Ben Ellis
@benellis.bsky.social
Playwright. Dad. Worker. ADHD late dx.
Fingers crossed for hope itself.
Pronouns he/him
Fingers crossed for hope itself.
Pronouns he/him
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The tariff negotiations are not going well.
April 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The tariff negotiations are not going well.
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Mutual obligations have no policy basis, no economic justification. They are just exercises in punishment and cruelty
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Welfare recipients told to perform mutual obligations as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bears down on Queensland
Disability employment provider Help asked jobseekers to perform telephone appointments before later clarifying they were voluntary
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Mutual obligations have no policy basis, no economic justification. They are just exercises in punishment and cruelty
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I read about Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra for the first time today. How gemüsing.
I’ll get my coat
I’ll get my coat
March 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I read about Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra for the first time today. How gemüsing.
I’ll get my coat
I’ll get my coat
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There is still a huge number of climate and energy (particularly energy) people who haven't skipped a single step in propping up X, weeks after Musk throwing Nazi salutes and in the midst of Musk killing the US gov't from the inside
Why are people still using Twitter?
It's completely confounding.
It's completely confounding.
February 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
There is still a huge number of climate and energy (particularly energy) people who haven't skipped a single step in propping up X, weeks after Musk throwing Nazi salutes and in the midst of Musk killing the US gov't from the inside
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#auspol IMPORTANT!:
We've raised about $50k — However Advance, Atlas and their fossil fuel buddies have about $15m in the bank. DM me for the Bank Details if you want to avoid the Raisely fees
We have raised about 10% of our target in just a few days! If you can share @itsnotarace2025.bsky.social with your friends and family and anyone with some spare cash to make memes against fossil fuel funded candidates!
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February 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#auspol IMPORTANT!:
I think it’s really important that my voice is heard. But can anybody give me a few topics?
February 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think it’s really important that my voice is heard. But can anybody give me a few topics?
One thing we could do is to stop framing sex as something that is enacted upon others. Too often we refer in jokes or conversation to assault as sex just because it involves genitals. We need to remember it’s only sex when everybody is conscious and active
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:04 AM
One thing we could do is to stop framing sex as something that is enacted upon others. Too often we refer in jokes or conversation to assault as sex just because it involves genitals. We need to remember it’s only sex when everybody is conscious and active
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My daughter (16) got her new 'locked down' laptop from her school today.
It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.
I don't think this social media ban is going to work.
It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.
I don't think this social media ban is going to work.
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 AM
My daughter (16) got her new 'locked down' laptop from her school today.
It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.
I don't think this social media ban is going to work.
It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.
I don't think this social media ban is going to work.
Once people stop clutching at pearls, the observation that current drug policies simply do harm is unavoidable. Criminalisation via drug policy leads to even more racist policing and stigma that leads to clandestine and unsafe usage with substances that could otherwise be much much safer
Australia's largest specialist medical society has called for a number of illicit drugs to be decriminalised across the country.
Decriminalisation, regulated cannabis trials, more pill testing: Peak medical body's demands for drug policy reform
Australia's largest specialist medical society has called for a number of illicit drugs to be decriminalised across the country.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Once people stop clutching at pearls, the observation that current drug policies simply do harm is unavoidable. Criminalisation via drug policy leads to even more racist policing and stigma that leads to clandestine and unsafe usage with substances that could otherwise be much much safer
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Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"
Australia's duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed - The Shot
Parliamentary politics cannot save us - but we might be able to save parliamentary politics. The ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted.
theshot.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"
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I like my answer to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social’s questions, so I’m going to repost it so I can perhaps find it again. #workingmemorythatdoesnotwork
Using tech as a shortcut to goals across obstacles such as people has a history going way back. Cannons, for instance. Or even the atomic bomb. Thinking takes more energy than emotive impulses, and often tech removes the need for thinking, so, in Freudian terms, it’s arming the Id (or Ego at best)
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 PM
I like my answer to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social’s questions, so I’m going to repost it so I can perhaps find it again. #workingmemorythatdoesnotwork
Fantastic. Here’s a list of my own hopefully good weird:
Theatre and playwriting
Being late diagnosed with ADHD
Fatherhood (and non-birthing parent) research
Attachment research (I’m a registered Circle of Security practitioner)
Born in Oz, lived in London now Melbourne again
Survived epyema
Theatre and playwriting
Being late diagnosed with ADHD
Fatherhood (and non-birthing parent) research
Attachment research (I’m a registered Circle of Security practitioner)
Born in Oz, lived in London now Melbourne again
Survived epyema
Stop being the bad kind of weird. This place is for the good kind of weird only. 🦋
November 26, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Fantastic. Here’s a list of my own hopefully good weird:
Theatre and playwriting
Being late diagnosed with ADHD
Fatherhood (and non-birthing parent) research
Attachment research (I’m a registered Circle of Security practitioner)
Born in Oz, lived in London now Melbourne again
Survived epyema
Theatre and playwriting
Being late diagnosed with ADHD
Fatherhood (and non-birthing parent) research
Attachment research (I’m a registered Circle of Security practitioner)
Born in Oz, lived in London now Melbourne again
Survived epyema
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Small joys: our local creek, once feared wrecked by illicit chemical dumping, is serenaded by the Australian spring’s first frogs. This particular indigenous specie’s songs are more percussive, a sort of pizzicato “ponk!” than a Gorecki long note. 1/
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Small joys: our local creek, once feared wrecked by illicit chemical dumping, is serenaded by the Australian spring’s first frogs. This particular indigenous specie’s songs are more percussive, a sort of pizzicato “ponk!” than a Gorecki long note. 1/
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Public service announcement! 📢Woke up early so made a playwrights starter pack! Far from exhaustive so please message me if you’d like to be added❤️✍🏽 go.bsky.app/MrCbp2Q #theatre #playwights
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Public service announcement! 📢Woke up early so made a playwrights starter pack! Far from exhaustive so please message me if you’d like to be added❤️✍🏽 go.bsky.app/MrCbp2Q #theatre #playwights
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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please stop QT'ing trolls to dunk on them. fucking learn something and just block them.
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM
please stop QT'ing trolls to dunk on them. fucking learn something and just block them.
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HOW DO YOU GET YOUR PLAY ON? This was the top question when Support Playwrights ran a #NoSillyQuestions initiative. We spoke to 12 brilliant playwrights & here's what they had to say! Writers incl #ChrisBush, @tommortonsmith.bsky.social, @hannykha.bsky.social .....
open.substack.com/pub/supportp...
open.substack.com/pub/supportp...
HOW DO I GET MY PLAY ON? Twelve Playwrights answer.
We chatted to some brilliant playwrights, asking them to share their experiences of getting plays to production, and what advice they would give to others. Here's what they said!
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
HOW DO YOU GET YOUR PLAY ON? This was the top question when Support Playwrights ran a #NoSillyQuestions initiative. We spoke to 12 brilliant playwrights & here's what they had to say! Writers incl #ChrisBush, @tommortonsmith.bsky.social, @hannykha.bsky.social .....
open.substack.com/pub/supportp...
open.substack.com/pub/supportp...
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Those stratospheric billionaires eh?
They just don't seem to want workers to have the right to strike
Who'd have thought it?
No historical precedent of the super rich trying to deny others' rights ....oh hang on
They just don't seem to want workers to have the right to strike
Who'd have thought it?
No historical precedent of the super rich trying to deny others' rights ....oh hang on
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Those stratospheric billionaires eh?
They just don't seem to want workers to have the right to strike
Who'd have thought it?
No historical precedent of the super rich trying to deny others' rights ....oh hang on
They just don't seem to want workers to have the right to strike
Who'd have thought it?
No historical precedent of the super rich trying to deny others' rights ....oh hang on