Eleanor Elliott Thomas

Since we're talking about One Nation and their history of providing us with some truly exceptional candidates, this is from the PHON candidate for Macalister in the 2017 State election. One of the top ten twitter exchanges of all time.

"I have struggled with this realisation, that a life is not always equal to another life, throughout my own. It is written across continents & classes, but never so plainly to my living eyes as it is in the remarks of some of the most powerful people on Earth about the 'insects' in Gaza".

PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week:

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A ban by Israel on 37 international NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, took effect with the new year. Aid groups, the United Nations and at least 10 foreign ministers have condemned the move, warning it will exacerbate Gaza’s already catastrophic humanitarian crisis.

Hello, I'm the Spiderbait moshpit at the Big Day Out circa 1995

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??

between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Four of the five new officially extinct animals globally were *Australian*.

22 breathtaking images from the 2025 Landscape Photographer of the Year awards The vibrant magnificence of Earth.

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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Our country is gone. My family has endured bigotry for decades, but now I’m broken A Jewish family like mine knows that Australia has antisemitism running in its blood.

Sad and deftly complex.

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I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this

Money & Love: Part III Recapping Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Finally back with Part III of my Pride & Prejudice recap. Was it worth the wait? Look probably not but you could always read it and decide for yourself xx eleanorelliottthomas.substack.com/p/money-and-...

#austen #prideandprejudice

A shiny green fly resting on a gravel path. It looks as though it’s made out of metal. It is intensely green and shiny and its abdomen is divided into a grid pattern by thin black lines that make it look like it has abs.

I don’t really have anything to say that can’t and hasn’t been better said by everyone else but if anyone needs something unexpectedly pretty I went to a local nature reserve today and saw the most beautiful fly I’ve ever seen in my life:

Ha, I have the same near-death-experience thought. Then once the drafting is done I start having intrusive thoughts about how annoying it would be to die before publication day.

While approving 27 new fossil fuel projects.

A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0

cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Joe Biden pooped in a toilet like a total cuck. Diarrhea Don puts on his crown and shits all over the American people just like we like. So glamorous, so elite.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Kath and Cliff In my vision, Heathcliff lives in Avondale Heights and is a purveyor of fine meats at his local IGA. The ghost of Kath, his long-lost lover, comes banging on his sausage display case one day. “Look at...

Read my piece on the new Wuthering Heights movie here for free! It's the Kath & Kim/Heathcliff and Cathy mash up you never knew you needed x thebigissue.org.au/article/kath...

‘It’s not copy-charity. It’s copyright’: Authors oppose copyright exception for AI training at Senate Inquiry - Australian Society of Authors Creators and book industry organisations attended a Senate Inquiry hearing to oppose the proposal for a copyright exception for AI training.

I saw a clip of the wonderful Thomas Keneally saying that it’s ’copyright’ not copy charity
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What the fuck, European Parliament

DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla.

Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.

The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.

You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.

Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

If Penny Wong is serious about the Australian govt wanting to *do something* to stop the #GazaGenocide,
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.