Emily van der Nagel

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

So well done Ben. Proud to be your colleague.

Thanks, Eileen. He had a good death - said goodbye to his family and chose how he went out ❤️

Omg honestly wild that I spent SO much time Getting It Right on that app and logging things correctly but for WHAT. I NEVER looked at a single data point again after the moment I recorded it.

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻

Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Terribly rude to slight ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) in this manner

#hottest100 #aushottest100

The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...

There's been a heap of interest in Australia's teen social media ban, but a lot of confusion remains about how the law works, how it's being implemented and what we still don't know.

Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!)

www.crikey.com.au/20...

Gotta let us know, otherwise how can we support you? Just signed up xo

*inhales and exhales very slowly*

Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.

Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.

A small child's hand is shown putting magnets on a fridge in random order: TOWZJ37&1i

New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets

The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...

A woman in a mushroom-patterned top and glasses is standing in a university classroom, smiling

Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉

She's a content creator, she answers the "race to the bottom" argument (don't you have to end up having to do more extreme stuff to drive subscribers?) by saying yeah, YouTubers feel like they have to do bigger and better videos all the time, too

Phillips is asked to defend herself so much in this interview - she's asked to watch back footage of herself crying after her sex event, to answer statements from anti-porn feminists, to read out mean comments about her. And I think she does defend herself well.

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight Lily Phillips speaks to Victoria Derbyshire about OnlyFans, online abuse and misogyny

Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...

There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism:

A/Prof or Professor - Journalism
A/Prof or Professor - Media
Senior Lecturer - Public Relations
Lecturer - Media

More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

A sign that reads "library stitch society event: knitting", with a knitted wool border

Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐

A screenshot of the Vote Compass landing page which says "We're currently preparing the 2025 version"

Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan

I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.

I am learning to recognise that yes, this will take all day, but whatever words arrive will be worth it.

I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.

A child wears a yellow t shirt with "always was always will be" on the front

A crowd of people outside Parliament House

Always was
Always will be

A photo of a flyer advertising, "another grape week: we've got more grapes for you this week! Our farmer had too much stock"

Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳

An image of Jim Carrey in a scene from Sonic the Hedgehog, sporting a large moustache

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