In the wake of last year’s Tripe Zero outages, calls for telco security are growing again after firefighters and others lost connectivity while fighting blazes across the state. #politics #victoria

There is growing interest in using inflammatory biomarkers, such as procalcitonin or CRP, to guide clinical decision-making on the duration of antibiotic therapy in patients who are critically ill. #AnSky #ICUSky #sepsis doi.org/10.1111/anae...

The benefit cap. The two-child limit. Years of austerity. Now 4.5 million children live in poverty. Child poverty isn’t just numbers. It’s cold bedrooms, missed meals, exclusion, poor health & futures curtailed.

#OtD 12 Jan 1904 a rebellion began by Herero people in Namibia against German occupation. Eventually however, they were defeated by the Germans, who attempted to exterminate all Herero people in what is considered the 1st genocide of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8394...

NEW: London has recorded its lowest homicide rate since records began. The evidence is clear - our approach to tackling violent crime is working.

Kemi, this is just a population density map

A rare post with my professional hat on – the classic U-shape of happiness has changed, because young people are increasingly unhappy

This fire in the high country is chunking away, not yet under control, and now spotting north east to the top of the Great Divide ... themountainjournal.com/2026/01/12/t...

In news which should be shocking to absolutely no-one with an ounce of commonsense or humanity, providing gender affirming care to trans young people reduces risks of harm. Preventing trans young people accessing treatment has never been about "protecting children" www.advocate.com/health/trans...

A quarter of the way into the 21st century, violence has become routine and people have become desensitised. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1445/an...

e360.yale.edu/digest/hebro... These seeds were obviously Hamas. #FuckWar

Dr Fernanda Alves @febiologia.bsky.social spoke to the ABC about a creative tool she has gifted to forty-spotted pardalotes to arm them against a deadly parasitic fly that is killing their nestlings. @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

this is the WORST outcome! this is what disabled folks have been protesting against! VAD only ‘works’ when everyone has their needs met in the first instance!!! I’M SO ANGRY ABOUT THIS I’m sorry you’re being let down like this, Tony 💔

Andy Marso advocates for vaccines, because he knows what it's like to get meningococcal disease, a form of bacterial meningitis. Gruesome pics at the bottom of the article, if you can stomach seeing what it did to his arms & legs & fingers.

It’s probably some weird primate thing but I love it when my kids let me comb out their hair. My eldest gets massive knots in there and it’s so satisfying untangling it all. They let me cut about 5 inches off it too (it still reaches past their mid-back in length). Feeling v satisfied with my work

Monday thoughts #happiness

Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black summer

There's a lot going on at the moment, globally. But NASA is gearing up to send a very big rocket, and four humans on a journey around the Moon - as early as next month. I think this is a cool and good human thing that we should be talking about. Humans are going on a journey to THE MOON!!!!

Tip my Ko-Fi $25NZD or more before Mon 19th Jan at 10.00am & you’ll go in the draw to win my ‘Green Girl’ Cross Stitch (78.5cm x 70cm unframed). Almost a year of daily work to finish. Please share widely, I need as many supporters as possible. #Kikorangi #CrossStitch ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch

a professional con artist, at the time his ancestor took on this name. And his great-grandfather no better Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather | Donald Trump | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Louise Adler is the child of Holocaust survivours &used to be a convinced Zionist until she visited Israel... “European Jews stamped my passport, Middle Eastern Jews manned luggage carousels while Palestinians swept floors… entrenched racism underpinning the establishment of the State of Israel.”

Mass mortality event in grey headed fruit bats- bad on so many reasons: any loss of wildlife is tragic; greyheaded fruit bats pollinate our big trees, often migratory along the east coast & fruit bats are mammals, so when one species reaches its upper thermal limit it’s a major warning for MAMMALS 😬

It’s slow going, I’m well short of what I was hoping for. I hope I made the right decision… feeling a wee bit stressed… 😬 #Kikorangi #CrossStitch ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch

What we ate last week - Week 2 2026 phonakins.com/2026/01/12/w...

Reminder for peeps in Australia or anywhere else with fires, corsi-rosenthal boxes are a really great, easy, cheap way to filter air and make it safer to breathe. Just need a box fan, HEPA filters, and duct tape.

Two new posts today: I’m starting a new series called Keeping Up With the Coalition because wow this unruly chaos crew sure need a lot of keeping up with. All the horrible stuff + qs in desperate need of answers! Please share as that really helps me do this work!

When you call protestors "Mossad agents" bc you'd rather blame the Jews than cheer for Iranians, you help the regime by making it easier to kill protestors. "They were foreign actors, so we killed them." They're not foreign. A lot of you need to look inside and ask why you need that to be true.

Fuck, we had a bunch of cunts try to kick off at our rally. They king hit someone who's now off at hospital and the place is crawling with cops The summernats crowd hadn't been a problem previous years, but this time they've been empowered with extra racism

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” | Albert Camus #DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Resilience #Hope

This news broke at the end of my shift on Sunday. The details were skant but the sequence of events they implied were horrific. My condolences are with this man's family.

Workforce Australia just posted this on FB Mutual obligation requirements will be paused for participants in the Goulburn Murray Employment Region due to bushfires, from Monday 12 January 2026 to Sunday 8 February 2026 (inclusive). www.workforceaustralia.gov.au/individuals/...

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. is about to launch a dangerously unethical experiment in West Africa.

#NZpol Indeed, one of the many goals of this govt *is* to wear good people down, reduce energy to fight, while *deliberately* dismembering what remains of Aotearoa. So *pls do support those shining a light on what's happening * - def happy to up @emilywrites.co.nz as a help to push back it all 👍

We’re going to go through the same old conversation about the 26th of January… and I’d honestly be surprised if we get through the day itself without some sort of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. That’s where we are right now. Anyway, take care. No pride in genocide.

Grok’s recent scandal generating sexualized images of women and minors is horrifying. It’s not the first time. This AI has a documented history of antisemitism, praising Hitler, spreading “white genocide” conspiracies, and posting violent content.

Because I never got the chance to celebrate Seijin-no-hi, my uncle and aunt arranged for a photo shoot wearing my cousin’s beautiful furisode 🥰

The eternal cry of the abusive male – "Look what you made me do!"

Hello, I am leaving Twitter (again!) I've been struggling to open this app instead of the evil one, because of the brain rot I have acquired on the evil one, but I'm only posting on here from now on! Come say hi so I know who's here/what's good! And pls scream at me if you see me on the bad one.

One of the lesser remarked-upon inhumane behaviors of the Minneapolis ICE shooters is that they prevented medical assistance from providing any aid or comfort to the shooting victim. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Flagging Grok’s popularity in New Zealand is a dangerous distraction from stark reality: this surge is driven by tool's weaponisation to nudify women, & create CSAM. Celebrating moral failures that prioritise engagement over safety is so emblematic of Twitter/X. @legallyfeminist.bsky.social #nzpol

One of the reasons I hate Gen AI so much is cool things are actually happening, but now people can't even recognize it for all the fake slop out there That big inflatable Baymax-coded turbine is not only 💯 real and authentic, it's 1 of several designs being tested www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Sounds like Trump has been chatting with this fellow who co-hosted Charlie Kirk’s podcast and who wrote a book on “the left” entitled “Unhumans” that was blurbed by JD Vance and DJT JR.

My "What You Need To Know About Tear Gas" thread: First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.

“We believe that people in this world have a right to live their lives in peace and lives of freedom and happiness in their own country,” frontman Simon Le Bon told the crowd, according to Billboard. “For all the ordinary people in this world, we wish upon you an ordinary world.”

No staff, no equipment, no medicine: a doctor on returning to Gaza after 665 days in an Israeli prison www.theguardian.com/global-devel...