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fioname.bsky.social
Victoria, Australia. Former professional wordsmith. 14+ years living with the hell of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). Prone to so-called left-wing views & bingeing good TV 🤓
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Well-loved, Threads turned into a nasty pile of dung today, so I guess I'll be back here for a while ... is anyone still here, especially #auspol nerds & #pwME? * Cue tumbleweeds *

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Normally I respect Anthony Komaroff's summaries of complex #mecfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis symptoms & research, but this one doesn't quite hit the mark for me. Thoughts? www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The BMJ have a long history of being anti-ME/CFS and the recent opinion piece has been disheartening. Ramsay mentioned this and Wessely in a letter just months before he died in 89. That said, it’s been good to see such strong pushback in the responses www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"When clinicians believe that severe ME/CFS stems from “unhelpful illness beliefs,” lifesaving interventions may be withheld, on the basis that they “reinforce” these beliefs in patients."

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

#MECFSAwarenessMonth – Day 16 May 2017: Merryn Crofts dies of Severe ME. Merryn’s mum, Clare Norton, is very critical of the PACE trial and the NICE guideline, believing advice to slow down and rest earlier might have prevented her deterioration into Severe ME.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway and Slovenia. Australia should be doing the same.

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

Perhaps Tim Wilson can tell us how much the Liberal Party spent on his campaign, and how big were the cheques that Advance, Australians for Prosperity and other Atlas and Liberal-aligned organisations cashed on his behalf to shoehorn him back into Goldstein?

submitted 47 days ago • 90 comments

FFS! Say what you like about a female politician's career decisions, but leave sexist personal remarks out of it. Trolls like this show we've learned nothing from the disgraceful 'ditch the witch' Gillard era mentality. FYI @amyremeikis.bsky.social @janecaro.bsky.social @traceyspicer.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Based on the mostly complete AEC 3CP count, I have moved #Ryan to expected Green retain status.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

You know, I’m the Jewish descendent of grandparents who fled the Holocaust. I think about how the intergenerational trauma still reverberates in our family. The damage. And then I ask myself: For how many generations will the genocide in Palestine reverberate in THOSE families?

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Good read from @dlew919.bsky.social of the New Politics podcast ##Auspol2025 open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Sarah Hanson Young, Greens senator on RN this morning: 'this will be the most progressive parliament Australia has ever seen. The Libs spent too much time on Sky After Dark, they got into a right wing echo chamber & couldn't hear what people wanted. People have voted against nasty culture wars'.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

The Liberal party now only holds two seats previously held by its leaders - Wannon (Fraser) and Cook (Morrison). Voters comprehensively rejected it. The question is - will Labor? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

submitted 50 days ago • 46 comments

Some irony that Peter Dutton no longer has a Voice to parliament #auspol

submitted 50 days ago • 26 comments

"Australia has fired Peter Dutton into the sun, taking much of the Liberal Party and its future with him." Analysis from Jacob Greber. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

#mecfs #pwME #disability #Australia

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke to @charischang.bsky.social at SBS News about some of the key seats to watch on election day www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

What a great bunch of people to nurse hangovers with

submitted 53 days ago • 10 comments

Gobsmacking 😫 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Any other Aussies following the Canadian election? Interesting to see the similarities & differences between their system and ours. #Canada www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/ou...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

One, two, three, four, five LNP ads during one single ad break?? I hope you ran Labor and Greens ads in another break @7newsaustralia.bsky.social #Auspol2025

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment