@missysam.bsky.social
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If you are still on Twitter/X, the time has come.
No excuses about how it's the only way you can follow some people.
Are they really worth enabling child sexual exploitation?
No excuses about how it's the only way you can follow some people.
Are they really worth enabling child sexual exploitation?
I put this on LinkedIn because that's where I think folks need to hear it, but TLDR: if you're on X, GTFO.
Sexually abusive content is not inevitable, it is a _choice_. If you stay on the platform, you are endorsing that choice.
Link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Sexually abusive content is not inevitable, it is a _choice_. If you stay on the platform, you are endorsing that choice.
Link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
January 12, 2026 at 9:40 AM
If you are still on Twitter/X, the time has come.
No excuses about how it's the only way you can follow some people.
Are they really worth enabling child sexual exploitation?
No excuses about how it's the only way you can follow some people.
Are they really worth enabling child sexual exploitation?
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PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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Here's Patrick Dexter playing Auld Lang Syne from the west coast of Ireland as his gorgeous doggo keeps watch over everything.
A happy, shiny, bright and safe 2026 everyone.
xx 🙏🏽
A happy, shiny, bright and safe 2026 everyone.
xx 🙏🏽
January 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Here's Patrick Dexter playing Auld Lang Syne from the west coast of Ireland as his gorgeous doggo keeps watch over everything.
A happy, shiny, bright and safe 2026 everyone.
xx 🙏🏽
A happy, shiny, bright and safe 2026 everyone.
xx 🙏🏽
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My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW.
www.toomanyguns.org
Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)
www.toomanyguns.org
Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)
Too Many Guns
www.toomanyguns.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW.
www.toomanyguns.org
Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)
www.toomanyguns.org
Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)
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A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.
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A reminder: you do not have to romanticise the lives of bigots when they die.
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A reminder: you do not have to romanticise the lives of bigots when they die.
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I don’t care if you think homosexuality is a “choice.” But I do care if you choose to be homophobic. My safety, rights, visibility and identity as a gay person shouldn’t depend on whether you think I was “born this way” or not. You don’t need a biological reason to respect my existence. Just saying.
September 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I don’t care if you think homosexuality is a “choice.” But I do care if you choose to be homophobic. My safety, rights, visibility and identity as a gay person shouldn’t depend on whether you think I was “born this way” or not. You don’t need a biological reason to respect my existence. Just saying.
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How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
December 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
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🎄🎄🎄Welcome to @EmpirePodUK Christmas Special!🎄🎄🎄
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🎄🎄🎄Welcome to @EmpirePodUK Christmas Special!🎄🎄🎄
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
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This is brilliant. Well done @davidshoebridge.bsky.social www.toomanyguns.org There are 82 registered gun owners and someone in my inner city postcode with 23 bloody guns. Outrageous.
Too Many Guns
www.toomanyguns.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is brilliant. Well done @davidshoebridge.bsky.social www.toomanyguns.org There are 82 registered gun owners and someone in my inner city postcode with 23 bloody guns. Outrageous.
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The Engine driver's cabin at Coward Springs on the Oodnadatta Track. This is an oasis in the middle of nowhere. A historic railway station on the Central Australia Railway with a cheap camping ground. You can even take a dip in the natural spa. Also, this is where I saw brolgas for the first time.
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Engine driver's cabin at Coward Springs on the Oodnadatta Track. This is an oasis in the middle of nowhere. A historic railway station on the Central Australia Railway with a cheap camping ground. You can even take a dip in the natural spa. Also, this is where I saw brolgas for the first time.
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Kanyaka Station was a cattle and sheep station in the Flinders Ranges.
This once busy place was established in 1852 but abandoned following the terrible droughts of the 1860s.
The hotel closed in 1881.
With many old stone buildings, it's a fascinating place to explore with an interesting history.
This once busy place was established in 1852 but abandoned following the terrible droughts of the 1860s.
The hotel closed in 1881.
With many old stone buildings, it's a fascinating place to explore with an interesting history.
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Kanyaka Station was a cattle and sheep station in the Flinders Ranges.
This once busy place was established in 1852 but abandoned following the terrible droughts of the 1860s.
The hotel closed in 1881.
With many old stone buildings, it's a fascinating place to explore with an interesting history.
This once busy place was established in 1852 but abandoned following the terrible droughts of the 1860s.
The hotel closed in 1881.
With many old stone buildings, it's a fascinating place to explore with an interesting history.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
Pardon me that this is a little personal.
I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks with trembling hands. Its stupendous card catalogue blew my schoolboy mind. Search my name in the modern electronic counterpart today and it appears 125 times, mostly for works I researched there. My 84-year-old mother has been a volunteer library tour guide for more than a decade. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
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1.5°C warming means megafires like Black Summer become regular events. Whole ecosystems vanish. Insurance markets collapse. Food gets scarce. Politicians still mumble about "balance." Mate... there’s no balance on a fucking dead planet!!
#auspol
#auspol
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
1.5°C warming means megafires like Black Summer become regular events. Whole ecosystems vanish. Insurance markets collapse. Food gets scarce. Politicians still mumble about "balance." Mate... there’s no balance on a fucking dead planet!!
#auspol
#auspol
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"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change."
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change."
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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A rainbow bee-eater briefly sat on the edge of the dam and I managed just a few frames through the shrubs before it took flight.
Such pretty birds.
Such pretty birds.
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A rainbow bee-eater briefly sat on the edge of the dam and I managed just a few frames through the shrubs before it took flight.
Such pretty birds.
Such pretty birds.
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“Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator.”
Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.
Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.
Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator.”
Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.
Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.
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Dear Politician,
You cannot show trans people “dignity and respect” while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise.
Just saying.
You cannot show trans people “dignity and respect” while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise.
Just saying.
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Dear Politician,
You cannot show trans people “dignity and respect” while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise.
Just saying.
You cannot show trans people “dignity and respect” while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise.
Just saying.