Violet Affleck crushes it again

There is no conclusive evidence that taking Acetaminophen during pregnancy harms children, but there is very strong evidence that getting COVID does.

Our new findings just out - what do Australians think of generative AI and how are they using it? @admscentre.org.au simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/w...

Our new findings just out - what do Australians think of generative AI and how are they using it? @admscentre.org.au simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/w...

The Australian media reporting on 25 members of US congress decrying Australian support for an independent state of Palestine fail to mention the important context that there are 535 Members of US Congress.

It's not just people who caught it in 2020. It's 2021, 2022, 2023,2024, 2025, and forever into the future.

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Definitely not caused by a complete failure to understand that covid does long-term immune damage, or that covid is spread through aersols that cannot be effectively blocked by intermittent medical masking in the near field. Definitely.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

theconversation.com/a-booming-lo... Notably, the ‘longevity industry’, which also includes well known and respected clinicians, usually fails to mention preventing COVID infections as a key way of protecting our good health and extending our longevity

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

"Vaccines are safe. They are life-saving, and I would encourage any parent who is concerned about whether or not their child should get a vaccine to talk to their pediatrician to understand the benefits of these life-saving medical products..." — Former CDC director Susan Monarez

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Dr. Monarez: "Kennedy called the CDC the most corrupt federal agency in the world. He emphasized CDC employees were horrible people. He said CDC employees were killing children. He said CDC employees were bought by pharma. He said CDC forced people to wear masks like a dictatorship."

Jesus Christ.

BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs Gift 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Many in the media today are acting like it’s news that RFK Jr. intends to change the childhood vaccine schedule. We have been telling you this for months, and it is very frustrating that you did not listen.

Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧 Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸 At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊ They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

Measles alert for Sydney Airport and Northern NSW. “Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease that is spread through the air when someone who is infectious coughs or sneezes” www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...

Kudos to an Australian journalist from the publicly funded ABC for asking Trump some actual hard questions about his business dealings. Trump went all ‘I’m telling on you, so there!’. Playground tactics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shameless of the gambling industry’s peak body to try and leverage parliamentary sport and then also associate themselves with a local mental health group doing great working to prevent suicide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And when it comes, the racists who caused it will, once again, blame immigrants for the wreckage they themselves caused.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Maybe the only good thing about Lachlan Murdoch confirmed as successor is that his harder right political position is so far beyond the Australian mainstream, it may help drive his local media assets into an earlier grave.

This is an incredibly in-depth article that maps out Charlie’s ties to various big GOP funders (Koch/Uhlein/Bradley), political orgs (the CNP), and also Neo-Nazis like Ryan Sanchez. www.importantcontext.news/p/rewriting-...

zenodo.org/records/1706... Good stuff pushing back against the AI con

BREAKING: Jair Bolsonaro convicted for an attempted coup. May the US learn from Brazil.

Common diabetes drug metformin cuts long covid risk by 64% in UK study A study of 624,308 adults, including 2,976 who began metformin after COVID infection, found a significant link between metformin use and reduced Long COVID risk. Initiators showed a 64% lower risk in intention-to-treat analysis.

Society is treating COVID as a “load-bearing delusion,” implying the public is relying on denial to keep things feeling normal instead of facing the ongoing reality. #COVIDisNotOVER Source: x.com/YaniPNG/stat...

Vaccines have one of the highest reward to risk ratios of any medical intervention in human history. This sociopathic conspiracy theorist is literally killing people, causing the deaths by vaccine-preventable diseases of people who could have lived.

“Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors” by @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social & @dalupton.bsky.social (2025) shows vividly how self-help and self-tracking turn patients into experts for themselves while problematising medical authority. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #layexpertise

Biggest crowd I’ve seen yet in Canberra protesting against genocide #MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza #Sanctions

When you hear people say that “Covid isn’t going anywhere” politely tell them that is only part of the issue, for the problem with Covid is it goes to offices and to schools, it goes to movie theaters and to grocery stores, Covid isn’t going anywhere for it keeps going everywhere

The BBC has covered our study on medical power and #LongCovid. It’s a shame they didn’t name me and got my university name wrong, but nonetheless, good to see some MSM attention www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's the study: ‘Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors’: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice By @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social & @dalupton.bsky.social

1/ "We found that people with Long COVID are often left to fend for themselves in a system that isn't adequately informed about their condition and doesn't offer them appropriate medical support": www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...

A good day to pre-order Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book.

I look forward to the day when Australian cultural institutions stop self harming.

Don't do this, cultural institutions. You will regret it.

Meanwhile, many people are contracting COVID during pregnancy, exposing themselves and their foetuses to similar risks. Who will they sue when something goes wrong, given that the entire world’s public health and government agencies are failing to inform people about these risks?

Should you find yourself the only masked person at work or in a store, please, do not despair, instead just think back to kindergarten and your teacher asking “if everyone else jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” and know that at least you can honestly say: no.

So deeply embarrassing for the United States. Trump legitimized Putin and his illegal war on the world stage and got absolutely nothing in return. Not even a single step toward peace. Everyone involved in this charade should be ashamed.

Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.

Two things had a huge influence on the CDC shooting: 1️⃣ The head of HHS spreading antivax rhetoric 2️⃣ Social media companies failing to address rampant antivax misinformation on their platforms

Reminder: Bhattacharya expressed his openness to reevaluating the childhood vaccine schedule back in September 2024 on a right-wing, anti-vax podcast. He suggested more research into vaccines and autism was good and pushed misinformation about Hep B shot. www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...

Jay Bhattacharya, an economist who has never practiced medicine and doesn’t conduct biomedical research, thinks that you and your loved ones dying from diseases that could have been cured is worth it cause antivaxxers are nicer to him on social media than people who know how anything works

That honestly seems to be Battacharya's problem. He thought COVID would be like other coronaviruses (despite it being novel, with zero immunity in the population 🤷‍♂️), was wrong, and is causing increasingly immense harm to justify the fantasy world in his head.

Half of all children died in Roman times. Half of all children died in Saxon times. Half of all children died under Good Queen Bess, and Farmer George, and even dear old Victoria. Until we learned to do modern medicine.