PSA: this is legit. If you’re (rightfully) skeptical of donation requests via Bsky, MailChimp, and 3rd party platforms, good! There’s a LOT of Gaza donation scams out there. This isn’t one of them; this is an official correspondence from WCK, and the donate clicks through to wck.org. Stay safe!

What do you do when your neighbourhood is a food desert? In Liverpool and Merseyside, people are building their own solutions to get good food to communities. Read the citizen-led report: shorturl.at/uBErJ #foodpolicy #liverpool #merseyside @ffc-commission.bsky.social

Urgent call out to WA mob. Bone marrow donor needed for one year old Jamori. He’s Aboriginal and European and a similar background increases the chance of a match. Please register and perhaps save a young fella’s life nit.com.au/26-02-2026/2...

Our first collaboration and joint publication in @australia.theguardian.com! @jessharwoodart.bsky.social and I describe some of the recent impacts of climate change, extreme weather events, and other threats, on wildlife and ecosystems across southern Australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fingers crossed

Please tell me your most ‘difficult’ human stories. We’re forming a club.

Thank goodness for trespassers who risk all to shine a light on this tragedy and others like it. 👇

It’s maddening to me that people like Shellenburger think this is “just fine”

The essay includes this excellent diagram

‘Make your own bed, you lie in it’ is the same institutional sexism exhibited when perpetrators of intimate partner violence compel victims (mothers) to remain with them, & the same label is applied to their kids. It reeks of male privilege & misogyny. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A massive week for Aussie 16yr old female athletes on the world stage. Just yesterday, Aussie Glider Wheelchair Basketballer Eb Stevenson was named in the Osaka Cup All-Star 5, while Indra Brown nailed three runs in her Olympics final. Add to that Chloe Covell and Ally Hickman.

Australia's environment & agricultural sector are SO lucky to have amazing leaders like @dranikamolesworth.bsky.social! Please help her & others to remedy this unfolding wildlife catastophe au.news.yahoo.com/130-year-fir.... Story by @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social. Another climate change impact.

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 With thanks to @jencurtinmd.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Friday!

Sorry to be a bore, but it really is high time you left Substack.

Please sign and share. Protecting Big Spotty means protecting North Brooman state forest now, before logging begins. That means we have less than three months to secure permanent protection. www.nature.org.au/protect_big_...

This is why I have both a large commercial HEPA and a smaller one pointing at my face even in my private office in the hospitals I work in. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Colombia had resumed aerial spraying of glyphosate-based herbicides under pressure from the Trump administration. Today, Bayer agreed to pay penalties for all the people harmed by that very chemical.

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

Bad immigrants. My @smh cartoon.

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

We’re researching how the cost of living crisis is affecting your food access, sustainability choices & wellbeing. 10–15 mins. Age 18+. Chance to win a £20 Love2Shop voucher. 👉 cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Incredible read. Determined to have AUKUS nuclear submarines, but no plans for dealing with AUKUS nuclear waste Plan seems to be to studiously ignore the entire issue, keep the "nuclear illiterate" Australian public uninformed & in a state of illiteracy

If anyone in Sydney would like to improve accessibility then the team at Accessible Arts will be happy to advise ❤️ aarts.net.au

🏮Happy Year of The Horse? 🏮 Kung Hey Fatt Choy! 🧧

“The National Anti-Corruption Commission has circulated draft findings to individuals referred to it by the robodebt royal commission, signalling that the investigative phase is effectively complete and a final determination into whether those individuals engaged in corrupt conduct is imminent”

"Morrison can demand Muslims be 'governed.' Minns can defend police violence. Leaders can insist we 'do more.' But they cannot undo what Monday night revealed: Muslim safety in Australia is not treated as a right. It is treated as a revocable privilege." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

And here is young #DodgesFerry designer Abel, who created this wonderful artwork celebrating the red handfish, under threat from salmon farms #BigRedParade

"Continuing to clutch at the myth, aqua nullius provides the colonizer a distinct advantage in the “competition” for the water integral to the colonial project and thus remains a structural feature of... settler-states, water law, governance and science."

Worth adding that the status of the skate hasn’t changed. This means that whatever efforts big salmon & government have put it has not improved the situation. Remember that when Labor & Liberal politicians are all smiles about this outcome. The skate is at least in as much danger as before. #politas

pass the mic, cowards. There are plenty of women who know exactly what Liberal Party misogyny means for women, and for the body politic, including the role of press gallery muppets.

The creative wonders of pastry artist Magri Alberto. 🧑‍🍳 #pattisier #creative #pastry

And if you think the risk of death or Long Covid isn’t a good enough reason to mitigate the spread of respiratory viruses, maybe an increased chance of dementia and an increased chance it comes on earlier means something to you.

Cøvid and arrythmia REALLY common in clinical practice doi.org/10.1002/joa3...

This is so important! In so many ways, but getting to continue your effective mental health treatment while incarcerated is such a huge change Mind boggling that it isn’t already the case

Today we remember Auguste Escoffier, the king of French cuisine who passed away on this day in 1935. Dive into his life, legacy, and culinary genius on my podcast — a must for French food lovers! 🇫🇷 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f... #Escoffier #FrenchCuisine

“Long-term immune reactions… after an initial COVID infection may come with swelling that damages a critical brain barrier in the choroid plexus…. Physical, molecular & clinical evidence suggests that a larger CP may be an early warning sign of future Alzheimer’s-like cognitive decline.” New study:

What a kid 🌟@jessielilley.bsky.social

"social cohesion" is the "climate wars are over" of the late 2020s. Labor doesn't want peace, or cohesion or actual societal improvement. It wants everyone to stop yelling at them. It worked for the climate movement but it won't work for the anti-genocide movement.

If you don’t know why Substack sucks (and why I don’t use them):

Having first won an Olympic medal aged 15 in 2010, overnight Italian speed skater Adrianna Fontana became the first woman, and second overall, to win medals at six different Olympic Winter Games as part of the Mixed Team Relay which won gold. 📸Getty/Andreas Rentz

Substack is awful. There are so many alternatives out there!! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

TAKE ACTION In a world already reeling from damages caused by the current level of climate warming, how does it make sense to enable fracking of the Kimberley landscape, polluting rivers & aquifers for further fossil fuel extraction⁉️ Lodge an appeal AGAINST WA EPA's recommendation by 10 Feb 2026👇

POV from our snack pantry, in between us criticizing elite athletes in their Olympic events. Cred: myeonghoseo on IG

Four paintings from tne 'Bush flowers' series, by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Australian Indigenous artist from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

glory here

Is miso the most astounding transformation in the world of fermentation? Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! Brand new and exciting episode is out! What is the mysterious ancestral chinese paste "jiang"? and how's "qu" related to koji? Let's find out here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

So much sadness and despair 😭 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...