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Musician. Atheist. Carer. Covid hasn't gone away. This machine loathes patriarchy.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am yet to be persuaded that Albanese did this protest for any other reason than to be photographed doing it
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Lady In The Studio 🦘 @ladyinthestudio.bsky.social · 12h
The. Pandemic. Continues. WHO never announced it ended. They announced "the emergency" has ended (because vaccine access) but the pandemic continues". Every year officially twice as many people die from covid than influenza.
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's crazy that the precautionary principle is such a radical idea
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Lady In The Studio 🦘 @ladyinthestudio.bsky.social · 11h
No surprise since they don't do anything to stop people infecting mum's and babies. Visitors and staff just come in unmasked.
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks Mike. I am so angry at this infection prevention failure in a hospital. Hoping also that my aura mask kept me safe as I visited them today.
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OH MY GODD MY FRIEND WITH NEW BABY JUST CALLED. tested positive for COVID a few hours ago. Since she's been in hospital since Sunday ... Surely she caught it there? Hoping brand new bubba doesnt have it. And all the other parents and neonates she's been in rooms with. And staff.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sorry, but this is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does what America wants, full stop.
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Let me try this once more.
It was a choice.
EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan.
OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc.
It was never going to be both.
Which one makes a material difference?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bs... • 2h
Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into
government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad. 2/2
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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Constitutional expert accuses Anthony Albanese of ‘grey corruption’ over golf club grant www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Constitutional expert accuses Anthony Albanese of ‘grey corruption’ over golf club grant
Prof Anne Twomey says $6m for Marrickville Golf Club was ‘misuse of public money’ made under a ‘farcical scheme’
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Labor's spend on KPMG has nearly doubled from $32 mil in 2024-25 to $59 mil in 2025-26. Labor has been watching a repeat of scandals & still hasn’t delivered meaningful reform. The temporary month-to-month freeze on KPMG is nothing but a pathetic, tokenistic punishment.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026
Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.
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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The media is once again desperately reporting the opinions of cafe owners. Not being able to add a credit card surcharge is sending them broke, just like paying staff a living wage sent them broke, and government red tape sent them broke. I am starting to think they aren’t cut out to run a cafe.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Repeated Flu And Covid-19 Infections Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk, CCMB Study Finds" Dr Swasti Raychaudhuri said "not every viral infection leads to Parkinson's disease." However, she warned that "the risk increases significantly with repeated infections" as biochemical reactions can change.
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Repeated Flu And Covid-19 Infections Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk, CCMB Study Finds
Dr Swasti Raychaudhuri, who led the research, noted that although cells possess protective mechanisms, biochemical reactions can undergo changes depending on the circumstances.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Michelle Pini @michellepini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One Nation supporters say Pauline Hanson is an “average” Australian who “says what the average person is thinking". But it’s not what Australians think. It's just another fabrication, created with the money of billionaires & spread with media complicity.
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Want to know more about One Nation? Follow the money and 'sexy' planes
One Nation supporters consistently say Pauline Hanson is an “average” Australian who speaks her mind and “says what the average person is thinking all the time”.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Societies that still have the death penalty have something broken within them.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.
Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There was nothing wrong with the comments. And I’m sure Shoebridge would love to debate Burns on the topic of Israel’s genocide. Bring it on.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece. "A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation." www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-great-...
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The great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard Flanagan
Australians should be furious that Anthony Albanese has opened the floodgates to American AI companies
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Digital Diggo @digitaldiggo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The govt saves money while implicitly propagating the necessary myth that the only people who need to worry about Covid are the very old or very sick. Manufacturing consent to be made sick by a preventable pathogen is a capitalist tool of cultural hegemony.
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Absolutely appalling - the Australian government is now charging $150 for the COVID vax for most people. The last protection now out of reach for most people
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COVID vaccine set for price hike - ABC listen
From October the COVID vaccine is expected to cost around $150.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The federal government must take responsibility & ensure a roof over everyone's head. Six months of research has resulted in a comprehensive report detailing our way out of this crisis. Public housing, national rent caps & affordable mortgages are a fantastic place to start.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Housing in Australia has become a vehicle for private wealth accumulation & a primary driver of widening intergenerational wealth inequality. Meanwhile the banks, real estate industry, big developers & investors are winning from the housing crisis. The system needs to change.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Greens-led senate inquiry into intergenerational housing inequity spent 6 months hearing evidence on Australia's housing crisis. Final report, published today, shows dire need for the government to stop shirking responsibility & act. Public housing, rent caps & affordable mortgages.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
David Shoebridge fired up, gloves off, puts everyone on notice, “We’re here to beat down One Nation.” “We’re here to replace Labor.” 🔥
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Prof. Denim: "COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check" Source: x.com/DenimFarmer/...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Prof. Denim with the handle @DenimFarmer. The post is dated 6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2026 and shows 4,144 Views.
The main text of the post reads:
"COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check."
In the top left, the profile picture displays a circular, black-and-white portrait of a man smiling. To the right of the display name is a small icon of a microscope. In the top right corner of the post, there are standard platform icons, including a crossed-out circle and a three-dot menu icon.
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Digital Diggo @digitaldiggo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The govt saves money while implicitly propagating the necessary myth that the only people who need to worry about Covid are the very old or very sick. Manufacturing consent to be made sick by a preventable pathogen is an ongoing tool of cultural hegemony.
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Lady In The Studio 🦘 @ladyinthestudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They should justify this high cost compared to influenza vaccine. Why don't they want us to have it easily?
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Digital Diggo @digitaldiggo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manufactured consent must be regularly augmented as a buffer against emerging, inconvenient facts.
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$130-$150 for a COVID vaccine, going forward. This is stupid and dangerous. www.australianpharmacist.com.au/fewer-austra...
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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s sad… but we knew that’s where we were. At the point where killing others is seen as inevitable… just the cost of doing business.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You might wonder why I’m not shocked about the outcome of the C19 Inquiry resulting in C19 being downgraded to the “who cares if we spread it” category. We’ve been living that reality for years. I thought they already had it in writing somewhere, around the same time it became BSL-2.
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Digital Diggo @digitaldiggo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
manufactured consent is based on cultural hegemony as defined by Gramsci, but as old as patriarchy. The actual weird part is the motivation behind the people who influenced humanity to accept a now ubiquitous pathogen. Why would anyone wish for this? Madness is afoot, fueled by unimaginable wealth.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵US Weekly COVID update: Sep 28, 2026 🔸1 in 92 Actively Infectious 🔸532,000 Daily Infections 🔸3,810,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸115,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸191,000 to 760,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸900 to 1,700 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com
An infographic report titled "COVID-19 Heat Map, Based on CDC Wastewater Data & Standard Levels" by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 28, 2026.
The top half displays a color-coded map of the United States and its territories, showing localized COVID-19 risk levels by county. A color key at the bottom categorizes standard CDC relative levels and PMC prevalence estimates (proportion actively infectious) into five tiers:
•	Very Low (Blue, <0.9%)
•	Low (Green, 1.2%)
•	Moderate (Orange, 2.0%)
•	High (Red, 2.9%)
•	Very High (Purple, >3.5%)
Large portions of the Southern, Western, and Midwestern U.S. are shaded in dark pink/purple and red, indicating high to very high transmission levels.
Below the map, a text summary states that the US has at least 40 states and territories with COVID outbreaks, matching the previous week's count. It explicitly lists all 40 affected states and territories in alphabetical order, starting with Alabama and ending with Wyoming.
An infographic report titled "National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)" by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 28, 2026. The data is broken down into three main sections:
•	Infections: States that 1 in 92 people (1.1%) are actively infectious. It estimates 532,000 new daily infections, 3,810,000 infections in the past week, 115,000,000 infections in 2026, and a cumulative 5.43 infections per person.
•	Long COVID: Estimates 27,000 to 106,000 Long COVID cases resulting from new daily infections, and 191,000 to 760,000 cases from new weekly infections.
•	Excess Deaths: Estimates 130 to 230 excess deaths resulting from new daily infections, and 900 to 1,700 deaths from new weekly infections.
A data table titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 28, 2026.
The table lists U.S. states and territories alphabetically from Alabama to Mississippi. For each location, it tracks data across multiple columns:
•	Standard CDC Level and Revised CDC Level (noting a downshift in categories).
•	PMC Estimate % Actively Infectious: Provides ratios and percentages, such as 1 in 25 (4.0%) for California and 1 in 15 (6.7%) for Hawaii.
•	Chances anyone is infectious in a room of 10 to 100 people: Columns show statistical probabilities for room sizes of 10, 25, 50, and 100 people. For example, in Hawaii, there is a 50% chance in a room of 10 and >99% chance in a room of 100.
A footnote states that on August 14, 2026, the CDC revised categorical descriptors downward without notice.
A data table titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 28, 2026.
This page continues the alphabetical listing of U.S. states and territories from Missouri to Wyoming. It details:
•	CDC Levels: Compares standard levels against a revised, downshifted CDC tier system.
•	PMC Estimate % Actively Infectious: Lists current ratios and transmission rates. Highlights include Oregon at 1 in 25 (4.1%), Puerto Rico at 1 in 21 (4.8%), and the U.S. Virgin Islands at 1 in 16 (6.2%).
•	Chances anyone is infectious in a room of 10 to 100 people: Shows probabilities for varying group sizes. For example, in Texas, the risk scales from 31% in a room of 10 up to 98% in a room of 100.
Footnotes indicate limited data reporting for some areas and reference a website regarding the CDC's August 2026 downward category revisions.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Somehow, Getting Sick Became Normal — and Trying Not to Became Taboo. @danitasteinberg.bsky.social Source: x.com/danitasteinb...
A social media post from danita (@danitasteinberg), timestamped 2:23 AM · Sep 29, 2026, with 9,465 Views.
The text reads: "Even forgetting about COVID for a second... I am STILL flabbergasted that airborne precautions are so taboo! You can’t talk about opening a window? You can’t talk about maybe buying an air filter? You can’t wear a piece of fabric on your face? Why do you people WANT to be sick?"
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The world is being torn apart by US aggression, using its military, trade and AI as weapons, and Albanese failed to mention this even once in his UN address. If you cannot even name the problem, why should anyone believe you can address it?
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Phil @fileckert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Compared to Macron's speech it was tepid and complicit in its failure to plainly call out the war crimes the world has witnessed.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"shared values", @albomp.bsky.social ? "upholding international law", @senatorwong.bsky.social ? Time to ditch these fascist clowns in Washington. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
This piece touches on an extremely important and terrible trend: AI-false-balance among polite centre-left politicians. Every critique HAS to begin with something like "AI is here to stay. With the right rules, it can be a force for good. But........." www.techpolicy.press/the-life-and...
Information integrity is one of seven critical issues in the Preliminary Report of the UN’s Independent Scientific Panel on AI released in July at the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence. It warns that AI can erode shared reality and civic participation through “epistemic erosion,” the gradual wearing away of society’s ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. Opening the Dialogue, the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, tied that erosion directly to the viral and exponential nature of advanced data driven technologies: “A machine-enabled lie can now persuade as effectively as the truth, and authentic evidence can be dismissed as fake.”“A society that cannot agree on what is real cannot defend itself,” Guterres said.

And yet he did not reference the threat of AI to amplify inequality, unless governed effectively. Instead, Guterres casts AI as “the great equaliser of the 21st century ” achievable by developing countries on the technology fast-track through safe systems that honor human rights, with real transparency about labor and planetary impacts. Getting this right, he said, is “at the heart of our common future.”

Yet the Panel’s Report, subtitled as an “evidence-based assessment of the opportunities, risks and impacts of AI” provides no evidence that AI will be a ‘great equaliser’. On the contrary, despite its curious ‘balancing’ of every claim with a counter claim, the heavily referenced report actually demonstrates far more evidence of the negative consequences of AI, while doing very little to support claims that AI will help in the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Regardless, this did not stop the ‘great equaliser’ mantra from being repeated by numerous member states and heads of multilateral bodies who subsequently addressed the forum.

In fact the report highlights the lack of — and unevenness of — evidence, including on some of the big ticket items: productivity gains, labor market effects, value-chain impacts, and …
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the answers- my #datacentres #climatechange cartoon for CPA magazine
A massive water guzzling, pollution pumping data centre with a sign saying "100% fossil fuelled" is looming over a tech bro and a group of people.
Tech bro is saying "...and thanks to data centres like these, AI will work out what we can do to stop climate change"
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Stepping up to play our part" Our part: compliant vassal state of the tyrannical warmongering USA and rogue terrorist state Israel. The Albanese Govt has made Australia not just complicit, but active supporters, of Israel's genocide. #auspol #StopTheGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
Tweet from AUS PM Anthony Albanese:
Australia is stepping up to play our part. 🇦🇺

That’s the message I delivered to the United Nations General Assembly
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did Australia ditch supporting West Bank sanctions all for a plum security council seat? www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/25/a... Weasel
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Did Australia ditch supporting West Bank sanctions all for a plum security council seat?
Why did Australia withdraw from recent West Bank sanctions talks? The ABC didn’t speculate, but I will.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As Trump is threatening to annihilate a country Albo can’t wait to get a selfie with the guy. theaimn.net/someone-wasn...
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Someone Wasn’t Reading the Room
There are occasions in international politics when a photograph says rather more than the people in it probably intended. The United Nations General Assembly is one of those occasions. World leaders gather in New York [...]
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He’s done it again. I can’t vote for a party led by a man who takes cheery selfies with a rapist who just threatened to annihilate a nation. I just can’t. This is sickening and embarrassing. Albanese makes us all look foolish. #AusPol
Selfie, taken by Albanese, with Trump, both grinning like imbeciles.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Lady In The Studio 🦘 @ladyinthestudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🫩👀 nurses can be the worst. We've been lucky. My GP wears an n95 mask when I see her, I don't know if she always wears it at work or just for me. My (adult disabled) son's GP wears one for him. Nurse who vaxes me will wear a surgical. Last time I didn't even bother asking her for that.
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The Haunted Balloon Lady @colonelescargot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t bother me now. People have become so stupid & uncaring, when they wouldn’t have been in the before times, even amongst healthcare staff. A nurse recently screamed at me for insisting covid is airborne. Said she’d been a nurse for 18 yrs and wasn’t going to listen to that crap. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve seen a lot of older people wearing masks in my neighbourhood. I don’t know how the rest of society walks past that clear signal for help. If you see someone in a mask or respirator, you should wear one… at the very least…
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The 13th COVID-19 wave crests as the US heads into winter with lowest immunity since 2021" 🔹 1 in 91 Americans actively infectious 🔹 542K new infections daily; 3.81 million weekly 🔹 900–1,700 excess deaths per week 🔹 191K–760K new Long COVID cases weekly 🔹 21 million adults have had Long COVID
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The 13th COVID-19 wave crests as the US heads into winter with lowest immunity since 2021
The 13th COVID-19 wave has likely crested, but the US heads toward winter with the low short-term immunity of 2021-22, a highly divergent variant circulating, falling vaccination and a government dism...
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