Danni

@daniryan.bsky.social

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Terribly bad profile writer, nurse, Aussie, deliberately trying to remain vauge because the government likes to threaten open criticism. Interested in ethics, reading (non-fiction), LGBTIQ, indigenous and other minority rights, and how I can help.

Text in a book that reads "If anything, current trends can best be described as the growth of tech companies' ambitions for global dominance and expansion of their empires deeper into the social fabric of our lives and the halls of political power."
Front cover of the book feeding the machine the hidden human labour powering ai
Blue tshirt with a white cartoon duck with a purple outline saying "hey" in a text bubble with the words "you got any grapes?"
A headline for an article describing Australia's role in a massacre that killed an estimated half a million people
Front cover of songlines by Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly
"It wasn't the first time I had been professionally massaged by a man. Years ago in India, I had a traditional Ayurverdic massage by a guy with a gigantic moustache. It mainly involved pouring oil down my ass crack and was a strange experience, one that I would rather not repeat. Although I felt comfortable with my current massures, biological sex, I had read being gay in Bali at the time was illegal and punishable by imprisonment. So too was pornography or even being provocative in public. That was when my irrational mind started playing tricks. An overwhelming pain shuddered through my bones on each firm stroke, I became increasingly anxious about turning over. The more I tried to concentrate on not getting an erection, the more I feared what would happen if I......"
Cover of Dr Matt Morgans "One Medicine: How understanding animals can save your life" the cover also features a lithographic style illustration of an octopus and the muscle structure of a human back.
the text reads "getting scientists to consider the validity of indigenous knowledge is like swimming upstream in cold cold water. They've been so conditioned to be skeptical of even the hardest of data that bending their minds towards theoris that are verified without the expected graphs or equations is tough. Couple that with the unblinking assuption that science has cornered the market on truth and theres not much room for discussion.
the cover of braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer
text reading "Weinhold by all accounts looked like the stereotypical image of a creature that Victor Frankenstein might have built, resembling a collection of spare parts thrown together in some haste. He had a small head but extraordinarily long arms and legs; he was beardless, sounded more female than male and an autopsy after his death revealed he had deformed genitals. Perhaps unsurprisingly Weinhold is described as an abrasive man with an unfortunate manner;"
the cover of raising the dead: the men who created Frankenstein by andy dougan littered with old looking illustrations