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Kimberley Crofts 🍉
@ktcita.bsky.social
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Just transitions, decarbonisation, and community-led planning researcher. Strategic and service designer, design activist, native plant gardener, sea swimmer, music lover. She/her Ph.D.

https://www.kimberleycrofts.com/
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So looking forward to reading this, especially Wilkerson’s analysis of how caste intersected with the rise of the Nazis. That’s going to be quite a read given the recent neo-Nazi marches in Sydney and Melbourne, and the msm’s inability to comprehend how rich and educated people can be nazis.
Book cover with white text on top of an old photo, I think taken by Bruce Davidson of the civil rights march in Selma. The text reads Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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My local library got a copy of Extraction from @triofrancos.bsky.social — it starts with a description of the Atacama desert and salt flats in Chile and how a colonial narrative of emptiness justified extraction of mineral wealth. Made me dig out an old photo album from 2002 when I was there.
Book cover showing lithium mining ponds in a desert. The title of the book Extraction runs vertically from top to bottom in white text. The author’s name and subtitle ‘the frontiers of green capitalism’ is in yellow text to match the colour of one of the ponds. Behind the book are some blurred out travel pics of me in the Salar de Atacama
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Just picked up Neneh Cherry’s autobiography at the local library. Very excited to delve in.
Cover of Neneh Cherry’s book titled A Thousand Threads. The design is a black and white portrait of a younger Neneh (the one from her first album cover I think), and her name is on top in white all caps. The title is in hot pink.
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Today at the Whitehouse
Film still of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy showing the main character Arthur Dent lying down in front of a bulldozer as the foreman stands over him negotiating. Despite his best efforts, Arthur could not in fact stop the destruction of his home (and earth) to make way for the hyper-space bypass.
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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And how’s this for some language politics. Australian media take note.
Screenshot reads: A NOTE ON LANGUAGE: In The Continent's reporting on the ceasefire in Gaza, we have used the term "captives" to refer both to the Palestinians who were (and remain) held in Israeli jails and the Israelis who were captured by Hamas on 7 October 2023. This is to avoid the value judgments inherent in the terms "prisoners" and "hostages".
October 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Stephen Bali (ALP) in the second reading quotes from the 1979 Bill readings, yet missed out on introducing this classic
Text reads: Mr A. G. STEWART (Manly) [4.34]: I support the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill and cognate bills that are before the House. This legislative package provides an opportunity to approach the 1980's with a fresh outlook on environmental and planning matters. I was surprised when the honourable member for Pittwater complained about lack of time to study the bills. I know of his interest in these matters, but it seems that he did not have time to study the bills on Friday because he was out in his yacht. Whether he had the bills with him I do not know. Mr Smith: It was not my yacht.
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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#FreePalestine rally on Gadigal land. Frogs against genocide, fascism, and the colonial project.
A person in a crowd wearing a green hat with frog ears holds a handmade sign that says Free Palestine.
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Today’s book pile brought to you by Healey, Jacobs, Winograd & Flores, Nussbaum, Menzies, and MacFarlane. I am loving this research life.
Book spines for Collaborative planning by Healey, Jane Jacobs famous book on the death and life of American cities, a blue spine of Winograd and Flores Understanding Computers and Cognition’. A brown and upside down volume of Martha Nussbaum’a tome on the social contract, then a small edition of Pam Menzies’ social history of Port Kembla and the glossary of landscapes from Robert MacFarlane.
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.
Screenshot of a page from the Explanation of Intended Effect document from the Port Kembla Land Transformation project. There is a paragraph of text relating to “Local Contributions” and then a URL at the end where they’ve not taken off the UTM source, in this case ChatGPT.
October 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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This 26kg heffalump just got a bindi in her paw and made me carry her 400m home from the park even after I removed said bindi. No need to do a weights session today then. Thanks pup.
A brown and white American staffie is looking at the camera with a forlorn look but don’t believe it, she’s a big sook
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This book is really something
Cover of the book Is a River Alive by Robert Macfarlane. The cover is green and blue with swirls and eddies of rivers intertwined beneath the title. The design is reminiscent of the Frick maps of the Mississippi that trace the multiple paths of the river over time.
September 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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A text comparison of legislative objects. Please DM for a pdf.
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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How lovely are these photos of sea urchins? Taken by marine scientist Dr Anders Hallan. Some of his photos have appeared in National Geographic and now he’s making prints.

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Photos of green coloured sea urchins shells on a black background
September 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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March and rally today in Gadigal land to celebrate First Nations culture, resistance, and sovereignty. Organised by the Blak Caucus in response to the nazi rallies a few weeks ago. The smoke is from the sacred fire. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
Two Aboriginal flags fly in the centre of a crowd at a rally. There’s smoke in the sky from the sacred fire.
September 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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March organised by Blak Caucus against the continued rise of racism, fascism and white supremacy, the attack by Neo-Nazis on Camp Sovereignty and anti-immigration attacks. Gadigal Country will gather on September 13, 12pm at Hyde Park to make it clear: sovereignty was never ceded.
Poster in bold, black, yellow and red type to mimic the Aboriginal flag. It says SOVEREIGNTY NEVER CEDED in large red type on the left and then smaller type on the right describes the march itself. It says 13TH SEPTEMBER HYDE PARK SYDNEY 12PM RACISM and FASCISM NOT WELCOMED RALLY & MARCH NO TO NAZIS, NO WHITE SUPREMACY STAND WITH CAMP SOVEREIGNTY CORROBOREE ORGANISED BY BLAK CAUCUS
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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It’s the wettest Sydney has been since the weather station opened in 1858. Thank goodness for the modern convenience of covered netball courts!
A medium sized dog is under a large, curved roof that covers asphalt netball courts. The image is black and white and for some unknown reason, the dog is smiling at the cloudy sky like a maniac.
August 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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These “Bourgeois Anglos for Palestine” will be similarly surprised
A sign at a protest reads “Bourgeois Anglos for Palestine”
August 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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So many people marching for Palestine that we didn’t even make it across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Way over 100,000 people, demonstrating just how out of step our politicians are with the wishes of the people. #FreePalestine
Handmade sign saying FREE PALESTINE in black letters with a Palestinian flag and watermelon. Behind it is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is raining and there are many umbrellas.
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Main menu. No teams, no riders.
Screen snap of the main menu from the Tour de France app which is inexplicably shithouse this year
July 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Thanks to the person who recommended this to me. Loving it from the first sentence. “More and More and More: An all-consuming history of energy” from Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonization
A yellow book cover with hand cut style typography that reads “More and More and More: An all-consuming history of energy” from Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. There is a tiny illustration of an oil well sitting atop one of the MORE words.
June 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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This is what the map look like.
A complex diagram that links a few hundred UK jazz artists to one another
June 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The sails of the Sydney Opera House were lifted off last night for the @ezracollective.bsky.social gig. Always always such joy. My heart and soul are full.
June 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Like this? Just did it with my phone, so excuse the rawness
The classic sex pistols album “Never Mind the Bollocks” but the band name has been changed to “ Beach Boys”
April 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Did you see this? Creator unknown
Zelensky sits across from Trump who is wearing a blue suit AT A FUCKING FUNERAL. There is a speech bubble placed above Zelensky’s head saying “why can’t you wear a black suit? Do you own a black suit?”
April 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens’ Senator, addresses the crowd at the Sydney Pro-Palestine rally today. She stressed the importance of voting for pro-climate, pro-social justice, and anti-genocide candidates next Saturday. #FreePalestine
Mehreen Faruqi stands on a flat bed truck wearing a green and white keffiyeh around her shoulders. Behind her is a Palestinian and a Lebanese flag.
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM