In awe of the team at Clinic Nineteen treating adults & children for long COVID & related diseases. COVID infection is commonplace in the community & repeat infections increase your chances of getting LC so do your best to avoid infection. Indoor air quality is key. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This 🧵. News Corp bullying children is the opposite of journalism. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #auspol

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

We lost our home…but we haven’t lost hope. We hold on to what’s left of life, our family & faith that kindness still exists. We’re trying to rebuild our lives, step by step. Every donation, every share, every word of support is a mark that restores our sense of safety❤️ Be the reason we start again🕊

"Children born to mothers who had COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of developmental disorders by age 3, including speech delays, autism, motor disorders, and other neurodevelopmental delays, according to new research by investigators at Mass General Brigham."

Most essential of workers who literally risk their lives as others evacuate, and you still get a suppressed wage for being a woman

causing poverty - a primary outcome of criminal law - does not support victims of sexual violence. Expanding police powers has never in the history of patriarchy reduced, halted, nor prevented sexual violence. Increasing inequality in fact strongly correlates with higher rates of violence.

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

ERRs are calling for help to provide displaced & affected communities with: - Food & potable water - Adequate shelter - basic & emergency healthcare/feminine products - Mental health support #KeepEyesOnSudan

Hi friends 👋🏾 I'm raising funds for North Kordofan ERR, which is in dire need of support. The situation in areas like Bara, Sheikan & Alrahad is extremely dire. Summary in the thread below. Every little bit helps: paypal.me/BSonblast Ven/Cash: BSonblast #KeepEyesOnSudan

If you missed Emerge Australia’s Action Forum at Parliament House today, you can read the thread below. #mecfs #longCOVID

"Perpetrators of violence are skilled at using government systems to weaponise violence... False reports of child abuse & of violence already see too many single mothers & their children, many of them Aboriginal, misrepresented as perpetrators" – Council of Single Mothers and their Children

The change enables police to advise the home affairs minister to stop a person’s Centrelink payment if they're suspected of a serious crime. It affects people on all payments and could deprive people and children who are not accused of any crime of the money they need to live.

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments. Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

This is a gorgeous article.

Queensland's social housing register has grown to more than 56,000 people. Julie said the choice was either homelessness or accepting a one-bedroom unit in the rural North Burnett town of Gayndah, 150 kilometres away. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Labor busy expanding the punishment bureaucracy, again. Regular reminder that criminalisation causes poverty, and police primarily criminalise poor people.

There is still time to join online for our #MECFS & #LongCOVID Action Forum - From Stigma to Science: Educating for Change - This event calls for action, investment and policy reform. 🗓️ 1pm – 3pm AEDT, 30 Oct - We will be live posting on Bluesy 🌐 Zoom zurl.co/jgCuH

#NDIS strikes again: Letter received today, October the 28th, dated the 16th, saying that new medical information and reports from therapists have to be received by the 30th. This is one example of the impossible demands placed on disabled people by the NDIA, and we are powerless to stop it.

I‘m currently being serenaded by a butcherbird outside my kitchen window. They often shelter on our veranda clothesline when it rains. #AustralianBirds

"The environment minister would be able to approve projects at odds with nature laws if it was deemed in the “national interest” under the Albanese government’s planned overhaul of the environmental protection regime." What's the problem there? Who's interests should he be looking after? #auspol

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Fuckers Health minister reinstates ban on puberty blockers hours after Supreme Court overturned freeze www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Alt text Man driving a bus with the words don’t make me tap the sign Even if someone doesn’t have a job they still deserve to eat. #RaiseTheRate

Great work from Rachel Fairbank on the winding story of metformin for #LongCOVID at @thesicktimes.org. Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself. thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m... #MedSky

There are no examples of genocidaires willingly ending a genocide and Israel is no exception. Unless Israel is turned into a pariah state and diplomatic and trade relations severed, the genocide will continue.

Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com

humiliating

"It's really hard … you're making choices that nobody should actually have to make," @artistaffame.bsky.social "Every day it becomes a battle of whether you eat three times a day or if you see a doctor." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

Grog's rule of privatisation: "The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."

The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"

'Autumn in Oirase' from 'A Collection of Scenic Views of Japan; Eastern Japan Edition' - Kawase Hasui, 1933. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

But exhaustion isn't the whole story. After some time - it could be hours or days! - the PEM will set in. This is the whole-system fatigue that isn't just exhaustion. It's exacerbation of other illness symptoms or symptoms we only get during PEM. The specific experience varies per person. 2/x

Something I think people really don't understand about ME/CFS vs other fatigue illnesses is how the fatigue symptoms can be delayed for us, and how they accrete, like katamari damarcy. We do feel exhaustion upon exertion, often much faster or with less effort than others expect. This is true! 1/x

been saying this a bit lately, but: a core experience of being a welfare recipient in this country is being illegally harmed by government systems, and trying to pick yourself up to fight for basic justice and accountability for it

There was a fair amount of speculation back in the nineties about pesticides leading to #myalgicencephalomyelitis.

70 per cent of our outpatient visits in southern #Gaza are for diseases linked to poor living conditions, as over a million people are still crammed onto a tiny patch of land. Without urgent improvements, more people will die from preventable causes. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-di...

Have Disabled People Considered The First Solution Anyone Would Think Of? and Other Unhelpful Tips

“For every 1,000 applications, there were 100 fewer successful requests made by people with physical disability in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud’s reports that the physical yellow markers on the ground that demarcate the Yellow Line are only present in very few areas. Families trying to return to their homes are being fired upon and killed in these “free fire zones.”

It never came into my mind I would be chronically ill,disabled and house-bound in the moment I felt abnormal two decades ago. #chronicillness #Disability

Australia’s $20m deal with Israel’s largest arms company signed two weeks before UN genocide finding. The $19.8m contract did not go to competitive tender. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You're absolutely right, Chris, climate change IS real. So why did your party: * approve a climate bomb, the Northwest Shelf Gas Project * rule out a climate trigger in the EPBC reforms and instead will rely on your farcical 'Safeguard Mechanism' and asking developers to be good. We see you.

Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Lush Australia followed the UK example yesterday, closing all their stores for a day in solidarity with Gaza and posting signs in their windows to explain why. Except that if you walked past Lush in a Westfield shopping centre you may not have known because many centres blacked out the signs.

"Given that most of these phones are older phones, it's likely to disproportionately impact the most vulnerable in our community, people who can't afford to replace their phones readily," www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The median age of death in Australia is 82, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But the AIHW found, among those accessing homelessness services, the median age at death was 55 — 27 years younger. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.