wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm coming late to de Beauvoir. I can see now I should have read her 50+ years ago when I was reading Sartre. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/s...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comShe Came to Stay, Simone de BeauvoirFreely, through her moments of resistance and revolt, she had made use of herself to destroy herself. 001
Reposted by wadhollowayRobynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FFS stop punishing households and just tax gas amyremeikis.substack.com/p/ffs-stop-p...amyremeikis.substack.comFFS stop punishing households and just tax gas(First published by The New Daily) 074
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nigeria celebrated 66 years of Independence yesterday. Here is a post-colonial Nigerian novel that has languished on my shelves for too many years. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/v...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comViolence, Festus IyayiWhat kind of life is this?’ he asked himself a hundred times. A man gets a job and he cannot protest. He cannot ask for higher wages 000
Reposted by wadhollowayHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Many people are asking.prospect.orgWhy Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American ProspectOpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them. 319363
Reposted by wadhollowayRhel’ir Kahnuunsa @oomf.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026NewsCorp talking to Faux NewsCorp in a Publicly-funded overcoat #auspol 286
Reposted by wadhollowayAlways a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026330,000 French children over 7 decades? That's about 90 children per week, for 70 years, abused by clergy & lay leaders? Why tf hasn't the catholic church been shut down ... or at least 'deconsecrated'? They'd pay their fair share of tax that way. 042
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm sorry, it's easier to write an overview of all I've read than to write an actual review theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/b...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comBabysittingI might as well babysit, I’m not doing much work in the truck 000
Reposted by wadhollowayThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for wounded and amputee Palestinian children in Gaza have been blocked by Israel from entering the enclave. The shipments have been stuck in storage in Jordan since 2025 22927
Reposted by wadhollowayAnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump hit with WAR CRIMES FINDING Issue arrest warrants for Trump and Hegseth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz4s...youtube.com🚨Trump hit with WAR CRIMES FINDING…YouTube video by MeidasTouch 012
Reposted by wadhollowaySahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Israel” is tightening its grip on the occupied West Bank: settlers attack Palestinians, bulldozers erase homes, and IOF raids terrorize entire cities. Each attack serves the same goal—seize more land and force Palestinians out. 056
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Shortlisted for both the Booker and the UK Le Guin prizes (2021/22) it must be good. Musn't it? theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/t...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comThe Employees, Olga Ravna co-worker told them “A person is more than just their work.. Something like that. But what else could a person be? 000
Reposted by wadhollowayJessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#Auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social We are meant to be ok with Israel's Lebensraum (land theft) and Genocide. Why? 078
Reposted by wadhollowayRhel’ir Kahnuunsa @oomf.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026#auspol #welfare #employment 012
Reposted by wadhollowayRob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#marxism #marxist #marx #communist #classwar #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #history #SocialJustice #LongerTables #DemocraticSocialist #Socialist #socialism #LeftIsBest #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness #abolishcapitalism #HumanRights 094
Reposted by wadhollowayMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"The documentary ... paints Musk as an emotionally unstable grifter with more power and influence than perhaps any other human who has ever lived." Whatever you do - don't watch or get the word around this bc Musk is not happy about it.washingtonpost.com‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know.The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a god complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him. 17540
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My (ongoing) midlife crisis? So far: I've married unwisely, done a masters in literature, and bought a road train to work in the desert. 010
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Every now and again one of the shortlistees for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize for fiction is straight SF. So far none of them has been the winner and I don't think this one will be either. But that's no reason not to read it. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/s...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comSlow Gods, Claire Northa modern – and very well written – ‘pew-pew’ space opera, with goodies and baddies, spaceships and gunfights. 000
Reposted by wadhollowayJohn Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Australia cannot assume it will have any control over what US submarines do in its waters or while docked at facilities near Perth, an independent inquiry into the AUKUS deal has heard. thepoint.com.au/new/260904-a...thepoint.com.auAustralia cannot control what US submarines do in our waters, inquiry hearsAustralia cannot assume it will have any control over what US submarines do in its waters or while docked at facilities near Perth, an independent inquiry into the AUKUS deal has heard. 085
Reposted by wadhollowayChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Michael Caruso, Trumpist Republican congressman in Florida, caught sexually abusing his own 12yr old grandson, forced to perform oral sex on him Caruso advocated for Death Penalty for pedophiles. But, now that it's him, he was released on bail. Despite 5 charges, inc kidnapping & child sexual abuse 26142114
Reposted by wadhollowayGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Gil Durán: "We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both" Excellent article by Gareth Hutchens 1222099
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Two more Independent Women from the Sydney arts scene in the early twentieth century theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/d...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comDouble Act, Sylvia MartinEirene arrived back in Sydney at an opportune time when interest in the Arts and Craft movement and applied arts was beginning to take hold 000
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This novel is as much American as it is African, but Adichie is a fine writer so you have to read her. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/d...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comDream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiethe story of three single, well-off, 40 something, Nigerian-American women – very Sex and the City. 000
Reposted by wadhollowaystranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Home Affairs’ Stephanie Foster reveals Jillian Segal is pushing her to expand the National Hate Crimes Register to track non-criminal incidents. With IHRA as a framework, criticising Israel would go on the books & turn it into a backdoor mechanism to police political speech. 33249134
Reposted by wadhollowaySimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"The report accuses Israeli authorities of arming, funding and granting impunity to settlers to carry out the attacks. Israeli settler violence has been growing since the current government took office in Dec 2022." The west pretends this is a few rogue elements. It is systematic #EthnicCleansing. 04529
Reposted by wadhollowaySirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“It’s beyond time for Australia to expel the Israeli ambassador. Every day that Israel’s ambassador remains on Australian soil is another day of tacit approval of Israeli war crimes, genocide and apartheid.“ @australianlabor.bsky.social complicit We vote 🗳️ #ExpelTheIsraelAmbassador #Auspol 18538
Reposted by wadhollowaySenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The US used to pretend it supported the ‘international rules based order’ and Australia pretended alongside like a well-trained poodle. Now there is no pretending. Lawless bullying is how they operate and the world needs to resist. At least bark. 1018389
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is a fine novel in itself but also an important reflection on how and even if whites should have been involved in the anti-apartheid struggle theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/b...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comBurger’s Daughter, Nadine GordimerWhites have nothing to give Blacks, it is up to the Blacks to seize what is theirs 000
Reposted by wadhollowayMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/08/2026In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize anti-Zionism and to further settler colonialism. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/aust...mondoweiss.netAustralia’s plan to adopt definitions of racism amounts to enforcing ZionismIn response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize… 98753
Reposted by wadhollowayCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/08/2026israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-bull...israelpalestinenews.orgIsraeli Bulldozes Farmland, Water Systems in West Bank and GazaFarmers say indirect damage by bulldozers, ie. destroyed wells, irrigation lines, and access roads is leaving large agricultural zones dry and inaccessible. 32223
Reposted by wadhollowayCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/08/2026israelpalestinenews.org/israels-sieg...israelpalestinenews.orgIsrael’s siege cripples transport system in Gaza toward famineIsrael persists in maintaining its illegal siege on Gaza, intentionally disrupting transportation and freight by destroying warehouses of transport companies. 063
Reposted by wadhollowaySahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Israeli occupation is holding the bodies of approximately 1,700 Palestinians, even though Palestinian factions currently hold no Israeli prisoners. Shin Bet chief David Zini seeks to retain them for use as leverage in future crises. 056
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Two anti-war SF novels trans. from French. One contemporary, one from 50 years ago theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/t...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comTwo (French) SF NovellasDOWN WITH UNLIMITED GROWTH, DOWN FROM NATIONAL STATES TO INTERDEPENDENT CULTURAL UNITS 000
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This was the first novel of the Native American Renaissance following WWII, and it's a great book in its own right theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/h...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comHouse Made of Dawn, N Scott MomadayThere was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting. 000
Reposted by wadhollowaytanya/таня @tanyavolt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026it was in the public interest to know that a group of people were mass-targeting pro-palestinian people to be fired, de-funded, and stripped of their livelihoods. their names were released - no phone numbers, addresses iirc. it was not because they were jewish, it was because of the group's actions. 46120
wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My intention is to read widely in Africa, but I keep returning to Nigeria. Here's another theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...theaustralianlegend.wordpress.comUnder the Udala Trees, Chinelo OkparantaIjeoma is subjected to a great deal of Christian lecturing which only ends when she starts boarding school. 000
Reposted by wadhollowaySeaEagle @seaeagle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Agree. I don't want an "Albanese Labor government". I want a real Labor government. #auspol 1113
Reposted by wadhollowayRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Minnesota Democrats recently passed a bill banning AI-generated child pornography. Nazi Musk and his AI company are suing to block the passage of this bill. Says it all. 571332629
Reposted by wadhollowayThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor... 404100225952
Reposted by wadhollowayKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are. 1402330239269
Reposted by wadhollowaySahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The headlines may have faded, but the genocide of Palestinians has not. Across Palestine, families continue to endure bombardment, settler attacks, home demolitions, forced displacement, and the daily destruction of their lives. This is not over. 177
