Eleanor Elliott Thomas
@eet.bsky.social
Author of Readings Prize shortlisted novel, The Opposite of Success, and Do We Deserve This? (due out late 2025). Semi-regular substack: eleanorelliottthomas.substack.com
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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.
January 22, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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.
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"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".
Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...
The Great Silencing
Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:16 AM
"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".
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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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January 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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:
www.readings.com.au/collections/...
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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.
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Hello, I'm the Spiderbait moshpit at the Big Day Out circa 1995
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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
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
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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
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
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Four of the five new officially extinct animals globally were *Australian*.
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Four of the five new officially extinct animals globally were *Australian*.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this
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
#austen #prideandprejudice
Money & Love: Part III
Recapping Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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December 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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
#austen #prideandprejudice
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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:
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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:
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While approving 27 new fossil fuel projects.
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
While approving 27 new fossil fuel projects.
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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
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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
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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”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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”
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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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.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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.
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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.
October 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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.
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...
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...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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...
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I saw a clip of the wonderful Thomas Keneally saying that it’s ’copyright’ not copy charity
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‘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.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I saw a clip of the wonderful Thomas Keneally saying that it’s ’copyright’ not copy charity
www.asauthors.org.au/news/its-not...
www.asauthors.org.au/news/its-not...
What the fuck, European Parliament
WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
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European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union
Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What the fuck, European Parliament
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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.
Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.
The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.
The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.