Dr. Seuss, 1941. library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

This:

northern lights are out in sitka 🤩

Panadol/Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy does not increase Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=092325

Happy 78th Birthday to Stephen King 🥳

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

It’s Spring in Australia as the rest of the world seems a dark place. I’ll switch off the news and go into the garden to contemplate living in Australia where we don’t have a right wing conservative government. And thank god for that.

Please listen to the strong argument Justice Sotomayor makes for our freedoms.

Trump’s corruption knows no bounds.

As I told Jimmy Kimmel, when is it enough?

'Trump threatens ABC journalist' is a headline that could refer to the U.S. president threatening two different individuals, working for two different news organizations (the American Broadcasting Company and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), during a single press conference today:

Gene sequences, chemical reactions & laws of physics tend to certainty, but biology may be constrained to': our best understanding is that' & by probability & relative risk. Court rulings increasingly demand scientific certainty – but that’s not always possible theconversation.com/court-ruling...

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

Oxempic/Wegovy etc: “Studies suggest muscle loss with these medications … ranges from 25% to 39% of the total weight lost over 36–72 weeks” 🧪 A portion of the weight loss is muscle loss- include resistance exercise training www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

MASA , Make America Sicker. Again Vax Quack Lacks Facts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Some more spring blossoms from my house in Canberra.

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

At least in science, high tech & higher ed areas where the USA has been ahead but is now ceding to China, a good % of 'American exceptionalism' over the past several decades has been built on imported talent, which isn't necessarily all-white and protestant. Dumb & dumber have reasserted control.

Symbolic of an American King, an America Croesus? What would that 'plain man' (and very smart man) Ben Franklin, & other Founding Fathers who signed the US Declaration of Independence & the 1787 Constitution, make of this? How can this be the USA? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

Good morning from #wheretheriverbends. Oh yes! It’s crisp and clear, the gusty winds are gone and the sun’s gonna shine all day. The goodies are on the table, ready for Sunday grazing, EASE into your day and ENJOY 😊🙏💙

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Denmark has apparently just created new copyright laws to protect your face, voice and images from being used online by others and by AI without your permission. It’s the first country to do this.

A note on Linda Reynolds www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The world has done dark stuff happening care of human beings. So let’s be happy that nature gives us seasons and flowers are blooming in Australia.

Step 1: Another mass shooting. Step 2: Thoughts & fucking prayers™. Step 3: Someone suggests maybe- just MAYBE- we try gun control. Step 4: NRA lobbyists slither in like swamp eels with checkbooks. Step 5: Congress says, “Too soon. Step 6: NOTHING. #GunReformNow #NRABloodMoney

🐶❤️🐶 Border Collie meets Aussie on the trail… play bows, tail wags & pure doggy diplomacy. Friendship sealed in seconds. 🌲✨ #DogsofBluesky #CanineCompanions #Wholesome #WoofGang

This is fundamentally insane. Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.

Trump says immigrants must prove ‘good moral character’ — this from the guy who paid hush money to a porn star, stole from his own charity, and tried to overturn an election.

Let’s stop calling them ‘medical miracles’, let’s instead call them, SCIENCE. Keep your miracles for your books of fantasy and fairy tales.

That’s why I’m asking you to join us in calling for a safer world without nuclear weapons. #CultureAgainstNukes

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Vaccines have helped to control many diseases that caused widespread suffering in the past, and continue to do so to this day. Professor of Immunology Charles Bangham FRS explains why we know #vaccines work and why they are so effective: royalsociety.org/blog/2021/01...

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

The message: Your phone is running out of storage space! The reason:

Trump destroying satellites that monitor weather and carbon. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Rosellas eating camellia flowers.

simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/c... - details of my new article on conceptualising immunities in the COVID age with a graphic I made to illustrate it

Why are covid antivirals still being rationed in Australia? Surely, like influenza antivirals, it should be completely up to a doctor who they prescribe these to?! Not some govt authority trying to save a buck 💵 @AlboMP @healthgovau

We had a guest for drinks on the deck tonight.