Bella Figura 🇦🇺 🍉 🐸
@bellafigura.bsky.social
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Ah, Christmas in Australia, when suddenly all these accounts you follow start posting arcane comments …
Why isn’t Boland bowling? This cloud cover would be perfect conditions for him #Ashes
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Ah, Christmas in Australia, when suddenly all these accounts you follow start posting arcane comments …
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“Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Our hearts are shattered – and some have broken them further
There is no going back to where we were before December 14. But a social contract Australians relied on has been destroyed by the Coalition.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Cher just gave me a timely reminder why she is my Queen.
Tell it Queen!!!
Tell it Queen!!!
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cher just gave me a timely reminder why she is my Queen.
Tell it Queen!!!
Tell it Queen!!!
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I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.
MSF urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death
At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.
www.aljazeera.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.
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Love Santa? Love Venn diagrams? Love this #Christmas edition. #MerryChristmas
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Love Santa? Love Venn diagrams? Love this #Christmas edition. #MerryChristmas
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Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
Yes some good reminders of recent history here. If I can get a text version I will post.
Deeply thoughtful, balanced, and honest reflections from former @canberratimes.bsky.social editor Jack Waterford
December 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Yes some good reminders of recent history here. If I can get a text version I will post.
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Yet no pollies have mentioned the Neo Na3i demo in November
Why is Ley Frydenberg Hanson et al ignoring that demonstration of straight out hatred toward the Jewish community?
Could it be because they are likely to be right wing white male voters?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n...
Why is Ley Frydenberg Hanson et al ignoring that demonstration of straight out hatred toward the Jewish community?
Could it be because they are likely to be right wing white male voters?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n...
It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
www.crikey.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet no pollies have mentioned the Neo Na3i demo in November
Why is Ley Frydenberg Hanson et al ignoring that demonstration of straight out hatred toward the Jewish community?
Could it be because they are likely to be right wing white male voters?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n...
Why is Ley Frydenberg Hanson et al ignoring that demonstration of straight out hatred toward the Jewish community?
Could it be because they are likely to be right wing white male voters?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n...
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This is one of the best interviews I’ve listened to on Sunday’s mass shooting.
And of course - it’s produced by independent media with a real expert.
Imagine that!
Thank you Punters Politics 🙏🙏 #auspol
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
And of course - it’s produced by independent media with a real expert.
Imagine that!
Thank you Punters Politics 🙏🙏 #auspol
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
Mass Shootings & Media: The One Thing Media Does That Makes Us Less Safe
Podcast Episode · Punters Politics · 18/12/2025 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is one of the best interviews I’ve listened to on Sunday’s mass shooting.
And of course - it’s produced by independent media with a real expert.
Imagine that!
Thank you Punters Politics 🙏🙏 #auspol
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
And of course - it’s produced by independent media with a real expert.
Imagine that!
Thank you Punters Politics 🙏🙏 #auspol
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
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As a Jew, I find it bizarre that people are forcing a 'Palestine' narrative onto the Bondi Beach shooting. The shooter openly claimed inspiration from ISIS; an organization that actually despises Palestinian nationalism in favor of their own global caliphate.
Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
As a Jew, I find it bizarre that people are forcing a 'Palestine' narrative onto the Bondi Beach shooting. The shooter openly claimed inspiration from ISIS; an organization that actually despises Palestinian nationalism in favor of their own global caliphate.
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There is no gun "debate".
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
There is no gun "debate".
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one.
70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi.
More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...
Tired of them rolling out the same old, same old tired names. We have other options for a more objective consideration of what’s needed. Craven? You can’t be serious.
The first meeting of the Gonski/Segal Antisemitism Education Taskforce was held yesterday.
Next meeting is 3 February.
That meeting will be briefed by "independent" University Report Card project head Prof Craven - who was handpicked by the antisemitism czar herself, Segal.
Next meeting is 3 February.
That meeting will be briefed by "independent" University Report Card project head Prof Craven - who was handpicked by the antisemitism czar herself, Segal.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Tired of them rolling out the same old, same old tired names. We have other options for a more objective consideration of what’s needed. Craven? You can’t be serious.
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Rare pink platypus spotted by fisherman in Victorian river: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-20/story-rare-albino-pink-platypus-found-in-east-gippsland-river/106106194
Rare pink platypus spotted by fisherman in Victorian river
In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ever sighted in the past 200 years.
www.abc.net.au
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Rare pink platypus spotted by fisherman in Victorian river: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-20/story-rare-albino-pink-platypus-found-in-east-gippsland-river/106106194
#auspol do some work journalists
That is shameful. Sara Schwartz, also from the JCA, is likewise absent from our screens. We need to amplify the voices of all corners of the Jewish community, not just the loudest and most strident. How can we see the media as anything else but biased?
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#auspol do some work journalists
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20 seniors today and 83 in total this week
My 🅿️ 🅿️ is [email protected]
My 🅿️ 🅿️ is [email protected]
December 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
20 seniors today and 83 in total this week
My 🅿️ 🅿️ is [email protected]
My 🅿️ 🅿️ is [email protected]
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The Israeli army bombarded a school and a wedding in Tufah area in Gaza city killing many children and other civilians.
Where’s the Global outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱
Where’s the Global outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Israeli army bombarded a school and a wedding in Tufah area in Gaza city killing many children and other civilians.
Where’s the Global outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱
Where’s the Global outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱
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A look at the wings of a mulga parrot.
Such pretty little parrots.
Gluepot Reserve.
Such pretty little parrots.
Gluepot Reserve.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A look at the wings of a mulga parrot.
Such pretty little parrots.
Gluepot Reserve.
Such pretty little parrots.
Gluepot Reserve.
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And, yes, that should be spelled Colosseo-Fori Imperiali, Rome's newest subway station, in the shadow of the Colosseum. Additionally, the Porta Metronia station has also opened on the same line, which is approximately where this gold glass fragment was found.
www.romeing.it/new-metro-c-...
www.romeing.it/new-metro-c-...
New Metro C Stations in Rome: Colosseo-Fori Imperiali and Porta Metronia
Discover Rome’s new Metro C stops, Colosseo–Fori Imperiali and Porta Metronia, linking suburbs to the historic centre with archaeological stations.
www.romeing.it
December 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And, yes, that should be spelled Colosseo-Fori Imperiali, Rome's newest subway station, in the shadow of the Colosseum. Additionally, the Porta Metronia station has also opened on the same line, which is approximately where this gold glass fragment was found.
www.romeing.it/new-metro-c-...
www.romeing.it/new-metro-c-...
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Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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There is going to be a "Save Australia" rally in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend. It will have "a zero-tolerance policy for racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and violence" but will have speakers including Pauline Hanson who is a living embodiment of these things. Another hate event. #Auspol
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
There is going to be a "Save Australia" rally in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend. It will have "a zero-tolerance policy for racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and violence" but will have speakers including Pauline Hanson who is a living embodiment of these things. Another hate event. #Auspol
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Minns started the week talking gun control and ends it blaming peaceful protesters. Cowardice.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Minns started the week talking gun control and ends it blaming peaceful protesters. Cowardice.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Focussing on this from a pure security perspective, it’s wild that an IS-linked attack was just carried out in Australia and we’re barely talking about it - the focus is on protestors and universities.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Focussing on this from a pure security perspective, it’s wild that an IS-linked attack was just carried out in Australia and we’re barely talking about it - the focus is on protestors and universities.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
www.afr.com/policy/forei...