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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Assuming this quote will be on Zelensky's campaign posters whenever there eventually is a presidential election in Ukraine www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

He does understand they're walking out for a day or even just a few hours, right, not dropping out of school

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"extensive research and feedback" I bet if they'd asked any customer in their focus groups, would you prefer to have your bag weighed at the gate or would you prefer for EVERYONE to just effectively pay an overweight baggage fee, they would not have voted for the latter

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In 2032 the US will tell us they don't have any Virginias to spare and won't be giving us any, and then they'll generously offer to continue to base THEIR Virginias in Stirling and frame it as being for our protection 🙄 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ah cool. So normally they just don't really know what their models are doing as a matter of general practice and it takes something unusual for them to actually read the logs. Seems fine.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I know we've all heard this before but I do actually feel like it's quite important to not normalise the President of the United States publicly announcing his intent to commit war crimes. This is not normal.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The one-two punch of "we're going to dismantle the International Criminal Court" and "we plan to commit war crimes"

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

US: 48 hours of massive firing US President: The ceasefire is over Media: The ceasefire is under strain

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Ceasefire terms are cloudy amid haze of smoke from all the firing"

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Good point here from Sam Roggeveen @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/defence...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is just an insult to the public's intelligence.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On 1-10 the scale of "reassurances which are not reassuring", this is about a 14

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Australia should be thinking about this pretty hard. Easy to foresee that in any US-China war, the US would rapidly run down its stockpiles. We, if dependent on the same US manufacturers, would see our own orders kicked to the back of the queue at the exact moment we need them most. archive.is/BZj72

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

And if they can get their money into a few Sydney mansions before Tranche 2 FINALLY comes into effect July, which I'm sure they can, they're home and hosed because real estate agents here are currently not regulated under anti-money laundering laws www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A million dollars won't guarantee you an indoor toilet in Sydney.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Three metres wide. 'Unliveable'. Over a million dollars. The real estate agent says it was a bargain. We are so cooked. www.smh.com.au/property/new...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Mostly India and China but there are a few others sprinkled in there

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is fascinating. I've never seen AIS details changed to message "don't hit us we're X country" on a scale like this before.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Timely. Are we talking about making sure our spending is effective and value for money? No, only about spending more to hit assorted arbitrary benchmarks. The metric has become the measure and it is fundamentally not a good way of measuring what we're (presumably) trying to achieve.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It gets better. We, the entire rest of the world which buys fuel shipped through the Strait, will get to pay money to the Iranian regime *in compensation* for the damage the US and Israel have done. Slow clap. 10/10 no notes. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Wait so the upshot of Trump's war is that Iran gets to continue running its toll-booth in the Strait (and now Oman does too)? And they get to go on selling their now-unsanctioned oil at wildly inflated prices? Dealmaker in Chief really knocked it out of the park on this one.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Anti-vax, erectile dysfunction and the Epoch Times all in one go, this is a whole new level of... something

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Every damn time, it's genuinely wild this keeps working www.news.com.au/finance/mark...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The article really is every bit as openly arguing for ethnic cleansing as the tweet made it sound www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is utterly unworkable at scale or for any sustained period of time. www.ft.com/content/bb6a...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm so curious whether he knows that his timeline is used to advertise cures for erectile dysfunction. I'm betting he has no idea, and I would pay money to be in the room when someone told him.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are drones falling out of the sky and hitting (presumably) ground staff at Dubai Airport and they're not even stopping flights? WTF?

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Similarly, we should think about the arm twisting which parts of the US administration are trying to do to the Gulf states to make them actively participate in a war which they didn’t start, don’t want and weren’t even warned about in advance.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Actually at least four, two more just turned on their transponders

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Two of these headed from Tel Aviv into the Gulf right now

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Seems like the most air traffic over Oman/Saudi/little bit of the UAE since the start of the war. Everyone's decided this is their moment to get in and out, for some reason?

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This looks to be pretty much exactly what they're doing

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I guess you could cut through Saudi and Egypt like this maaaybe? You'd have to avoid Yemen and hope that flying over Oman and western Saudi would be safe

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They take the same route over the Eurasian continent. Flying over Africa is also very complicated! No one should be flying over Sudan and Libya, so you'd need to swing out way west and come up via Nigeria/Niger/Algeria maybe? I have no idea how much fuel or how commercially viable that would be.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

On a trivial and parochial note, this is all really going to mess with commercial air traffic between Australia and Europe. The only viable commercial route at this moment is over Afghanistan and Pakistan, which apparently are ALSO on the brink of all-out war www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“We’re deeply committed to our values unless they could cost us money in which case we’re deeply committed to money”

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Pretty unfair for Ukraine too, come to think of it

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Completely baffled why Apple has decided that my contact information is not “data linked to” me

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Also this is ridiculous, if men are wearing G-strings and banana hammocks on the bus they will also be asked to put some pants on

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

He uses em dashes, here’s one from two hours ago. It looks pretty authentically Trumpy to me.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This whole op-ed hinges on the idea that Trump doesn't understand or publicly self-identify with the philosophical underpinnings of fascist theory and therefore can't possibly be a fascist. Phenomenal.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Can we believe the Greenlanders, who have no motive to lie and afaik also no history of habitually lying on the world stage, and not the man who has both of those things.

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The details of the agreement have not been made public because it does not exist. Stop saying it does.

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