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Gemma Raphael

@gemmaraphael.bsky.social
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Just a woman living in Australia doomscrolling through the climate crisis, misogyny and the plague while trying to appreciate beauty and humour and raise well adjusted offspring. Also I like novels and I'm heaps traumatised.

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Fossilized Tree Resin @jamberee13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am just not the kind of person someone would call “baby” and I think if someone did, I would erupt into 1000 crabs and go skittering into the sea
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes similarly for taking blood
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I told them they could do that after I moved out at that point.
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don’t encourage the fools
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your daily affirmation: Don't give up on your dreams. Somewhere out there is a stretch of lonely coast that needs a new sea hag.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don’t ask me. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Six frames. 1. Fellow with clipboard bails up woman passer-by, says, “Excuse me, I’m doing a short survey. Do you think Australia takes in too many immigrants?” 2. She says,”I don’t know. I mean, are we talking about the immigrants who look after my mother in the aged care home?” 3. She continues: “Or the ones who come here to pick fruit for low wages so we have affordable fresh produce?” 4. “Or the ones working in construction to build our housing and infrastructure?” 5. “Or those training to be the medical specialists were short of?” 6. “I really don’t know. Maybe you could ask the government. They should know.”
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026
Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Coparent somehow unable to tell me what date he’s returning from overseas. Lucky there’s a default parent to just do whatever is required, eh?
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Aunt Hagatha @aunthagatha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our remaining forests in the Amazon and the Congo Basin are the ultimate defense line against climate change. Allowing their destruction isn't just local negligence,it’s global ecocide. We must demand environmental sustainability now.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Afro-futurism exhibit at SFO. Very cool.
A photo of a striking art piece. A beautiful Black woman surrounded a colorful surrealist canvas. Artist Nettrice Gaskins.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
'Ocean and dreams" by Lee Mothes
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Jay Lionel @jaylionel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Talk to me some more about climate change being a hoax…
To identical maps of the world. 
1976 Summer is mostly blue, with red patches, showing deviations from the average.

The 2025 map is red and black in places.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
😂 The Jetsons lied to us
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a chrysalis hangs from a branch in a tree. Panel 2: inside the chrysalis is a small room. A caterpillar is sitting on the floor looking exhausted and frustrated with its head in its hand. Scattered on the floor around the caterpillar are large parts of butterfly wings in boxes like pieces of furniture that require assembly, and an electric drill, and a beer.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 08/06/2026
This is Chootie. He looks like a dog, but from one of those 15th century paintings done by someone who had only ever heard about dogs. 12/10 (IG: chootieboy)
a very fluffy white creature with light brown markings on its back and ears is resting flat on some concrete tiles with a body like a slightly inflated bearskin rug. his legs and tail are merely puffy nubs, but his front paws are completely shaved for hygiene purposes, giving him the grabby-hands look of a feral raccoon. his face is an exuberant expression, with all his features slightly too close together, including his mismatched and somewhat human brown and blue eyes. he is simultaneously ridiculous and delightful.
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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 08/06/2026
We live in the stupidest timeline.
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I don’t know why I’m laughing
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If it were wrapping paper you could just trim it
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 26/05/2026
REMINDER: Global heat waves are FOSSIL FUEL‑driven climate chaos. Recent research shows that warming linked to the world’s biggest oil and gas companies has made EVERY major 21st‑century heatwave more intense and more frequent.
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 26/05/2026
every day that i don't choose violence just know it's because i'm very busy
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Patriarchy kills
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Someday when this is all over, our atoms will lose cohesion and drift apart, and that's ok. They'll combine with other atoms to form new gnarled oaks, fainting goats, and haunted cottages that float through the woods, wreathed in moss & gloom.
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El Yobo @elyobo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We need to get them to do some episodes on how to order a date correctly…
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chart of sudden infant deaths. Numbers are between 1,000 and 1,500 every years from 1979 to 1990, then after the 1991 introduction of the 'Back to Sleep' campaign (advising parents to put their baby to sleep on its back), fall immediately to below 500 and are now around the 200-a-year mark.
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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Perfect room. I don't think that I would be able to move from it.
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Toks Nilhaw @toksnilhaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Originally this cartoon was about Covid vaccination, but it's just as relevant to measles, pertussis, and all the other vaccine-preventable diseases.
ALT TEXT: a single panel cartoon by cartoonist Bill Bramhall. It shows a road through a desert, with a sign with an arrow pointing forwards. The sign reads:
HERD IMMUNITY
An obese man is sitting on a huge iron ball chained to the leg of a man crawling along the road towards the sign. The obese man's shirt reads:
ANTI-VAXXERS
The crawling man's shirt reads:
EVERYONE ELSE
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yes
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Mods are asleep, post celebratory pig pics
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Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But, for now cheer up. From us.Sam kneeled next to a pigSam sitting while petting pigSam with tiny pig
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
ReplubliKKKlowns have selective memories.... JFK and RFK assassinated. Gabby Giffords shot in the head suffered brain damage. Melissa Hortman assassinated.
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
So sorry that happened to you
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 20/04/2026
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joe•iuculano 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇺 @iuculano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hey, FIFA! You need to cancel all World Cup games scheduled to be played in the United States and redistribute those games to be played either in Canada or in Mexico. The US must be sanctioned! #StopTrump
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is threatening war crimes. That alone is illegal. He is unfit for office. I am urging the entire military command to remember your oath to the Constitution. Do not follow illegal orders. Do not commit war crimes. The stain and repercussions will be endless.
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Phil Hare's Ghost @mrlepus.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026
10 years ago, if there'd been a Hollywood film featuring a rogue POTUS who was gearing up to launch a nuclear strike on literally anywhere, Bruce Willis would have gone through Hell and high water to shoot that fucker in the face. And that would have been the correct outcome.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you can’t sack your demented, insane president are you even a democracy?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"plastics stock run out" IF ONLY THE PETROCHEMICALS INDUSTRY HAD ACTUALLY WORKED ON FIGURING OUT HOW TO RECYCLE PLASTIC INSTEAD OF LYING TO US FOR DECADES!
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dewdrop1331.bsky.social @dewdrop1331.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
ICE agents need to go back to jail where they came from.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 30/03/2026
Just so you know, any time you post anything online that includes the phrase "From the river to the sea" or "Globalise the intifada", you may be committing a criminal offence in Queensland. There are "reasonable excuse" defences (ours is that we're doing this for a "genuine legal purpose").
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Gemma Raphael @gemmaraphael.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I bought your book in Big W so if by popular you mean popular author I think it’s time to accept that you are.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided' @chrischirp.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave
It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.
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