The only place I want to see soldiers in civil society

It’s just so amazing to spend your life trying to help people, only to watch a few incompetent men casually endanger the lives and health of so many more people than you could ever help

Just spoke to my local library - they said they cannot offer extended hours for refuge from the heat as they do not have the funding 😭. Sucks that local councils have to fund this .. where is the Federal Environment minister? They're the ones approving new coal and gas mines.

Just to be clear social media bans are not about avoiding harm they are about avoiding meaningful regulation.

This post has been updated with further commentary: Victorian Government faces avalanche of opposition over its move against VicHealth www.croakey.org/victorian-go...

Improving health and healthcare in remote communities, what will it take? – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/improving-he...

#peaceprize #tacos

you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends? you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no

This is accurate

A short-sighted, anti-public health decision. Do they want illness and misery to increase?

"​VicHealth folding doesn’t just harm Victoria, it dismantles a global template for how to get health promotion right." www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...

"No matter what he meant, it was a terrible thing to say." @drruthmitchell.bsky.social on how Trump's call to resume US nuclear testing sent officials scrambling. Dr Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner w/ @ican-australia.bsky.social, discusses non-proliferation & the US health system 👉 theaus.in/48BtmgG

So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.

Elon left me here

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Deloitte also fucked up the same way in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the full quote here english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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For the love of god please make it stop…

'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'

This times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

How did @propublica.org reporter @ericumansky.bsky.social learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇

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Says the man sending troops into his own country’s cities and killing civilians in speed boats off the Venezuelan coast…

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Two tiny humans (twins, 2?) are sitting in an extra-wide stroller as their mum does her food shop. Both are cradling a broccoli in each of their laps with the air of tiny princes holding scepters. Benevolent Brassica monarchs in a Mum-pushed chariot. (3)

tbf if I was playing against Pocock in a work footy comp I’d want him banned too.

I am so annoyed on behalf of the many bright people in science and medicine that have had to spend the day talking about paracetamol/acetaminophen and how it doesn’t cause autism. And I’m even more aggrieved for everyone with autism who is being subjected to the destructive ableist discourse.

Australian CDC gets a hopeful mention in this BMJ article: Retreating from science and its successes www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Banksy recreated by a sand artist Fred Brown on Scarborough beach.

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

Deeply disturbed by the apparently normalised class of person that hasn't said anything about 680,000 murdered Palestinians but is very upset about one Nazi podcast host.

We've signed onto this open letter coordinated by the Gun Safety Alliance. The NSW Conservation Hunting Bill threatens public safety, risks poor animal welfare outcomes, undermines conservation efforts & erodes Australia’s globally respected firearm laws. australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...

🚨 NEW EPISODE of Leading 🚨 Rory and Alastair speak with James Elder, UNICEF’s spokesperson, who reveals the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - and why he says it’s the worst war he’s ever witnessed. Link in the replies 👇

How I wish I was going to be there. Have a wonderful time #icre2025 folk!

Hosted by @rwc90.bsky.social, @khoshnevis.bsky.social, and fellow resident cochairs, this is a perfect opportunity for residents, med students and other trainees to connect with peers and mentors.

It's going to be increasingly difficult for nuclear advocates to run the "safety fears are exaggerated" line now that one of the world's biggest nuclear power countries is actively trying to weaken / deregulate nukes Soon enough, there will be an *actual* disaster, and it'll set the industry back

Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.

Case in point...read the Australian governments response to far right xenophobic marches in Aus...and compare it to the UK with talk of "island of strangers" and "legitimate concerns" You enforce the norm by...calling a spade a spade, not by kowtowing to ethnonationalists

16 weeks of training. Hundreds of kilometres run. And it all comes down to this. Tomorrow I’ll be running my first marathon for the Children’s Cancer Institute! #curingchildhoodcancer #notifitswhen #sydneymarathon sm25.grassrootz.com/ccia/ruth-mi...

as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school

Ms. Rachel for President

I love Neil Young mostly because of how pissed off he looks all the time now

It’s so stupid that all the “but what about fairness in women’s sports” people are always talking about Oh No What If Trans and never, like, paying women athletes more

I had the best time speaking to Kait Dinunzio on her podcast. We talked about #running, #bodybuilding, children’s #cancerresearch, getting rid of #nuclearweapons, chance enconters at high altitude, and what to do when the butter is too cold to spread on the bread. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...