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paul.kidd.id.au
Activist, defender, husband, dad, lover, fighter, HIV+, treehugger, aspirant francophone, Eurovision tragic. He/him/comrade/daddy. My personal views, no-one else’s, and defs not legal advice. 🌏 Dja Dja Wurrung country ⚡️ https://linktr.ee/paulkidd
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📢 A pioneering study led by Past IAS President Sharon Lewin has used #mRNA technology to flush the #HIV virus out of hiding – a groundbreaking advance that brings us closer to a cure. 📰 Read about this powerful step forward in HIV science in @nytimes.com! 👇

Who knew Robodebt would have such a happy ending?

That iss not how punk workss.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

A lot of people saying Scott Morrison doesn’t deserve the AC, but he’s one of only two people who can say they prevented Peter Dutton becoming prime minister.

hi, divorce expert here! this is not funny, JD Vance only does this when he's in extreme distress.

What what what what what what what‽

Where the bloody hell AC you

May 2025 infographic

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Review of @v8sheppard.bsky.social’s novel ‘King of Dirt’ says ‘there isn’t a single reference to Kylie.’ Well that settles it for me. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

SCRAG FIGHT! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Strands #460 “String's attached” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵🟡 Horrible, horrible

From an accomplished physician & #HIV researcher who has provided care & produced practice-changing evidence since the beginning of the pandemic. Thank you, Ken Mayer, for writing this important piece about the #LavenderPurge for @iasociety.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Musk cheered when he ‘put USAID through a wood chipper’. Over 300,000 people have died since then, mostly children. Millions are estimated to die within Trumps presidency due to Musk. Do not give this man redemption. Give him prison time 🚮 www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Wordle 1,448 3/6* ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

For the life of me I cannot figure out why Donald Trump is trying to destroy higher education

Chris Gunness: "The Israeli American aid operation has turned Gaza into a human abattoir, where starving civilians are herded like animals into fenced off pens and in the process are slaughtered like cattle"

Climate change is happening in Melbourne, and it's getting worse. #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info/b/australasi...

*Killed amid gunfire* Not by it. Not by anyone in particular.

Groundbreaking research from the Doherty Institute in Melbourne might bring us one step closer to a cure for #HIV. Incredible stuff. #HIVcure www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Connections Puzzle #725 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Good grief

Strands #459 “Mary, Mary, quite ...” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Bizarrely easy today

Wordle 1,447 3/6* 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

America delenda est.

Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock? theonion.com/why-do-...

I asked for this. And boy did @mcsweeneys.net deliver.

An 81-year-old Reagan appointee born during World War II has been protecting trans people in federal prison in the face of Trump admin efforts. Today, Judge Royce Lamberth sided with challengers who sought a class-wide preliminary injunction protecting hormone therapy and social accommodations.

Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. https://popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-in-corporate

On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

Ukraine has relied on Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a trans former journalist as a spokesperson for years. Russia convicted her **in absentia** for terrorism for pushing back against their propaganda. Trans folks get the job done. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

the Minns government is refusing to find $30 million pa to retain public system psychiatrists while announcing over $100 million for prisons - places that cause and exacerbate mental health conditions - in case you were wondering about NSW Labor priorities.

The Sicilian government never should have shown Mt Etna that video of Alexander Skarsgård kissing Pedro Pascal

leaving a review for your recent drone purchases like

Strands #457 “That's proprietary!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Man. Fuck

Wordle 1,445 3/6* 🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"The HIV justice movement was born out of crisis, but it is sustained by hope. We know change is possible – because we’ve seen it. But now we cannot take any of that progress for granted." A call to action on #HIVcriminalisation in Casablanca this week. www.hivjustice.net/news/humanis...

Pluto never gave up:)