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juliadassin.bsky.social
Slightly secretive Sydneysider. 🎥 🎶 🍳 🐕 I know a tiny amount about many things so I guess that makes me a scatty fox rather than a deep-thinking hedgehog.
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Good to see international property tycoon Amelia Hamer putting Monique Ryan before candidate "Vader D". ↘️ I reckon "Palpatine, S" might have got the nod though, this being the Liberal Party and all ... #Election2025 #auspol

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So, just noting that all the attention given to Katharine Deves for her anti-trans views last election, that the Libs had to pretend didn’t represent them, is now quietly embedded in their official statements. Too bad if you’re a gender-questioning kid in a family that denies you exist.

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“Mr Dutton, why did you use your son to spruik your housing policy?” “Well, Brian, it’s perfectly simple. We asked around at campaign HQ and, for the life of us, we couldn’t find anyone who didn’t own at least one home.” #auspol

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Putatively ‘serious’ journalists making an issue of the failed plibersek air kiss need to take a good hard look at themselves and what they are doing to public conversation.

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The use of underwater explosives to deter seals from Tasmanian #salmon farms has significantly declined over the last decade. But of three salmon companies, one accounts for 96% of all 'seal crackers' detonated in the last half of 2024. #politas #Tasmania tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/huon-aq...

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#GVerse This may be the best photo shoot I’ve ever seen 😂

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Democracy in Australia: You get fined if you don’t vote, but the real punishment is having to watch the campaign ads.

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“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.” AI search results: what if I did tho

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Giving Peter Thiel sensitive US Government’s information. What could possibly go wrong with that?

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The Coalition’s approach is fundamentally at odds with the Westminster principle that the public service should be accountable and apolitical “The previous Coalition government’s habit of outsourcing policy advice to consultants.” (Gift Link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20537/...

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“The Trump administration is embarking on an economic equivalent of the Vietnam War—a war of choice that will soon result in a quagmire, undermining faith at home and abroad in both the trustworthiness and the competence of the United States” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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A dream is born

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If you’ve never seen them, spare a moment for Tarkovsky’s Polaroids. www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-...

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This is very good. Photography, life and death, and the Polaroid picture. “For this one film type—part impulse, part artifact—the passage of time felt like the far truer composition.” www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaro...

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🎯 🎯 🎯 graphic courtesy @pleightx.bsky.social

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“Australians for Prosperity has deleted 2 months of social media posts after being approached by the AEC over unauthorised electoral material. The coal industry-funded group, led by former Coalition MPs, has been campaigning against progressive candidates.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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Here's @amyremeikis.bsky.social summing up the Treasurer's debate on the Australia Institute liveblog live.australiainstitute.org.au

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