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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE is terrorizing our city and our communities. They’ve just shot someone with a five-year-old in the car. There is no justification for this or their presence in New York. ICE out of NYC. #abolishice. Image via @gothamist.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sending sunshine and sea air from Victoria, Australia.

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"What Australia would rather not talk about" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260910-wha…

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fair warning. On Insiders Sunday Morning, David Spears will have Angus Taylor on to rehash an Aussie favourite, wog bashing. Started by NSW in 1815 & accelerated in 1831 by UKs Emigration Commission to relieve overpopulation & social unrest at 'home' while supplying free labour to the colonies... 2/

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s been a real magnet for birds too

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The garden is full of butterflies and native stingless bees

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spring in particular is full on colour and fragrance

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Six years ago I put cardboard and mulch on the lawn and transformed it into a native garden

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I grieved for the Internet, I grieved for Social Media, now I grieve for universities, and their communities. This is all part of a mass-dismantling of social connection (and university leaders have been blithe to their part). What does that leave? We all become selfish? Not why I work at a uni…

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My first go at making Ambade or Indian hog plum curry. I salted the peeled plums and left them for half an hour. Heated up oil and added mustard seeds and curry leaves. Added the ambade and water and simmered it for 10 minutes. Adding a masala paste of coconut, green chilli and turmeric.

Simmering the ambade with mustard seeds and curry leaves

My haul from Dandenong. Mango, guava, and ambade.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Property damage and graffiti, directed at a corporation that manufactures lethal weaponry, no humans harmed or endangered. “Terror”.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Surprise, surprise. "There is no indication at all that those people currently planning for the future role of Northern Australia in future wars...have given any consideration to the views of the resident Indigenous communities whose country they are dealing with."

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"...the current political climate and rhetoric about immigration from the far right has a part to play in the increase in racism experienced by NHS staff. "

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It literally takes a village to be a person. No one is self-made.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hmmm just like all kinds of care work huh? "Australia is wealthy and has a huge variety of species. Almost half the economy has a moderate to very high reliance on nature. But spending on conservation is very low."

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Having seized the ground beneath Black communities, the regime restricted the knowledge and qualifications they needed to challenge white command over land, labour and national resources."

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"South Africa knows, all too well, how oppression weaponises education, because apartheid used schooling to control Black possibility..." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"What is uncivil is a country that recruits migrants to staff its hospitals and milk its cows, and recruits students to keep its universities solvent, then allows politicians to campaign on their vilification."

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters the person saying it. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

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We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Chinese people may have supplied labour, they were denied citizenship...voting rights, pensions, and welfare benefits. This is the New Zealand “democracy” that Winston Peters is reviving. The kind of democracy which is racist and limited to the “right” people"

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Reading, expanding our thinking, our hearts and our worlds.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Want a peek at the third edition? I've contributed two chapters. www.ruthdesouza.com/2026/07/22/t...

Cover of the third edition of Cultural Safety in Aotearoa NZ

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Crimson rosella enjoying Eremophila flowers in our backyard.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is a crucial read about One Nation and Queensland, anti-Indigenous racism, the complicity of settlers of colour, the licence for overt anti-Indigenous racism post referendum and more. www.blackwitness.com/p/one-nation...

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One Nation is not new or unprecedented. It is a product of Queensland's specific brand of anti-Indigenous racism

Even weeds need specific conditions to grow, and it just so happens that One Nation thrives particularly well in the blood-soaked soil of Queensland.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is horrendous. What safeguards are in place?

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It means a lot to have been invited to write for each edition of this book on Cultural Safety. I've written a chapter about Ethics, and another about Migration. If you are a health professional, do order a copy for your library. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

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Discover Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand, 3rd Edition, Dianne Wepa on Cambridge Aspire website

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I get no commission, but these Aldi dumplings were delicious and took less than fifteen minutes. I made an easy dipping sauce with 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp rice vinegar (or Chinese black vinegar), ½ tsp sugar, ½ tsp sesame oil, and 1 tsp chili oil and voila!

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Tonight’s professional development with the Australian College of Nursing.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

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Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I thought about this hard when recording four series of my podcast. I came to the conclusion that people were resourceful and could find out what words in an unfamiliar language might mean. Whether by context or searching.

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