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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)

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Taking PhDing to new levels of avoidance, procrastination and delay, but, maybe this time, there is an end in sight. BlueSkying history, Musical Goddess Kate Ceberano and clouds. I do love clouds. Even though they are in The Outside. Which I don't like.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I think #COVID hasn’t been normalized because on some level people know they’ve been bullshitted about it, know it’s more dangerous than is let on, and are secretly terrified. That’s why people go “deer in headlights” when you break the taboo and actually say the word.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
youtu.be/gvXXaZKclBc #Foundation season 3 finally cometh!
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Sharon Baldwin @sharonbaldwin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A few months ago, two friends and I started a new group: Writing Mothers for anyone in the Blue Mtns area who identifies as a mum to come together to write and chat. It's been such a great space to commiserate, laugh and lift each other up: www.instagram.com/writingmothe...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill, which cuts disability benefits Last night at the PLP meeting Liz Kendall asked MPs to back her. 108 have indicated opposition Fuel the rebellion. Tell your MP to vote against the cruel cut. Poverty is a political choice
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Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill
Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RFK Jr has fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The US now has no CDC director and no ACIP. He alleges this is to reshape U.S. regulation of vaccines, food and medicine. More likely it's anti-vax measures. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US health secretary Kennedy to remove all CDC outside experts on vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting rid of all members sitting on a key U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.
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Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語 @gasugasu1984.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event This is heartbreaking. We have fvcked the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Scott Morrison is almost certainly one of the “Robodebt Six” referred to the NACC for criminal and civil action. In Australia we don’t pursue him: we rig the NACC, refuse to investigate…then award him with honours. “Decision” still nowhere… (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/government-r...
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Government's squibbing on Robodebt "not good enough": Senator Pocock
The Albanese Government is failing to say if it will appoint an outside expert to oversee the NACC's Robodebt investigations.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Any honours for #ScottyFromRobodebt would not only be tone deaf and farcical. It would be a massive insult to the thousands of welfare recipients and their families who were terrorized by Morrison's illegal scheme - some to suicide. #auspol
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#ScuMo #ScottyTheMessiah #ScottyTheSnakeoilMan are only some of the many hashtags associated with the many rorts, scams, lies and actions of self-aggrandisement in the public life of #ScottyFromHillsong. Any OA award demeans the award and those who proffer it #auspol chng.it/N6H2MJtxSD
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
MedPage Today: 'Not Just a Cold: Research Suggests Distinct Long COVID Symptoms in Infants and Preschoolers' As clinicians and researchers continue to untangle the complexities of long COVID in children, Yonker urged pediatricians to keep listening. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Sorting Out Long COVID Symptoms in Babies
A new study has identified distinct symptom patterns of long COVID in young children.
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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"We’ve chosen to [break embargo] because we think it’s noteworthy that one of an elite class of Australians is de facto granted honours — especially someone with as ignominious a record as his. On Sunday at 10pm when the embargo lifts? His honour will be swept up in a sea of hundreds of awardees."
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Veracity Cat @lexicologist.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Former" privileged blokes, now desperate-for-relevance old blokes, gasping as they disappear into the fog of yesteryear.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is just hilarious. “Women are #SufficientlyAssertive now,” Stockdale told the virtual meeting of at least 50 #women, “that we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men’s involvement.” #AusPol I have to admit I am feeling #SufficientlyAssertive tonight. 🤭
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How to annoy Liberal women. Tell them they are ‘sufficiently assertive’
Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale and former Victorian senator Richard Alston fronted the NSW Liberal Women’s Council on Tuesday night to argue why they should continue to run the troubled div...
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Dr Lilon Bandler @drlilon.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Eisenhower 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“A…study…this week showed that Long COVID is common in children, affecting 10% to 20% of children who have had COVID. Almost 6 million children in the U.S. are impacted by Long COVID, which is higher than the number of children diagnosed with asthma, the most common chronic condition in childhood.”
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Melbourne University used to be rightfully proud of its role in the Vietnam War protest movement. In one lifetime this institution has become brittle and Tory. #AusPol
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Student protesters face expulsion from University of Melbourne over pro-Palestine office occupation
Exclusive: Pro-Palestine activists who were part of a group who occupied the office of an academic intend to appeal decisions
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PH 🕊️🌱😷 @ph-ph-ph.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
14-15% ⚠️ ‘Overall, among children who had been previously infected with COVID-19, 40 of 278 infants 2 years and under (14%) and 61 of 399 children ages 3 to 5 years (15%) had persistent symptoms that could be likely classified as long COVID.’
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
COVID-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows Researchers in Denmark found that COVID-19 causes a higher disease burden than influenza, leading to more hospitalisations and deaths, highlighting its greater impact on public health. Source: archive.md/6wBcw
Çovid-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows

ByDave Wessner, Contributor.  Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases.

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Lynnette Dobson . Because truth is golden.🔑 @lynnettedobson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf project in Western Australia will be a “great gas giveaway” : $215 billion in royalty-free gas for Woodside. australiainstitute.org.au/post/great-g...
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Great gas giveaway: $215 billion in royalty-free gas for Woodside’s North West Shelf project - The Australia Institute
A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf (NWS) project in Western Australia (WA) would see huge amounts of gas given away royalty-free. While the exact volume and value is hard to predict, a basic ...
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Super tax has really upset the very well off-what a fecking shame!
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Wish we had #COVID research in #Australia. You’re basically left to deal with #LongCOVID health impacts on your own. GPs don’t believe you, so gods know what other stuff is going on inside that isn’t obviously manifesting itself. #RheumatoidArthritis #Breathlessness #LittleGreyCells #AusPolFail
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Extending the licence for the #NorthWestShelf #gas project won’t assist #Australia’s #EnergyTransition, experts say, even as it allows #Woodside and its foreign partners to profit from the nation’s #MineralWealth while delivering “almost nothing” to the #NationalPurse. #FossilFuels #AusPolFail
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North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse
Experts say hugely profitable east coast LNG producers pay little in resources rent tax and Woodside project won’t help country’s energy shift
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Printed all the words written for the #LongAwaitedOftAvoidedThesis over the past 19 years yesterday. 83,001 words. 85% complete and utter bollocks. This be me.
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a man is reading a book in front of a screen that says max on it
Alt: Travis Fimmel as Desmond Hart in an episode of Dune: Prophecy reading a book, tearing pages from it and placing it in the little fire that he has in front of him.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This police commissioner chief person has to be corrupt. #AlexCross #Cross
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
My brain trying to deal with the news today.
Weird green swirls
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
WHO warns of rising COVID activity in 3 global regions, driven by the new variant NB.1.8.1. Western Pacific Southeast Asia Eastern Mediterranean regions "Global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that have not been observed since July 2024"
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WHO warns of rising COVID activity in 3 global regions
The increase in activity is seen in the Western Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Mediterranean regions.
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Sigh. More Covid info that none of us want to face. We all wish it would fizzle out. Yet here we are... "The evidence so far suggests NB.1.8.1 may spread more easily and may partially sidestep immunity from prior infections or vaccination." 😷 #auspol #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
One thing I can say about the Sandy B film #BirdBox was it got me out of bed. Not a film that can be cosily watched in bed. Do we find out what created the thingy that you shouldn’t see? It was us wasn’t it? Am I going to need two of the chocolate protein-added muffins that I’ve just baked?
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Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
LLC on FB
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Only boring, unimaginative and dull people call #Canberra boring. The only thing we don’t have here are beaches and given all the sharks and the stingrays, sunburn and sand getting into places that sand really shouldn’t be in, it’s not a bad thing. www.timeout.com/australia/ne...
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Australia’s most ‘boring’ city is officially the world’s best for quality of life
Canberra climbs to number one for quality of life in Oxford Economics’ 2025 Global Cities Index, after placing second last year
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Health care is a public service not a profit centre - #NoMoreHealthscopes #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The fall of Healthscope: bad luck, bad decisions, or is Australia’s private health model sick?
Rising costs, the Covid pandemic and an ageing population all played a part in the hospital giant’s collapse, which has prompted debate about the sector’s future
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Les Winsper who witnessed the incident: “People started banging on the [car] windows. Then they smashed the windows & he’s panicked & put his foot down. He then hit someone & that person has gone in the air & he’s ploughed through the rest of them. I’ve never seen anything like it.” #Liverpool
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Nearly 50 injured after car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool FC victory parade
Man arrested after city centre collision at end of club’s Premier League title celebrations
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2025
Yep, most likely, though they're one of the worst in terms of disclosing info on energy consumption - the numbers above are cobbled together from various sources. This report is a good read static1.squarespace.com/static/65681...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2025
hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies
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Dr Anita Heiss @dranitaheiss.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Want an easy and practical way to support @wyld.bsky.social in the wake of last week's cancelling of their Black&Write fellowship. Buy a copy of WHERE THE FRUIT FALLS, a stunning debut novel through UWAP. And get your local library to order a copy in too! uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/whe...
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Where the Fruit Falls
By Karen Wyld   Winner of the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript   An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thundering waves crashing ...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
on the anniversary of the 67 referendum, Bringing Them Home, Corroboree 2000 and the Uluru Statement from the Heart, they did this. Heartbreaking💔 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Indigenous man, 24, dies after being restrained by police at Coles supermarket in Alice Springs
Man restrained by police after placing items in clothing and stopped breathing while still in supermarket
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So many streaming services and nothing to watch. Whenever I think; “Ooh. I’ll watch this again”; I realise it’s in my library. Lesson of the past 3 months: I don’t need streaming services.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The wonderful #ChildrensGround #Charity organisation has a #DoubleYourImpact #DonationDrive going on for the wonderful kids they care for. If you can spare a few pennies, those pennies for the next two days will become a few more pennies! #Donate #WearItYellow wearityellow.org.au
Social media poster for the children’s ground charity organisation here in Australia. Headline reads double your impact! And continues: for the next two days only, every donation to children’s ground will be doubled! Then their logo: where it yellow for children children’s ground. The O in the word yellow features the Aboriginal flag, a semicircle of black at the top a yellow circle in the middle and a semicircle of red at the bottom of the O.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Have been obsessively watching/listening to a #BloodyGoodTelly show for past 5mths. Fortunately it is on a streaming service upon which I am hitchhiking via friend’s acct, which means I can’t give into my #obsession whenever I please because, the gods dammit, she is using her account! How rude! 😜
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Does anyone have any idea what the word the handy cursor is pointing to may be? Writer is asking publisher what’s so bad about her book that he won’t publish and what “will … induce” him to? #palaeography #HistoriansHelp
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is the UK/US ‘bathroom’ law to ban trans ppl in one photo. All it does is put non-trans women in danger. In this case a cis girl. Gender Critical ideology was always about deciding who looked the most like Marilyn Monroe*. Hope Kady recovers fully & her abusers are thrown in jail.
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Dr Anita Heiss @dranitaheiss.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Affirm Press to launch junior fiction series in collaboration with Your Kid’s Next Read that aims to keep kids reading – and loving it – for life! And I'm thrilled to be one of the authors! www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/Affirm-lau...
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Affirm Press to launch junior fiction series with Your Kid’s Next Read
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Sue Amura @amura37.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just to show what is happening in the small communities that aren't getting the major coverage, this is in Wingham about 1/2 from Taree, my MIL lives just up from where the bridge used to be
Wingham bridge washed away before and after Looking down the hill of what is left after the flood waters have gone down
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...
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The Australia Institute - We Change Minds
The Australia Institute is an independent think tank based in Canberra. We conduct high-impact research for a better Australia.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
22 May 1457: d. St Rita of Cascia, Augustinian, partial stigmatic, patron of abused women #otd
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/05/2025
Women can submit anything from a four-line poem to a 3,000-word lead article, from a 300-word bedtime story to a 700-word memoir performance piece – they publish over 60 women in every issue. Deadline 7th July. Details in link. Please share :)
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Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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