Jacqui Thorburn
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Jacqui Thorburn
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A few of my favourite things: dancing, weaving, scrabble, politics, wandering, crochet, choir, books - all kinds, de Stijl and Bauhaus 🟥🔹🟡 🔲
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If Australia was smart we’d be throwing wads of cash into vaccine development and production.

(Not confident we are smart.)
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Wilcox nails it
February 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Bezos' talk about "personal liberties" reminds me of a very popular thread I once wrote over on the Bad Place, about libertarians and what they mean by "freedom."

threadreaderapp.com/thread/12845...
Thread by @drvolts on Thread Reader App
@drvolts: 1. All right, fine, I'm waiting for a frozen pizza to cook, might as well rant about libertarianism in the meantime. I wanna focus not on the psychology of adherents (though, as one of the a...
threadreaderapp.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Just a week after announcing award-winning Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s pick for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has capitulated to media and political pressure and dumped him.
February 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I note with extreme interest, the ABC has spent millions settling cases in the past few years with white men that they clearly have not wanted to enter into an open court battle with.

The ABC however, is happy to aggressively witch-hunt a Lebanese woman to the ends of the earth.

Why?

#LatouffvABC
February 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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I just finished my very first book club meeting as an author, (I've done it as a reader, but usually talking too much at meet-ups & pretending I've read the book)

Thank you so, so much to 9 fascinating, enthusiastic, warm and witty women who made the entire experience so joyful.

xxxx

#Gunnawah
Certainly Sounds Like Us GIF
ALT: Certainly Sounds Like Us GIF
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January 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Can't help but notice that the four arguably most articulate and resonant voices coming out of the US at the moment, resisting the new regime with passion, wisdom and courage, are women.

Mariann Edgar Budde

Tanya Chutkin

Jennifer Rubin

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I’ll be on David Astle’s ABC Melbourne outside broadcast really soon.
I’m at the tennis and no one will give me a hit.
January 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Turns out my partner was right. This IS absolutely brilliant
December 30, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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Can we hit 5,000 views on my new free YouTube special, “I’ll Be The Judge Of That” by Christmas Day?

I reckon we can!

Please help me spread the word and give it a watch today if you haven’t yet!

youtu.be/KGfwjaW9wKU
Kirsty Webeck - I’ll Be the Judge of That (FULL COMEDY SPECIAL)
YouTube video by Comedy Republic
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December 23, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️
December 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
December 1, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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"I don't want to be influenced: I want to be informed."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/intermission
Intermission
Tired of the Trump Show? Time to change the way you watch.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:03 PM
December 1, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Jane Austen toaster settings:

• Indisposed
• In a small way
• No better than he ought to be
• Discernibly young
• Very nearly pretty
• Five thousand a year
November 27, 2024 at 1:28 PM