Lucinda Nelson
@lucinda-nelson.bsky.social
👩🏼💻 PhD candidate @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
📚 law | tech | violence against women
🏳️🌈 no terfs 🏳️⚧️
📚 law | tech | violence against women
🏳️🌈 no terfs 🏳️⚧️
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
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Remembering an old post from a girl who was talkin w a guy on bumble or w/e and, when she said she did advocacy around infectious diseases, dude asked For or against the diseases?
I see now that Robert F Kennedy Jr is the reason why you gotta ask such questions. That's a pro disease man right there
I see now that Robert F Kennedy Jr is the reason why you gotta ask such questions. That's a pro disease man right there
But University of Georgia's Daniel Perez told us that another idea floated by officials was more likely to result in dangerous bird flu mutations
Kennedy talked about "the possibility of letting it run through the flock" and preserving birds that are immune
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Kennedy talked about "the possibility of letting it run through the flock" and preserving birds that are immune
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned vaccines could turn "birds into mutant factories."
www.cbsnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Remembering an old post from a girl who was talkin w a guy on bumble or w/e and, when she said she did advocacy around infectious diseases, dude asked For or against the diseases?
I see now that Robert F Kennedy Jr is the reason why you gotta ask such questions. That's a pro disease man right there
I see now that Robert F Kennedy Jr is the reason why you gotta ask such questions. That's a pro disease man right there
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When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo
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my number one piece of advice to people wanting to do a PhD is to pick a topic that makes you so. fucking. angry. truly incredible the level of motivation that unbridled rage can provide
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
my number one piece of advice to people wanting to do a PhD is to pick a topic that makes you so. fucking. angry. truly incredible the level of motivation that unbridled rage can provide
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YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir”
It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it.
In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.
It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it.
In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir”
It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it.
In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.
It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it.
In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.
Dante’s lesser known Tenth circle of hell is writing the last 500 or so words of any given piece of work
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Dante’s lesser known Tenth circle of hell is writing the last 500 or so words of any given piece of work
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These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
September 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
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all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
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This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.
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Sure does make it seem as if the president was participating in the organized sexual abuse of girl children.
Can’t quite put my finger on why, but somehow the actual doodle makes it so much worse and more disgusting.
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sure does make it seem as if the president was participating in the organized sexual abuse of girl children.
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! I've been banging this drum for months
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
September 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
! I've been banging this drum for months
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'
GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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if it looks like a neo-Nazi rally and quacks like a neo-Nazi rally, it’s probably a neo-Nazi rally
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
if it looks like a neo-Nazi rally and quacks like a neo-Nazi rally, it’s probably a neo-Nazi rally
Maybe it’s the ~3 years I’ve spent analysing and writing about the online response to the Depp v Heard trial talking here, but I’m really not sure another series of Johnny Depp puff pieces is the journalism we need right now
June 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Maybe it’s the ~3 years I’ve spent analysing and writing about the online response to the Depp v Heard trial talking here, but I’m really not sure another series of Johnny Depp puff pieces is the journalism we need right now
I 🩷 the DMRC
Applications are now open for two scholarships at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre.
Investigate how 21st-century media changes and challenges the social role of media by gathering detailed evidence about how Australians use media (all forms, old and new).
More information here: qut.to/28a6y
Investigate how 21st-century media changes and challenges the social role of media by gathering detailed evidence about how Australians use media (all forms, old and new).
More information here: qut.to/28a6y
QUT - Media Use in the 21st Century (2 PhD scholarships)
www.qut.edu.au
June 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I 🩷 the DMRC
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Ned's new paper, The Art of the (Platform) Deal, can be found here: ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj....
The Art of the (Platform) Deal: Tech Platforms, Fact Checkers, and the Politics of Truth
| Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de
June 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ned's new paper, The Art of the (Platform) Deal, can be found here: ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj....
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🎤 A new episode of Read Them Sideways is now available with host @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social and @nedwatt.bsky.social, discussing Ned's new paper and the future of fact-checking on the back of Meta's policy changes. 🎤
open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...
open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...
Episode 26: The Art of the Platform Deal with Ned Watt
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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June 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🎤 A new episode of Read Them Sideways is now available with host @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social and @nedwatt.bsky.social, discussing Ned's new paper and the future of fact-checking on the back of Meta's policy changes. 🎤
open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...
open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...
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Ten years ago today, Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 United States presidential election.
To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism.
open.spotify.com/episode/6PoX...
To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism.
open.spotify.com/episode/6PoX...
Episode 27: Ten Years of Trumpism DMRC Roundtable
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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June 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ten years ago today, Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 United States presidential election.
To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism.
open.spotify.com/episode/6PoX...
To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism.
open.spotify.com/episode/6PoX...
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Congratulations to PhD candidate, @jiarut.bsky.social, for her two new articles in June! 🎉
The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China"
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June 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Congratulations to PhD candidate, @jiarut.bsky.social, for her two new articles in June! 🎉
The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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they’re transvestigating the new pope
May 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
they’re transvestigating the new pope
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Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶
May 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶
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The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them
April 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them
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Relevantly to International Trans Day of Visibility, the new Read Them Sideways episode discusses recent changes to the Meta hate speech policies, with a particular focus on transgender and queer people. Listen to hear @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social lend her expertise!
open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...
open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...
Episode 22: Meta hate speech policy changes with Lucinda Nelson
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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March 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Relevantly to International Trans Day of Visibility, the new Read Them Sideways episode discusses recent changes to the Meta hate speech policies, with a particular focus on transgender and queer people. Listen to hear @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social lend her expertise!
open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...
open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...
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I’m also reminded of how perpetrators of sexual violence use claims of incompetence or confusion to get away with violence.
It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.
It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.
Incompetence is not a bug of authoritarianism, it's a feature.
The goal of authoritarianism is to avoid any & all consequences. And this by definition insulates incompetence from being ferreted out.
Also, the suck ups get elevated over the competent folks. Competence simply isn't a qualification.
The goal of authoritarianism is to avoid any & all consequences. And this by definition insulates incompetence from being ferreted out.
Also, the suck ups get elevated over the competent folks. Competence simply isn't a qualification.
March 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I’m also reminded of how perpetrators of sexual violence use claims of incompetence or confusion to get away with violence.
It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.
It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.