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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’ll live vicariously through others when it comes to the bowling. 🥴

The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Chances are pretty high that I’ll be quoting this in my thesis about plague, pox, pestilences and poverty in 16th century Paris, which our last five years have been alarmingly similar to and not in a good way.

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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

This is what they have done forever and will continue to do until we destroy ourselves. Sorry, it’s 5 am and this is just triggered the historian in me. Plague, pox, pestilences and poverty is the theme of my thesis about 16th-century Paris. Plus ça change and all that. 😳☹️🤬

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The looks on people‘s faces when I say my rheumatoid arthritis is my forever present from #COVID / #LongCOVID. Immediate shutdown of their brain you can see it in their face, in their eyes.

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Last year I was talking to my nephew and then he said I have to go because I’m going bowling and I realised that I’d never be able to bowl again now I’ve got bloody rheumatoid arthritis. I bloody loved bowling. Hope you get to bowl again! 🎳

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I have the photocopy and I scanned it and it saved in five different places that are logical but factoring in the slight disarray that my little grey cells are in. Just increases my chance of finding it when I’m in contrary or special mood. 🥴🤭

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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

About 20 years ago, I had to do a security vetting thing and I had to remember all of that. Fortunately, my brain functioned then. I filled in that form. I then copied it for myself and whenever that gets asked of me now, I go to that form. 🥴

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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I think there’s many millions who obviously think exactly the same thing. All those worthy winners who did decent wonderful things of being overshadowed by that absolutely horrible man.

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I am just loving the solidarity and the care and the comradeship of the women I’ve encountered during this rather visible #perimenopause of mine. Girls rock! 😑

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I think Morrison has proven that the Federation is dead. And he pretty much killed it. Back to the states looking after themselves and working together to do things together. Scrap the Federation and start again. Western Australia Australia had it right 126 years ago.

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I’m not kidding. I think they have demonstrated quite conclusively over the last five years in particular that they think they are better than all the other states and territories and that they are the actual leaders of the country. And that became even more apparent during the Morrison chaos.

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In 2023 when my #JohnFarnhamUterus was going insane with all its farewells, I was purchasing 30 to 40 packets of pads every shop, plus, of course, chocolate. And I knew the ones packed by a woman, ‘cos there was always one or two items of chocolate that I didn’t order. And I did like them. 🤭

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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Ick. Almost as horrible as that centre for the history of Western civilisation who were bemoaning the fact that the history of the Western world was being ignored and it was all to eastern and indigenous and everything not white western. I don’t know which universities they were looking at. 🤨

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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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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

15!!! That does not bode well for his future as a decent man.

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It’s funny, and by funny I mean bloody enraging, how the only people who seem to be benefiting from these changes and reforms to the #NDIS are the providers. More money is going to providers than to recipients who really need assistance. A great scheme that has been turned into a big rort.

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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You also get it for free if you are immunocompromised like I am thanks to #LongCOVID. It’s not the LC that gets you the booster and the flu vaxes for free, it’s the #RheumatoidArthritis that the LC gave me. And the only reason I know the RA came from LC is from my own research for my thesis.

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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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The Plodding Historian (Lisa) @ploddinghistorian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

100% with you on this fellow Piscean!! What the holy hell? Obviously doesn’t know us at all!!!

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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 · 30/05/2025

This police commissioner chief person has to be corrupt. #AlexCross #Cross

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