Lorax Horne

@lorax.bsky.social

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Editor and writer. Tech critic. Since they are Canadian, would not rule out treachery. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights. Donate to: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family

Photo of a stack of porcelain china bowls that has toppled over and is being held in place only by a glass display cabinet case door. As soon as anyone opens the glass door to try to reach the plates, the toppled stack will be dislodged and surelyat least six or seven china bowls will smash on the floor.
Tweet from This Should Be Housing @vacantmap: Genuine question for @MarkJCarney: how much of the new military spending package in the budget will go towards military contracts taking public money to enrich themselves on intellectual property? vs. how much of the #82 billion will go towards housing for veterans?
Photo of a laptop with a Gaza Sky Geeks sticker, including the logo of the popular technology incubator located in Gaza City before it was bombed by Israel. Other stickers on the laptop include "Love Pigs Dox Cops" with a cartoon of a pig, "Yo uso software libre" or 'I use free software' in Spanish, and "be not unkind to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise"
A hole for a latrine dug into a sandy ground. A pile of cement bricks is set up nearby under the shade of a red canvas wall.
Picture of a 30-something Palestinian cis male, short black hair, with glasses and a blue collared shirt standing next to a 30-something white trans non-binary person with glasses and pink pants who is wearing a black baseball cap. Both people are smiling at the camera, relaxed with their hands in their pockets, and are wearing sashes with a keffiyeh pattern and embroidered images of Al Aqsa mosque. They are standing close together in front of a fridge and a sign in Arabic.
Video of Brazilian activist Thiago Silva reporting from the Madleen boat in the Mediterranean Sea on its way to Gaza.
Screenshot of the map on the Freedom Flotilla tracker app, showing the vessel Madleen a few hundred kilometers into the Ionian sea, after leaving port in Catania. A red dot shows the location of the vessel in the sea, and a red line connects the dot to shore, showing the trip's trajectory.
"Is this butterfly?" meme with caption: "Is this a SCIF?" (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) and the butterfly is labelled "Signal", referencing the secure messenger app that was used to text details of the United States bombing targets in Yemen without congressional approval.
Screenshot of an Open Healthcare @health_open post on Facebook tagging Mohammed Abu Matar and 9 others. Arrows drawn on the photo point at two individuals: Canadian/UK journalist Lorax Horne, a white non-binary person in their late 20s, wearing a blue check shirt and a blue scarf headband, and Gazan engineer Mohammed Abu Matar, a Palestinian person in their mid 20s, wearing a white button up shirt. The two highlighted individuals stand in the back row of a crowd group shot with 19 other people, including several women and men, mostly between the ages of 18 and 30. They stand in front of a banner with the logos of the London Health Sciences Center and the Gazan Ministry of Health. A caption on the photo in Arabic reads: "Thanks for coming and for everyone who helped us grow with you, my friends. They are with us in making this conference a success. #Open_Health"
Boston Tea Party painting but throwing Teslas into the sea instead of crates of tea.
Still from PANTHEON season 2 episode 6 "Apokalypsis" with three Uploaded Intelligence characters, including one Israeli and one Iranian, meeting in a simulated landscape of the compound of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The characters stand in the courtyard in the sunlight under the shadow of seven lush Celtis australis trees, with the golden dome of the mosque visible in the background. A subtitle from the show dialogue reads "[Yair] See? He can't be trusted".
Pink graffiti on a washroom stall reading "TRANS RIGHTS"
Map of the Gulf of Mexico where the Gulf of Mexico is labelled as the "Gulf of Puppy hacker polycule"
Screenshot of organizer and author Harsha Walia's post from May 6, 2024: "heartening to see Macklemore return to his roots. before he popped off decade ago, he was running in anti-capitalist radical circles in the west coast & did few fundraiser shows for us (grassroots anti-colonial, anti-capitalist migrant justice group). movements keep us grounded."
Screenshot of a paragraph from Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter from Feb. 10, 2025: "The NSA is trying to identify mission-related sites before the "Big Delete" is executed but appears to lack the personnel to do so. The NSA's internal network has existed since the 1990s, and a manual review of the content is impractical. Instead, the NSA is working with "Data Science Development Program interns" to "understand the false-positive use cases" and "help generate query options that can better minimize false-positives." Nevertheless, the NSA is anticipating "unintended downtime" of "mission-related" websites."
Crowd of hackers in Germany many with faces covered in accordance with CCC mores which encourages anonymous political actions, standing in the lobby of the conference center CCH with the CCC rocket sculpture and a hand-painted sign on a bedsheet that reads "Hacker <3 Georgian Protest" In English and Georgian script, and "New Elections - Free the Prisoners" in English along the bottom of the banner. The people in the photo number about 30 and are holding one fist up in the air in symbol of defiance
Screenshot of April 5, 2016 tweet from @wikileaks (likely Julian Assange) saying: "#PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID & Soros." The @wikileaks tweet includes a screenshot of the OCCRP website at the time which disclosed it was funded by Open Society Institute and USAID. Later that same year, Wikileaks would republish data hacked by Russian intelligence, overselling it in a way that would damage the U.S. presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and aid Donald Trump to his first election victory.
Email leaked of John Goetz's approach to USAID to seek interview about the OCCRP. In the email, USAID clarifies in a reply after their interview that OCCRP's financial agreement with them includes a clause protecting the OCCRP's editorial independence.
John Goetz seeking interview from USAID claiming he is doing a story about the OCCRP's Nobel Peace prize nomination, for broadcast ahead of the Nobel prize ceremony. At the time Julian Assange was campaigning for a Nobel Peace prize as well
Photo of Canadian-British journalist Lorax Horne, a non-binary white person with short hair and glasses, at Press House Palestine in 2016 in Gaza in front of a banner that reads in Arabic and English: "Empowering Freedom of Expression, Democracy, & Independency of Palestinian Media". They are speaking and gesturing with their hands to a crowd of about ten Gazan journalists including men and women mostly between the ages of 20 and 35, who are seated around a large table, some taking notes and others drinking a can of water.
Linocut print of "No business as usual Free Palestine" in black script on a white background with green and red illustrations os an olive branch, four poppy flowers and a slice of watermelon. Artwork by Roan Boucher @pollinator_press_art
Illustration of a person with a keffiyeh bandana and scarf, and long wavy black hair. Their face is determined and serene, their lips closed, their eyes are open and staring into the near distance. Above their head, a slogan reads: "Gaza: the lifeblood of our struggle must survive" superimposed on another keffiyeh pattern of the fishing net, olive leafs and black bar motif.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #18,238, Lorax Horne ‪@lorax.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 12, 2023"