I think #COVID hasn’t been normalized because on some level people know they’ve been bullshitted about it, know it’s more dangerous than is let on, and are secretly terrified. That’s why people go “deer in headlights” when you break the taboo and actually say the word.

youtu.be/gvXXaZKclBc #Foundation season 3 finally cometh!

A few months ago, two friends and I started a new group: Writing Mothers for anyone in the Blue Mtns area who identifies as a mum to come together to write and chat. It's been such a great space to commiserate, laugh and lift each other up: www.instagram.com/writingmothe...

Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill, which cuts disability benefits Last night at the PLP meeting Liz Kendall asked MPs to back her. 108 have indicated opposition Fuel the rebellion. Tell your MP to vote against the cruel cut. Poverty is a political choice

RFK Jr has fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The US now has no CDC director and no ACIP. He alleges this is to reshape U.S. regulation of vaccines, food and medicine. More likely it's anti-vax measures. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event This is heartbreaking. We have fvcked the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scott Morrison is almost certainly one of the “Robodebt Six” referred to the NACC for criminal and civil action. In Australia we don’t pursue him: we rig the NACC, refuse to investigate…then award him with honours. “Decision” still nowhere… (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/government-r...

Any honours for #ScottyFromRobodebt would not only be tone deaf and farcical. It would be a massive insult to the thousands of welfare recipients and their families who were terrorized by Morrison's illegal scheme - some to suicide. #auspol

#ScuMo #ScottyTheMessiah #ScottyTheSnakeoilMan are only some of the many hashtags associated with the many rorts, scams, lies and actions of self-aggrandisement in the public life of #ScottyFromHillsong. Any OA award demeans the award and those who proffer it #auspol chng.it/N6H2MJtxSD

MedPage Today: 'Not Just a Cold: Research Suggests Distinct Long COVID Symptoms in Infants and Preschoolers' As clinicians and researchers continue to untangle the complexities of long COVID in children, Yonker urged pediatricians to keep listening. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

"We’ve chosen to [break embargo] because we think it’s noteworthy that one of an elite class of Australians is de facto granted honours — especially someone with as ignominious a record as his. On Sunday at 10pm when the embargo lifts? His honour will be swept up in a sea of hundreds of awardees."

"Former" privileged blokes, now desperate-for-relevance old blokes, gasping as they disappear into the fog of yesteryear.

This is just hilarious. “Women are #SufficientlyAssertive now,” Stockdale told the virtual meeting of at least 50 #women, “that we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men’s involvement.” #AusPol I have to admit I am feeling #SufficientlyAssertive tonight. 🤭

Eisenhower 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

“A…study…this week showed that Long COVID is common in children, affecting 10% to 20% of children who have had COVID. Almost 6 million children in the U.S. are impacted by Long COVID, which is higher than the number of children diagnosed with asthma, the most common chronic condition in childhood.”

Melbourne University used to be rightfully proud of its role in the Vietnam War protest movement. In one lifetime this institution has become brittle and Tory. #AusPol

14-15% ⚠️ ‘Overall, among children who had been previously infected with COVID-19, 40 of 278 infants 2 years and under (14%) and 61 of 399 children ages 3 to 5 years (15%) had persistent symptoms that could be likely classified as long COVID.’

COVID-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows Researchers in Denmark found that COVID-19 causes a higher disease burden than influenza, leading to more hospitalisations and deaths, highlighting its greater impact on public health. Source: archive.md/6wBcw

A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf project in Western Australia will be a “great gas giveaway” : $215 billion in royalty-free gas for Woodside. australiainstitute.org.au/post/great-g...

Super tax has really upset the very well off-what a fecking shame!

Wish we had #COVID research in #Australia. You’re basically left to deal with #LongCOVID health impacts on your own. GPs don’t believe you, so gods know what other stuff is going on inside that isn’t obviously manifesting itself. #RheumatoidArthritis #Breathlessness #LittleGreyCells #AusPolFail

Extending the licence for the #NorthWestShelf #gas project won’t assist #Australia’s #EnergyTransition, experts say, even as it allows #Woodside and its foreign partners to profit from the nation’s #MineralWealth while delivering “almost nothing” to the #NationalPurse. #FossilFuels #AusPolFail

Printed all the words written for the #LongAwaitedOftAvoidedThesis over the past 19 years yesterday. 83,001 words. 85% complete and utter bollocks. This be me.

This police commissioner chief person has to be corrupt. #AlexCross #Cross

My brain trying to deal with the news today.

WHO warns of rising COVID activity in 3 global regions, driven by the new variant NB.1.8.1. Western Pacific Southeast Asia Eastern Mediterranean regions "Global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that have not been observed since July 2024"

Sigh. More Covid info that none of us want to face. We all wish it would fizzle out. Yet here we are... "The evidence so far suggests NB.1.8.1 may spread more easily and may partially sidestep immunity from prior infections or vaccination." 😷 #auspol #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

One thing I can say about the Sandy B film #BirdBox was it got me out of bed. Not a film that can be cosily watched in bed. Do we find out what created the thingy that you shouldn’t see? It was us wasn’t it? Am I going to need two of the chocolate protein-added muffins that I’ve just baked?

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Only boring, unimaginative and dull people call #Canberra boring. The only thing we don’t have here are beaches and given all the sharks and the stingrays, sunburn and sand getting into places that sand really shouldn’t be in, it’s not a bad thing. www.timeout.com/australia/ne...

Health care is a public service not a profit centre - #NoMoreHealthscopes #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Les Winsper who witnessed the incident: “People started banging on the [car] windows. Then they smashed the windows & he’s panicked & put his foot down. He then hit someone & that person has gone in the air & he’s ploughed through the rest of them. I’ve never seen anything like it.” #Liverpool

Yep, most likely, though they're one of the worst in terms of disclosing info on energy consumption - the numbers above are cobbled together from various sources. This report is a good read static1.squarespace.com/static/65681...

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

Want an easy and practical way to support @wyld.bsky.social in the wake of last week's cancelling of their Black&Write fellowship. Buy a copy of WHERE THE FRUIT FALLS, a stunning debut novel through UWAP. And get your local library to order a copy in too! uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/whe...

on the anniversary of the 67 referendum, Bringing Them Home, Corroboree 2000 and the Uluru Statement from the Heart, they did this. Heartbreaking💔 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#NHS says 'COVID-19 vaccination is an important part of protecting yourself if you're at increased risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19. Vaccines are offered because viruses change and protection fades over time. It's important to top up protection if eligible.' 🤦We all should be eligible!!!

So many streaming services and nothing to watch. Whenever I think; “Ooh. I’ll watch this again”; I realise it’s in my library. Lesson of the past 3 months: I don’t need streaming services.

The wonderful #ChildrensGround #Charity organisation has a #DoubleYourImpact #DonationDrive going on for the wonderful kids they care for. If you can spare a few pennies, those pennies for the next two days will become a few more pennies! #Donate #WearItYellow wearityellow.org.au

Have been obsessively watching/listening to a #BloodyGoodTelly show for past 5mths. Fortunately it is on a streaming service upon which I am hitchhiking via friend’s acct, which means I can’t give into my #obsession whenever I please because, the gods dammit, she is using her account! How rude! 😜

Does anyone have any idea what the word the handy cursor is pointing to may be? Writer is asking publisher what’s so bad about her book that he won’t publish and what “will … induce” him to? #palaeography #HistoriansHelp

This is the UK/US ‘bathroom’ law to ban trans ppl in one photo. All it does is put non-trans women in danger. In this case a cis girl. Gender Critical ideology was always about deciding who looked the most like Marilyn Monroe*. Hope Kady recovers fully & her abusers are thrown in jail.

Affirm Press to launch junior fiction series in collaboration with Your Kid’s Next Read that aims to keep kids reading – and loving it – for life! And I'm thrilled to be one of the authors! www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/Affirm-lau...

Just to show what is happening in the small communities that aren't getting the major coverage, this is in Wingham about 1/2 from Taree, my MIL lives just up from where the bridge used to be

Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...

22 May 1457: d. St Rita of Cascia, Augustinian, partial stigmatic, patron of abused women #otd

Women can submit anything from a four-line poem to a 3,000-word lead article, from a 300-word bedtime story to a 700-word memoir performance piece – they publish over 60 women in every issue. Deadline 7th July. Details in link. Please share :)