Ruth Elder
@relder.bsky.social
Retired, former psychiatric nurse and academic. Living in Brisbane. Still trying to figure the world out.
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Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.
Emails show government 'quietly' removed F-35 website at start of Gaza war
Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.
www.abc.net.au
October 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.
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I like it. How do we get this to happen?
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I like it. How do we get this to happen?
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Please share widely and stop the hopium filled gaslighting
A serious rebuttal to shit science‼️
Authored by @putrinolab.bsky.social and my incredible WHN Long Cövid Crew. Co-signed by a plethora of other experts... You'll know them all off you're following Long Cövid.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Authored by @putrinolab.bsky.social and my incredible WHN Long Cövid Crew. Co-signed by a plethora of other experts... You'll know them all off you're following Long Cövid.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope in the form of evidence-based interventions, not opinions.
www.bmj.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Please share widely and stop the hopium filled gaslighting
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Truly enlightened societies would give everyone the legal right to assisted living before the legal right to assisted dying
November 30, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Truly enlightened societies would give everyone the legal right to assisted living before the legal right to assisted dying
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2 common threads of the downfall of all eras (French, Russian, Roman etc) are inequality and lack of resources.
Labor refuse to address this - and LNP are making it worse. #auspol
Labor refuse to address this - and LNP are making it worse. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... 'Our research shows that political breakdown, from the Roman Empire to the Russian revolution, follows a clear pattern: workers’ wages stagnate, while elites multiply' #AUSPOL take note of the Coalition's shift from its traditional base to battlers a la GOP
The deep historical forces that explain Trump’s win
Our research shows that political breakdown, from the Roman Empire to the Russian revolution, follows a clear pattern: workers’ wages stagnate, while elites multiply
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
2 common threads of the downfall of all eras (French, Russian, Roman etc) are inequality and lack of resources.
Labor refuse to address this - and LNP are making it worse. #auspol
Labor refuse to address this - and LNP are making it worse. #auspol
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Can you cook?
November 24, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Can you cook?
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This was also on ABCTV.
Asking for money to give to our fellow Australians so they can have a Christmas.
While there is a short term & immediate need - one of the best things we can all do is stop voting for major party politicians who create the need for charities like this. #auspol
Asking for money to give to our fellow Australians so they can have a Christmas.
While there is a short term & immediate need - one of the best things we can all do is stop voting for major party politicians who create the need for charities like this. #auspol
Listening to the cricket on our ABC, an ad for donations to a fund to support poor . . . Australians.
How can this be in 2024?
Australians needing help to buy groceries. How can this be?
A shameful state of affairs. A failure of government, past and present.
#AusPol
How can this be in 2024?
Australians needing help to buy groceries. How can this be?
A shameful state of affairs. A failure of government, past and present.
#AusPol
November 22, 2024 at 8:52 AM
This was also on ABCTV.
Asking for money to give to our fellow Australians so they can have a Christmas.
While there is a short term & immediate need - one of the best things we can all do is stop voting for major party politicians who create the need for charities like this. #auspol
Asking for money to give to our fellow Australians so they can have a Christmas.
While there is a short term & immediate need - one of the best things we can all do is stop voting for major party politicians who create the need for charities like this. #auspol
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No matter how dark life can seem, brilliant intelligence is always a sparkling light.
Exhibit A.
www.thenerdreich.com/thoughts-on-...
Exhibit A.
www.thenerdreich.com/thoughts-on-...
President Elon Musk's tech takeover of US government
Trump's victory in the 2024 election begins a new era for tech's political extremists. Right wing Silicon Valley has merged with MAGA
www.thenerdreich.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
No matter how dark life can seem, brilliant intelligence is always a sparkling light.
Exhibit A.
www.thenerdreich.com/thoughts-on-...
Exhibit A.
www.thenerdreich.com/thoughts-on-...
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You’ll be shocked to hear that Labor’s reform plans (w Coalition support) won’t undermine their own corporate or union donations regimes, but will drastically curtail the teals and independents
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Labor unveils its plan to end political 'arms race', with clamps on Clive Palmer, Climate 200
The Albanese government is pushing for the biggest shake-up of funding and disclosure laws in more than a decade.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
You’ll be shocked to hear that Labor’s reform plans (w Coalition support) won’t undermine their own corporate or union donations regimes, but will drastically curtail the teals and independents
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Dear Mr BlueSky,
I hope you are willing to consider my terrific idea of letting users make a Starter Fax
Yours sincerely
Tones
I hope you are willing to consider my terrific idea of letting users make a Starter Fax
Yours sincerely
Tones
November 12, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Dear Mr BlueSky,
I hope you are willing to consider my terrific idea of letting users make a Starter Fax
Yours sincerely
Tones
I hope you are willing to consider my terrific idea of letting users make a Starter Fax
Yours sincerely
Tones
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Here's my latest for The Shot.
The insanity of America's choice and the grim consequences for it and the rest of us.
#auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The insanity of America's choice and the grim consequences for it and the rest of us.
#auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
America, what have you done? - The Shot
These next two months will be the calm before the devastating storm and no doubt filled with hand-wringing and finger-pointing as to who is responsible for the Trump redux.
theshot.net.au
November 12, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Here's my latest for The Shot.
The insanity of America's choice and the grim consequences for it and the rest of us.
#auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The insanity of America's choice and the grim consequences for it and the rest of us.
#auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.