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Mastertwit 🇵🇸
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Father of two small boys. Reader of books, Saints FC fan, climate worrier, Luddite. Free Palestine.
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New sign in my neighborhood last week - I decided against the leafy shortcut to the library that day!
CAUTION Snakes have been sighted in this area
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85.

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#booksky #libraries
A stack of books, top to bottom: One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad Conspiracy nation : exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories / Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman The idea of Australia : a search for the soul of the nation / Julianne Schultz Taming Silicon Valley : how we can ensure that AI works for us / Gary Marcus Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff Better things are possible : how rebellious hope will change the world / by Jack Toohey The yield / Tara June Winch Living democracy : an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it / Tim Hollo
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Memo to Southampton FC players after drawing 0-0 with Swansea: This is a football. You kick it in the part of the goal where the goalkeeper isn’t #saintsfc
A football. Credit: Wikipedia
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Current stack!

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#BookSky
A stack of books, top to bottom: No friend but the mountains : the true story of an illegally imprisoned refugee / Behrouz Boochani The first man / Albert Camus Clear / Carys Davies Siddhartha : an Indian tale / Herman Hesse Forest of noise : poems / Mosab Abu Toha The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman John & Paul : a love story in songs / Ian Leslie
October 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Manning deserves to be dropped for this. He’s an international and he can’t even play to the whistle. Schoolboy stuff (description in alt text) #saintsfc
Ryan Manning arguing with a linesman while an unmarked Derby player receives a throw in to put in an unchallenged cross that results in a goal.
October 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Saw this and naively thought “they’re not actually boasting about this are they?” Of course they are…
Quotes attributable to the Minister for Social Services, Tanya Plibersek “Thanks to indexation, millions of Aussies will receive a boost to their payment to help them cover everyday costs like groceries and healthcare. The government wants to help take the pressure off when it comes to cost of living. “Social security recipients are also benefitting from tax cuts, cheaper medicines, energy bill relief, cuts to student debt and a whole range of other cost of living measures we’ve delivered since coming into Government. “The social security system must be grounded in fairness, which is why we adjust supports as the economy changes. “We’ll continue to make sure the system is there to support those who need it most, ensuring that everyone can make ends meet and no one gets left behind.”
September 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Really great headline on your top story, ABC. Clearly the most important thing about a UN report on the deliberate starvation of civilians is what the country that is withholding food thinks about it.
August 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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According to Haaretz, there has been a surge in looting across the West Bank by IDF soldiers - including (wait for it) children's piggy banks.
Reports describe confiscation or theft of cash, checks, mobile phones, computers, watches, children's piggy-bank savings, credit cards, gold jewelry, and vehicles. In some cases, soldiers leave behind a form of documentation – a paper Palestinians refer to as a "receipt." Even then, these forms often omit parts of what was taken. In many cases, no official pretense is made at all: after the raid, family members – who were held in one room at gunpoint – are released, only to discover that valuables and cash are missing. From Ya'bad in the north to Halhul and Hebron in the south, from refugee camps to private homes and commercial properties, victims describe strikingly similar experiences.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Heartbreaking report from Haaretz about a 15-year-old boy in Gaza who has lost his entire family and is now a paraplegic due to a shrapnel wound. He spends his days trailing about after the doctors, asking 'can I die now?'
'Can I die, please?' At Nasser Hospital, in the city of Khan Yunis, the statistics take on real form. "You cope every day with cases of trauma, blast injuries and shrapnel," says Dr. Goher Rahbour, a British surgeon who returned home last week from a month at the Gaza hospital. "Every two or three days, there was a mass-casualty event, and then the ER was totally flooded, complete chaos." One case that remains engraved indelibly in Rahbour's memory is that of a 15-year-old boy whose entire family was killed and who had himself been wounded and left paralyzed. "He has shrapnel going through the spinal cord, so he is paraplegic, which means he's got no sensation below the waist or the belly button. "He's lived in Gaza for 15 years, he knows what's coming next, what's waiting in Gaza for a 15-year-old boy in a wheelchair. No family, no physiotherapy, all these things that we take for granted. "So he goes around in the hospital and says to us, 'Can I die, please?'"
August 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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What rain? Well done Sydney! 🇵🇸
#MarchForHumanity #Gaza #FreePalestine
August 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Some great signs in Sydney #MarchForHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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A good month - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a revelation. Going to track down everything he’s written. #booksky
April 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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We all know it, but still - the truth hurts. #saintsfc
BBC graphic of Opta stats on chances of relegation on 3 January 2025 showing Saints at 99.5%
January 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Awesome, thanks Fiona - just reserved it from the library. Currently enjoying this:
A copy of The Men Who Killed The News by Eric Beecher
January 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Current stack. 💙📚
#booksky #reading-list
November 4, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 20
October 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 19
October 8, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 18
October 7, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 17
October 6, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 16
October 5, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 15
October 4, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 14
October 3, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 13
October 2, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 12
October 1, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

💙📚
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 11
September 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM