Luna

Give me *that* old time religion!
He is some pup that man

BOO! happy out of touch thursday 🎃

Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity - PubMed In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained funding for community-based arts and educational provision, in the context of austerity. A consequent interes …

Here's a paper we wrote about how it's actually very bad that a "context of constrained funding has incentivised... providers of adult education, sports, arts and community services to demonstrate ancillary wellbeing benefits." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447986/

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods? The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.

“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”

“Barn Owl” & “Hare” - Walnut ink & gold sumi inks on 8x8 handmade, recycled paper (very thick). Both are available at name your own price (please DM)! Happy to frame. I’ve got to sell at least 11 framed pieces to have rent! Lots of other work available at www.sol-exposure.com/shop/

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Everything is a distraction from this.

Births mark conservation success for rare Queensland wombat Three wild-born northern hairy-nosed wombats born in Powrunna State Forest mark a new chapter in the species' recovery from near extinction.

This is so wonderful, I'm old enough to remember when there were fewer than 40 individuals left in the wild! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Go back and read your grade school civics book?

Ppl “waiting to be told” are a big part of how we got here

unboxing Public Data Cultures book

Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

One white clover bloom freshly opened, another older pink and white bloom is falling apart behind on the right side with green leaves all around

clover

If it's use AI or fail the class, I'd rather fail the class

Better to have him grind it publicly than not. Need more ALP backbenchers speaking up and pushing the cabinet.

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

There are lots of ways people can do something like cycling. Cycle paths should be built for inclusion for a range of disabilities. And often are.

“Everyone can cycle” could be seen as an invitation to ensure that people who want to get around using cycle paths, can.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

Me: "Do you really want to drive Bill Ackman out of New York?"

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "Even Bill Ackman, I want him to stay here. Because I don't want someone to write a long-worded tweet from somewhere else in the country. Calligraphy needs to live!"

😂😂

Full intv: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

This Zohran guy is very good at what he does, there's no two ways about it...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The rapture jokes are funny, AND please be aware that rapture predictions are sanitized extermination fantasies.

It’s not a coincidence we have rapture predictions at the same time we have ICE vanishing people, trans people under attack, disability communities abandoned in an ongoing pandemic, etc.

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people."

From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

e-petitions e-petitions

Protecting darkness and minimising light pollution is important for human and wildlife health. Please consider signing and sharing this petition.

Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Closes 19 September.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Happy National Wattle Day! 💛💚

Did you know Australia is home to nearly 1,000 species of wattle?

From Golden Wattle, our national floral emblem (Acacia pycnantha), to the rare pink-purple blooms of Acacia purpureopetala, wattles are as diverse as the landscapes they grow in.

#NationalWattleDay

"Around 2.5% of all global marine fish caught are used to feed Norwegian salmon farms" - wtf!!!

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good