Osler’s Web is an incredible feat of journalism about what people w/ ME (& now LC) have been up against for decades at the CDC & NIH. It’s 30 yr anniversary is coming up soon & this reflection by the author is another jaw dropping peek behind the curtain hillaryjohnson.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

Australian Influenza update: It became clear during November that a unusual second wave of influenza is underway in Australia, driven by the new "clade K" (H3N2 clade 2a.3a.1, subclade K). Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia are currently the hardest-hit. #Influenza #Australia 🧵

Naarm/Melbourne #MarchForPalestine 🇵🇸culminated at ACMI Prediction: SBS will be in a world of pain if it persists with broadcasting Eurovision that enables participation & reputation-laundering of the genocidal Israeli regime #BoycottEurovision

I really wish people would be curious instead of confident when they don't actually know what they are talking about.

'does it pass the pub test' is such a weird metric when you consider that if you asked a random drunk person at a bar about any politician they would probably just call them a fucking dickhead

for the cost of aukus, australia could provide over 1,300,000 reasonable priced apartments - and at that level, economies of scale would kick in, to maybe 1.5 million and yet, govts are rationing, health care, NDIS, education, child care, aged care.... that is a choice #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Somehow or other, someone has decided that we need less human involvement in human services. Possibly because computers are so compassionate. Disability has always been costly it's just that the biggest service was mostly provided by women - for free. #AusPol

That's a lot of Bluey!

Addiction to secrecy’: opposition and crossbench slam Labor’s ‘undemocratic’ changes to FoI – including charging fees www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

Happy International People with Disabilities Day Australia!

A good Advent lesson comes from the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth. The lesson, of course, is that men should shut up more so that women can tell us what God is like.

A parliamentary inquiry is calling for the demolition of Melbourne's public housing towers to be halted after finding the Vic government refused to provide evidence for its plan The inquiry heard from tower residents, housing groups and gov officials www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Had a bunch of mommy bloggers get mad at me the other day for even suggesting that they stop posting about their children on the internet. 🙄 Their safety matters. They are too young to consent. Don't use them for content.

If you have the dirtiest fucking hands ever and don't want nobody knocking on your front door (because there isn't one), then, boy, does AI have the perfect house design for you!!!

every time

Adults can unfollow too 🤨

The employment opportunities it also provided to student teachers who took on the case loads and delivered results for kids, on thier level.

reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight

At a minimum, please wear a well-fitting mask in airports and on planes, and in healthcare settings. If people did this, COVID transmission would fall demonstrably. It’s not that hard, and it’s not all or nothing. It’s also not just a cold—it’s an organ-damaging virus.

We cannot be burning through humans like this. Paging #PublicHealth.

It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!

'Three Waratahs' (hand painted version) from the series of linocuts of Native Australian flowers by contemporary printmaker Rachel Newling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

I have some exciting news! Two weeks ago, on the 16th of November, my partner and I got engaged! 1/8

If you give this artist money, I’ll use the money to keep making art AND donate a portion to care for the environment and plant native trees, and you could argue genAI does the opposite

The FBI accessed and spied on a Signal group chat that was organizing immigrant “court watch” efforts in NYC. I feel like this should be bigger news. You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats. Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?

My life has been so consistently wild (989 days, but still less than 3 years since I moved home) I forgot to mention *surgery* I had in September. As in 2.5 months ago. So many people have helped balance these events so that I can stay on mission but this last 12% is make or break.

“Long Covid only happens to leftists” Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.

For those interested this is what happens if you are an unwanted presence

This was a great series, catch up on the podcast of you missed it.

Another mask story. A family boarded the flight, and as soon as they saw my mask they pulled their masks out and put them on. Now mine was a respie of course… and they were using whatever they had, upon which I’m gonna chose not to pass judgement…

16% more vacant homes than last year. I suspect that my last rental is in that category. Also, garlic mic!

What an interesting idea

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

"What sits underneath this change is the same damaging assumption that drove Robodebt: that people on Centrelink are not to be trusted. The mere fact of needing income support becomes grounds for suspicion. Poverty itself becomes a kind of evidence." #AusPol #AlboTheAuthoritarian

What a wonderful book!

I don't know how many more women need to die before the cruelty of these strict abortion laws finally dawn on us a society. This story is heartbreaking. Nothing about this is pro-life. It is anti woman and anti-life. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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MacKenzie Scott was a student of Toni Morrison's: "“MacKenzie was one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes . . . really one of the best,” Morrison shared." afrotech.com/toni-morriso...

Centrelink. “Do I have a Healthcare Card?” “Not currently?” “My income was under the amount required” “We issue it based on the income guesstimate, not at EOFY reconciliation and payment of FTB” So I got paid the correct amount rather than doing a guesstimate, so didn’t get a HCC

Trump’s response to the Pope and the Catholic Church - targeting churches during the holidays. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

Spiritually, this is a 1980s arcade game character.

Drawings by a 7-year-old boy named Onfim, from 13th century Russia

🧵So last week I asked Kiwis and Aussies if people prefer their fairy bread with margarine or butter, crusts on or crusts off, squares vs triangles. I figured since it has been ages since I've sampled the food of the fae, I should make sure the recipe is correct for my upcoming book launch party.

"My neighbor is the child going to bed hungry tonight...is the worker making poverty level wages in TX...is the mother kidnapped by masked men...off of our streets...my faith calls me to look after my neighbors, particularly those who are being attacked by the most powerful people in this country."💙

Hundreds of trials of exercise and rehabilitation have been performed to treat post-infectious chronic illness. Literally hundreds. Dozens more are ongoing and planned, most for LC. Even though literally not a single thing has been learned out of it. Not one damn thing. This industry is a fraud.