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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Current stack! On book 95 for 2025. Full titles in alt text. #booksky

A stack of books, top to bottom:

Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford

Woodside vs the planet : how a company captured a country / Marian Wilkinson

Terraform : watch / worlds / burn / edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans

American war / Omar El Akkad

Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle

Perfect victims and the politics of appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd

Discipline / Randa Abdel-Fattah

The AI con : how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want / Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism / Anne Case, Angus Deaton

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85. Full titles in alt text. #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

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Current stack! (Full titles/authors in alt text) #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

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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.

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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.”

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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.

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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.

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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?'"

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A good month - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a revelation. Going to track down everything he’s written. #booksky

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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%

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Awesome, thanks Fiona - just reserved it from the library. Currently enjoying this:

A copy of The Men Who Killed The News by Eric Beecher

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

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 20