Shay.P.Leighton
@shaypleighton.bsky.social
Community Organizer / Unionist / Spooky Liker
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
A friend of mine walking in their neighbourhood got detained and handcuffed because they didn't have their wallet with them so they couldn't prove their citizenship. Pretty weird how comfortable people are with being a "Papers Please" country. #usapol #ice #community
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A friend of mine walking in their neighbourhood got detained and handcuffed because they didn't have their wallet with them so they couldn't prove their citizenship. Pretty weird how comfortable people are with being a "Papers Please" country. #usapol #ice #community
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming the far right & white power fans.
#auspol
#auspol
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists - The Shot
Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...
theshot.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming the far right & white power fans.
#auspol
#auspol
Pennington stating it plainly.
Working hard in Australia no longer pays off
When labour is taxed more than wealth, society is less civilised and not innovative. Diligence and dynamism are devalued, and living standards are sacrificed.
www.afr.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Pennington stating it plainly.
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Great chat with @thejunglist.bsky.social for his podcast about how games can serve as a tool in rebuilding the civic layer of our communities and our relationships to each other.
Matthew Farber, Marshall Ganz, Tracy Fullerton, Robert Putnam, and John Dewey all got a mention.
#communityorganizer
Matthew Farber, Marshall Ganz, Tracy Fullerton, Robert Putnam, and John Dewey all got a mention.
#communityorganizer
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Great chat with @thejunglist.bsky.social for his podcast about how games can serve as a tool in rebuilding the civic layer of our communities and our relationships to each other.
Matthew Farber, Marshall Ganz, Tracy Fullerton, Robert Putnam, and John Dewey all got a mention.
#communityorganizer
Matthew Farber, Marshall Ganz, Tracy Fullerton, Robert Putnam, and John Dewey all got a mention.
#communityorganizer
Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash - Dave McKean
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash - Dave McKean
The only thing keeping me awake on this train is the horrible idea of a video of me snoring in my @toughguybookclub.com shirt.
#trains #transport #reading
#trains #transport #reading
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The only thing keeping me awake on this train is the horrible idea of a video of me snoring in my @toughguybookclub.com shirt.
#trains #transport #reading
#trains #transport #reading
Putnam
Ganz
Roddenberry
Henson
Admiring kind people can get us to a better place.
It will take longer but we all get to come.
Ganz
Roddenberry
Henson
Admiring kind people can get us to a better place.
It will take longer but we all get to come.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Putnam
Ganz
Roddenberry
Henson
Admiring kind people can get us to a better place.
It will take longer but we all get to come.
Ganz
Roddenberry
Henson
Admiring kind people can get us to a better place.
It will take longer but we all get to come.
Yes. I hate your lawn specifically. You live on the driest continent on earth. It's so weird that's what you use our small amount of water for.
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yes. I hate your lawn specifically. You live on the driest continent on earth. It's so weird that's what you use our small amount of water for.
Me having to work on a laptop in a hotel room over Samhain & Halloween is essentially a hate crime.
So I will be doing it, listening to Bauhaus, wearing a sneer.
#halloween #samhain #worklifebalance
So I will be doing it, listening to Bauhaus, wearing a sneer.
#halloween #samhain #worklifebalance
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Me having to work on a laptop in a hotel room over Samhain & Halloween is essentially a hate crime.
So I will be doing it, listening to Bauhaus, wearing a sneer.
#halloween #samhain #worklifebalance
So I will be doing it, listening to Bauhaus, wearing a sneer.
#halloween #samhain #worklifebalance
The invisible lines of history.
1977: James Dyson creates a new style of vacuum cleaner so people can spend less time cleaning.
2025: People struggle to use the overly designed taps in every Australian airport so less people wash their hands.
#inventions #dyson #Australian #airports
1977: James Dyson creates a new style of vacuum cleaner so people can spend less time cleaning.
2025: People struggle to use the overly designed taps in every Australian airport so less people wash their hands.
#inventions #dyson #Australian #airports
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The invisible lines of history.
1977: James Dyson creates a new style of vacuum cleaner so people can spend less time cleaning.
2025: People struggle to use the overly designed taps in every Australian airport so less people wash their hands.
#inventions #dyson #Australian #airports
1977: James Dyson creates a new style of vacuum cleaner so people can spend less time cleaning.
2025: People struggle to use the overly designed taps in every Australian airport so less people wash their hands.
#inventions #dyson #Australian #airports
Sometimes I wish I experienced less shame about my actions and words, I think it holds me back on occasion. But not no shame, I don't want to end up the young man sitting on this tram loudly saying some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard a human say. Just somewhere in between me and him.
#trams
#trams
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Sometimes I wish I experienced less shame about my actions and words, I think it holds me back on occasion. But not no shame, I don't want to end up the young man sitting on this tram loudly saying some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard a human say. Just somewhere in between me and him.
#trams
#trams
Sometimes you don't have the time for a crash out. Not even a little one as a treat.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Sometimes you don't have the time for a crash out. Not even a little one as a treat.
Munya Chawawa launched a theatre club for young black men because he wants them to feel a part of theatre after never seeing anyone like him in the audience growing up. As a community organising lover, this is so simple and perfect, it's like a work of art to me.
#communityorganizing #theatre
#communityorganizing #theatre
Munya Chawawa’s new project is changing who gets a seat in British theatre
The comedian and satirist hopes to make the arts more accessible for young black boys across the capital with his new arts initiative
www.standard.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Munya Chawawa launched a theatre club for young black men because he wants them to feel a part of theatre after never seeing anyone like him in the audience growing up. As a community organising lover, this is so simple and perfect, it's like a work of art to me.
#communityorganizing #theatre
#communityorganizing #theatre