Shay.P.Leighton
@shaypleighton.bsky.social
Community Organizer / Unionist / Spooky Liker
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
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
I ran book clubs at some high schools this week, and what struck me was “When did we stop dreaming of a better future?” Most kids seemed to expect their future world would be the same as now, or worse. Not to be too Mark Fisher, but their thinking seems trapped by now.
#school #youngmen #future
#school #youngmen #future
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You will never read more balanced and rational comments as those under an article discussing the obvious findings that lowering car speeds increases safety in your neighbourhood.
#Melbourne #news #urbanplanning
#Melbourne #news #urbanplanning
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
You will never read more balanced and rational comments as those under an article discussing the obvious findings that lowering car speeds increases safety in your neighbourhood.
#Melbourne #news #urbanplanning
#Melbourne #news #urbanplanning
Are you building your unions members capacity to fight each day to prepare them for the day they need to fight or do you just send them content? They are different.
#unions #organizing
#unions #organizing
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Are you building your unions members capacity to fight each day to prepare them for the day they need to fight or do you just send them content? They are different.
#unions #organizing
#unions #organizing
Reposted by Shay.P.Leighton
Your enemies will tell you there is no point in fighting back. They tell you this to break your morale, but in so doing, they tell on themselves. They fear being stood up to, or else they would not work so hard to downplay it. If someone says fighting back doesn't matter, make it matter.
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Your enemies will tell you there is no point in fighting back. They tell you this to break your morale, but in so doing, they tell on themselves. They fear being stood up to, or else they would not work so hard to downplay it. If someone says fighting back doesn't matter, make it matter.
One of the most wild marketing moves of all time is somehow changing people's perception of the soft, friendly children's ice cream sandwich into the masculine, extreme af Maxibon. And it actually working. Absolut wizard shit
#australia #marketing #icecream #vodka
Brand slip intended
#australia #marketing #icecream #vodka
Brand slip intended
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
One of the most wild marketing moves of all time is somehow changing people's perception of the soft, friendly children's ice cream sandwich into the masculine, extreme af Maxibon. And it actually working. Absolut wizard shit
#australia #marketing #icecream #vodka
Brand slip intended
#australia #marketing #icecream #vodka
Brand slip intended
To the jacked guy at the gym casually swigging between sets from a 1.25 of Kirk's Pasito. You are wonderful, keep it up.
#Australia #gym #kirks
#Australia #gym #kirks
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
To the jacked guy at the gym casually swigging between sets from a 1.25 of Kirk's Pasito. You are wonderful, keep it up.
#Australia #gym #kirks
#Australia #gym #kirks