Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection. But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk. They are still worth getting. Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

Like... Changing "Christmas Party" to "Holiday Party" but not changing anything about the party itself is like replacing ableist language without grappling with the fact that the message you want to convey is still ableist, or... There's something there that's going to percolate, apparently.

It's about time

But on issues such as respectability and morality, I think you should judge people by their deeper, more important actions. That doesn't mean how they dress, but how they treat others on a more meaningful level. I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.

Let's move on with the rest of the passage. Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:

73% of female transport workers suffered health issues due to inadequate toilet facilities! UTIs, dehydration, stress & anxiety, digestive issues, kidney infections, bleeding through clothing, peeing in buckets, long unsafe walks in dark. THIS is a womens toilets issue we need to focus on and fix.

the (rail replacement) vengabus is coming and everybody's grumbling some routes have been amended journey times are extended

"Migrants are not the problem" Poster spotted in Sydney

#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

If you give me a smart home device as a gift you should know I am going to hit it with a hammer

Firefox updated and some AI features got turned (back?) on. Guide to disabling it here - with comments from an employee you can upvote to show hate of AI (or at least a desire to make it easy to turn off). www.reddit.com/r/firefox/co...

Does anyone know what day we go from "they won't let us say Merry Xmas" to "you can't change Australia day"? I just want to know when to set my clock back a hundred years.

I'VE BEEN DRINKING DOUBLE TEQUILA SODAS FOR HOURS AND CAN STILL DO ALT TEXT, WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING EXCUSE YOU FILTHY CASUALS.

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

Pubs are seeing a huge increase in fake IDs after digital ones were introduced. In response, they're making fakers wait an extra year before being allowed in. Seems like an appropriate consequence - and hopefully one that will work as a deterrent. Try to get in early? You wait extra.

A relentless desire to keep dreaming

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

#NotTheOnion 😮

Those old car batteries wouldn't start a car anymore, but they would last several more years as back-up power. Back-up power that kept me on air during Black Saturday in Kinglake. I took the CFA MAYDAY call because of such on the fateful day. 2/

Remember when the public owned services and industries? The profits from them were used to fun the losses for schools, hospitals, etc. Now those profits are siphoned into the hands of a wealthy few who pay zero tax and offshore profits. Meanwhile, taxpayers still fund all the loss-making sectors.

I often wonder how much better managed & executed systems we could have had in telecommunications & power networks had short sighted fools, adhering to Thatcher/Reagan economic theory, not sold off the fucking farm Now, instead of innovation & a huge return on every $, we make the 1% richer

Dear ABC radio, please have somebody with more expertise than me explain to you why “renewables are the cheapest form of power” and “power prices have gone up in the last years in spite of increased renewables” are not contradictory statements. And why slowing renewables will not bring prices down.

Worth a re-post.

When politicians talk about unemployment as a single number, they erase this reality. The barriers facing older people, the single parents juggling caring responsibilities, people with disabilities still battling discrimination, & people who don’t have qual, & money for transport. #Auspol #Jobseeker

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

omg i found a symptom that Dr Google doesn't think is cancer! Ear ache

www.koreaittimes.com/news/article... #universalbasicincome #basicincome #ubi

It's November 20th here in the Antipodes, which is Trans Day Of Rememberance. We mourn all the trans women and men lost to our community through violence, murder and suicide, and medical mistreatment, our genderqueer and nonbinary siblings, and the First Nations third genders denied by colonisation.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

this image got shared in a local facebook group and hoo boy, folks are not getting the point at all

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus. We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

😏😏😏

"We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment" by Anglicare's Kasy Chambers #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Universities starved of support, CSIRO funding for 1,100 jobs lost, aged pensioners forced to pay for help with showering. It seems the government accepts a less educated, less healthy population, so it can afford to continue heavily subsidising miners and fossil fuel companies.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

Yeah dude, it was totally the commitment to net zero that caused the economy to fall in the late 2020-2021 period Nothing else of note happened that impacted the economy

Stealing money from poor people is preferable to taking it back from billionares to repay the poor people you stole off.

Yikes! Samsung phone owners, update your phone! Your phone may not be able to call 000 rn. A petson in Sydney died last week because of it 😢

Surprising absolutely no-one.

If you still wear a mask at all, even just when sick or at the hospital or on public transit, THANK YOU! If you still try to isolate or protect others when you are sick, THANK YOU. If you still test for COVID when you have any symptoms, THANK YOU.

“During covid” is right now. #DuringCovidIsRightNow #COVIDisNotOVER @pot8um.bsky.social Source: x.com/pot8um/statu...

“Muh loneliness epidemic!” they cry, as women FLEE THE COUNTRY to get away from them.

to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping

Teenager starts Sharing Shed for disability equipment ❤️ #nicethings #circulareconomy

Valuables held by the wealthy? Nope, can't take a percentage of that! Valuables held by the desperate and dispossessed? Oh yes, we'll have the lot!

I fold like a professional