I, and many others, now have an account on @bluesky
It is growing fast and is a refreshing change from the vitriol on here.
I will be totally exiting Leon’s hell site in the near future. See you under bluer skies.
It's tough to leave a platform where you've spent years building relationships and growing an audience.
That's why we created Bluesky, an open social network, that gives you freedom from platforms, so you'll never have to feel this way again.
https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT
🚨🇫🇷WATCH: Macron is finished - French police just dropped their shields in front of protesting firefighters.
French police LET firefighters march through their lines during a huge protest in the city of Lille!
As #AustraliaDay approaches I thought that I’d take the opportunity to try and imagine first contact from the perspective of the Indigenous Peoples who encountered Europeans for the first time.
Then the sea grows restless.
Shapes on the ngura (water)
big and sharp, white as yamay (clouds),
not whale, not canoe,
not remembered by river or Sky Father.
https://t.co/sh6BVKVSXf
*** Must Read ***
‘Note: this opinion piece was originally commissioned by The Age, which declined to publish it once it was submitted. It was also declined by Guardian Australia and The Conversation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone.
Can you imagine what it would be like to receive death and rape threats at your workplace and your home? To have your work email account hacked and used to sign you up to plastic surgery clinics across Australia and the United States?
How about having donations made in your name to the Israeli military, with receipts sent to your personal email alongside your phone number and home address? Can you imagine someone writing your name on the side of a bomb? Or the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia publicly calling for your workplace to become unsafe for you?
All these things have happened to me in the last two years, because I chose to speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and advocate for the liberation and human rights of my people, the Palestinians.’ by @RandaAFattah
https://t.co/kvRbGsFeI8
@simonhill1894 I ditched X for Bluesky for obvious reasons, but just popped back to say thanks and good luck Simon.
Best football commentator in Oz by a country mile with the added bonus of being a blue. All the best.
City’s 31st visit in 15 years, the extortionate costs & inconvenience of going to Wembley, salvaging the season with silverware & Champions League qualification, Pep saying @ManCity have ‘4 Finals’ to play and the prospect of Haaland and Rodri returning.
https://t.co/O5bjbTTDeX
Lifelong city fan Jack sadly lost his life at just 27 years young on Monday evening.
in the 27th minute of the game on Saturday there will be a Rememberence for him by singing loud & clapping .
RIP Jack 🩵 Once A BLUE Always A BLUE
There is something very weird about Bluesky. I think it's the fact that it isn't full of racist dickheads and right wing gobshites. Bit like this place used to be. Be good to see you there.
I, and many others, now have an account on @bluesky
It is growing fast and is a refreshing change from the vitriol on here.
I will be totally exiting Leon’s hell site in the near future. See you under bluer skies.
It's tough to leave a platform where you've spent years building relationships and growing an audience.
That's why we created Bluesky, an open social network, that gives you freedom from platforms, so you'll never have to feel this way again.
https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT
It's tough to leave a platform where you've spent years building relationships and growing an audience.
That's why we created Bluesky, an open social network, that gives you freedom from platforms, so you'll never have to feel this way again.
https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT
The most telling reality regarding the recent events in Amsterdam is that not one member of the Dutch power elite - neither its monarch, nor its prime minister, nor its government or any of its ministers, nor any party leader, nor the mayor of Amsterdam, nor its police chief, nor any of its leading journalists or commentators or public figures or civic institutions - has uttered a single word in support of a single Dutch citizen assaulted by foreign mobs on Dutch soil.
Rather, like other Western leaders, this elite has uniformly reserved its solidarity for the racist, genocidal Israeli thugs who rampaged through Amsterdam, physically assaulting Dutch citizens and vandalizing Dutch property, on the sole basis that they assumed these citizens and properties to be Arab or in sympathy with the Palestinian people.
The self-proclaimed guardians of The Netherlands and the security of its people then added insult to injury by comparing the resulting attacks against the visiting fascist thugs to the darkest days of Dutch history, entirely oblivious to the reality that it is in fact they who have collectively legitimized the closest thing to a pogrom witnessed on Dutch soil since 1945.
Welcome to twenty-first century Europe, and to The Netherlands in particular.
Pro-Israelism is a cult in the West.
Dangerous, hypocritical, and shameful at the time an entire people is being exterminated with a mix of 21st century military technologies and evergreen genocidal sadism.
“My legs hurt from walking, and blood is coming out. We don’t know where we’re headed.”
🚨These are the words of a 4-year-old child, displaced with her family due to the Israeli brutal airstrikes in northern #Gaza.
I’m at a loss for words… Just damn this silent world‼️