Catastrophic fire rating areas are likely to be CATASTROPHIC. Ambulance services have declared a red escalation for Catastrophic rated areas. You're on your own, if you're still there. V/Line isn't running, and will not replace with buses. Listen to this man's voice. Take action now.

We left two nights ago, having observed the approaching conditions. Our farm is 10mins out of Euroa, which is currently under a 'Take Shelter Now' emergency warning as at 9pm tonight. Anxious times, but zero regrets.

Swapped 42°C (107°F) at the family farm, for 42°C in the city for the impending 'extreme heat' wave across Vic. The diff? Fire risk. We've evac'd from bushfires & seen fires travel 60km in a day. The Farm is *so* dry rn. Absolute privilege, but we will take the overcautious approach.

Needed a bit of a Bsky break. This whole 'the entire world is going to hell in a handbasket' thing gets a bit tiring. Back now!

Aspirin in acute infection may lower the risk of developing diabetes in Cövid. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If 4.9 million kids with asthma is a national health priority, what does it mean when 5.8 million have Long Covid? Why is the #1 chronic condition in children being ignored?

Finally an official member of the ADHD club today, at 48yo. Partner + eldest child got their memberships earlier this yr. Surely the other 3 kiddos should just auto qualify now?! Maybe a bulk buy discount or something... 🙄

asthma.org.au/about-us/med... “…combustion of gas cooking & heating produces variety of air pollutants incfine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide & formaldehyde, worsening indoor air quality. Exposure… can trigger asthma flare-ups & contribute to dev’t of #asthma.” 1/3

This is fantastic by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social We owe it to our children to mitigate airborne infections and to vaccinate them effectively. Western countries abandoning kids due to lower PERCEIVED risk and a drive for normalcy is wholly irresponsible. #VaccinesPlus #LongCovidKids

Screen time can, in fact, in fact, help autistic and ND people regulate burned out nervous systems. Why one mom realized it was helpful for her autistic son to spend 10-12 hours per day online: www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

TIMELINE CLEANSE

I have (aussie-centric) stories. 1/ Yr 11 in high school, legend Paul Kelly stopped by one day, unplanned, unannounced. Sang a few songs, chatted. Fan for life. 2/ I lived in the same apartment building as Michael Klim + fam (also Lleyton + Bec Hewitt and some others but I digress)...

Rather apprehensive as to the kind of America I will wake up to tomorrow. More thankful than usual to be in Australia rn. Stay safe, USA friends. #NoKingsDay

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months: 🧠36% cognitive delays 🗣️64% communication delays 🏃57% had motor delays 🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9 #Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷

In a sample of 147 children with Covid and healthy controls, SARS-CoV-2 infection could trigger "metabolic disturbances mirror[ing] those seen in severe adult COVID-19 patients, indicating a shared inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2." #LongCovid pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Purely anecdotal but I’m having trouble finding great up-to-date tracking so figured I’d share that over the past 2 weeks I’ve seen a significant uptick in people presenting with COVID and complications like organ damage (mostly kidney injury and hepatitis but pneumonia; too) needing hospitalization

Interesting timing on this study, just days before #WWDC. Advanced AI reasoning models suffer from “complete accuracy collapse” when asked to solve complex puzzles, raising concerns about their "fundamental limitations”, according to researchers at Apple. Story on @information-age.bsky.social:

I've shared it numerous times. The original I shared has over 14k. But yes, KEEP SHARING! This is horrific!

It’s Code Red for Vaccines The number of changes to vaccine policy is dizzying & RFK Jr is just getting started! Dissolving the group of experts that drive policy is declaring war on “what was” I write in @nytimes.com about what is and is not working www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

New moment of “WTF”: -pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity) -nl times: reach out to CDC for testing -now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center” 😳😳😳

Occurred to me that the first person to cop "you're cutting off your nose to spite your face" was probably Demand Avoidant #pda #autism #adhd #nd #neurodivergence

An engineering report has revealed 11 massive fuel tanks built unlawfully on Darwin Harbour for the US military are not designed to withstand a category three cyclone www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

I often see/hear "I'm in burnout, but how do I help myself?". Below - from a cited study 🙌 - are specific, practical actions to take.

My Baby Bee is 5 tomorrow. My 'pandemic baby'. My 4th, and my last. Conversely, if he'd been my first, he'd've been my last. He is a whirlwind who hugs the hardest, yells the loudest, and pushes the most. I'm so grateful we have him in our life.

... and they often still taste far inferior to what they're copying.

It's a big night in the #Bees household! Introducing the older Bees (11 & 12yo) to Dr Who. Starting with #9/Ecclestone, for maximum chance of engagement🤞

Husband sent me this. He is diagnosed. And medicated. I am not. Yet. 😑 😆 All credit to @laura_jane_hall over on IG

🧵 I’m a retired academic and public intellectual who has delivered a few commencement addresses, received some honorary degrees, and sat through innumerable student graduation speeches. This is the finest, most courageous one I’ve ever heard. Bravo, Logan Rozos. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Recently had to implement some hard screen time controls (ahem... Mr 11yo still using e-reader at 2am). Young aspiring hacker is currently using his sanctioned screen time to research back doors to the Parental Controls.... then telling me about the patched 'glitches' he's found so far...

Just get vaccinated people Vaccinate your children too They were invented to save lives Even stupid people’s lives

Tell me again how Covid is fine for children?? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Early 2020, pregnant with our 4th. My OB tells me "the good news is that this virus doesn't look like it harms pregnant women or babies". My reply: "... as far as we know...".

My baby boy is having surgery today. Nothing dramatic. Just tonsils/adenoids & grommets. But it's a GA. And he's 4. And despite this being the 5th time one of my kiddos has had surgery - & this particular child's 3rd time (over-achiever 🙄) - it does not get easier.

He is one of hundreds, if not thousands, of academics nationwide who’ve lost funding in a variety of critical, lifesaving, research fields through the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds." -Dinos Christianopoulos.

Oh ffs, people. There's a vax for that!

LOL the new Pope is One of Us: His old tweets have resurfaced after taking a position of leadership

Wow. Mum of 4 young boys here. My 12yo (eldest) had some things to say about this poll, and it started with "Oh, *Americans*? There's your first problem".

I wondered if Aus was waiting until post election, but I'm hoping now to see a big push to acquire as many as possible. Acknowledging Immigration issues, but: becoming a Safe Haven for lgbtqia+ &/or ND Scientists, Researchers, etc would be something to be proud of.

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

Australia has compulsory voting; I made this video to explain why: it’s not about forcing us to vote, it’s about forcing governments to ensure a ballot reaches EVERY CITIZEN’S HAND, & we owe it to conservative, rural Tasmanian Senator Herbert Payne in 1924 for making that argument. #auspol

'Albos up'.... I love it! #auspol

Oh yay.

This is not what you should do during the worst measles outbreak in decades. MMR vaccine has never had “fetus debris” in it. Ever. The secretary of Health and Human Services has to know this. Thanks, Senator Cassidy 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ooofffff. Just when you think they've hit bottom of the barrel (where *is* that 2yo whose parents were both removed from the country?), there's yet another 'hold my beer' action:

At the very heart of the Canadian election outcome today is a yearning for an independent Canadian identity, and a reality check about the changing relationship with the United States. I hope Australians will have the same awakening this weekend.