Fun fact: hyper mobility is likely a risk factor for later acquiring ME/CFS

Today I ordered some fire wood. I had been putting it off because I didn’t know how I would physically manage it. But I found a lady who sold it to me and, after I explained I have ME/CFS, she included taking it around the back and stacking it for me with no extra charge. What a legend.

Pretty incredible that no other outlet has snapped this up for publication after The Mercury declined it (?!)…. Although that context itself is not irrelevant to how we have ended up in this dire situation.

@harvilla.bsky.social I’m glad you didn’t delete your most egregious dad joke one final time 😁

Toy break up songs for the Coalition?

Some of discoveries in the post Morrison era include the ridiculous reliance Australian bureaucracies have developed on corporations to do the work of the understaffed and underfunded public sector. Thankfully Albo turned some of that around. And may that trajectory continue

Pre election reminder, Australia has some of the lowest taxes in the ‘developed’ world. It makes you wonder how long, how many decades in fact, this “tax cuts” election promise can continue before we need to be reclassified as “developing”. It needs to turn around, starting with billionaires

Is your candidate saying things like this? If not, why not? - m.youtube.com/shorts/m6rCu...

Important election update. And as always minority government is always more representational than majority

Just a bit of lofi, old skool ocker simplicity to nourish your nostalgia youtu.be/-HJ08bbSrHQ

Deadset legend

What I’m getting from this is that TrumpedUp thinks our GST is the thing he is reciprocating with his ‘reciprocal’ tariff

Can I just say this guy, Cory Booker, is a deadset legend. I tuned in a few times to this epic 24hr+ speech and my word, it was such a joy and a relief to hear well reasoned, intelligent and constituent-representating discourse in politics, especially US politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More important than ever, one might argue

SBS airs my film Franklin tomorrow (Sunday 23) at 10:40pm. I’ll be asleep but I’ll appear awake to anyone watching

Turns out "the Prime Minister wants to introduce new laws to let destructive salmon corporations bypass environmental protections. I've signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition to protect the Maugean skate - will you join me?" nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...

The only enticement I have to start smoking is to make use of every feature in my car. It’s not a strong enticement

“Start with this principle: don’t face your fears alone. Make friends, meet your neighbours, set up support networks, help those who are struggling. Since the dawn of humankind, those with robust social networks have been more resilient than those without..”

@harvilla.bsky.social it brings me joy to know you have the sense of connection to Rob from High Fidelity that I imagined before hearing you say it 😁 I rebought it on DVD recently but once upon a time had it on veee aitch essssss

All hail Tilde

I studied film, wrote about it, & discussed it as a broadcaster for over a decade. Recently, however, I've struggled to find a space to hold its magic in our current reality—a framework of madness, horror, & terror. Tilda's speech casts cinema in the realm of possibility, solidarity & imagination.

My washing machine’s turn on turn is in perfect tune with Kermit’s Rainbow Connection (before the key change)

Telling it how it is

Took a scam call for the team: fake paypal wanting to scare me into handing over personal details so they could "cancel a flagged transaction". I kept throwing him off script by saying that the flagged transaction looked correct and I didn't need to have it cancelled. We went for 7 minutes.

I have ordered myself a kufiya/keffiyeh

Great feature of Bluesky. I always forgot on other apps to add an image description

There are nice things in this world ☺️

I’ve signed. Having had my boyfriend at the time’s blood donation thrown out on account of me identifying as trans, even before taking any steps to transition, it’s about time we get over this ideological barrier to saving lives

Today I was heartened by listening to the Infinite Monkey Cage and remembering there are millions upon millions of stars and planets and cosmic stuff out there that we are part of. Just passing through this extraordinary thing called life. It’s good to have perspective

🌻 This sun flower is waaay taller than me. And my tomatoes are coming along well. Thanks to everyone who has cared for my garden plot while I’ve been grappling with CFS

Obligatory reminder that today is Invasion Day, a day of mourning, and not celebration. Sovereignty was never ceded. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

‘Uncle Dave’ found the answer

The neighbour’s dog 🐕 just barked like it was counting in the New Radicals’ Get What You Give youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE

I’ve spent more of my life thinking of the cure as a band than as a medical outcome

I’ve signed

Today realised how valuable wearing my leg brace is to indicate I’m a crip, even though is the ME/CFS that is stopping me from moving faster than hobble speed

The Artist’s Way morning pages really do help

Not the news I’d hope to share but—NIH’s massive Long Covid study has a new paper finding 1 in 22 participants who had Covid developed the neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. 80% of people w/ME are too sick to hold a full-time job—gov abandoning us to face this risk on a daily basis is unconscionable.

After all these years I still turn to Being In Voice vocal exercises. Just did the humming warm up @flloydwith2ells.bsky.social

“Peter Dutton’s passion and commitment in condemning anti-Semitism is laudable, yet a similar attitude is lacking in relation to Indigenous disadvantage. This is not the approach of a strong leader," writes John Hewson. "This is the work of a divisive opportunist.”

More cat love, because what else is the internet for

One up cat ship, even though he was also the cat in the last photos

A tiny lion showing us the way

@q-dog.bsky.social 👋

@chloeblackcomedy.bsky.social welcome to a lighter shade of blue