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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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...
thebigissue.org.au
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
www.asauthors.org.au/news/its-not...
www.asauthors.org.au/news/its-not...
‘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.
www.asauthors.org.au
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!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...
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...
www.euroveg.eu
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.
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You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.
Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.
Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.
Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.
Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.
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slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
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If Penny Wong is serious about the Australian govt wanting to *do something* to stop the #GazaGenocide,
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If Penny Wong is serious about the Australian govt wanting to *do something* to stop the #GazaGenocide,
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol
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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
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Look at academia giving me a little hope
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Look at academia giving me a little hope
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Definitely one of the cuter and more chonky flying foxes, if not the cutest and chonkiest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Definitely one of the cuter and more chonky flying foxes, if not the cutest and chonkiest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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So what you do is, you just scroll. With your thumb. Yeah, like that. And then your brain lives 8 very stressful lifetimes in the span of 30 minutes. I do it like 10 times a day. I’ve lost the ability to make eye contact with my loved ones.
September 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So what you do is, you just scroll. With your thumb. Yeah, like that. And then your brain lives 8 very stressful lifetimes in the span of 30 minutes. I do it like 10 times a day. I’ve lost the ability to make eye contact with my loved ones.
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There’s so much evil in the world right now. So much in your face obvious evil that this unforgivable omnicidal act by Murray Watt and the ALP probably slides below the surface. But the impact of this on countless people and species, and First Nations culture, outweighs much of the rest. Despicable.
Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art
Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There’s so much evil in the world right now. So much in your face obvious evil that this unforgivable omnicidal act by Murray Watt and the ALP probably slides below the surface. But the impact of this on countless people and species, and First Nations culture, outweighs much of the rest. Despicable.
I am not usually excited about podcasts but I love the concept of this one (helps that I am currently obsessed with revolutions, particularly the French one). Ep 1 was great!
Meet the Revolutionaries and Ratbags who shaped the world as we know it!
Was hugely fun to co-host this new history podcast with Francis Leach looking at some of history's great rebels and revolutionaries, and to discuss what this history means for us today
Was hugely fun to co-host this new history podcast with Francis Leach looking at some of history's great rebels and revolutionaries, and to discuss what this history means for us today
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I am not usually excited about podcasts but I love the concept of this one (helps that I am currently obsessed with revolutions, particularly the French one). Ep 1 was great!
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Once there was a new lady at the dog park and when I started talking to her she was like “I’m actually just dog-sitting for this German Shepherd because the owner is at Burning Man. The dog’s name is Hegemony.” This is the story I tell when people ask me what San Francisco is like.
August 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Once there was a new lady at the dog park and when I started talking to her she was like “I’m actually just dog-sitting for this German Shepherd because the owner is at Burning Man. The dog’s name is Hegemony.” This is the story I tell when people ask me what San Francisco is like.