Hello #booksky i have just finished a ripper of a novel- ‘A particularly nasty dose’ written by Adam Kay of ‘this is going to hurt’ fame. Raunchy whodunnit with a sting in the tail and lots of lessons to be learnt about bigotry and unkindness. A million ⭐️

‘The government’s target is not the ceiling for our ambition—it is just the floor on which we come together and build climate solutions at the scale and speed needed to cap warming at 1.5°C—which remains an absolutely non-negotiable goal.’

In no way should it take a UN body to issue a report for people to accept this, *but* this does clearly does help get the normies activated and aware (particularly when published on an outlet like the ABC). Send it around! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Sign here to support an Australian climate levy. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

Miss Tilly waiting for a treat. #dogs

Cracking good read! open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Afternoon light on the creek. Trying to find the antidote to the horrors besetting our world right now. #happyplace

MAHA gold-standard science. By @glaucomflecken.bsky.social

Why I won’t visit the US.

What can you see in these wondrous cloud formations? My vision in comments.

Seems to end near here! #rainbows

This cat!

Some time ago, I began a practice of organising and recording quotes and chunks of wisdom, music and book recommendations and travel goals. Its called a commonplace book. I opened it up again today after a long break. It took me where I needed to be! Today’s guide was Aldous Huxley…

Thanks to all the wonderful people braving the cold, wet weather to support the pro-Palestine rally in Sydney. There in spirit and planning some email actions asking our leaders to act strongly. #pro-palestine

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

💙 Australian fiction recommendation today: Lyrebird by Jane Caro. A cold case murder mystery with wonderful characters and a clever plot. Subthemes of climate change, human trafficking and women’s rights. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky

“The review… comments that without core knowledge of the pre-clinical subjects (such as pathology), it is not possible to apply mechanistic reasoning to complex health problems” Agreed Training to be a doctor is necessarily long because, simply put, medicine is complex www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Why is measles such a worry? - airborne - R0 up to 18 - not just a rash: complications include ear infection/ deafness, pneumonia and encephalitis - rare but devastating and uniformly fatal SSPE is a known complication - all entirely preventable with safe and effective vaccine

Parents, please protect your children from serious but *preventable* diseases Give your children the benefit of vaccines that have been proven safe in millions upon millions of people Vaccines actually work ! The woo anti-vaxxers are selling doesn’t www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

Precipice by Robert Harris on audiobook. Incredibly skillful narration by Samual West. Highly recommend! #booksky #audiobooks

Palestinian woman, 61, who fled Gaza detained by authorities after pre-dawn raid www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good Evening from northern NSW 🇦🇺

Good Morning from northern NSW Australia

"Reporting on the wanton destruction of health facilities, and on the killing of health professionals and humanitarian aid workers is the business of a medical journal." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Update

Another book to recommend! This time I actually know the author. ‘Field Notes from Death’s Door’ by MSF doctor, Katie Treble. This is an honest and funny memoir but also a telling of truth so many of us never knew about atrocities in CAR. #booksky

I highly recommend ‘Once upon a River’ by Diane Setterfield. I fell in love with the characters, and the world they inhabit on the edge of the Thames. An uncanny combination of fantasy and reality really woke my imagination. #booksky

Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…

I’m from before the Internet

A worthwhile cause. Food insecurity is a reality for many. tax-2025-sv.raiselysite.com

LESS THAN 5 HOURS LEFT TO HAVE YOUR DONATION to Asylum Seeker Resource Centre MATCHED BY 20 FAMILIES UP TO $158,000! Make your #taxdeductoble donation here: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday

A mist-erious early morning greets me today.

Today's Berardelli Bonus: Saturday is #ShowYourStripes day. Warming stripes are a colorful eye-catching visual created by @ed_hawkins . They quickly convey how fast our cities and planet as a whole are warming. Get your stripes: showyourstripes.info & www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Jesus Christ this graph. Total and utter political failure.

My stripes where i live. Go to showyourstripes to see yours. We are running out of time wherever we are from. #showyourstripes

#madleen #flotilla #gaza #greta

‘The decision to put pregnant women at unnecessary risk is the result of one man’s zealotry.’ open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

Good Morning from northern NSW 🇦🇺

MAHA is a pseudoscientific assault on public health.

…at the expense of everyone’s safety!

‘Big gas is taking the piss’

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

"we are bound by our ethical obligation to protect life and are unequivocal in our stance: no population should be denied access to healthcare, humanitarian aid, or the means to survive." All Australian medical doctors invited to sign open letter to @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social

Reject any new fossil fuel projects by signing the petition. nb.australiainstitute.org.au

Congratulations @larissawaters.bsky.social We are in good hands. #greens

We strongly advise the public not to do this, it’s unsafe. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos of himself and his grandkids swimming in Rock Creek, a Washington waterway so contaminated with sewage runoff that swimming has been banned citywide for over 50 years.

What a wonderful place for bibliophiles and movie buffs! #florence #books

Magdalen tower from punt on the river Cherwell. #Oxford