#AgedCareAustralia When first assessed for MaC, you're shoved onto CHSP. Why? Because there are no funds. If you live rurally - no providers. So then you wait. And wait. & wait. Until you have a fall or incident which hospitalises you. Then you're discharged back home & it all repeats ad nauseum.

Quelle surprise. This is what happens when the aged care (oxymoron) system is broken and successive governments will not fix it, knowing we are all going to die sooner rather than later so why not speed up the process. #AgedCareAustralia #MyAgedCare #ThisSucks hellocare.com.au/hospitals-bu...

It's ALL about the money. #AgedCareAustralia #MyAgedCare #RortsRUs michaelwest.com.au/aged-care-se...

Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51. Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u... via @nytimes.com

I miss my little mister noisy pants. I miss my Billy boy. I miss his constant chatter, his need to be sitting on me at all times, his smelly breath, his great green eyes that used to gaze at me so adoringly. I still feel like I cut his life short, that I took something I had no right to take.

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

archive.is/SXadQ #AgedCareAustralia is an oxymoron.

Calling older persons waiting in hospital beds for aged care beds ‘bed blockers’ is completely unacceptable. They are not the bed blockers - the bed blocker is the failure of governments to effectively plan for the future demand for aged care places. #politas

The comments in the donations are telling. #AgedCareAustralia #MyAgedCare #AgedCareIsBroken www.change.org/p/no-pension...

24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports. The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies... Image: Anera

I was so upset & angry that the MaC assessor completely ignored the fact that I've been socially isolated since 2019 & made no reference to social support in her recommendations I searched online & found Red Cross provide visitors. I'll try them b/c since my last cat died I am hanging by a thread.

Name shame and consequences is the only way, wearing sunglasses and masks just displays them as the cowards they are #auspol

#MyAgedCare #AgedCareAustralia #CHSP So despite 30 years of debilitating chronic worsening disability, I've been assessed over the phone as only eligible for CHSP. As further penance because I live rurally, there is only one provider. They dont provide meals,osteo, or social support in my area.

I should be working on book #6 but I just ate another quarter of a whole mudcake because grief and now I just feel sick 😆

My furbaby came home. His ashes are with my other wee baby. Together forever. And when I die, their ashes will be mixed with mine and together we'll rest in the heart of the world. #PetLoss #Grief

This is #MyAgedCareAustralia an absolute clusterfuck. Thanks to the author. #AgedCareAustralia #MyAgedCare arena.org.au/a-genealogy-...

He's been gone a week and the silence in my house echoes with loss. The rest of the world moved on but here I stand, still. Time has stopped. I've been here before, so many, many times and it never gets easier. The weight of grief. The price of love. #PetLoss #Grief

The weight of my grief is crushing me. Farewell my last cat, my Very Good Boy, my BillyBoyBumbleButt. Mummy loves Billy forever. #CatLoss #Bereft #Grief

Good turn out to protest the Launceston Cup at the Mowbray Racecourse today! 👏👏👏 #NupToTheCup (Photos supplied)

It’s that of time year. Seeing people having fun grinds my gears. I don’t like horse racing and the culture it represents of fun and socialising. It’s around 2 days before I start my banal #nuptothecup posts. Let’s all be boring wowsers please. #nuptofun #fitzdiddums @peterfitz1.bsky.social

Please. Have nothing to do with the Melbourne Cup. It's a bloodsport. A race horse dies every second day. It's cruel. It's immoral. It should be banned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #auspol

The death toll in Australian horse racing only gets worse... horseracingkills.com/2025/10/28/b... #Horses #AusPol #AusPol2025 #AnimalRights #Animals #AnimalWelfare #NuptotheCup

SHOCKING RACEHORSE DEATH REPORT 🏇😡 "I can give you at least 175 reasons to skip the races this year." - Georgie Purcell MP Annual report shows, on average, one horses dies every two days in Australian horse racing. #Horses #NuptotheCup #HorseRacing #AnimalWelfare #Animals #AusPol #AusPol2025

“Annual report shows, on average, one horses dies every two days in Australian horse racing.” 😡😭 #Nuptothecup

Kill the industry Not the horses! #NupToTheCup

sentient beings, not entertainment 🎪 🏇 #NupToTheCup ✨ 🌷

JOIN OUR NUP TO THE CUP EVENT IN SYDNEY Please join us on Tuesday in Martin Place to say Nup to the Melbourne Cup. Hear from our MP Emma Hurst and give a voice to the horses forced into this industry. Event details here: bit.ly/4qAoLDu #AusPol #AusPol2025 #NuptotheCup #AnimalRights #Horses

At least 174 racehorses died from racing or training injuries in past the 12 months in Australia. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... 5000 racehorses are sent to slaughter annually. #YouBetTheyDie Say #nuptothecup in Launceston, Lutruwita/ Tasmania, this Tuesday.👇

THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE #FREEFREEPALESTINE #DDTTIDF

A Blessed Beltane to those of us witches in the Southern Hemisphere.

All he needs is a wee moustache. #MuskIsANazi

And if rain on sealed soil does make it into aquifers, it carries with it all our multi-material, multi-toxic detritus, microplastics and tyre ruboff. Yummy for the critters underground whose existence positively contributes to water quality but whose populations are in serious decline already. 20/

It's a 2 cupcake, 2 coffee CGAF day as I try every tin of catfood I could to get my old boy to eat. He's barely managed 50 grams of food today 😭 #CKD #FKD #RenalFailureIsSoCruel

Today I'm taking a deep dive into mortality salience and terror management theory in order to survive the initiation into #MyAgedCare #AgedCareAustralia #AgedCareSystemIsBroken

Cue real life Hunger Games. This will be live streamed from the USA.

I've had my morning doomscroll and now, thoroughly depressed, I await the plumber to finally, after 6 years waiting, install a grab rail in my shower (plus a few other necessary repairs). Have a day, everyone xoxox

why would the tax office want to chase corporates and rich folks, when it can torment people on income support? 'ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including welfare recipients' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor liked the Coalitions Robodebt scam so much it created a fake front called the NACC to actively squash any chance of investigations or prosecutions. They've now teamed up with the Symbos Group private enterprise debt collectors for phase 2 where the ATO crawls up your arse from the back end 😳

And yet poor people, the disabled, the elderly and those on income support are the problem and should be punished harder. #auspol #bullshit

Recommend www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

4 years ago the furry love of my life, my soulcat Tigger,died in my arms. On this 4th reminder of his death,his rose bloomed. I grew this from a cutting I took 2 years ago. Cecile Brunner. The frangrance, the beauty-he is still with me in my heart, even though I grieve his loss every day of my life.

From Eureka Stockade to Jack Mundey, radical action has driven change. Today, centrists are trying to vilify protestors. ‘The idea that people protesting against fascists... is just as dangerous as the people they are protesting about, is nuts.’ - Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

FFS

If there's one word I loathe, detest, despise, hate ... that drives me to red rage and harsh obscenities, it's the word "panties". It is an infantile, sexualised, cringeworthy word that should be edited out of any published manuscript or writing. Imagine writing about men that way? OCN

"Greta’s resistance reminds us that peace cannot be handed down by those who profit from war; but built by those who dare to expose its players. Her power is not measured in medals or applause but in the tremor she sends through a world built on denial." www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251020-gre...

When a tragic minor character in a fictional book has you sobbing for more than 2 days, you know you've been burying your grief for a long time. #DungeonCrawlerCarl #MattDinniman #Ferdinand #BrokeMyHeart

Oh no. What a shock. #DDTTIDF #FreeFreePalestine #SatanyahuIsAWarCriminal #DonorrheaIsAWarCriminal #SanctionIsrael