Luna
@amaranth.bsky.social
bardo I sandstone, shale, clay I every smallest flower
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Give me *that* old time religion!
He is some pup that man
He is some pup that man
Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center.
"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"
"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Give me *that* old time religion!
He is some pup that man
He is some pup that man
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BOO! happy out of touch thursday 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
BOO! happy out of touch thursday 🎃
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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/
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 …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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/
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Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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“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.”
Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods?
The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.
wordinblack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“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.”
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“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/
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“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/
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Everything is a distraction from this.
‘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
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Everything is a distraction from this.
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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...
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.
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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...
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Go back and read your grade school civics book?
Ppl “waiting to be told” are a big part of how we got here
Ppl “waiting to be told” are a big part of how we got here
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Go back and read your grade school civics book?
Ppl “waiting to be told” are a big part of how we got here
Ppl “waiting to be told” are a big part of how we got here
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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! 🦔🌌💜
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! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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! 🦔🌌💜
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! 🦔🌌💜
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If it's use AI or fail the class, I'd rather fail the class
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If it's use AI or fail the class, I'd rather fail the class
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Better to have him grind it publicly than not. Need more ALP backbenchers speaking up and pushing the cabinet.
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Better to have him grind it publicly than not. Need more ALP backbenchers speaking up and pushing the cabinet.
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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...
"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...
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...
theshot.net.au
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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...
"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...
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It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
September 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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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-...
@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-...
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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-...
@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-...
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This Zohran guy is very good at what he does, there's no two ways about it...
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-...
@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-...
September 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This Zohran guy is very good at what he does, there's no two ways about it...
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"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...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"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...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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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.
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.
September 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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.
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.
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"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...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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."
www.motherjones.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"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...
From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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.
Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Closes 19 September.
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
September 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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.
Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Closes 19 September.