Felicity Blake
@the-dove.bsky.social
Afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. Documentarian, Story-based Impact Strategist, Major Events.
I'm never touching Tasmanian salmon again. Great to see that @australiainstitute.org.au is escalating this to the UN, via an urgent appeal to UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee, asking them to send an investigative mission to assess the damage caused by Tasmanian salmon farms.
Eating salmon? You're killing Tasmania.
This Parliament has gutted our environment laws to protect an industry selling salmon from diseased pens & sending the Maugean skate extinct.
Our research shows what needs to be done: theaus.in/fix_enviro_l...
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This Parliament has gutted our environment laws to protect an industry selling salmon from diseased pens & sending the Maugean skate extinct.
Our research shows what needs to be done: theaus.in/fix_enviro_l...
Watch + share our TV ad with Richard Flanagan ⤵️
April 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I'm never touching Tasmanian salmon again. Great to see that @australiainstitute.org.au is escalating this to the UN, via an urgent appeal to UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee, asking them to send an investigative mission to assess the damage caused by Tasmanian salmon farms.
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uh yes there are "plenty of examples from the 20th century" and they're all catastrophes or atrocities
February 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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💀🏆 New record: over 124 journalists were killed in 18 countries last year, with Israel responsible for ~70% of those, making 2024 the deadliest year for reporters & media workers since the Committee to Protect Journalists commenced record-keeping more than three decades ago.
February 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
💀🏆 New record: over 124 journalists were killed in 18 countries last year, with Israel responsible for ~70% of those, making 2024 the deadliest year for reporters & media workers since the Committee to Protect Journalists commenced record-keeping more than three decades ago.
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This is not a novel observation, but I'm just struck by it again: the administration of "merit, not DEI" has put a series of white male teenagers in charge of many federal agencies with resumes that consist entirely of internships at the Heritage Foundation or SpaceX or wherever.
February 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is not a novel observation, but I'm just struck by it again: the administration of "merit, not DEI" has put a series of white male teenagers in charge of many federal agencies with resumes that consist entirely of internships at the Heritage Foundation or SpaceX or wherever.
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Art is supposed to be divisive. Creative Australia's decision to cancel an artist's life changing opportunity because people who never support the arts anyway might complain because of his early works is pathetic.
This was an incredibly cowardly decision by the Creative Australia board.
This was an incredibly cowardly decision by the Creative Australia board.
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Art is supposed to be divisive. Creative Australia's decision to cancel an artist's life changing opportunity because people who never support the arts anyway might complain because of his early works is pathetic.
This was an incredibly cowardly decision by the Creative Australia board.
This was an incredibly cowardly decision by the Creative Australia board.
A foreign-born billionaire who gave Trump's campaign $288 million is now seizing control of democratic institutions—not through force, but through systematic dismantling. Will Americans surrender their constitutional freedom to an unelected corporate dictator?
www.theframelab.org/the-betrayal...
www.theframelab.org/the-betrayal...
Elon Musk's DOGE attacks American freedom
Will Americans surrender their constitutional freedom to an unelected corporate dictator?
www.theframelab.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A foreign-born billionaire who gave Trump's campaign $288 million is now seizing control of democratic institutions—not through force, but through systematic dismantling. Will Americans surrender their constitutional freedom to an unelected corporate dictator?
www.theframelab.org/the-betrayal...
www.theframelab.org/the-betrayal...
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Can’t help but notice that the media seems more interested in antisemitic graffiti (because Dutton focuses on that), than they’re interested in literal Nazis parading the streets (because Dutton ignores that). Can’t help but notice Dutton sets the Australian media agenda.
February 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Can’t help but notice that the media seems more interested in antisemitic graffiti (because Dutton focuses on that), than they’re interested in literal Nazis parading the streets (because Dutton ignores that). Can’t help but notice Dutton sets the Australian media agenda.
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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
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
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
The ABC however, is happy to aggressively witch-hunt a Lebanese woman to the ends of the earth.
Why?
#LatouffvABC
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All this because @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social posted **NEWS** about what Human Rights Watch was saying.
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
Antoinette Lattouf at times drank a ‘cup of vodka’ to sleep, psychiatrist tells ABC unfair dismissal claim
Journalist tells federal court her drinking habits had gone from social to heavier in the year since she left the broadcaster
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
All this because @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social posted **NEWS** about what Human Rights Watch was saying.
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
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Everything is so depressing, I spent the weekend reading dystopian fantasy to escape.
January 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Everything is so depressing, I spent the weekend reading dystopian fantasy to escape.
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Jordanian officials have rejected US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Gaza and move 1.5 million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt, describing it as the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause”.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tbw364
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January 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Jordanian officials have rejected US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Gaza and move 1.5 million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt, describing it as the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause”.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tbw364
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tbw364
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So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So how’s it going so far?
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Scomo: Women problem?
Dutton: Hold my beer.
Dutton: Hold my beer.
January 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Scomo: Women problem?
Dutton: Hold my beer.
Dutton: Hold my beer.
🇦🇺 If Australians don’t think it could happen here, look: it’s already happening. Here’s Actual Voldemort Peter Dutton, on an obscure manosphere podcast, parroting Trumpist propaganda, and being amplified by the corrupt Murdoch media.
January 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
🇦🇺 If Australians don’t think it could happen here, look: it’s already happening. Here’s Actual Voldemort Peter Dutton, on an obscure manosphere podcast, parroting Trumpist propaganda, and being amplified by the corrupt Murdoch media.
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Watch out ladies, the DEI culture war is heading for our shores
January 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Watch out ladies, the DEI culture war is heading for our shores
Chilling observations on #documentary under MAGA from Nicole Laporte at @theankler.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Chilling observations on #documentary under MAGA from Nicole Laporte at @theankler.bsky.social
@grogsgamut.bsky.social in the Guardian today, explaining why Aussies need to vote like our kids’ lives depend on it… because they do. ENOUGH with the fossil fuels already. 🔥🧯
January 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
@grogsgamut.bsky.social in the Guardian today, explaining why Aussies need to vote like our kids’ lives depend on it… because they do. ENOUGH with the fossil fuels already. 🔥🧯
Do you, too, have a nasty case of Hollywood Brain Rot? No Authoritarian Daddy can messianically save us now. WE are the heroes we’ve been waiting for. Unless Pedro Pascal is going to fly in on Falkor, we are going to have to save our own asses from both climate change AND authoritarian oligarchs.
LA fire fuels NYT writer's 'dollop of despotism' fantasy
'This infantile "I want a big daddy figure to reassure me" attitude goes a long way to explaining how Trump got a second term.'
www.theframelab.org
January 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Do you, too, have a nasty case of Hollywood Brain Rot? No Authoritarian Daddy can messianically save us now. WE are the heroes we’ve been waiting for. Unless Pedro Pascal is going to fly in on Falkor, we are going to have to save our own asses from both climate change AND authoritarian oligarchs.
@richardrushfield.bsky.social of Hollywood trade blog THE ANKLER nailed what I was thinking today. Is anyone driving the bus anymore? Read the full op ed at the link on Richard’s feed.
January 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@richardrushfield.bsky.social of Hollywood trade blog THE ANKLER nailed what I was thinking today. Is anyone driving the bus anymore? Read the full op ed at the link on Richard’s feed.
How authoritarians, fascists and white supremacists try to shore up their “dominance” by silencing and eliminating those who threaten them:
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
January 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
How authoritarians, fascists and white supremacists try to shore up their “dominance” by silencing and eliminating those who threaten them:
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
Great reporting from Australia’s ABC storylab on a horrifically abusive former “mental asylum” in Queensland. Its prisoners were women with postnatal depression, epilepsy, alcohol addiction, mental illnesses, or who were simply unhoused. A chilling reminder: compassionate understanding is crucial.
'Death will hunt you down': Inside Queensland's house of horrors
In the late 80s, Debbie Manson was detained in Osler House, an adult ward for women judged criminally insane. For the first time, our camera crew has been given exclusive access to capture this fading...
www.abc.net.au
January 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Great reporting from Australia’s ABC storylab on a horrifically abusive former “mental asylum” in Queensland. Its prisoners were women with postnatal depression, epilepsy, alcohol addiction, mental illnesses, or who were simply unhoused. A chilling reminder: compassionate understanding is crucial.