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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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This cluster of Sharp-scaly (or maybe just Scaly) Pholiota caught my eye and pulled me in. A mesmerizing sight!
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This cluster of Sharp-scaly (or maybe just Scaly) Pholiota caught my eye and pulled me in. A mesmerizing sight!
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
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Naturally, why would we want to (checks notes)…not die…
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Naturally, why would we want to (checks notes)…not die…
Strategic cuts to the CSIRO include 'environment' and 'health and biosecurity' 🤓
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Strategic cuts to the CSIRO include 'environment' and 'health and biosecurity' 🤓
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Us Nannas are in “the habit” of protesting but now we hear there’s a bunch of women in a different kind of habit (& sent by the Pope!) joining us at @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade. Hallelujah!
‘Mercies’ to join climate change protest at coal port - CathNews
Mercy Sisters and friends, under the banner “Mercies”, will join the Rising Tide Protestival in Newcastle on November 28-30.
cathnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Us Nannas are in “the habit” of protesting but now we hear there’s a bunch of women in a different kind of habit (& sent by the Pope!) joining us at @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade. Hallelujah!
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Whether on CSIRO funding cuts, the genocide in Gaza or speaking out against the gas cartel and their extortionate practices, Ed Husic sounds like what you expect from a Federal Labor leader.
‘Our gas, our prices’: Ed Husic breaks ranks with Labor to demand an end to ‘profiteering’ by exporters
Labor MP backs independent’s call for cheaper energy on the east coast by forcing producers to sell cheaper fuel for Australian use
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Whether on CSIRO funding cuts, the genocide in Gaza or speaking out against the gas cartel and their extortionate practices, Ed Husic sounds like what you expect from a Federal Labor leader.
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New Podcast: Navigating Media Literacy in a Partisan World.
Making Sense of Politics Podcast w @kcar.me & @nancygeorges.bsky.social
Full episode youtu.be/jD3JgQECEXg apple: apple.co/4krATDe spotify bit.ly/4kvS6et
#auspol #mspau #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking youtube.com/shorts/Il957...
Full episode youtu.be/jD3JgQECEXg apple: apple.co/4krATDe spotify bit.ly/4kvS6et
#auspol #mspau #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking youtube.com/shorts/Il957...
Why Media Literacy is a Crucial Skill We All Need Today - Making Sense of Politics Podcast
YouTube video by Making Sense of Politics
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November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
New Podcast: Navigating Media Literacy in a Partisan World.
Making Sense of Politics Podcast w @kcar.me & @nancygeorges.bsky.social
Full episode youtu.be/jD3JgQECEXg apple: apple.co/4krATDe spotify bit.ly/4kvS6et
#auspol #mspau #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking youtube.com/shorts/Il957...
Full episode youtu.be/jD3JgQECEXg apple: apple.co/4krATDe spotify bit.ly/4kvS6et
#auspol #mspau #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking youtube.com/shorts/Il957...
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New South Wales and Victoria have announced major moves to tighten workplace surveillance laws, amid growing concern that existing rules are failing to keep pace with rapidly evolving monitoring technologies ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
States crack down on workplace surveillance
NSW and Victoria get tough with bosses.
ia.acs.org.au
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New South Wales and Victoria have announced major moves to tighten workplace surveillance laws, amid growing concern that existing rules are failing to keep pace with rapidly evolving monitoring technologies ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes about Kyle and Jackie O: ACMA’s only two options shouldn’t be cancelling a licence altogether or toothlessly declaring a breach www.afr.com/companies/me...
Media regulator needs nuanced powers to rein in Kyle and Jackie O
ACMA’s only two options shouldn’t be cancelling a licence altogether or toothlessly declaring a breach.
www.afr.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Floyd Alexander-Hunt writes about Kyle and Jackie O: ACMA’s only two options shouldn’t be cancelling a licence altogether or toothlessly declaring a breach www.afr.com/companies/me...
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
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 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 in Qld the LNP government have cancelled the contract for a maternity mental health unit and closed a child and adolescent mental health unit.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Here in Qld the LNP government have cancelled the contract for a maternity mental health unit and closed a child and adolescent mental health unit.
Meanwhile, more and more mental health units are being closed in favour of the 'hospital at home' model
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Mental health patients' emergency waits surge again
New data shows some patients with serious mental health conditions have been waiting more than 23 hours for a bed in emergency departments.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Meanwhile, more and more mental health units are being closed in favour of the 'hospital at home' model
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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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
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 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
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 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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A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town
‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town
Criminal defence lawyer Asta Hill says she is putting human rights at the centre of her leadership – without shying away from addressing community safety
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When Asta Hill drives into Alice Springs after swimming in one of the waterholes that dot the red centre, she is still struck by the shades of blue and purple in the Macdonnell Ranges that wet the brushtrokes of Albert Namatjira.
“There is a reason that many of the most prolific artists in the world are from this Country – we have such an incredibly beautiful palette that they can work with,” Hill says.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town
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A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
PROPOSAL TO PASS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REFORMS THAT ACTUALLY PROTECT NATURE
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
www.davidpocock.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
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🚨 NEW: 'Don't know' is the preferred Liberal Party leader in the latest Newspoll, followed by Sussan Ley and Andrew Hastie
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨 NEW: 'Don't know' is the preferred Liberal Party leader in the latest Newspoll, followed by Sussan Ley and Andrew Hastie
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“The mining lobby has gorged itself for decades. They’ve extracted our wealth, minimized their taxes, blocked our progress, and corrupted our politics so thoroughly that both major parties compete to serve them.”
theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
“You can’t always get what you want,” sang The Rolling Stones. The Australian mining lobby never received the memo. For decades, it has secured its every wish: a royalty regime that ranks among the wo...
theaimn.net
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“The mining lobby has gorged itself for decades. They’ve extracted our wealth, minimized their taxes, blocked our progress, and corrupted our politics so thoroughly that both major parties compete to serve them.”
theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:46 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
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 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
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
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 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
Having so much going on that you feel your head might explode is exactly when you would get a notice to vacate your home of 8 years, right... 😅
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Having so much going on that you feel your head might explode is exactly when you would get a notice to vacate your home of 8 years, right... 😅