Limey

I see the ole "Bluesky has failed" stuff is doing the rounds again & my 2c worth is that The Golden Age of Twitter was truly golden but it's gone. Bluesky will never capture that magic or influence BUT I don't expect it to and it suits me waaay better than poxy Instagram or the truly heinous Threads

Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Single frame cartoon with the headline "Shadow Minister for Immigration" Anthony Albanese, glancing backwards looks uneasy, holding a document titled "Immigration Policy: ISIS brides, etc." Angus Taylor stands behind him, also glancing backwards and looking uneasy, holding an identical document. And far behind him stands Pauline Hanson, smirking with hands on hips, casting a long black shadow that dominates the scene and engulfs the other two.

Brilliant cartoon by @harrybrucetoons.bsky.social

#AusPol

Just realised I've been a full-time illustrator and author for ten years this year! WILD.

Low point = getting a biting rejection from a major US publishing house two weeks before I got married, and a couple of days after getting diagnosed with a brain tumour lmao. I almost quit the industry then.

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Tammy Shipley drank 67 glasses of water before her death in custody from water intoxication, inquest hears The state coroner will examine why police failed to identify the Aboriginal mother of five’s acute mental health conditions at the time of her arrest, despite having previously detained her under the ...

The 47-year-old mother of fivedied while being held on remand at Silverwater women’s correctional centre in New South Wales on 20 December 2022, after being arrested on minor shoplifting charges.

AI data centres are well known to use huge amounts of water. How is this possibly viable???

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.

I made the group and invited six people.

SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.

... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

Nope.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

$10 billion actually sounds low ball. Surely it's much more than that.

Anglosphere 🤮

Gaby Del Valle is a great journalist with righteous politics, and the way this website is treating her for her completely fair reporting on Minneapolis is the reason why it's constantly hemorrhaging users, will never be relevant, and is seen as a joke across progressive media and activist circles. [a graph showing declining BlueSky users]

Lemme put my cards on the table here.

I miss what the old Twitter did for my career; I got a lot of work there. I also met some good people, many of whom I still know.

But Twitter’s gone. It’s the fascist site now. For me, no “relevance” is worth staying there.

I’m here to meet good people again.

Milestone .

Guess what they are calling a milestone? Us paying 3 billion dollars so the UK could park a sub here and offload its nuclear waste.

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

This is Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been imprisoned by ICE for a year.

He was about to get new prosthetic legs when he was kidnapped… and they won’t let him have them.

His health is declining & there’s been almost no media coverage.

No protests. No noise.

US tries to heavy Vanuatu:

“We are strongly urging Vanuatu to immediately withdraw its draft resolution and cease attempting to wield the Court’s Advisory Opinion as a basis for creating an avenue to pursue any misguided claims of international legal obligations”

Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs Pearson: “You put AI on a leash and you let it run. If it starts to get away from you, then you look at trying to say, ‘We need to intervene.’” Where’s the enviro impact report? Where’s the water/energy impact reports? The lack of detail is irresponsible

Lent and Ramadan We wish observers a blessed Lenten season and Ramadan Mubarak. This year marks the first time since 1863 that Lent and Ramadan began on the same day.

During these holy periods of renewal, fasting, prayer and giving, Palestinian Christians and Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank continue to observe their faith whilst under Israeli occupation, an ongoing genocide, blockade, and apartheid. Since Ramadan and Lent, Israel has increased its raids on homes, its abduction of Palestinians, and its violence against Palestinians trying to enter to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Meanwhile, Christians in Gaza worship from the three remaining churches that have not yet been totally destroyed by Israel.

Palestinians should not have to celebrate from tents. Palestinians should not have to fast during Israel's engineered starvation. Palestinians should not have to face the ongoing threat of losing their homes to Israeli settlers fulfilling an illegal expansionist policy. Palestinians should not have their futures handed down to them by imperial, Zionist powers on the so-called "Board of Peace".

Despite it all, Palestinians have lit lanterns, decorated their tents amongst the rubble and created makeshift street markets, by and for displaced communities. We must continue to be unwavering in our solidarity and committed to action, standing alongside Palestinians in their struggle for justice, dignity, and freedom.

We wish observers a blessed Lent and Ramadan Mubarak. The genocidal state of Israel is stepping up its attacks, but people in Gaza resist by gathering and celebrating. We must continue to support their struggle for freedom and self-determination.
👉 🇵🇸 Keep talking about Palestine!

Tess Finch Lees: From the Winter Olympics to Nasa, wearing masks is back – except when it comes to our hospitals Despite mounting evidence on Covid’s harms, healthcare guidance is inadequate

“Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics”.”

It’s wild that masking in sports is sometimes more normalized than masking in medical settings.

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The U.S. State Department is urging U.S. citizens in the following areas of Mexico to shelter in place due to security operations and cartel violence.

This includes Puerto Vallarta.

This comes after the Mexican army killed the cartel leader known as “El Mencho.”

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

Yep, Judeo-Christian is very much a concept here in Australia too.

Alysa Liu stole her hairstyle from an Australian

Bio chemical warfare on a civilian population during a genocide while you are also starving them.

Why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/c...

Little kid was relaying a compliment from the teacher that they’re a “furious little boy” and after some workshopping it turned out that “curious” was the word he was looking for

this is the face of feminine rage disguised with laughter. obsessed with this response, what an icon

Great article 🔥