Gemma Raphael
@gemmaraphael.bsky.social
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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So this just happened.
February 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM
So this just happened.
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A couple was arguing in the building next to ours. Their windows were open. Dude was being a real asshole for a good ten minutes. His gf finally just snaps and yells, "Y'know what? You have a little dick, and you use it badly."
The silence. Good god. The silence. I assume he is dead now.
The silence. Good god. The silence. I assume he is dead now.
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
A couple was arguing in the building next to ours. Their windows were open. Dude was being a real asshole for a good ten minutes. His gf finally just snaps and yells, "Y'know what? You have a little dick, and you use it badly."
The silence. Good god. The silence. I assume he is dead now.
The silence. Good god. The silence. I assume he is dead now.
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...reckoning - whether Epstein was involved directly or not - on how these people got the power to shout down the world's top scientific experts, and blow our best chance to contain COVID.
This is no tempest in a teapot - they decided to hand-wash away an airborne pathogen, now we pay the price.
This is no tempest in a teapot - they decided to hand-wash away an airborne pathogen, now we pay the price.
Happy International Women's Day!
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
January 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM
...reckoning - whether Epstein was involved directly or not - on how these people got the power to shout down the world's top scientific experts, and blow our best chance to contain COVID.
This is no tempest in a teapot - they decided to hand-wash away an airborne pathogen, now we pay the price.
This is no tempest in a teapot - they decided to hand-wash away an airborne pathogen, now we pay the price.
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ICE just tear-gassed the shit out of the entirely peaceful union protest here in Portland. Children. Elderly. Thousands of people exercising our First Amendment rights.
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 AM
ICE just tear-gassed the shit out of the entirely peaceful union protest here in Portland. Children. Elderly. Thousands of people exercising our First Amendment rights.
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1939: Hitler delivers a major address to the German Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House to mark the sixth anniversary of his rise to power. The speech is most famous for Hitler’s “prophecy” regarding the fate of European Jews in the event of a future conflict. /1
Today in history, 1939: Hitler delivers a major address to the German Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House to mark the sixth anniversary of his rise to power. The speech is most famous for Hitler’s “prophecy” regarding the fate of European Jews in the event of a future conflict. /1
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1939: Hitler delivers a major address to the German Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House to mark the sixth anniversary of his rise to power. The speech is most famous for Hitler’s “prophecy” regarding the fate of European Jews in the event of a future conflict. /1
Today in history, 1939: Hitler delivers a major address to the German Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House to mark the sixth anniversary of his rise to power. The speech is most famous for Hitler’s “prophecy” regarding the fate of European Jews in the event of a future conflict. /1
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A general strike is a great idea, and to make it happen, I need you to organize your coworkers into a union at your workplace
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 AM
A general strike is a great idea, and to make it happen, I need you to organize your coworkers into a union at your workplace
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When ICE takes videos of protestors & says "We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist."
Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."
Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
When ICE takes videos of protestors & says "We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist."
Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."
Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."
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Hell, yeah.
“I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”
“I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”
January 31, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Hell, yeah.
“I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”
“I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”
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At this point
you need no longer
greet anyone with
“happy new year,”
for at this point
the year is not new
and it is not
the other thing either.
*
A compendium of the 307th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/p...
you need no longer
greet anyone with
“happy new year,”
for at this point
the year is not new
and it is not
the other thing either.
*
A compendium of the 307th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/p...
Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Seventh Week
At this point you need no longer greet anyone with “happy new year,” for at this point the year is not new and it is not the other thing either. * As you see article after article, and …
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:41 PM
At this point
you need no longer
greet anyone with
“happy new year,”
for at this point
the year is not new
and it is not
the other thing either.
*
A compendium of the 307th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/p...
you need no longer
greet anyone with
“happy new year,”
for at this point
the year is not new
and it is not
the other thing either.
*
A compendium of the 307th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/p...
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Hanson was a Liberal in the Howard mould. He said nothing about Hanson and only started putting her last as a tactical measure (not a pushback on policies) after the 1998 Qld election scare. He embraced her polices - which were variations of his One Australia platform
Just your regular reminder that John Howard never pushed back against Pauline Hanson and One Nation policies. He embraced them, which is how he outflanked them, while also setting the stage for what the Liberals are today. The myth that he 'pushed back' truly needs to die.
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Hanson was a Liberal in the Howard mould. He said nothing about Hanson and only started putting her last as a tactical measure (not a pushback on policies) after the 1998 Qld election scare. He embraced her polices - which were variations of his One Australia platform
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“I am here to protect you as best I can – with my whistle and my phone – which feels, not great” Stella Carlson, the woman in the pink jacket
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
“I am here to protect you as best I can – with my whistle and my phone – which feels, not great” Stella Carlson, the woman in the pink jacket
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Did you know baby shampoo is mild enough, when used with water, to rinse eyes if they've been sprayed? Like when walking on or around ICE?
We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray.
#ProudBlue
📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)
We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray.
#ProudBlue
📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)
January 29, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Did you know baby shampoo is mild enough, when used with water, to rinse eyes if they've been sprayed? Like when walking on or around ICE?
We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray.
#ProudBlue
📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)
We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray.
#ProudBlue
📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)
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We gotta really hammer this point home right now, when people are most receptive to it - you cannot have empire or colonialism abroad and freedom at home, they are incompatible. If you allow people oversees to be attacked and exploited, those same tactics WILL eventually be used on you.
This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
We gotta really hammer this point home right now, when people are most receptive to it - you cannot have empire or colonialism abroad and freedom at home, they are incompatible. If you allow people oversees to be attacked and exploited, those same tactics WILL eventually be used on you.
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David Pope in Canberra Times
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 AM
David Pope in Canberra Times
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sure, i blame voters for the current situation being what it is. specifically, the voters who voted for Trump. it is clearly their fault. i don't know why people think this is so complicated.
January 28, 2026 at 12:31 PM
sure, i blame voters for the current situation being what it is. specifically, the voters who voted for Trump. it is clearly their fault. i don't know why people think this is so complicated.
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Yo, ICE! This is what a hostile, threatening approach looks like. And Ilhan Omar’s security didn’t murder him. Imagine that.
January 28, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Yo, ICE! This is what a hostile, threatening approach looks like. And Ilhan Omar’s security didn’t murder him. Imagine that.
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Bad guys with guns.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Bad guys with guns.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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Maddow: "If you were one of millions of Americans who protested ICE out of Minneapolis, you should know, tonight you are winning this thing."
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Maddow: "If you were one of millions of Americans who protested ICE out of Minneapolis, you should know, tonight you are winning this thing."
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I’m hosting a gun safety class at a local range geared towards disarming and dis-assembling weapons. Too many people think it is shooting or nothing; guns exist in our communities and we need to know how to safely neutralize them.
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I’m hosting a gun safety class at a local range geared towards disarming and dis-assembling weapons. Too many people think it is shooting or nothing; guns exist in our communities and we need to know how to safely neutralize them.
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Once upon a time, a white liberal man who claimed to love me told I was being “hysterical” when Donald Trump won and forwarded me articles about why he couldn’t do things he was already doing.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
January 26, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Once upon a time, a white liberal man who claimed to love me told I was being “hysterical” when Donald Trump won and forwarded me articles about why he couldn’t do things he was already doing.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
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A majestic song for you all
January 25, 2026 at 5:49 PM
A majestic song for you all
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How are you feeling today, really? Any ideas for how to deal with this amount of abject terror
January 25, 2026 at 8:29 PM
How are you feeling today, really? Any ideas for how to deal with this amount of abject terror
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
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It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.