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Dr Blair Williams
@blairwilliams26.bsky.social
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Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️‍🌈 Canberra/Naarm
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · Mar 20
My Daggy Dads and State Daddies paper has officially been published!

This paper has everything - Diggers,Larrakins, Battlers, Daggy Dads, State Daddies, thirst traps, glow ups and more!

You can access the article (for free!) using this link:

#AusPol
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 3h
Omg srslyyyyyy
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 3h
Right??????? 😤😤😤😤😤

So ridiculous.

Just makes me eve more stubborn and determined not to get it 😂

*puts another mask on* 🤣
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4h
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks
An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.
www.smh.com.au
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 4h
Like,

"COVID is here to stay (so let's give up protecting ourselves and others)"

"AI is here to stay (so let's lean into it and hand over our creativity/critical thought)".

To just... accept what those in power WANT to happen but making it seem inevitable.

😤🤬
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 4h
I feel like... the portrayal of COVID by the elite/govt/media as "inevitable" and this being readily adopted has done a real number on people/society.

It seems like people now just expect the worse, and don't seem to be as willing to fight for better.
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natwell.bsky.social @natwell.bsky.social · 4h
Just say “No” or “Fuck you, make me” is an incredibly effective strategy that a lot of people have seemingly forgotten.
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 18h
I think it’s time to get this out into the world…

Here’s my new blogletter. I’ll be writing here about life and changemaking in this discombobulating space between the no longer and the not yet.

Do please have a read of this first post, sign up, and spread the word!
Writing from in between...
Welcome to In Between Days, my new space for writing, for trying out thoughts and ideas, as I find my way from here to there, or there to here, or then to now... floundering about in this between spac...
in-between-days.ghost.io
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h
They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 19h
“It makes you feel like, ‘am I even a human to you guys?’. What’s the point of being here? Will that save your budget?” Kieron D’Netto

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kieron relies on NDIS after surviving a catastrophic diving accident – but new rules could put his life at risk
Brisbane man is one of hundreds reporting devastating cuts to NDIS plans after rule changes last year
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 16h
5am?? How is that legal??
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 16h
😂😂😂
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 16h
Omggggg 😵😵
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 17h
Also, I never liked boy bands. I was a Spice Girls fan 🥰
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 17h
It's just the base line of "Everybody" that is soooo irritating.

🎵 Duh duhduhduhduhduh duh duhduh🎵

😤😤😤
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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 17h
My best explanation of parallel lines
Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 17h
Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 17h
It was Miley Cyrus before and now it's Backstreet Boys 🤢🤢🤢
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 17h
Why oh why must the builders of an apartment complex literally A BLOCK AWAY play pop music this loudly from 7am in the morning 🫠🫠🫠

I can hear the base through my closed windows!

😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 2d
I'm excited to officially share that I'll be joining UNSW Canberra as a Lecturer in International and Political Studies in January 2026!

#AcademicLife #Academia #NewJob
Wattle with the Black Mountain tower in tje background
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 18h
Mmmm can't you just FEEL that "democracy"... 😬

Everything can be bought in the US of A!

The US desperately needs something like the AEC...
Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics
Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.
edition.cnn.com
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19h
"There is a dangerous nostalgia to images of three white men — even if Morrison, Biden and Johnson have all been replaced since the #AUKUS announcement — proclaiming an alliance which seems to totally ignore geopolitical realities of Australia’s position" #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Our American obsession
I have spent seven years of my life in the United States and much of my writing has been influenced by the US.
johnmenadue.com
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 19h
Australian newspapers are reporting only the ceasefire, not Israel’s violation of it. The bombing hasn’t stopped but that’s an inconvenient truth.
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 1d
😂😂😂😂
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 1d
Mmmm what a tempting purchase! 🤢

"Australia
A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey, now a major documentary on Sky News Australia

by Tony Abbott"

#AusPol
Kath and Kim scene: "So, who would you rather go to bed with? Tony Abbott, Alexander Downer, or Peter Costello?"
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks 😁 We'll have to catch up!
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 1d
Kelly on the money here!

"As it bangs on about conservatism, reinforced by media backers, it doesn’t get that conservatism doesn’t enjoy majority support in Aus. It never has and it never will. Since Federation, Australia has never been governed by a party that calls itself Conservative."

#AusPol
www.theaustralian.com.au
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