Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialLibrary of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️ 194335087162
ericlindsay.bsky.social @ericlindsay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This cause is close to my heart - make surveillance socially unacceptable everywhere - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.aupetitions.getup.org.auDemand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelfCamera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te... 000
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/05/2026And the tech companies wonder why people hate them so much. 16438911273
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialTammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆 22380081173
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 14/05/2026The measures announced in the budget are not the kind of renewal many in the research sector might have hoped for.theconversation.comThe federal budget will keep scientific research alive. But it’s unlikely to expand it 012
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMichael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026BHP is suing MWM to muzzle media coverage of a wage theft case. Why we are standing up to the $300b multinational colossus #auspol #pressfreedom michaelwest.com.au/bhp-is-suing...michaelwest.com.auBHP is suing us. Here is the File Number. - Michael WestBHP, the $300 billion multinational colossus, is suing Michael West Media to muzzle media coverage of a wage theft case. Michael West reports. 6229106
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialAnthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026🚨WE'RE LIVE! The doubling of donations has started. Please act now so we can secure as much of the bonus funding on offer as possible. Every single cent raised goes directly to funding our quality, truly independent Australian journalism. Thank you! 👉 theklaxon.presspatron.com 25935
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne... 31297082828
ericlindsay.bsky.social @ericlindsay.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Sign Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday card! getup.to/GBV2qT2Q8IVZ...getup.toSign Sir David Attenborough's Birthday CardSign Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday card! 010
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialshri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/04/2026I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck... 1022359
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/04/2026If ever actually constructed, look for it to be the first DC monument gleefully destroyed in every future disaster movie 1151241105
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialAndrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This important point (👇) was censored (by BlueSky!) for "intolerance". I'm putting it up again; wish me luck! To paraphrase Barry Goldwater, "Intolerance of the intolerant is no vice" ... #Trump 44617
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 11/04/2026If you aren't watching the return of Artemis II, I completely understand. I'm watching, but I'm nervous about the heatshield. On Artemis I, it had problems, so they made changes to the flight path, but it's the same heat shield. I won't feel secure until they are on the ground. 3384556
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too. 1923753498
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialEddie @whalepsychiatrist.bsky.social · 05/04/2026We've subsidised oil companies for decades as we "need" their products to run society, but now we dont, we need to use those same subsidies for heat pumps, EV's, solar panels, turbines, bio mass what ever else we can use to generate electric, it's only fair, we'd get to "net 0" real fast that way. 18268381627
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.social1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026How can Israel's Ambassador to Australia speak at the National Press Club while they target journalists in Gaza? At what point does the murders cease to be seen as “collateral damage” & instead be recognised as a campaign to eliminate the witnesses? #NPCS #Auspol 1earthmedia.com/a-war-on-wit...1earthmedia.comA War on Witnesses: Remembering Gaza’s Fallen JournalistsSince the outbreak of the most recent war, an unprecedented number of journalists, photographers, and media workers have been killed in Israeli airstrikes 36331
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialPaulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This is so far over the line it is impossible not to see this as murder and minimally a war crime…. Israel must be held accountable 053
ericlindsay.bsky.social @ericlindsay.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/so... @getup.org.aupetitions.getup.org.auSolar and batteries for every school and childcare centre!Across Australia, children are learning in classrooms that are getting hotter every year. At the same time, schools and childcare centres are facing rising electricity bills that put pressure on alrea... 011
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialChris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Happy Valentine's Day. Hoping you have someone as obsessed with you as the National party. The only thing I’m obsessed with is fixing their energy mess. 7268
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialVictoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 14/02/2026We need to be honest about what is going on here people! Angus Taylor’s One Nationfication of the Liberal Party is Australia’s MAGA moment. My analysis 👇🏻 independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...independentaustralia.netAngus Taylor’s One Nationfication of the Liberal Party is Australia’s MAGA momentFriday 13 February is a fitting date for Angus Taylor to roll Sussan Ley as Liberal Party leader because Taylor represents a Trumpist MAGA horror show result for Australia’s social cohesion and demo..... 64420
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialcatherinerocks.bsky.social @catherinerocks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026No fucking way! #albo Trump wants more access to your personal data. Will our government hand it over? www.sbs.com.au/news/article...sbs.com.auTrump wants more access to your personal data. Will our government hand it over?Speculation over a proposal to hand Australians' biometric data to the US is raising concerns among privacy experts. 263
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialCraig Hill @craighill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Just a thought, but to avoid the bloody annoying arguments every year about Australia Day, perhaps it could be on 27 May. That was the day in 1967 that 90% of Australians voted to include Indigenous Australians in the official population count, thus recognising them as citizens. 051
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officialsSuperintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas 27165573292
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law. 10982904412221
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"OECD says its time to cut the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing" me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auOECD says its time to cut the capital gains tax discount and negative gearingThe OECD’s annual survey of Australia’s economy this week bluntly noted what most Australians understands very clearly: housing is expensive and in short supply. The report highlighted issues with pla... 1620181
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialProf Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 22/01/2026But woe betide we spend similar annual amounts to act on climate change… …much of which just redirects investments from BAU stuff burning expensive fossil fuels + related infrastructure to clean economy tech like renewables, batteries, EVs (Nor cost of failing to act, which is far higher) 184
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialProf Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 22/01/2026"In the race to build new energy #wind fast #solar faster & #batteries will be faster again #Coal has started a fast exit" — Prof Ray Wills, 22 Oct 2017 193
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 22/01/2026In what galaxy is an offshore gas project that ships gas straight overseas "nation-building". I know the NT News is famous for its hilarious headlines, but this is just deadshit. Words used to have meanings, y'know. 2187
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one 2695501319
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE. 76739617
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter." 68167333384
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on. 126809443
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it." 147506537
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them. 148711869
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life. 25150973103
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders. 87400640
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in) 895161116
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town. 142153675715
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialPlutonaut @plutonaut.bsky.social · 16/01/2026If you're looking to switch, which you should, use this website to transfer your playlists: www.tunemymusic.comtunemymusic.comTransfer Playlists Between Music Services | Tune My MusicTransfer Playlists From Any Music Platform to Any Other Music Platform! Including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Google Play Music, TIDAL and more! 420837
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialUMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Read the article here: musically.com/2026/01/15/5...musically.com5.1tn annual music streams... but 120.5m tracks had 10 or fewerMusic-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over. 216759
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialUMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized. 12243512736
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialMatt Massarella-Gill @3788mg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES 1563216710
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialJohn Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“The only thing everyone seems to agree on about Albo’s new Hate Bill is that everyone hates it… Personally, I’m looking forward to the inevitable Chernobyl at Holt Street, when Rupert’s top editorial warlocks realise they’re legally adjacent to the neo-Nazis of the National Socialist Network.”open.substack.comI get the top bunk, Rupe.I think it was Stephen King who first introduced me to the line, “Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it”, a tidy little omen he credited to some old Chinese philosopher. 68217
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Remember: 26Jan has been recognised as a Day of Mourning since 1938, in recognition of the invasion, dispossession & numerous massacres by British invaders against Indigenous Australians since 1788. It has only been a public holiday as Australia Day since 1994. Facts matter. History matters. #auspol 620472
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialProf Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 16/01/2026ANCAP’s crash tests are proving electric cars to be the safest vehicles in Australia Battery-powered models make up 6 / 7 strongest crash test performers Surprise: highly flammable liquids (petrol and diesel) in ICE are much more likely to catch fire than electric cars thedriven.io/2026/01/16/w...thedriven.ioWant a safe car? Crash tests say you should go electricElectric cars are proving to be the safest vehicles in Australia, with battery-powered models making up six of the seven strongest crash test performers. 22911
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall Let's talk about: a) how to get around paywalls b) why you shouldn't be mad about them 17403103
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl." 9569130
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialthe Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 06/12/2025They've travelled all the way from British Columbia, Canada, to meet friends and allies in Australia fighting Woodside - one of the fossil-fuel companies behind the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and PRGT pipeline which would cross their unceded lands. (The topic of our latest HGA)youtube.comHonest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada!YouTube video by thejuicemedia 210039
Reposted by @ericlindsay.bsky.socialGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/12/2025"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...thepoint.com.auAustralia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in povertyFor all the focus on inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures this year, the nation quietly passed a shameful milestone in 2025, ensuring a bleak Christmas for more Australian families t... 36265169