In news we need to face about Covid “This virus won't evolve to milder ever in relation to humans. And humans can't evolve to be immunocompetent against an immune-depleting virus. The virus is not compatible with human life.” It will never be milder. We will never be immune.

NO NEW STADIUM! Rally for Tasmania👇 🗓️ Sunday, November 23, 2025 ⏰ 11:00 AM 📍 Parliament Lawns, Parliament House Gardens, Hobart, Lutruwita / Tasmania

You want to see a 1975 approach to the environment? Come to Tasmania! We’ve got littering, dog shit in every park, we still burn our rubbish in backyards FFS. It’s hardly any wonder we salivate to cut down trees and pollute our water. But we aren’t like “the mainland” and that’s the big thing. 🤬🤬🤬

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

You want to see a 1975 approach to the environment? Come to Tasmania! We’ve got littering, dog shit in every park, we still burn our rubbish in backyards FFS. It’s hardly any wonder we salivate to cut down trees and pollute our water. But we aren’t like “the mainland” and that’s the big thing. 🤬🤬🤬

As a break from the bleak subjects on offer, I give you the first buds on my Bathsheba rose. She’s a David Austin, alleged to be a climber but not really. So beautiful that I took a dozen photos. Here are the three best. #Gardens #Tasmania

For many people in positions of power, being a sexual predator and covering up for sexual predators are not only NOT disqualifying—they are forms of in-group bonding. The Epstein network is the most prominent example of that dynamic, but the dynamic exists at multiple levels throughout our society.

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I wear a respirator mask in all public spaces because I feel compelled to resist the irrational denial of Covid-19 that prevails among the diseased masses. I wear a respirator mask in all public spaces because I refuse to follow the dangerous mentality of the reckless crowd. #COVID19 #respirator

DO NOT (& I cannot emphasise this enough) BUY TASMANIAN SALMON. You are not supporting Tasmania by purchasing it. You are supporting the rape of our environment, the profits of a foreign company and outrageous animal cruelty.

@katestrasdin.bsky.social I saw this divine beauty and thought you might like it. Details in alt text.

In other surprising news @albomp.bsky.social thinks his government is doing a great job protecting the environment, housing has never been more affordable, AUKUS will deliver and and he’s protecting workers rights as well! Pigs will be flying past, faster than ever, next week!

Apparently, repeated COVID infections have economic consequences 😕 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This government is a pack of utter bastards. Isn’t Labor meant to be FOR the workers? Young people pay tax. They pay GST even if they don’t earn enough to pay income tax. How do they expect any worker to save enough for retirement? #Labor is for employers. Absolute fucking traitors.

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

Every year we say #NupToTheCup. The gambling industry is the only winner. #NoToAnimalCruelty

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

Nup to the cup. Nup to gambling and nup to these poor animals being beaten around a paddock. Now, if it were politicians in those cute dinosaur costumes, with proceeds going to a charity, maybe. Change the story, Australia.

I’m sure people were tired of the plague. And of wars. But just because you are fed up with something, it doesn’t go away. Great writing.

Happy 24th anniversary to the least successful one night stand in history. I know I’m loved when this is the card I was given.

DST was introduced in late '60s/early '70s Australia with the promise to the workers that the summer sun setting later gave us more time to enjoy activities after work. 50 years later, global temps have risen by 1.1 - 1.3 degrees C. So, in reality, DST gives us more time to sit in front of the AC.

It's not over for the Royal Family until they give a full account of when senior royals became aware Andrew was a sexual predator and what resources - financial and PR - were provided over the years to assist his efforts to avoid accountability.

Every business, government agency, media outlet and human person that continues to post on or go near X is consciously collaborating with the most openly white supremacist public figure since Hitler. There is no excuse.

In 16 weeks with a coordinated effort the world could have wiped Covid out. Instead we chose profits and the sacrifice of our vulnerable. And almost all the world has gone along with it. Proof that there will never be unity or compassion or even common sense. It is beyond capitalism’s capacity.

This is EXACTLY how I feel - with a side serve of “ you can’t even get an auto correct right, and you want to recompose my actual work?” FUCK RIGHT OFF AI (And it uses 1.5 litres of water for a yes/no answer. The planet can’t afford that)

Well it went ok. I asked the nurse to mask. She said “oh but you’re wearing an n95 so I don’t need to”. I said “ I’d prefer you did please”. So she did without further comment. Test results were good too which was a bonus. I am now marked as a troublemaker 🤣🤣

I have a 45 min appt with the nurse at our medical centre tomorrow. I asked for the nurse to wear a mask - I always wear one. This is the unsurprising response. I sent back 4 recent articles about Covid but I guess that will do nothing. If healthcare won’t pay attention, who will? #CovidIsNotOver

“Yes but THEIR exploitative methods and tax avoidance are more effective than ours” is not the gotcha moment you think it is Gerry. NOT MAKING AS MUCH MONEY AS SOME OTHER COMPANY IS NOT DISCRIMINATION YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKSTICK. You wanted free trade - this is how it works. Eat it.

One thing that struck me is a mother realising that children AREN’T resilient. You hear that a lot. Adults say it to comfort themselves. Children are no more resilient than adults. They just don’t have the vocabulary to express their distress. Child victims are damaged FOR LIFE. I know.

Millions and millions of people are currently going through the busy motions of day-to-day life, pursuing all their usual activities and pretending that everything is "normal," while carelessly allowing their bodies to be destroyed by repeated infections of uncontrolled Covid-19. #COVID19

This is why people are sick all the time now. Sicker than I’ve seen in 60 years. Continually sick. You know “a long period of illness” and “health challenges” sick. It’s Covid.

Don’t violate your policies? Well I’m at least one former Spotify listener who believes morals should be above profits. Spotify is no longer allowed in my home or devices. www.stereogum.com/2327132/spot...

Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #BoycottSpotify

Yeah, that’s a big NOPE for me. This account is that content scraper from Twitter that built a massive following by ripping off other people’s work and just posting without attribution. He says it right there in his first post. These people never learn. This is not the BlueSky way. BLOCK HIM.

Boycott the book. It'll be full of his crap, delusion and inaccuracies anyway (e.g. like on climate change). So you won't be missing much. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

For all my Tassie friends.

Oof. This ⬇️

Seven years today since my wonderful,clever, funny, amazing, loving and much loved son died. I will never be over it.

The NZ government's creative storytelling must be addressed www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governme...

This is so typical of Tasmanian (& Australian) politics. “Sure there’s a bit of a problem but just trust us to work it out without bothering your pretty little head about it” Transparency is KEY to a functioning democracy. It seems we don’t actually need that tho? #auspol #tasipol

Although it’s through a not very clean window, I am loving the juxtaposition of pink waratah and California poppy Also the first Cecile Brunner (not Cecil!), a lilac blossom and some brilliant pink sea thrift. #Gardens

FYI This account - with 8 followers - is a terf apologist. I responded appropriately and then muted him. Have a nice life Jeff (by which I mean have chronic thrush and concurrent burning diarrhoea)

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Some of y’all can’t even stop using words that are deliberately offensive. The ones you try to pad your sentences with when you’re trying not to upset us are pretty fucking insulting too. Disabled is not a bad word. Get used to it. You’re going to be hearing it more and more.

So, really, masking is a stop gap solution, until such time as rational public health education and wide scale mitigation kicks in. I don’t think anyone really likes to mask. But in many cases, this is the only available, rational response to an irrational and frankly irresponsible negation of harm.

This! Deciding that YOU can take the risk of other people getting sick is NOT morally neutral. It’s individualistic and egocentric. The “collective good” requires all of us to take care of each other. Governments have ditched us. We only have each other. #WearAMask

New study just dropped linking shingles reactivation and dementia risk. You know what reactivates shingles? Covid. Want to avoid it? Wear a well fitted respirator and give yourself the best odds of avoiding Covid infection. There’s also a shingles vaccine which may help reduce risk!

My observation is the problem the LNP has with women is well and truly perpetuated by the women in the LNP.