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Taking PhDing to new levels of avoidance, procrastination and delay, but, maybe this time, there is an end in sight. BlueSkying history, Musical Goddess Kate Ceberano and clouds. I do love clouds. Even though they are in The Outside. Which I don't like.
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RFK Jr has fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The US now has no CDC director and no ACIP. He alleges this is to reshape U.S. regulation of vaccines, food and medicine. More likely it's anti-vax measures. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event This is heartbreaking. We have fvcked the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Scott Morrison is almost certainly one of the “Robodebt Six” referred to the NACC for criminal and civil action. In Australia we don’t pursue him: we rig the NACC, refuse to investigate…then award him with honours. “Decision” still nowhere… (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/government-r...

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Any honours for #ScottyFromRobodebt would not only be tone deaf and farcical. It would be a massive insult to the thousands of welfare recipients and their families who were terrorized by Morrison's illegal scheme - some to suicide. #auspol

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

#ScuMo #ScottyTheMessiah #ScottyTheSnakeoilMan are only some of the many hashtags associated with the many rorts, scams, lies and actions of self-aggrandisement in the public life of #ScottyFromHillsong. Any OA award demeans the award and those who proffer it #auspol chng.it/N6H2MJtxSD

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MedPage Today: 'Not Just a Cold: Research Suggests Distinct Long COVID Symptoms in Infants and Preschoolers' As clinicians and researchers continue to untangle the complexities of long COVID in children, Yonker urged pediatricians to keep listening. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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"We’ve chosen to [break embargo] because we think it’s noteworthy that one of an elite class of Australians is de facto granted honours — especially someone with as ignominious a record as his. On Sunday at 10pm when the embargo lifts? His honour will be swept up in a sea of hundreds of awardees."

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

This is just hilarious. “Women are #SufficientlyAssertive now,” Stockdale told the virtual meeting of at least 50 #women, “that we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men’s involvement.” #AusPol I have to admit I am feeling #SufficientlyAssertive tonight. 🤭

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Eisenhower 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

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“A…study…this week showed that Long COVID is common in children, affecting 10% to 20% of children who have had COVID. Almost 6 million children in the U.S. are impacted by Long COVID, which is higher than the number of children diagnosed with asthma, the most common chronic condition in childhood.”

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Melbourne University used to be rightfully proud of its role in the Vietnam War protest movement. In one lifetime this institution has become brittle and Tory. #AusPol

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14-15% ⚠️ ‘Overall, among children who had been previously infected with COVID-19, 40 of 278 infants 2 years and under (14%) and 61 of 399 children ages 3 to 5 years (15%) had persistent symptoms that could be likely classified as long COVID.’

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COVID-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows Researchers in Denmark found that COVID-19 causes a higher disease burden than influenza, leading to more hospitalisations and deaths, highlighting its greater impact on public health. Source: archive.md/6wBcw

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A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf project in Western Australia will be a “great gas giveaway” : $215 billion in royalty-free gas for Woodside. australiainstitute.org.au/post/great-g...

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Super tax has really upset the very well off-what a fecking shame!

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Wish we had #COVID research in #Australia. You’re basically left to deal with #LongCOVID health impacts on your own. GPs don’t believe you, so gods know what other stuff is going on inside that isn’t obviously manifesting itself. #RheumatoidArthritis #Breathlessness #LittleGreyCells #AusPolFail

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Extending the licence for the #NorthWestShelf #gas project won’t assist #Australia’s #EnergyTransition, experts say, even as it allows #Woodside and its foreign partners to profit from the nation’s #MineralWealth while delivering “almost nothing” to the #NationalPurse. #FossilFuels #AusPolFail

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Printed all the words written for the #LongAwaitedOftAvoidedThesis over the past 19 years yesterday. 83,001 words. 85% complete and utter bollocks. This be me.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This police commissioner chief person has to be corrupt. #AlexCross #Cross

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My brain trying to deal with the news today.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

WHO warns of rising COVID activity in 3 global regions, driven by the new variant NB.1.8.1. Western Pacific Southeast Asia Eastern Mediterranean regions "Global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that have not been observed since July 2024"

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Sigh. More Covid info that none of us want to face. We all wish it would fizzle out. Yet here we are... "The evidence so far suggests NB.1.8.1 may spread more easily and may partially sidestep immunity from prior infections or vaccination." 😷 #auspol #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I can say about the Sandy B film #BirdBox was it got me out of bed. Not a film that can be cosily watched in bed. Do we find out what created the thingy that you shouldn’t see? It was us wasn’t it? Am I going to need two of the chocolate protein-added muffins that I’ve just baked?

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LLC on FB

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Only boring, unimaginative and dull people call #Canberra boring. The only thing we don’t have here are beaches and given all the sharks and the stingrays, sunburn and sand getting into places that sand really shouldn’t be in, it’s not a bad thing. www.timeout.com/australia/ne...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Health care is a public service not a profit centre - #NoMoreHealthscopes #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Les Winsper who witnessed the incident: “People started banging on the [car] windows. Then they smashed the windows & he’s panicked & put his foot down. He then hit someone & that person has gone in the air & he’s ploughed through the rest of them. I’ve never seen anything like it.” #Liverpool

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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments