Dr Desirée Kozlowski
@pleasurelab.bsky.social
Psychology academic, researcher, and avid pleasure promoter. I also write. #Pleasure. #EI. #GenderRoles. She/her/they. Ally. Guest on Gumbaynggirr Country. Personal views only. Easily bored.
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Embracing joy in life, and how to support a friend who has bad luck with relationships - ABC listen
When was the last time you had fun or experienced joy? It's something you'd assume should be pretty easy, but sometimes it can feel hard. That struggle to feel joy or notice the small joyful moments i...
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In case you'd like to catch up on our chat about the surprising benefits of pleasure, joy, and all things lovely, here's the link to listen to ABC Radio National's Life Matters from this morning 😘
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We needed this. The creek is roaring.
February 13, 2026 at 12:15 AM
We needed this. The creek is roaring.
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
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Pleurocybella porrigens aka Angel Wings Fungus. Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from a couple of years ago, in autumn.
#fungi #fungifriends
#fungi #fungifriends
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Pleurocybella porrigens aka Angel Wings Fungus. Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from a couple of years ago, in autumn.
#fungi #fungifriends
#fungi #fungifriends
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Without xAI, Tesla is nothing more than the 19th largest carmaker in the world by sales volume, worth less than $100 billion.
The "AI" premium in Tesla was $400/share ($1.4TR). With xAI in shambles (no talented engineer in his right mind would work there), #$TSLA is worth $28.
The "AI" premium in Tesla was $400/share ($1.4TR). With xAI in shambles (no talented engineer in his right mind would work there), #$TSLA is worth $28.
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Without xAI, Tesla is nothing more than the 19th largest carmaker in the world by sales volume, worth less than $100 billion.
The "AI" premium in Tesla was $400/share ($1.4TR). With xAI in shambles (no talented engineer in his right mind would work there), #$TSLA is worth $28.
The "AI" premium in Tesla was $400/share ($1.4TR). With xAI in shambles (no talented engineer in his right mind would work there), #$TSLA is worth $28.
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I really wish more people would read this.
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
www.aph.gov.au
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
I really wish more people would read this.
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
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February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
Each sunrise is an absolute blessing
Here's this morning's ✨️
Here's this morning's ✨️
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Each sunrise is an absolute blessing
Here's this morning's ✨️
Here's this morning's ✨️
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To all women in science
Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science
Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 AM
To all women in science
Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science
Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science
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‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology
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The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name.
The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose life was cut short by Melbourne University Press in September. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
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February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
Here's exactly the clip you needed today!
A young swamp wallaby happily nibbling on flowers 💖
A young swamp wallaby happily nibbling on flowers 💖
February 10, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Here's exactly the clip you needed today!
A young swamp wallaby happily nibbling on flowers 💖
A young swamp wallaby happily nibbling on flowers 💖
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This is what I expect from a politician, fighting for future generations rather than fighting for fossil fuel profits.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.
February 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
This is what I expect from a politician, fighting for future generations rather than fighting for fossil fuel profits.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.
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Trying desperately to find that witches' butter I saw last week, I paid too little attention to other fungi yesterday. And I didn't find that buttery treasure anyway 😭
So here's some stuff I did manage to shoot. First this bracket fungus in symbiosis with some algae; a green symphony. #fungifriends
So here's some stuff I did manage to shoot. First this bracket fungus in symbiosis with some algae; a green symphony. #fungifriends
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Trying desperately to find that witches' butter I saw last week, I paid too little attention to other fungi yesterday. And I didn't find that buttery treasure anyway 😭
So here's some stuff I did manage to shoot. First this bracket fungus in symbiosis with some algae; a green symphony. #fungifriends
So here's some stuff I did manage to shoot. First this bracket fungus in symbiosis with some algae; a green symphony. #fungifriends
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We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
February 10, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
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Here’s the free read version: archive.md/2026.02.09-0...
archive.md
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Here’s the free read version: archive.md/2026.02.09-0...
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Wishing all the folks who distanced themselves from and/or attacked me over my speaking to Buzzfeed and ASU about witnessing Lawrence Krauss being a sex pest a very uncomfortable realisation about precisely who they were defending. Very proud to have supported Mel.
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
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Jeffrey Epstein, the rockstar physicist and the Australian whistleblower
Melanie Thomson accused astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss of sexual harassment after an alleged incident in Melbourne. The professor asked Jeffrey Epstein for help.
www.smh.com.au
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Wishing all the folks who distanced themselves from and/or attacked me over my speaking to Buzzfeed and ASU about witnessing Lawrence Krauss being a sex pest a very uncomfortable realisation about precisely who they were defending. Very proud to have supported Mel.
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
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This was the scariest bit. When police on horseback were pushing forward and people had nowhere to go.
February 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
This was the scariest bit. When police on horseback were pushing forward and people had nowhere to go.
Content warning: police violence
A scene we should never EVER see in this country
A scene we should never EVER see in this country
Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
February 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Content warning: police violence
A scene we should never EVER see in this country
A scene we should never EVER see in this country
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"This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it ... I was there".
Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.
While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.
While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West
NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.
michaelwest.com.au
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
"This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it ... I was there".
Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.
While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.
While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...