Dr Desirée Kozlowski
LightNews LightNews
banner
pleasurelab.bsky.social
Dr Desirée Kozlowski
@pleasurelab.bsky.social
1.7K followers 750 following 2.3K posts
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.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
pleasurelab.bsky.social
Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · Oct 3
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 😘

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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...
www.abc.net.au
pleasurelab.bsky.social
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
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
jobarraket.bsky.social
Vale

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
jeffontherock.bsky.social
Blue stain fungus. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of the blue, cup-shaped fruiting bodies of a blue stain fungus.
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
The sky is magnificent right now
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
It's hot and I'm tired and I want them to tell me our application for the rental is approved 😫
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
asherwolf.bsky.social
The disability serviceland song m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkz1...
THE DISABILITY SERVICELAND SONG
YouTube video by Open Future Learning
m.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
It's so frustrating that no one wants books
I have so many I have to get rid of!
Anyone want to pick these up from Coffs Harbour..?
Pile of contemporary fiction paperbacks (dm if you want titles) Pile of contemporary fiction paperbacks (dm if you want titles)
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
Having to move house: zero stars 👎
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
joncarling.bsky.social
The flower gem
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
brunojnavarro.bsky.social
Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
brunojnavarro.bsky.social
In America, firms spy on us, right? And they spy on us in ways that are very bad for us. So if you're a nurse, preferentially, hospitals want to hire you as a contractor through an app because that way you're not in a union. It used to be through a staffing agency. Now there's four national apps. They all bill themselves as "Uber for nursing". And because we don't have a privacy law ... every other form of privacy violation is lawful. So they can ask the unregulated data brokers that have these deep dossiers on every person how much credit card debt that nurse is carrying. And the more credit card debt they're holding, and the more overdue it is, the lower the wage they're offered. That's regulatory capture. People who make money by charging a desperation premium to nurses are among the people who help lobby to make sure we don't get a privacy law.
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
alexboyd.bsky.social
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
617 #DeathsInCustody
Hundreds of #MMIW
#AboriginalLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatterAustralia

💔

🖤
🖤

🖤
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
I always liked the line, "I'll come to your emotional rescue"
A glorious impossibility
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiY...
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue [Official Lyric Video]
YouTube video by The Rolling Stones
m.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
stevebatch.bsky.social
Wrinkled Crust Fungi (Phlebia radiata)
#Fungi #FungiFriday #Macro #MacroPhotography
Looking a little like something from The Last of US these fungi create flat oval and odd shaped crusts on fallen trees in this case a Silver Birch trunk. They are various shades of orange and brown and have a raised edge inside of which there are a whole range of lumps bumps and wrinkles. Looking down on the fungi it is easy to imagine that you are flying over some aleiemn landscape and theat the fungi are pools of volcanic material waiting to erupt.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
nadinejcohen.bsky.social
Sorry I can't come to work tomorrow, I have to spend seventeen hours looking for Black Friday deals before having a panic attack, denouncing late-stage capitalism and setting fire to my laptop
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
jobarraket.bsky.social
Relevance Deprivation Syndrome seems stronger than commitment to public service among older men in opposition #AusPol
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
annieparker.bsky.social
Good morning, please have some bibbly bobbly ducklings
#ducklings #farmlife
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
mush-photos.bsky.social
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

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
At the base of a dark brown green stump, over 20 spiky mushrooms grow squeezed together in a large beautiful cluster. Their flesh is a very light brown, nearly white, and their sharp, pointy scaled are an orange-ish brown.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
demwar.bsky.social
Naturally, why would we want to (checks notes)…not die…
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
pleasurelab.bsky.social
Strategic cuts to the CSIRO include 'environment' and 'health and biosecurity' 🤓
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
knitnannassyd.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
tomquinn.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
makingsensepols.bsky.social
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...
Why Media Literacy is a Crucial Skill We All Need Today - Making Sense of Politics Podcast
YouTube video by Making Sense of Politics
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Reposted by Dr Desirée Kozlowski
asherwolf.bsky.social
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