WattsWrites
@wattswrites.bsky.social
Writer & PhD candidate: climate change & posthuman narrative structure. Love riding my bike & walking with my rescue dogs. Lives on unceded Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. Also on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Looking forward to heading to QLD tonight, meeting with people pissed off at the current state of our world and who want to do something about it. I’d encourage you to come along :)
July 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Looking forward to heading to QLD tonight, meeting with people pissed off at the current state of our world and who want to do something about it. I’d encourage you to come along :)
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$200 million more taxpayer $ revealed to have gone to big tech without transparency.
Govt is handing huge contracts to foreign tech giants like AWS, IBM & Microsoft without proper disclosure.
We need procurement reform.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8988716
Govt is handing huge contracts to foreign tech giants like AWS, IBM & Microsoft without proper disclosure.
We need procurement reform.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8988716
June 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
$200 million more taxpayer $ revealed to have gone to big tech without transparency.
Govt is handing huge contracts to foreign tech giants like AWS, IBM & Microsoft without proper disclosure.
We need procurement reform.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8988716
Govt is handing huge contracts to foreign tech giants like AWS, IBM & Microsoft without proper disclosure.
We need procurement reform.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8988716
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What's with that weird genocidal ethnostate that keeps mass-murdering civilians and expanding its borders into all its neighbouring states and if you talk about it you lose your job (or, in the US, end up disappeared into a concentration camp)?
Free Palestine. Melbourne
Free Palestine. Melbourne
June 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What's with that weird genocidal ethnostate that keeps mass-murdering civilians and expanding its borders into all its neighbouring states and if you talk about it you lose your job (or, in the US, end up disappeared into a concentration camp)?
Free Palestine. Melbourne
Free Palestine. Melbourne
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A major cause of rising house prices has been increased demand from investors.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
April 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A major cause of rising house prices has been increased demand from investors.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
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The US is in the grip of a full McCarthyist frenzy against anyone who "is or has ever been tempted to indicate sympathy for the Palestinian people", and Australia is not very far behind.
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The US is in the grip of a full McCarthyist frenzy against anyone who "is or has ever been tempted to indicate sympathy for the Palestinian people", and Australia is not very far behind.
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The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.
Stripping funding from the entire organisation because an artist spoke out against genocide.
Australians really need to shut the fuck up about Trump for a second while this shit is going on.
Australians really need to shut the fuck up about Trump for a second while this shit is going on.
March 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.
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And yet in Australia, parts of the F-35 jet being used to systematically kill thousands of Palestinians continue to get made, and workers around the world continue to provide labour to the West’s genocidal death machine. People wring their hands and ask “what can we do?” History is full of answers.
#OtD 22 Mar 1974 Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on plane parts from Pinochet's Chile. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing one night stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
March 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
And yet in Australia, parts of the F-35 jet being used to systematically kill thousands of Palestinians continue to get made, and workers around the world continue to provide labour to the West’s genocidal death machine. People wring their hands and ask “what can we do?” History is full of answers.
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YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.
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Really interesting article, this part stuck out particularly well to me:
March 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Really interesting article, this part stuck out particularly well to me:
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One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.
Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.
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"The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters – may at last be changing" said OI member 𝗗𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘂 from the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre.
theconversation.com/icarus-of-th...
theconversation.com/icarus-of-th...
‘Icarus of the deep’: how a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation
An unprecedented sighting of a “black seadevil” fish in surface waters triggered a global outpouring of empathy for the deep sea.
theconversation.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters – may at last be changing" said OI member 𝗗𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘂 from the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre.
theconversation.com/icarus-of-th...
theconversation.com/icarus-of-th...
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🇬🇱 "Anti-Trump" protest today in Greenland!
March 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🇬🇱 "Anti-Trump" protest today in Greenland!
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BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
March 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
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To again state the bleeding obvious (which seems to be my job atm), there's very noticeably an added layer of 'arghhh can I say this??' to writing about the world than there used to be. It's super not chill and I don't appreciate it.
March 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
To again state the bleeding obvious (which seems to be my job atm), there's very noticeably an added layer of 'arghhh can I say this??' to writing about the world than there used to be. It's super not chill and I don't appreciate it.
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Here's me. 'Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism'
Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism - The Shot
Across the Western world, criticising Israel's genocide in Palestine is being stamped down. News laws and a culture of fear make it hard.
theshot.net.au
March 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Here's me. 'Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism'
Saffioti doubles down on ripping up parkland for a racetrack despite a 16% swing away from Labor in Vic Park. Says the swing is because of the mayor’s representation of the community instead of the racetrack being a terrible idea. Greens get 22% in the seat.
March 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Saffioti doubles down on ripping up parkland for a racetrack despite a 16% swing away from Labor in Vic Park. Says the swing is because of the mayor’s representation of the community instead of the racetrack being a terrible idea. Greens get 22% in the seat.
It’d funny as hell if Baz didn’t get in.
March 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It’d funny as hell if Baz didn’t get in.
Bucketload of nonsense on Labor’s commitment to the environment from Matt Keogh.
March 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Bucketload of nonsense on Labor’s commitment to the environment from Matt Keogh.
I know election night coverage is usually a shitshow but that was just a full 5 minutes on the importance of door knocking in a campaign. Sheesh.
March 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I know election night coverage is usually a shitshow but that was just a full 5 minutes on the importance of door knocking in a campaign. Sheesh.
Journalist asks a sitting Labor MP, member of state government, with all the resources of the Labor party and incumbency, if it was hard going up against a ‘well resourced’ independent. Ridiculous. #wavotes
March 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Journalist asks a sitting Labor MP, member of state government, with all the resources of the Labor party and incumbency, if it was hard going up against a ‘well resourced’ independent. Ridiculous. #wavotes