Iain Butterworth
@iainbutterworth.bsky.social
Raider of the lost Snark. Global citizen. Fulbright scholar (WHO Healthy Cities, liveability). Born 318 PPM. Living in colonial Australia most of my life. Fan of 70s funk, soul and disco, sustainable living, zingers, tulips, travel, kindness, and ABBA.
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
This event looks excellent. We can livestream it wherever we are.
Pivoting to the People: Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan and Olufemi Taiwo | Busboys and Poets
Join Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan, and Olufemi Taiwo for a panel conversation about the need to build platforms that serve the masses when institutions refuse or fail to do so. Speakers Mehdi Hasan is an...
www.busboysandpoets.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This event looks excellent. We can livestream it wherever we are.
Leslie Jones for US President.
Talking to your family at Thanksgiving is hard. Let @lesdoggg.bsky.social handle it
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Leslie Jones for US President.
This is great.
Let me tell you something.
The anger is increasing.
You can feel it right?
The anger is increasing.
You can feel it right?
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is great.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
Brilliant.
It will be hard.
But we’ll only be able to move on from this if we hold those responsible to account for what they allowed to happen here.
We must have trials.
We must have sentences.
We must reckon with the truths of America’s sins if we’re to create a new American future.
📼 @myjessstory
But we’ll only be able to move on from this if we hold those responsible to account for what they allowed to happen here.
We must have trials.
We must have sentences.
We must reckon with the truths of America’s sins if we’re to create a new American future.
📼 @myjessstory
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Brilliant.
Mamdani is a brilliant communicator and energiser. He gives me Big D (for Democracy) energy 🙌
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Mamdani is a brilliant communicator and energiser. He gives me Big D (for Democracy) energy 🙌
This! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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I stand with Sen. Mark Kelly.
To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.
To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I stand with Sen. Mark Kelly.
To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.
To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.
I love stories like this! A good reminder about the fragility of civilisations.
First revealed in spy photos, a #BronzeAge #city emerges from the steppe
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
#archaeology #Kazakhstan
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
#archaeology #Kazakhstan
First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I love stories like this! A good reminder about the fragility of civilisations.
I stand with Jayden Kitchener-Waters, a proud Gomeroi and Ngiyampaa man who (currently) works for the NSW Aboriginal Languages Trust
As @deepcutnews.bsky.social reports, the NSW Premier appears to believe that there are two sides to genocide.
And he's on the side of the perpetrators. #GazaGenocide #nswpol #auspol
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
And he's on the side of the perpetrators. #GazaGenocide #nswpol #auspol
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
www.deepcutnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I stand with Jayden Kitchener-Waters, a proud Gomeroi and Ngiyampaa man who (currently) works for the NSW Aboriginal Languages Trust
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
These people really must want to destroy civilisation
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
These people really must want to destroy civilisation
I can’t get over this headline. This *is* 2025, right?
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I can’t get over this headline. This *is* 2025, right?
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“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
YES.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
YES.
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"This is the first book to tell the story of the continental sweep of massacres, guerilla warfare, resistance and the contests of firearms and traditional Aboriginal weaponry as Indigenous nations resisted colonial occupation of their lands—" #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Massacres, memory and the Memorial: facing our most deadly war
The evidence is overwhelming – Australia’s Frontier Wars were real, deadly, and long, and a landmark new book lays it out in full. So when will the Australian War Memorial fully face the truth?
johnmenadue.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"This is the first book to tell the story of the continental sweep of massacres, guerilla warfare, resistance and the contests of firearms and traditional Aboriginal weaponry as Indigenous nations resisted colonial occupation of their lands—" #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
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🚨 Why aren’t they pulling out their pepper spray on this man? Because this man intimidates tf out of them. They know they can’t face off with a military veteran. More of this, please. 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🚨 Why aren’t they pulling out their pepper spray on this man? Because this man intimidates tf out of them. They know they can’t face off with a military veteran. More of this, please. 1/2
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the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the son he always wanted
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The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
Awesome!
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Awesome!
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.