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Keeper of the Dram

@markstuartdavis.bsky.social
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Daily warming stripes: 1940-2024 Dad & husband, best job ever. Also a 50 something Student RN. Probably mad. You don't need a DM to say hi.

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sperowellbeing.bsky.social @sperowellbeing.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Important announcement from NSW health. This really makes me scream, our mental health system is in crisis. To all the wonderful nurses, doctors, counsellors, pyschologists & social workers filling the gaps thank you. Mental health matters 🙌 Lifeline 13 11 14
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It's ironic that this is not actually a joke. 😐
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I have no words. Fucking hell...
Communication from City of Moreton Bay.

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“As a result of recent interactions involving People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) and people illegally camping, City of Moreton Bay's Operations teams have been instructed to remain 50m away from PEH sites until further notice. This is for our teams' safety and wellbeing. This has resulted in missed maintenance, cleaning and servicing of many council owned places and amenities however Council continues to check locations regularly and will resume servicing at this location as soon as it is safe to do so. We thank you and appreciate your patience. Kind regards, CITY OF MORETON BAY City of Moreton Bay”
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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
So what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk...
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Miles Davis - So What (Official Audio)
YouTube video by MilesDavisVEVO
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Approx 14% of Australian women have endometriosis accounting for 40,000 hospital presentations each year. Dr Neisha Wratten described dienogest as a ‘wonder drug’. She predicts the listing will positively impact up to 500,000 Australians #NurseSky #MedSky www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini....
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newsGP - Endometriosis drug Visanne added to PBS
Doctors have described dienogest as ‘miraculous’, with its listing expected to positively impact up to 500,000 patients.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#AusMusic This is right near where Archie finally reunited with his family. A fitting location. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Statues of music legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter unveiled at a Melbourne park
The statue is in Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy, known to many in Victoria's Aboriginal community as a gathering place and where members of the Stolen Generations reunited with their families.
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 01/12/2024
📷 #melbourne #photography
Train underpass
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'. much of which they amplified
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Viv Albertine born on this day in 1954 in Sydney Formed The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious. Dated Mick Jones. Formed The Slits with Ari Up & Palmolive.
LONDON - JUNE 16: Viv Albertine from punk band The Slits performs on stage at Alexandra Palace on 16th June 1980 in London. Viv Albertine plays a Rickenbacker 460 guitar.
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The Liberator 🦋 @drnancysp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
2/2 Texas & Georgia stopped investigating maternal deaths now. Do the math. How many women will die & we won’t get that data? 😭 We must demand that women’s lives & deaths MATTER! Call your representatives! Demand Justice!
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Fleetwood Mac without Peter Green is just another band.“ I love Rumours, but this is a completely correct statement.
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Important for our patients, their families - when next respiratory outbreak/pandemic happens - our next national public health leaders cannot be trusted to follow evidence & common sense on masks or vaccines. But. the data is out there. Here’s a great review on masks #MasksWork #ScienceMatters
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Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Evidence based. Seems patently obvious, but...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Milan of Oz @milanx.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A decade of health-facility admin, I was honestly shocked by how many "qualified" staff were kooky AF ... anti-vax, anti-pharma, anti-choice, etc. They are potentially dangerous in a variety of physical / mental health situations that aren't especially uncommon. #Science #BestPractice #Healthcare
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health: Vaccines Antibiotics & antimicrobials Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene Food safety & fortification innovations Modern agriculture methods Public health education campaigns 1/
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I don't think I will ever post a cover of Vogue again. Digital cover of Vogue Germany Illustration of Gisèle Pelicot by Cecilia Lundgren a Swedish illustrator #NoMoreShame
Digital cover of Vogue Germany 
Illustration of Gisèle Pelicot by Cecilia Lundgren a Swedish illustrator

Cover reads "No More Shame"
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Absolute gold.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is completely the correct thing to say.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Make America Healthy Again, RFK Jr's “plan” to heal the US, appears to have suffered a blow at the hands of Trump... 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico. More than 50% of the fresh fruit imported to the US comes from Mexico, good luck to people who like to eat well...
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Nurse Suicide Project @nurse-suicide.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women(VAW), Dr Lucy Thompson & Dr Ruth Riley, highlight that VAW nurses is a global problem and a feminist issue, needing system-wide change and is everyone's responsibility. #IDEVAW #Nursesky bit.ly/3V6Qyxi
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Ending Violence Against Nurses: Eliminating workplace violence requires systemic change targeting institutions, laws, and policies — Revisioning Nurse Distress and Suicidality
For this International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, this blog explores Workplace Violence, why this is relevant to women nurses, and how we can address it.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks @itsonelouder.com. What a sensational list !
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#VaccinesSaveLives #KidsWillDie
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Vaccines save lives. RFKJr is a dangerous threat to health, for his wrong-headed attacks on vaccines and more. Some excellent charts from @steverattner.bsky.social
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It really was!
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today marks a troubling turn for democracy as the duopoly secures hefty pay rises funded by taxpayers, while limiting independent voices in elections. Additionally, the push to ban under-16s from social media threatens our privacy with mandatory age verification. Digital ID via the back door
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hey, anyone who hasn't seen, Dave Hooper (@itsonelouder.com) has been posting his Top 100 Australian Albums. An incredible effort and a great list. #ausmusic #music #DavesTop100 #DoYourselfaFavour
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I won't often post stuff from News Corps but the message here is pretty important. Back #ausmusic, back up & coming musos, back established musos. Buy physical copies of their work, buy merch at live shows, buy tickets to live shows, buy them a beer. www.news.com.au/entertainmen...
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Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Spotted in St Kilda: Flat Earthers have been busy “waking up” the locals planting these signs with proof the Earth is flat! (H/t Australian Research & Space Exploration - Space Australia on Facebook)
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
There are artists that are quintessentially of the place. The Go Betweens (despite time in Sydney/London being so consequential)are definitively Brisbane Courtney Barnett is up with Paul Kelly as being quintessentially Melbourne. open.spotify.com/track/4LGS5U...
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Oh The Night
Courtney Barnett · Things Take Time, Take Time · Song · 2021
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A pretty shameful oversight that at last night’s Walkley Awards there was no mention of the record numbers of journalists who have been murdered by the IDF over the past year.
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itsmeimcassandra.bsky.social @itsmeimcassandra.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Minnie Marks is incredible. If you get a chance to see her live... ...as Molly would say "Do yourself a favour!" #ausmusic
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“Senior Constable White said "bugger it" before deploying his taser.” I have words, but I'm not using them here... www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Jury hears police officer who tasered a 95yo woman was 'fed up, impatient, not prepared to wait any longer'
The crown prosecution in a manslaughter trial says no-one was at risk of injury from a great-grandmother who died after being tasered by a police officer, but the defence says it was the accused's "jo...
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
David McBride @davidmcbride.bsky.social Facing threats in prison
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'It's a dangerous place': Whistleblower David McBride tells of his life in Canberra prison
Former military lawyer David McBride has given an interview to the ABC from the Canberra prison where he is serving a sentence of more than five years for leaking secret military documents to journali...
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B L Freeman @blfreeman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
1/ When I was eight years old, my parents took me to the high school gym, where long tables had been set up. The tables were covered with small paper cups. We got in line, and a nurse handed me one. I looked inside and saw a sugar cube that carried the polio vaccine.
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Nurse Suicide Project @nurse-suicide.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello Bluesky 🩵 We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers and nurses who are taking a critical look at #NurseSuicide from the perspectives of previously unheard nurses. Learn more here: www.nursesuicidestudy.com Please share us in your networks.
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Revisioning Nurse Distress and Suicidality
In this groundbreaking and transformative project, we are working with nurses, for nurses, to revision the ways in which nurse distress and suicidality are articulated and understood.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
WTAF? “…there should be a select campsite…where rough sleepers are allowed, but prohibited everywhere else.” A GHETTO “You should be able to walk to the grocery store with your children without them having to see people who are…unkempt, very smelly…” au.news.yahoo.com/council-to-c...
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Council to crack down on city's campsites after locals erupt
Locals, police, council and rough sleepers are all at odds in this Aussie city.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A study into oral treatment (muvalaplin) for high Lp(a) cholesterol by Monash University. More work to do, but a phase 2, randomised, double-blind study found that up to 97% of participants in the muvalaplin group achieved an Lp(a) level lower than 125 nmol/L www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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New Pill Successfully Lowers Lp(a) Levels
Muvalaplin shows promise in lowering lipoprotein(a) levels, which are genetically determined and confer cardiovascular risk and for which no approved therapies currently exist.
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themedicalrepublic.bsky.social @themedicalrepublic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Nurses are the solution, say nurses, by @hollypayne.bsky.social. The nation’s peak nursing bodies have united to urge the government to move forward on scope of practice reforms. www.medicalrepublic.com.au/nurses-are-t... #nursing #medsky #auspol
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Nurses are the solution, say nurses - Medical Republic
The nation’s peak nursing bodies have united to urge the government to move forward on scope of practice reforms.
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm sorry...WTF? “Mr Singh told police he had been arguing with his wife about driving to the shops without him, then shortly after he ACCIDENTALLY REVERSED OVER HER WHILE HE WAS USING THE TRACTOR…” www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Woman allegedly murdered by her husband recorded warning video before her death, court told
Yadwinder Singh is charged with the murder of his wife Amarjit Kaur Sardar at their Woodhill property in February this year.
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TOMMY @t-bax.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Husband is a nurse and had to stand up to a Fellow the other day in a really uncomfy situation. It ended up saving the patient’s life and one of the attending docs told him today that they need more nurses like him. 🥹🥹🥹 I’m just so proud of him
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tipping healthcare providers... This is a concept that just doesn't make sense pretty much anywhere else in the world
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And if it was an immigrant they'd be howling for their deportation. #DoubleStandards
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So if anyone was wondering how Trump & his band of ghouls are planning on finding all his promises. They've announced plans to cut MedicAid, Affordable Care Act and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). A healthcare system which disadvantages the most vulnerable is going to get worse.
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southcoastreg.bsky.social @southcoastreg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just saying, NSW nurses and midwives are some of the lowest paid professionals in a female dominated workforce in the country. Minns says NSW can't afford to give them a 15% payrise. I hope you have a speedy recovery
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is heartbreaking. I am so grateful that I live in a country with an excellent healthcare system–it's not perfect but when things are bad it steps up. Hospitals aren't great places to be for any extended period of time, even more dangerous for the elderly.
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NYSUT @nysut.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
HAPPENING NOW: NYSUT members are rallying in Patchogue in support of Brookhaven Memorial Federation of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals (BMFNHP) as they fight for a #FairContractNow!
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Keeper of the Dram @markstuartdavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Yamtits" #wordoftheday
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