders', which is itself pretty scammy.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 21/01/2025

A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 13/01/2025

Thought I was an engineer plugging these in!

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 06/12/2024

So sad I missed this one! Such a great project 😍

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 06/12/2024

I promise this is my last paper for the year!

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 06/12/2024

Very proud to have presented at Digital Intimacies X today on the declining engagement of a mental health support group / Discord server. My paper asks what role should platforms like Discord play in ensuring the safety and well-being of their users? (Probably a bigger one)

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 05/12/2024

Digital Intimacies X best slides award goes to @claresoutherton.bsky.social and Naomi Smith!!! A really great paper on contemporary conspiracy cultures and the epistemic collapse of the image

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 04/12/2024

A great first panel at Digital Intimacies X!

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 29/11/2024

And there’s platforms like TikTok that don’t even require you to create an account! This policy is completely useless

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 28/11/2024

I wish I could have seen your panel too! 😩

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 27/11/2024

Thrilled to have presented a paper at #aanzca24 today! I shared my work on developing a web app that allowed research participants to submit close-to-real-time scam data

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Meta's "no politics allowed" stance is 1) itself a political position, and 2) so impossible to enforce that it's instead a perverse guarantee that what political content does surface will be absolutely deranged, in that the algorithms will be unable to identify it as conventionally political

While users will still be allowed to follow accounts that post about political and social issues, accounts posting such content will not be recommended and content posted by nonpolitical accounts that is political in nature or includes social commentary also won’t be recommended, Meta said.

The company said it also won’t show users posts focused on laws, elections or social issues from accounts those users don’t follow.

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Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A couple of words in here from me about automated content moderation, the over-policing of LGBTQIA+ speech, and the importance of platforms supporting queer people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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LGBTQIA+ groups removed from Facebook for posting links to mental health organisations

Queensland and interstate LGBTQIA+ social media pages are being flagged for breaching Meta's cybersecurity standards, users say.

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Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com · 21/11/2024

I gave my first-ever paper at the inaugural ‘Queer Contexts’ conference 2 weeks ago! I presented on the utopianism of “Queer Community on the Blockchain”. It was really fun and just a little scary. Excited to do more.

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