Miles Ravenman
@milesravenman.bsky.social
Civilian. Twitter refugee.
Living in Wallumatta, Sydney, Australia.
Living in Wallumatta, Sydney, Australia.
Since the Bondi terror attack, I have seen on Facebook a surge of fake news / hate speech, of the type usually found on Elon Musk's X.
#auspol
#auspol
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Since the Bondi terror attack, I have seen on Facebook a surge of fake news / hate speech, of the type usually found on Elon Musk's X.
#auspol
#auspol
I have very little sympathy towards #JimmyLai.
What westerners do not realise is that his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, openly condoned violent protesters (aka 'valiants') during the 2019 Hong Kong revolution.
What westerners do not realise is that his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, openly condoned violent protesters (aka 'valiants') during the 2019 Hong Kong revolution.
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I have very little sympathy towards #JimmyLai.
What westerners do not realise is that his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, openly condoned violent protesters (aka 'valiants') during the 2019 Hong Kong revolution.
What westerners do not realise is that his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, openly condoned violent protesters (aka 'valiants') during the 2019 Hong Kong revolution.
People - especially politicians - anywhere in the world, must not make assumptions about the motive behind the Bondi terror attack.
Australia needs unity, not division.
Australia needs unity, not division.
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
People - especially politicians - anywhere in the world, must not make assumptions about the motive behind the Bondi terror attack.
Australia needs unity, not division.
Australia needs unity, not division.
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This is going to make even North Korea jealous.
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is going to make even North Korea jealous.
There are many Australians who are unwilling or unable to go through the age verification process due to well-founded privacy concerns.
Australia's social media law is already having a chilling effect on free speech.
#auspol
Australia's social media law is already having a chilling effect on free speech.
#auspol
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There are many Australians who are unwilling or unable to go through the age verification process due to well-founded privacy concerns.
Australia's social media law is already having a chilling effect on free speech.
#auspol
Australia's social media law is already having a chilling effect on free speech.
#auspol
Judging from the reactions here on Bluesky, it looks like Australia's age verification law will cause the already small Australian Bluesky community to completely collapse.
#auspol
#auspol
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Judging from the reactions here on Bluesky, it looks like Australia's age verification law will cause the already small Australian Bluesky community to completely collapse.
#auspol
#auspol
On the eve of Australia's age verification law coming into effect, the only major social media platform yet to respond is X.
Once again, X under Elon Musk acts as if it were above the law (and it IS above the law).
#auspol
Once again, X under Elon Musk acts as if it were above the law (and it IS above the law).
#auspol
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
On the eve of Australia's age verification law coming into effect, the only major social media platform yet to respond is X.
Once again, X under Elon Musk acts as if it were above the law (and it IS above the law).
#auspol
Once again, X under Elon Musk acts as if it were above the law (and it IS above the law).
#auspol
"Bluesky, for example, had been assessed as “very low risk” due to only having around 50,000 Australian users and very few young people."
#auspol
#auspol
Social media ban: when does it start in Australia, how will it work and what apps are getting banned for under-16s?
Will the ban be delayed or postponed, and how will age verification work? Here’s everything you need to know
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Bluesky, for example, had been assessed as “very low risk” due to only having around 50,000 Australian users and very few young people."
#auspol
#auspol
Earlier today I went to the 25th anniversary celebration of @touchingbase.bsky.social, an organisation whose works are very close to my heart.
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Earlier today I went to the 25th anniversary celebration of @touchingbase.bsky.social, an organisation whose works are very close to my heart.
We have not phoned our relatives in Hong Kong to ask them if they are okay.
Because they all live in skyscrapers; some of them would have witnessed the horrific spectacle of the fire IRL.
So obviously, they are grieving, angry, and above all, SH!T SCARED.
Because they all live in skyscrapers; some of them would have witnessed the horrific spectacle of the fire IRL.
So obviously, they are grieving, angry, and above all, SH!T SCARED.
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We have not phoned our relatives in Hong Kong to ask them if they are okay.
Because they all live in skyscrapers; some of them would have witnessed the horrific spectacle of the fire IRL.
So obviously, they are grieving, angry, and above all, SH!T SCARED.
Because they all live in skyscrapers; some of them would have witnessed the horrific spectacle of the fire IRL.
So obviously, they are grieving, angry, and above all, SH!T SCARED.
Woe to those who use the Hong Kong fire as a pretext for partisan political attacks
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Woe to those who use the Hong Kong fire as a pretext for partisan political attacks
I have been a bit quiet here lately.
Expect me to be more active here after 10 December, when Australia's social media law comes into effect, possibly causing mayhem on all major social media platforms.
Expect me to be more active here after 10 December, when Australia's social media law comes into effect, possibly causing mayhem on all major social media platforms.
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I have been a bit quiet here lately.
Expect me to be more active here after 10 December, when Australia's social media law comes into effect, possibly causing mayhem on all major social media platforms.
Expect me to be more active here after 10 December, when Australia's social media law comes into effect, possibly causing mayhem on all major social media platforms.
TRIVIA: The last time a president of a republic declared himself a monarch 👑 was in 1976.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
TRIVIA: The last time a president of a republic declared himself a monarch 👑 was in 1976.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%...
With the White House East Wing / Ballroom now on the news, it is interesting to compare it with this imitation Versailles, built on the order of 'Mad' King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the late 19th Century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenc...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenc...
Herrenchiemsee - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
With the White House East Wing / Ballroom now on the news, it is interesting to compare it with this imitation Versailles, built on the order of 'Mad' King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the late 19th Century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenc...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenc...
#PrinceAndrew will no longer be the #DukeofYork
And probably won't be a 'Guest of His Majesty' either
Let's send him to St Helena instead *hint hint*
www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...
And probably won't be a 'Guest of His Majesty' either
Let's send him to St Helena instead *hint hint*
www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'
In a statement, the prince says:
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#PrinceAndrew will no longer be the #DukeofYork
And probably won't be a 'Guest of His Majesty' either
Let's send him to St Helena instead *hint hint*
www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...
And probably won't be a 'Guest of His Majesty' either
Let's send him to St Helena instead *hint hint*
www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...
Reposted by Miles Ravenman
Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast
Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast
News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper
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It was too restrictive for Murdoch’s Trump-friendly Fox News but The Australian newspaper broke ranks this week and signed on to the Pentagon’s prohibitive new press policy.
But after we asked The Australian’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Gunn, why her masthead’s correspondent agreed to the rules imposed by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, when they had been roundly rejected by Fox News, the publication backflipped.
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www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast
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Seems that once the Australian turned up to the first Pentagon briefing and only saw 14 other far right bloggers there they had some second thoughts
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Seems that once the Australian turned up to the first Pentagon briefing and only saw 14 other far right bloggers there they had some second thoughts
In the UK it is not unusual for recipients of orders of chivalry to return the insignia to the government as signs of protest.
Will recipients of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom do likewise, in protest of the posthumous award ot the said medal to Charlie Kirk?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Will recipients of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom do likewise, in protest of the posthumous award ot the said medal to Charlie Kirk?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of people who have declined a British honour - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In the UK it is not unusual for recipients of orders of chivalry to return the insignia to the government as signs of protest.
Will recipients of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom do likewise, in protest of the posthumous award ot the said medal to Charlie Kirk?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Will recipients of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom do likewise, in protest of the posthumous award ot the said medal to Charlie Kirk?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
This reminds me why I (an ex-Hongkonger) rarely attend protests.
On Facebook the responses to this tiny protest were universally negative - not just the usual "you're pro-Hamas" copped by pro-Palestinian protesters in the West, but also "you're pro-CCP" and swear words too offensive to repeat here.
On Facebook the responses to this tiny protest were universally negative - not just the usual "you're pro-Hamas" copped by pro-Palestinian protesters in the West, but also "you're pro-CCP" and swear words too offensive to repeat here.
A group of Hong Kong activists marched in Tsim Sha Tsui on Tuesday to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza and to call for a ceasefire, marking two years since the latest conflict in the Palestinian territory began.
In full: buff.ly/9AMvHLf
Photos: James Lee/HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/9AMvHLf
Photos: James Lee/HKFP.
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This reminds me why I (an ex-Hongkonger) rarely attend protests.
On Facebook the responses to this tiny protest were universally negative - not just the usual "you're pro-Hamas" copped by pro-Palestinian protesters in the West, but also "you're pro-CCP" and swear words too offensive to repeat here.
On Facebook the responses to this tiny protest were universally negative - not just the usual "you're pro-Hamas" copped by pro-Palestinian protesters in the West, but also "you're pro-CCP" and swear words too offensive to repeat here.
Reposted by Miles Ravenman
First Woman Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
First Woman Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
First Woman Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
The lack of Women in History is bad enough in the UK, but it is even worse in China: there is simply no well-known Chinese female role model, with the exception of Mulan who was a FICTIONAL CHARACTER.
Thank you to @theguardian.com for covering our report into what’s taught in History lessons at Key Stage 3. Spoiler: mostly men. It’s time to end sexism in schools.
School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds
Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The lack of Women in History is bad enough in the UK, but it is even worse in China: there is simply no well-known Chinese female role model, with the exception of Mulan who was a FICTIONAL CHARACTER.
Reposted by Miles Ravenman
Sex worker visibility will be front and centre in Darlinghurst from November, as the iconic and powerful statue Joy returns to her home neighbourhood.
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sex worker visibility will be front and centre in Darlinghurst from November, as the iconic and powerful statue Joy returns to her home neighbourhood.
In response to the UN inquiry on the Palestinian Territory etc., Sussan Ley denies there is genocide in Gaza, saying there is a lack of 'intent' to commit genocide.
Yet the inquiry specifically says there is 'intent' to commit genocide.
Is Sussan Ley even paying attention?
#auspol
Yet the inquiry specifically says there is 'intent' to commit genocide.
Is Sussan Ley even paying attention?
#auspol
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
In response to the UN inquiry on the Palestinian Territory etc., Sussan Ley denies there is genocide in Gaza, saying there is a lack of 'intent' to commit genocide.
Yet the inquiry specifically says there is 'intent' to commit genocide.
Is Sussan Ley even paying attention?
#auspol
Yet the inquiry specifically says there is 'intent' to commit genocide.
Is Sussan Ley even paying attention?
#auspol