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@janinesymons.bsky.social
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cooking, eating, reading, covid conscious, whiskey, wine, yoga, cats, architecture, travel, literature, history, heritage, social justice, mental health education and politics. walyalup/fremantle.

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Current Covid Wave Reaches The ‘Exciting Future Solutions For Rich People’ Stage
Some happy people in a hospital
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Current Covid Wave Reaches The ‘Exciting Future Solutions For Rich People’ Stage
Story by Ollie Oop and Vyvyan Invid

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janine_symons @janinesymons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a Reminder...
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My new Tshirt arrived last night 😁
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And Donald is wearing lifts. Everything about him is a fraud.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sports are supposed to be about physical well-being and achievement. But of course, they're really about recognition and money. "The attitude that winning is the only thing that matters, with little care for the consequences to the mind, body or spirit of the... 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | The Hyrox Debacle and Our Sick Relationship to Competition (Gift Article)
A woman soiling herself is extreme. But so is the way we treat sports.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've been doing a quarterly AMA with my friend Peter, where we answer people's style-related questions. In this latest episode, we talk about fabrics for custom tailoring, shoes for various activities, and how to find your style without looking like you're in a costume. pod.link/blamo/episod...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!
Photo of three kittens. Two are orange; one is black. Photo of two orange kittens in a cage.Photos of two orange cats in a shower. Photo of two orange cats, one black, and one dark gray.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.
An illustration of Lord Chesterfield.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Floofy with a Chance of Spanakopita @floofytyrant.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If anyone has questions or concerns about Mounjaro, I would be more than happy to answer them or assist you in finding information on it. But first & foremost you must discuss this with your GP if you’re considering using it as you will need to run a series of blood tests & health checks beforehand.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're in WA vote proper green and stomp on that fascist orange scum! #wapol
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Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is how it should be everywhere where a person cast an American ballot.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At "Rally for Democracy" protest in Mount Kisco New York, Aug 22 2026:
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Stevie Rae Williams🍷🐈‍⬛ @stevie1666.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You need to clean out the whole house. You have parasites everywhere.
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fishslapman.bsky.social @fishslapman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm very confused about these news reports about a robot that's faster than Usain Bolt. My car is also faster than Usain Bolt and it has never once been featured on the news.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fascinating that the Australia-based UNSW academic who promotes himself on his university bio as involved in eugenicist thinking is not listed. Three other deeply problematic Australian academics have put their name to this. 😬
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Australia's ABC News has published another piece praising Rabbi Eli Schlanger. No mention of his support for Israel's #GazaGenocide (incl. signing a missile!) or him advocating ethnic cleansing of "Arabs" from "Israel's front porch" (West Bank)! 😲 #FreePalestine www.abc.net.au/religion/nom...
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What we lost when Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s life was snatched away - ABC Religion & Ethics
Reading Nikki Goldstein’s conversations with Rabbi Eli Schlanger left me grateful for this unlikely friendship between two people trying to understand how to live a moral life in the modern world.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is what all those 'Data Centers' are being used for. To track your every movement and everything you do and say. And if they don't like you, they will cancel you, shutdown your bank accounts, imprison you. Or just kill you.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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Parmijohn (B.Eng) @parmijohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The American Constitution allows you to get rid of a president like Trump Why the fuck don’t you just do it?
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
App alerting you pervertGlasses www.lbc.co.uk/article/meta...
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Founder of app that alerts you to 'Pervert Glasses' explains why he’s fighting back against surveillance | LBC
Dr Yves Jeanrenaud, founder of Nearby Glasses, told LBC videos filmed with Meta Glasses of vulnerable women being harassed made him "angry and upset"
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Segal’s speech code meets the law: Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s Israel exception Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/segal-ihra-antis…
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Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Om jameel:Due to the severity&intensity of the pain, the doctors urgently decided on surgery to treat a severe inflammation in the shoulder &a torn tendon. Surgery is arthroscopic repair of the shoulder tendon.I urgently need $200 for the surgery&I have a heart condition chuffed.org/project/1839...
A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.x ray of a collarbone broken by Israeli quadcopter
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Does such a regime have a “right to exist?” No. In fact, dismantling such a regime and its replacement with a free Palestine with equal rights for all is not only a legal requirement, but also an existential imperative for all of humanity. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/no-i...
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No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.
Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still c...
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office Albo 30,000 signatures...
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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
AI is this generation's asbestos. If we don't label it as 'AI enhanced' going into the historical or academic records, it will take decades to dig it out. If they can.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In other words, the occasional sloppiness of Arday’s prolific output pales in comparison to the institutional and widespread failings of our media. There’s no defence for them
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Please help if you can
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/08/2026
Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently with no human review to check for mistakes.
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Uber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accounts
Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently with no human review to check for mistakes.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Billionaires and excessive wealth concentration is wrong, and harmful to our democracy. We need change #Auspol
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Highest income companies
who paid no tax last year
Name
Total income
JBS GLOBAL MEAT HOLDINGS
$19.7 billion
AGL ENERGY
$12.8 billion
ICHTHYS LNG
$10.7 billion
AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION
$9.3 billion
SANTOS LIMITED
$8.2 billion
SINGAPORE TELECOM AUSTRALIA
INVESTMENTS
$8.2 billion
CHEVRON AUSTRALIA DOWNSTREAM
HOLDINGS
$7.5 billion
TIANQI LITHIUM ENERGY AUSTRALIA
$7.5 billion
LIBERTY HOLDINGS AUSTRALIA
$7.4 billion
HOPE DOWNS MARKETING COMPANY
$7.2 billion
Companies may, for legitimate reasons, pay no tax in certain years.
Source: data.gov.au, 2023-24 Report of Entity Tax Information
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professorlamb.bsky.social @professorlamb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Don't you wish you could find names, bios of hundreds of Trump's accomplices? Wait no longer. History can’t let these people slither away from their crimes and transgressions. I include links to my sources. Please click to my Substack for more: chrislamb406104.substack.com/p/dont-you-w...
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Don't you wish you could find names, bios of hundreds of Trump's accomplices? Who doesn't?
You'll find something you won't get from Trump or his accomplices: Links to sources.
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “No one knows why so many younger people are getting shingles these days”. Really? Nothing to do with immune dysfunction following repeated C19, I’m sure 🙄
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At 43, I was fit and happy. Then I developed a nasty – and very expensive - case of shingles | Arwa Mahdawi
Healthy women under 50 are now more at risk of the condition. What I didn’t know is that intense exercise could be to blame and the condition could cost me hundreds of dollars, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Israeli ambassador suggesting that people who want justice over Zomi Frankcom’s death are hoping for the perpetrators to be “lynched in the street”. For reference Zomi - and other aid workers - were bombed by Israel while delivering food to a starving population, on a pre-approved route.
REPORTER: Don't people want some
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justice, seven people died. You understand people want justice? When it comes to the incident.
What does it mean justice? Lynch people in the street? No. Justice is... That's why you have a court. A court measures what happened and comes to a decider.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Spring fire risk outlook just released by AFAC, in collaboration with state and territory fire agencies and BoM. Red = above average, grey = normal, blue = below average www.afac.com.au/public-resou... Full text at: afacprodpublicstorage.blob.core.windows.net/afac-cdn/fil...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has contracted sharply this month in what should be its main expansion season and is at its second-lowest point on record for this time of year, satellite data shows.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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‘It’s beginning to look a lot like the future’: Fears over sudden loss of sea ice
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica has contracted sharply and is at its second-lowest point on record for this time of year, satellite data shows.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh, my in-law dinners are gonna get extra spicy. MIL fled N Korea as child. FiL S Korean. Both are Trump supporters because they automatically support right / hard right politics as being furthest possible from N Korean communism hell. It's been ... interesting. 🍿
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You traitorous shit-stains who cheer for a child-rapist should all be locked up for the rest of your pathetic lives. The world would be a safer place.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Another Covid surge is ramping up in the U.S. Year 6 of this. So predictable. Mask up, folks! 😷 www.npr.org/2026/08/14/n...
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Is there a summer COVID-19 surge this year? Yep, it's ramping up again
Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If this is confirmed, it's massive news.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A study found that COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses in the body, which may be linked to long COVID. 11 viruses reactivated within 40 days of admission, with Epstein-Barr, herpes simplex 1, cytomegalovirus, and Anelloviridae detected most often. www.deccanherald.com/health/healt...
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Epstein-Barr, herpes, long covid: Study discovers Covid-19 can reawaken dormant viruses in the body
New research reveals Covid-19 may trigger dormant viruses like Epstein-Barr and herpes, worsening long Covid symptoms. Experts warn of rising cases and call for better diagnostics and treatments amid ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/08/2026
“I don’t believe in climate change.” Dude, this is physics, not Santa Claus.
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