#VAD and #PallCare should be seen as completely complementary. #EoL

Dawn over suburban #TweedHeads

The fossil has been trotted out - again!! The John Howard Eyebrows-O-Meter™ ranking of Liberal desperation www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/05/j...

When you just know you’re being watched… #TawnyFrogMouth

So, I just picked up the @anzca.bsky.social Bulletin to read that the marvellous @gonggasgirl.bsky.social is the College’s President-elect. What a wonderful thing. Brava Tanya! 👏

Common sense and impressive outcomes from across the ditch. 👇

@barbarapocock.bsky.social always the voice of reason.

Great to catch @nickraschke.bsky.social at the bowlo this afternoon. Newy at its finest! 😎

Couldn’t give a rats who makes particular safer smoke-free nicotine option - whether it’s Big Tobacco or not - as long as it’s lower risk, available, attractive, affordable & accessible @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Take a look at this video, 'mark carney davos speech' This is Statesmanship!

Wonderful letter of apology to world’s 1.3 billion smokers on behalf of public health from Dr Mark Tyndall, extraordinary Canadian doctor @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...

And every music lover (not just Béla Fleck fans) would support this act of principle! 🎶🎶👏

Bethell the future of English cricket? 🏏

#70sTop30 Day 6 1971 Nick Drake - Northern Sky youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?...

With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.

To be hoped they win their opening match! ⚽️⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Why o’why do people feel the need to post pictures of their (usually pathetic) bodies at the gym before/during/after a workout. No one gives AF about how you look. Just do it and STFU already!

This country, 🇺🇸, is lost/deluded/broken.

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.

And AUKUS is only about subs… right? Riiiiight???

In the first hours of 2026, catching up on the @robertarnol.bluesky.social NYE playlist. What a start to the year. Thanks Rob. 🎶🎶🎶

Putin reduced to trash-talking. Such a loser! Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

Armed para-milataries on the street - Just NO!

One day cricket definitely entertaining!! 🏏 #Ashes

Very common around The Tweed 🇦🇺. Foreign visitors always surprised!

On the dock, waiting for Xmas seafood to land. 🎅🦞🍤🦀🎄Tweed Heads.

It’s a hot one… a miner has to drink! NSW North Coast

An inquisitive juvenile pied butcher bird. NSW Northcoast

US Milatary aircraft with disabled transponder in Venezuelan airspace. It’s getting serious.

The GoFundMe for Ahmed remains active… now at over 1m! gofund.me/1f1e17d32

American football on bar TV. It’s all just an “up-the-jumper” try!! 🏉 IYKYK

Covid back for Xmas and into January.

The world is watching. #SoMeBan

The future of chimeric antigen receptor T (CART) cell therapy "Current challenges, lessons learned, potential solutions and applications in the treatment of solid tumors." academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...

This review summarizes the diagnosis and treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, a rare limb-pain disorder. Early rehabilitation and multidisciplinary care are key; most patients improve within 18 months. @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Sunbaking Peewee. ☀️

Critics warn snus & nicotine pouches could be “gateway” to smoking. But Nordic data challenge this claim. Gateway theory ⬆️use nicotine pouches should ➡️⬆️ smoking. But across Nordic countries, exact opposite occurred: as snus & pouch use ⬆️, smoking declined sharply snusforumet.se/en/new-nordi...

Gotta love the local highway patrol. Reindeer horns and Santa as pillion.

Spiegel has it spot on: “Trump the destroyer of democracy”.

A very special posthumous release. The incomparable John Martyn.

Corella… hide and seek!

Infantino & Trump… two peas in a rotting pod!

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Nicotine vapes have lots going for them as quit smoking aids. Plenty of evidence of effectiveness. Plus wildly popular as a quit smoking aid. Also, often work as a quit smoking aid when smokers try them out of curiosity with no intention to quit. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Rapidly deteriorating mess from Australia’s sky high cigarette excise. Boosting smokes through lower prices in black market. Would you like some violence with that? Gifts that Ideology keeps on giving @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social x.com/ChrisEconomi...

Like most other countries Australia refuses to learn lessons of illicit cannabis. Demand=strong. Supply=easy. Prohibition hasn’t got chance to work. Repeats same mistake with vapes & gets same result! Duh! @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Happy St Andrews Day to all who celebrate! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

How WHO got others to do its dirty work silencing & attacking tobacco harm reduction at a recent important international meeting @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social www.thefirebreak.org/p/what-i-saw...