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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Asked Siri to play me some “hopeful music about revolution”. First up was This is America (Childish Gambino), then Get Up, Stand Up, and then NWA’s Fuck the Police. Incredible. Also Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On but that was more expected. #UnderstoodTheAssignment #JoinTheResistance

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

stay strong, patriots. mommy and daddy’s divorce is a deep state psyop. they still love each other very much. there WILL be christmas presents this year.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’m an abolitionist except for billionaires. Like, I hope there’s an investigation when this is all over and they both rot in prison. #Musk #Trump #TheDivorceFiles

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I have the latest Pfizer Covid vaccine in my left arm & the last flu vaccine in my right. I vaguely understand how mRNA vaccines work so I’m imagining the vaccines shedding their ’shell’ & revealing the spike protein & whatever & my immune system going, “we’re under attack from both sides!”

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Does anyone else randomly jot down titles for their (theoretical, future) PhD or their (theoretical, non-existent) autobiography? My latest are, respectively: From inchoate resistance to Imbricated agency (PhD) and Loose Threads: unravelling a layered life (autobiography). Just me then?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/05/2025

Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was removed from the Senate after confronting lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Enjoying the graffiti wall at T-Gen Gyms today, especially the exhortation to have a cute day resisting empire and savouring joy. So here for that.

A chalkboard wall covered in colourful joyous phrases written by trans gym participants including “gain mass, don’t pass”, “the kids at school told me to grow a pair — so I did!” and “my pronouns are he/slay”.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My pronouns are I/you/xe but I really prefer being part of we/they because collective resistance is the only way to create justice in this world. #jedi #JoinTheResistance

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Jewish Council calls on the re-elected Albanese government to immediately sanction Israel and comply with our obligations under the Genocide Convention and international law. This includes cutting all economic, military and diplomatic ties with Israel. Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Israel ramps up their genocide in Gaza but the Greens are being unkind by pointing it out. Uh huh. Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Libertarians keep saying “$1 beers?” and all I can hear is “more family violence?” #ausvotes

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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Anth is going to be most pissed if he misses the election… hopefully that’ll be impetus enough for him to drag himself out of limbo and back to the land of the sweary, just so he can celebrate Dutton losing his seat or at least shake his fist at the TV given it’s Anthony Green’s last election too. 🤞🏽

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Came back from National Folk Fest with dreaded nonspecific lurgy. Good news: not covid or flu. Bad news: ow, my throat. Extra bad news: supposed to be running a full-day workshop tomorrow. Fingers crossed this is 24-hours and I still have a voice tomorrow.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Anyone remember BUGA UP? We need your spray cans now! Just alter all the Trumpets of Patriots billboards so they say “Trump’s Parrots”. Truth in advertising for the win! #auspol

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Needed BDS-compliant gluten-free matzah. Decided to make my own! Chag sameach, everyone. Next year in a free Palestine!

Uncooked matzah dough on a tray lined with baking paper

Delicious-looking home-made gluten-free matzah squares on a navy blue plate

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I can’t even. I also agree that any journalist who continues to use Trump’s “reciprocal tariff” language is effectively publishing propaganda.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Petition to regulate those appalling bright headlights: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Sign and share!

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e-petitions

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I haven’t played pool in 10 years but thanks to Basem Kerbage being an aggressive wingman, I just played against an incredibly stylish opponent and managed not to embarrass myself.

Me, a white-passing person in a blue t-shirt with dark hair and teal glasses, leaning over a pool table with a pool cue trying to look like I know what I’m doing.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

When you’re playing scrabble and you could play a 7-letter word with either ELOQUENT or QUENELLE because you have the Q, the U and a blank but THERE’S NO ROOM LEFT ON THE DAMN BOARD. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #FirstWorldProblems

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m zooming in to Rabbi Richard Lampert’s minyan (one of my early mentors in social justice). I was thinking I didn’t have a book to follow along and then remembered I do indeed have my childhood siddur from NSTE. During the amidah, I randomly opened it and encountered this. Feels appropriate.

Lord our God and God of ages past, grant that none may hate us, and let hatred for others never enter our hearts.

Unite us in the reverence of Your name; keep us far from the things You hate, and draw us near to the things You love; and treat us with compassion for Your name's sake.

The same words appear in Hebrew but the iPhone won’t let me select that text to paste here.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Guess I had a busy Sunday! Stop 1: Loud Jew Collective at the Naarm Palestine rally Stop 2: Jewish Greens door knock Balaclava in support of Sonya Semmens for Macnamara 💚 #FreePalestine #YourVoteIsPowerful #OutfitChange

Me with a bunch of fabulous Loud Jew Collective folks and the “Jews in Solidarity: Palestine will be free” banner

Me with a bunch of fabulous Jewish Greens folks after a door knock for Sonya Semmens.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I wouldn’t eat the IDF to be clear. It’s like the old slogan about eating the rich. Consider the potential toxins! Also I’m a pacifist? But yes, great turnout today. Great to hang out with Sarah and run into Janet and Tara! #FreePalestine

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

On my way home from yet another incredible night with the crew from Safe + Equal and meeting incredible humans doing the hard but rewarding work of community building and primary prevention. Heart full, determination replenished. ✊🏽

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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intertwine @we-are-intertwined.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Book your place in our "beyond diversity & inclusion" training, next Tuesday, March 25, from 9:30am to 1:30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time. Join the resistance today. Book at events.humanitix.com/intersection... #dei #diversity #inclusion #justice #equity #jedi #intersectionality #resistance

This is the training Trump wants to ban.

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Feeling useful & accomplished. Conducted three job interviews for a role at intertwine, co-facilitated a 90-minute learning space on unpacking colonial assumptions with 25 participants and then hosted a two-hour campaign/planning meeting with the Greens candidate in Menzies. Winning!

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Crucial news today, with the AFP revealing that a sizable portion of the genuinely scary antisemitic shit going down is… deliberate scaremongering by organised crime, diverting police resources, trying to secure deals with the cops, and shifting blame and attention.

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AFP Deputy Commissioner National Security Krissy Barrett: statement on Operation Kissinger | Australian Federal Police

This is the first time the AFP has publicly provided details about Operation Kissinger, which is an investigation into those responsible for a caravan found with explosives and antisemitic material in...

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Eek. And also, wait: how are they going to teach grammar without the word “pronoun”? There are a bunch of these that confuse me. What are we supposed to call disabled people then? Once again: do not comply in advance. This stuff is designed to bamboozle and infuriate. #diversity #resistance

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Congratulations Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham on this incredible film, No Other Land, & this brave speech. No one is free until we’re all free #FreePalestine #Oscars2025 [reposting because I slightly misquoted Yuval the first time. Apologies for my poor Canva skills. I still want this on a T-shirt!

“Can’t you see that we are intertwined? That my people are truly safe when Basel’s people are truly free and safe? There is another way.” — Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham
accepting the Academy Award for Best Documentary
alongside his co-director,
Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I want this on a T-shirt. (Apologies for my terrible Canva skills). Congratulations Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham on this incredible film and brave speech. No one is free until we’re all free. #FreePalestine

An image of Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham accepting the Academy Award for Best Documentary for No Other Land. The text reads: “My people are not truly safe until his people are truly free.” — Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham accepting the Academy Award for Best Documentary alongside his co-director, Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Some very timely media analysis from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on our latest ep of Spin Cycle with @theshufflediary.bsky.social and @rachelwithers.bsky.social - Listen back to the full show at www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Last time, it was Bayer with Zyklon B; is GSK angling to collaborate with the latest Nazi regime? Money really does corrupt morals, doesn’t it? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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British pharma company GSK pauses diversity work citing Trump orders

London-based FTSE 100 firm reviewing its policies, saying it is obliged to comply because US is its No 1 market

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Ro (Phoenix) Bersten @phoenix-ember.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The cognitive dissonance is extraordinary.

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