Ruth Dawkins
@dorkymum.bsky.social
Freelance writer & blogger • Science, environment, travel, books, family, islands • Green, socialist, feminist • Trans rights are human rights • Free Palestine • She/her • Lutruwita/Tasmania via Scotland • #MDANT • dorkymum.com • ruthdawkins.net
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Ruth Dawkins
@dorkymum.bsky.social
· Aug 8
Seems like there has been a big influx of new folk here from Twitter/X this week, so maybe time for a quick reintroduction 👋🏻
I’m an immigrant in lutruwita/Tasmania, originally from Scotland. A mum, wife, writer, introvert.
I’m an immigrant in lutruwita/Tasmania, originally from Scotland. A mum, wife, writer, introvert.
Maisa and her family could really do with some help this week to cover the costs of food, medicines and shelter ❤️🙏🏻 The rain over the last couple of days has been destroying people’s tarps and blankets.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Maisa and her family could really do with some help this week to cover the costs of food, medicines and shelter ❤️🙏🏻 The rain over the last couple of days has been destroying people’s tarps and blankets.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Me logging on, seeing Bill Clinton trending, and doing a quick search to find out why…
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Me logging on, seeing Bill Clinton trending, and doing a quick search to find out why…
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This is good communication - a simple message clearly articulated. The fossil-ocracy arguments around affordability are distortions of reality.
Politicians in Australia keep saying that the net zero target will cost too much, but multiple analyses, including from Treasury, show that it is actually *much cheaper* for the economy than not doing more
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is good communication - a simple message clearly articulated. The fossil-ocracy arguments around affordability are distortions of reality.
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If your congressperson is not on this list, use this website to urge them to sign onto H.Res 876 today.
Tell Congress: Recognize and Punish Israel's Genocide in Gaza
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the new resolution that would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the US to fulfill its legal duty to prevent and punish genocide.
punishgenocide.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If your congressperson is not on this list, use this website to urge them to sign onto H.Res 876 today.
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Lots going on here but can I just add that it's not super thrilling that Palantir has surveillance tech this precise and it's in the hands of corporate oligarchs. Not great!
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lots going on here but can I just add that it's not super thrilling that Palantir has surveillance tech this precise and it's in the hands of corporate oligarchs. Not great!
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Lovely young man Josh gave us a tour of Derwent Valley Fungi and we got a couple of kits to start our mushroom growing experiment. Great small local business at Granton near Hobart, if you want gourmet mushrooms for Christmas or kits as gifts!
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Lovely young man Josh gave us a tour of Derwent Valley Fungi and we got a couple of kits to start our mushroom growing experiment. Great small local business at Granton near Hobart, if you want gourmet mushrooms for Christmas or kits as gifts!
I’m just a girl. Constantly refreshing my banking app. Checking to see if my overdue invoices have been paid yet.
(Spoiler alert: they haven’t.)
(Spoiler alert: they haven’t.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I’m just a girl. Constantly refreshing my banking app. Checking to see if my overdue invoices have been paid yet.
(Spoiler alert: they haven’t.)
(Spoiler alert: they haven’t.)
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Maybe I'm being simple-minded, but I assume that Trump's rationale for regime change in Venezuela is straight-forward, and absolutely in keeping with his neo-mercantalist world-view
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Maybe I'm being simple-minded, but I assume that Trump's rationale for regime change in Venezuela is straight-forward, and absolutely in keeping with his neo-mercantalist world-view
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Ma'am you were vice president of the United States of America
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ma'am you were vice president of the United States of America
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
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I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
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It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
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The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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You can watch "Shirley Valentine" in its entirety on YouTube. It's one of their free movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
Shirley Valentine. (Full Movie)
YouTube video by Brian King
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You can watch "Shirley Valentine" in its entirety on YouTube. It's one of their free movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
Ahh heck 💔
Rest in peace Pauline Collins.
Shirley Valentine will always be one of the best British movies of all time!
Shirley Valentine will always be one of the best British movies of all time!
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ahh heck 💔
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As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
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"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution
In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
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Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
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VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush
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Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
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I think it's so awesome that print and digital media is ran by evil people
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I think it's so awesome that print and digital media is ran by evil people
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The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires.
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Despite a ceasefire, Israel has demolished villages in southern Lebanon
Along Lebanon's border, Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire in the country's war with Hezbollah last year.
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires.
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
@4boat.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost ❤️🙏🏻
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@4boat.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost ❤️🙏🏻