Gary Nunn 🚴‍♂️🇬🇧🇦🇺🇦🇷🏳️‍🌈

"What if Jonathan Bryan wasn't communicating in his own words at all?"

A startling investigation by @garynunn.bsky.social into the so-called "miracle cure" known as Facilitated Communication:

Sperm donor Mark met his biological kids. Then the IVF clinic found a mistake Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.

My ABC News investigation reveals 2 major fertility clinics have sent sperm donors inaccurate family lists of the children born from their donation; in one case, 3 times over.

One major clinic recently lost all a donor’s newly donated blood for screening www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

‘Our autistic son was manipulated by speech therapists who put words in his mouth’ Alex’s parents were told he was ‘communicating’ via a controversial method – soon, their excitement turned to suspicion

Non-verbal Alex's speech facilitator claimed he'd said-via an ABC board-he wanted to live in a town away from his family

“He’d have died if that happened” mum Mary Busk says

As she learnt, it very nearly did #facilitatedcommunication

My @theipaper feature: liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/363...

Nothing suss about Sussan’s extra ‘s’. Many leaders go gaga for woo-woo Sussan Ley was influenced by numerology. But is it less ludicrous than theology?

“Gaga for the woo woo” should be the title for the LNP election review www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... via @garynunn.bsky.social

I’m gay – I don’t want to be surrounded by children on holiday As France is told that their adult-only hotels and restaurants are ‘violence against children’, Gary Nunn says that’s another country off his bucket-and-spade list

As France is told that their adult-only hotels and restaurants are ‘violence against children’, @garynunn.bsky.social says that’s another country off his bucket-and-spade list www.independent.co.uk/voices/franc...

Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike | Gary Nunn My bungee-jumping and skydiving days are over because I can’t shake the visceral memory of learning that I’m not invincible, says freelance journalist and author Gary Nunn

Last year, I broke my wrist when mountain biking 🚵‍♀️ down a volcano 🌋 in Peru 🏥

Almost 8 months on, I’m still in physio & my wrist still isn’t fully functional 😭 🤦🏼‍♂️

I wrote for today’s UK Guardian ‘Why I quit’ series about what it taught me 😳

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was a social mobility experiment. Here's how it changed my life Summer schools sent underprivileged kids like Wes Streeting and I to university. Reuniting with some of them 25 years on, this is what I found

@garynunn.bsky.social thank you for this. I spent years mentoring the ‘working class gifted’ and telling them how much more they were worth to employers vs well supported kids with the same grades. This observation isn’t made often enough:
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/i-was-a-soci...

ADHD diagnoses are skyrocketing but coaching can help With more Australians than ever being diagnosed with ADHD, how do the treatments on offer stack up?

Today’s @abcnews long read is on #ADHD and is written by me.

It specifically looks at a way of managing the condition without medication: the ADHD coach.

They do 9 months of training, zero marketing to recruit clients & charge $190+ per hour.

More here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

From Jan 2025, I could be sued for suggesting in any news article that the Y.M.C.A. is a gay anthem - by the co-writer of the song, who'll perform it at Trump's inauguration this month.

My piece for the @smh

www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...

Misogynistic?

Reclaimed?

Feminist?

Sexy?

Empowering for LGBTQI people?

Vulgar?

The history of the word CUNT in broadcast media: my story for @newscomauHQ

www.news.com.au/entertainmen...

The broader point about anonymity is that the first donor conceived people have now come of age & many say they long to meet their biological dads/family members for a whole bunch of reasons. We should listen to them.

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It shouldn’t be up to donor conceived people to pay to join a commercial DNA database where there’s only a slim chance they’ll trace their genetic dads (he may not be on there). If clinics create humans they should be legally required to help them understand their biological roots; onus is on them

Opinion | The U.S. Should Abolish Anonymous Sperm Donations Children deserve better than to feel left in the dark against their will.

Thank you @garynunn.bsky.social from me & so many other DCP I know, fighting to end the unethical practice of creating children with the intent to deny them access to identity www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/o...

Opinion | The U.S. Should Abolish Anonymous Sperm Donations Children deserve better than to feel left in the dark against their will.

When it comes to anonymous sperm donation, the U.S. should look to countries like Australia to inspire better regulation, @garynunn.bsky.social writes in a guest essay.

Opinion | The U.S. Should Abolish Anonymous Sperm Donations Children deserve better than to feel left in the dark against their will.

My first piece for The New York Times

From 1 January 2025, Colorado will become the first U.S. state to outlaw anonymous sperm donations

Abolishing anonymous donation worldwide will help donor conceived people to know their genetic identities

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/o...
@nytimes

For the new @DNAmagazine, I meet the gay men who voted & campaigned for @realdomaldtrump.bsky.social including the Log Cabin Republicans & Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin

Here’s a teaser & the editor’s letter.

Subscribe here www.dnamagazine.com.au/product-cate...

Here is Trump’s nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel calling for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.”

“We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media."

Can you not be a digital nomad in your own country? Comes down to definition I guess…

I spoke to Australian digital nomads in Bali, Thailand, Colombia and, of course, Argentina to discover what life on the road is really like.

For many, it’s one of the best ways to feel alive: to go on a new adventure / challenge yourself.

For news.com.au

www.news.com.au/finance/work...

I worked in charities for years – here’s how I make sure my money is going to a good cause, not Captain Tom’s family | Gary Nunn This year, the family of Captain Tom or Naomi Campbell have shown us the pitfalls of celebrity charities, writes journalist Gary Nunn

Clear, sensible piece about how charities work and why so-called overhead costs are essential to their success by @garynunn.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

Australia's Macquarie Dictionary crowns #enshittification as the word of 2024

As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”

I worked in charities for years – here’s how I make sure my money is going to a good cause, not Captain Tom’s family | Gary Nunn This year, the family of Captain Tom or Naomi Campbell have shown us the pitfalls of celebrity charities, writes journalist Gary Nunn

Here's an important message from @garynunn.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com -

"I worked in charities for years – here’s how I make sure my money is going to a good cause, not Captain Tom’s family"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just 16c in every $1 was donated to charities from Shane Warne’s foundation.

Celeste Barber's $51.3m could only be used for training/admin/equipment for NSW rural fire service

In today's @theguardian.com: why overhead costs at well-established charities matter.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not if that London based CEO has increased tenfold the number of Macmillan nurses able to be sent out than a lesser-paid CEO (with fewer skills, experience and nous)!

The way we think about charity is dead wrong Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for wha...

Again, if they're helping more animals than a lower paid CEO would, absolutely yes.

It's the same as business. It's about impact.

www.ted.com/talks/dan_pa...

Recently, Australian broadcasters panicked: next year, “our inflation rate could have a 3 in front of it."

I’m so used to triple-digit figure inflation in Argentina, I had to check if they meant 300

But the projected figure they’re worrying about is 3.7%

thehustle.co/originals/i-...

If they're responsible for the charity fundraising more, and therefore sending more Macmillan nurses to more homes, then 100% yes.

Can any current third sector bods chime in here with the latest?

2024 hasn’t been great for UK celebrity fronted charity foundations

Captain Tom Moore’s family & Naomi Campbell used charitable capital on luxurious personal spas for themselves. Both are banned from being charity trustees

My piece for today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...