Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Beautiful work by @mattbaume.bsky.social youtu.be/RTPd8FqVxS8?...youtu.beHow Tim Curry Changed Your LifeYouTube video by Matt Baume 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Invest in the future today. #reading #library 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026There are few things i like more than the ridiculous content that Librarians post during book week. #bookweek #reading #library 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Im holdind a conversation with authors Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall this Thursday to discuss their new novels, Griefdogg and Henry Goes Bush at Brunswick Library. Join us for a rowdy chat about Australian stories if you're free. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/meet-the-a...eventbrite.com.auMeet the Authors: Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall with Shay Leighton.Authors Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall join us to discuss their new novels, Griefdogg and Henry Goes Bush. 031
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Let them become forests.nytimes.comLife After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding (Published 2024)More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic. 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ok, it's pretty cool, but it's not music video for Typical Girls by The Slits cool. 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Lots of news about petrol prices this morning. Not a lot of discussion about how the infrastructure of our whole country probably shouldn't rely on whether a handful of awful people in the middle east like us or not. Our reliance on cars and trucks here makes us weak #auspol #petrol #trains 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Get your friends to cut your hair this weekend. Not the professional ones. Not those who are good at it. & Not to save money. But because the world is running out of truly unique haircuts. Fight back against big normal. Be something different, defy category 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026How to make a problem. #auspol youtu.be/Ct0xIKWDqPA?...youtu.beAustralia has enough houses. So why can't anyone afford one? Housing economist explains.YouTube video by ABC Australia 020
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Jeff Kober, one of the talented workhorses of moderate to excellent TV, got an Emmy Nomination today. Well done. 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Very worth reading.abc.net.auThe current debate about multiculturalism is built on a false dichotomy - ABC Religion & EthicsPauline Hanson’s recent speech to the National Press Club, where she declared that “we cannot be a multicultural society” and that Australia “must be monocultural” has reignited a familiar and polaris... 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Janet Sobel started painting around 45. What can you start today? 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Dear Australian pubs, Time to help us push back against air bnb by reopening hotel rooms on your second floor. Bring em back. 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Worried about the state of Australian regional and rural communities? Let's follow Scotland on community wealth reform. bccm.coop/scotland-lea...bccm.coopScotland leads the way on community wealth building reform - BCCMBCCM CEO, Melina Morrison, delivered a powerful address to the Go Vita Annual Conference on the Gold Coast this week 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I'm talking about men, pubs, and reading at this festival in Maryborough Vic, next weekend. Join us if you want to hear me tell funny book club stories, then get lost in the weeds on community organising and civic psychology. #vic #bookclubs #mensreading wiwcg.com.au/bookmarks-an...wiwcg.com.auWords in Winter Central GoldfieldsWords in Winter Central Goldfields 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Hey UK, One more time. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comAdopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre 000
Reposted by Shay.P.LeightonShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Watching the new documentary “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” (Crave/HBO). It’s really well done. So much footage of quake I’ve not seen (watched loads of YouTube) & the case against Tokyo Electric Power Company is damning. Quake, tsunami then an entirely human-made disaster. 1222
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026One more time. www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...lse.ac.ukTax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich | LSE ResearchTrickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial. 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Constantly saying she ran a fish-and-chip shop isn't the effective tactic you think it is. It just tells some working-class people that you don't think people like them deserve to be in politics & that only people like you should be allowed to have a say. #auspol 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Wow this decades energy crisis really makes you wish we started building a national high-speed electric rail network during the last one. #numtot #rail #auspol 221
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Im kind of shocked more people dont mention Flatliners (1990) 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026No matter how you present this data, the drunk uncles of Australia won't believe it. We're going to cook our country by listening to the people in your life that you won't take advice from. #auspol #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...abc.net.auThe summers of today are vastly different to those of our grandparentsAustralia has always been hot. On average, summer is now one degree warmer than it was 50 years ago. But that number hides the stark reality that the summers our kids experience today are much more ex... 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. —Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Quote of the day, "Is America sure it wants to live in the world it is currently creating?" - Matthew Petti 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Joe McDonald died over the weekend. I think he would like the irony. youtu.be/3W7-ngmO_p8?...youtu.beCountry Joe McDonald - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die RagYouTube video by PatchouliHaze 100
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Dana White is coming to ruin boxing. Collective bargaining should be the right of all workers. Even sports ones. #boxing #union #iww youtu.be/7iKoH6LceBo?...youtu.beWhy UFC Sucks NowYouTube video by More Perfect Union 140
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Your cynicism is not post-ideological. #cynicism youtu.be/1NkmZxp56Fs?...youtu.beCynicism is killing us.YouTube video by Phil0bot 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026 Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. #foodbbc.comVegetarian diet lowers risk of cancer, Oxford study findsThe new study - led by University of Oxford researchers - is the largest ever of its kind. 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Dear street artists of my neighbourhood. I like people painting things on the front of my house; it's one of the things I love about it, but please lay off the gold and silver. It's so tacky. It's starting to look like a suburban hip-hop themed burger chain from 2004. #streetart #art #painting 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026But why do people who are economically hurting want to see people they think are less valid crying in the streets, even though it won't solve their problem? This.. This is what has radicalised your drunk uncle. academic.oup.com/scan/article... #auspol #neuroscience #racismacademic.oup.comThe pleasure of revenge: retaliatory aggression arises from a neural imbalance toward rewardAbstract. Most of daily life hums along peacefully but provocations tip the balance toward aggression. Negative feelings are often invoked to explain why p 011
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The next Australian election is going to be disgusting. One Nation is going to drag us all into a racism fight and beat everyone with their experience. Don't let them #auspol #racism youtu.be/75H8J6lURZc?...youtu.beSteve Earle - City Of Immigrants (live 2008) 0815007YouTube video by Doris0815007 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026It's great that we dont have coffee chains in my neighbourhood. That way all the coffee shops can independently decide to look exactly the same and serve the exact same things. #Melbourne #coffee #brunswick 020
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026youtu.be/k5HfOipwvts?...youtu.beThe Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!YouTube video by TheStyleCouncilVEVO 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Still second class.theconversation.comPeople from sexual minorities really do die younger, new data suggestsNew census-linked data reveals a stark UK health inequality: sexual minority people die younger and at higher rates than heterosexual people. 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I love that every 2 year we have to re-explain "infinite diversity in infinite combinations" to the same guys. While they say "but not this combination!". #treksky 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026During the 1980 Olympic Boycott, Carter proposed that the Olympics be permanently moved to Greece to avoid political entanglement. It's time to make that happen. #olympics 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The state always expects the untrained average citizen to protect the professionally trained law enforcer from confusion or fear in times of stress, or they get to pay with their lives. 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What about one of those incompetence vs job movies where, due to convoluted reasons, Matt Berry is forced to be a Jame Bond style spy. #movie #spy 000
Reposted by Shay.P.LeightonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/01/2026#OtD 8 Jan 2003 two train drivers from Motherwell, Scotland, refused to drive a train full of ammunition for UK forces in the Gulf to the Glen Douglas NATO military base. It was a protest against the threat of invading Iraq. More on the anti-war movt: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1079... 07724
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Australia today is a library day. Your local library are one of the few free to visit public places that have air-conditioning, so grab the kids and head there! And today is the perfect time to meet them and see if they would like to come with you. #auspol #heatwave #australia 0113
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Its been pretty funny watching people who don't know much about Brigitte Bardot besides photos, post RIPs about her and then in real time learn about Brigitte Bardot. #filmhistory #googlethings 000
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025If you're a progressive politician in charge of the government and you lose to bad guys, it's your fault. Maybe some others too but 100% If you had power to change laws, funding and help people, and you didn't do enough of it for people to vote for you, it's your fault. #auspol #usapol #politics 010
Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025"They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in." - Frank Oz #muppets #disney #hopefulcontentyoutu.beThe Great Muppet ProblemYouTube video by Stevie 095
Reposted by Shay.P.LeightonHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025It's the most wonderful time of the year: Watching Muppet Family Christmas and then re-discovering how the Ripped from TV version someone uploaded to YouTube ends: youtu.be/Bi9qSKZuvC4?... #doomedbabyyoutu.beA Muppet Family Christmas (1987) - Full SpecialYouTube video by Parkscope Blog (Parkscope) 511017109
