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GrumpyAsFuck

@maggiedawitch.bsky.social
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Sweary,old,disabled,non binary,living with cancer. I grieve the death of another cat Artist,author,poet,photog.My writing is my own.My art is my own. Climate collapse is real. Masks are not optional. Gaza is a genocide. Living on unceded Bunurong Country.

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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 18h
70mm rain...
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shooketh my whole house.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My support at home funding finally approved (not all of it, tho) after 11 months and 3 weeks wait. Still can't get a provider. In agony. Taking ativan now because I just can't deal with anything anymore. After over 30 years of living with chronic pain I just wish for one week free of it.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent resource ledger.worseonpurpose.com/status/avoid
ledger.worseonpurpose.com
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Trish Fraser @trishf42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please sign and share, my folks.
megaphone.org.au
Fix Allied Health!
Why Support This Petition?   Victorian public sector Allied Health Professionals are under increasing pressure. Right now, Allied Health Professionals are paid less than most workers performing t...
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Between the extreme hayfever and the TMJ neuralgia I am living up to my username
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
sciencealert.com
Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imani speaking truth about AI hijacking the 4th estate
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All the very best @larissawaters.bsky.social . Health is so important.
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...
au.news.yahoo.com
Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm
A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
IS HE FUCKING DEAD YET
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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Covid still exists and is still disabling and killing people. The powers that be just stopped recording sufficient data. Yes you still need to wear a mask outside your home.
Facebook post by Jaylen Jean Cozadd

"why is everyone using mobility aids now?" 
there was a mass disabling pandemic 
"why are all these young people disabled?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why is my family getting sick a lot lately?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why are we all dumber and meaner now?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why can't my friend remember anything?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why do simple activities make me tired?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why aren't there more doctors available?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why are too many of us dying so young?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
cidrap.umn.edu
More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I tried to drop a copy of my first novel to local library. "Is it self published?" Well, yes. "We can't take it because it could be AI." I fucking BLED over that novel! Fucking angry & sad & disappointed.So I did the rounds of the local opshops who were thrilled when I donated a signed copy @ each
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
act.getup.org.au/act/aged-car...
act.getup.org.au
Scrap the aged care algorithm!
Audrey has lived in her Perth home for 43 years. She’s now 96 and blind, and needs just a few more hours of help each week to stay there.
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🦘Roseanne @roseanneb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
act.getup.org.au/s/2N7LAvGn
act.getup.org.au
Hope not Hate – Sign the pledge
Share this pledge to your feed and ask others to add their name to the movement of Australians standing up for an inclusive, multicultural Australia.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
20 mins outside, despite multiple antihistamines& a mask, my nose is red raw and running, I'm coughing, my eyes are red & streaming and I feel like crap. Welcome to pollen season, another month or two of not being able to leave the house...
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of the good guys. #AusPol
abc.net.au
Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64
Health promotion campaigner and Victorian Greens MP Tim Read has died after a high-profile battle with cancer.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've been fighting most of my life to stay alive, to justify my existence, I don't know how to act any other way than adversarial.
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On behalf of South Gippsland Animal Aid:
Ferntree Gardens
ANTIQUES &
COLLECTABLES FAIR
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$5 Door Entry
Saturday 31st October 2026
8.30аm -3рm
Event Central,
Caribbean Gardens
1280 Ferntree Gully
Road, Scoresby
suemoki@bigpond.net.au
Proudly supporting South Gippsland Animal Aid,our Charity of Choice

Designed and Printed by The Flowerpot Collective, Lilydale
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
50% mortality rate but because their skin colour isn't whyte...
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo continues the number of cases has passed 7,200, and the number of deaths is nearly 3,500, and the amount of attention most of the world is devoting to this outbreak remains almost zero.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Of course Labor could return to being Democratic Socialists... but sure, blame everyone else.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My life used to be excitedly waiting for "the first...", now every day is spent dreading "the last..."
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026
That's about as clear an articulation of the present problem as has been made by anyone.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fucksake. Opened farcebook and I see John Farnham's face and for a second all I could feel was the drop in my gut, but thankfully no, he's ok, just a sensational media ad. And before you say anything about FB, the few friends I have left are old and overseas and this is how we keep in touch so FO.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
2.28pm and 32km done 🙌🏼 for my 50km to help end male violence against women. Travis Lovett and Peter McNamara have joined me for part of the walk ✊🏼 We would love your donation here: www.walkforwagec.org.au/fundraisers/... to raise $ for safe housing for women and girls
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's a perfect day ... so some cunt is burning piles of green and plastic, the fucking shithead!
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Now I live on memories of love.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When did I get so scared of living I hardly ever leave the house?
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Worst year for allergies ever 😭
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Australia is also known as Country. So in 2023 when Australians were asked to Vote about a Voice To Parliament so Country's custodians could speak directly to it & be acknowledged, six million Australians voted Yes. But the triumphant No Vote, financed by American 'black ships', 2/
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please help 🙏💗🙏
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Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bits of the email from Getup! If you haven’t seen it. #Coles #Palantir
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you 🙏💗 RIP www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
'Empathy is the most radical of human emotions': Gloria Steinem's life in quotes
Gloria Steinem was a trailblazing figure in women's liberation with words and impact that echoed across the globe.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is how a novel begins ... sometimes it makes it to the end, sometimes it's just another notebook full of ideas. The dream I had the other morning has started the fire...
Image is of a hand holding a pen, words scribbled in blue ink on a page
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#H5 #birdFlu birdlife.org.au/news/h5-bird...
birdlife.org.au
H5 bird flu: 5 things you can do - BirdLife Australia
As H5 bird flu continues to spread across Australia, here are 5 ways you can help give native birds the best chance of survival.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning from West Gippsland Victoria Australia
The bright golden orb of the sun rises from the dark horizon through tree silhouettes into a fiery sky of streaky cloud
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
FFS DO NOT TAKE LIONEL RICHIE! Why can't it be that old fuck? WHY?
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💔😭💔 If you see a sick or dead bird: Do not touch it. Take note of the location and, if possible, take photos. Report it to the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline: 1800 675 888. #BirdFluAustralia www.abc.net.au/news/science...
abc.net.au
'Pretty overwhelming': The 23 species in Australia hit by bird flu so far
Bird flu has quickly spread around Australia. Hidden in the numbers are more than 20 distinct species of birds and mammals that have fallen to the disease.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have had some incredible vivid forever in my memory dreams over the decades and the long powerful, emotional, otherworld waking dream I had this morning was one. Funny how many are never on this world. Some make it into novels. This dream was to the soundtrack of this: youtu.be/ykMzS6ugnPI?...
youtu.be
Trio - After The Gold Rush (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Warner Records Nashville
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#3 JP Morgan ... the Muppets tribute 💗💔 RIP and thank you
The Muppets tribute to J P Morgan
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just got my first winters power bill since they dropped to FIT to almost worthless and ouch! If I could afford a battery and more panels, I would. Solar power is awesome, power companies are arseholes. Supplying my free power to them so they can charge me for it is so fucked up.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry ... gone but never forgotten 😭
From the Muppets facebook page, Tim Curry appearing in episodes dressed as a pirate accompanied by muppets
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jeezus. Tim Curry too? 😭💔😭 Why cant it be the evil fuckers who should be dead?
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you, beautiful human 💕💔💕💔💕💔💕😭 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Dolly Parton dies aged 80: The making of a country sweetheart who became a superstar
Over a career spanning decades, Dolly Parton amassed a legion of fans as a country music sweetheart and global superstar. Her proudest achievement, she once said, would always be her songwriting.
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lack of continuity of health care as one ages with chronic disabilities has got to be one of the most debilitating experiences ever. Seven GPs in 3 years, the latest lasting only 10 months despite assurances when I started with her that she was there for the long haul. 🥺😭 #AgedCareAustralia
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GrumpyAsFuck @maggiedawitch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Newbie gamer sits & stares at something for weeks wondering what the hell it does/is. No help guide to find out. Googling yielded no answers. So I clicked on it & bought it & found out it gives me an extra go to get to a place I've been diligently waiting for the 24 hr refresh to get to ... 😶😁😜🤣
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