A fortuneteller tells Trump: “You will die on the biggest and most celebrated national holiday.” Trump replies: “How do you know?”
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A fortuneteller tells Trump: “You will die on the biggest and most celebrated national holiday.” Trump replies: “How do you know?”
#WomensRights ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
Last thing I will post tonight about the HPV vaccine is this: It not only prevents cervical cancer, but also penile cancer and anal cancer. So boys should get it, too. (Also, statistical modelling clearly shows that is boys are vaccinated, cervical cancer is eliminated faster)
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
In Canberra for unpaid work for a couple days. Exciting. (And chilly.)
Still think gas is a climate solution? 💥 Dangerous gas leak covered up by ConocoPhillips, NT Government and Santos. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Substack getting out the handcuffs for writers, cartoonists, boutique sellers ...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, a lot of this information was new to me. Thanks for the education.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it's not so much the work, but managers forcing one to do more and more of it daily with no slack time. Jump from project A to project b (unrelated, completely) after 90 minutes? Then from B(detail project) to C (unrelated strategy/vision project). It is brain-breaking.
Teacher confession: I wrote a history book for kids who hate history books. It's got an alien critic, terrible dad jokes, and actual facts about how humans stumbled into civilization. If your kid thinks history is boring, I fixed it. Oct 1 launch! #FunnyHistory #MiddleGradeBooks #HistoryForKids
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, that sounds and looks good. (I'd skip the aioli, though.)
🚨Older adults (65-75) at risk🚨 Please use our image to share the petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... #KeepCovidBoosters
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
That should be traceable.
🤬🤬🤬
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my gosh. :-(
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Went to a union event last night and was pleasantly surprised to see another person in a respiratory mask, even noting that he carries spares for people who want them. Unsurprisingly, works in *scientific research*. <- found the guy who understands the evidence.
When scientists say things like, "opening a window lowers the risk of transmission by 38%", where do they get these numbers? Well, they use airborne transmission models. In my latest explainer video I walk through the history of these models, what they do, and what the don't.
It’s time Australia imposed a restriction on Americans missing a vaccination record from entering the country. #auspol
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Best brine of any reasonably priced olives I've found, too.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I buy Mount Zero olives in small packets. The green ones in brine provide a nice eating experience, plus, you can pour the brine out before you tuck in, and refrigerate it to be added to dirty martinis at a later date.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Gotta love Sydney's Chinatown. Yesterday picked up a modest size whole steamed fish, steamed with boatloads of fresh herbs, with a big side of sauce, for $24. Not a complex cook, but a thoughtful preparation. Delicious!
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Any time approvers get an incentive for rejecting medical care, it's not good for the patient
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
And those under eye pooches... isn't that one day f the signs of something like kidney disease?
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
His own apparent lack of health should be a disqualifier for accepting any of his health recommendations.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Grrrr. Wtf is their problem? Politics is entirely too captured by corporate and govt interests.
The Alligator Alcatraz stunt, which only existed for a few weeks, is now closed. We paid $400 million for this nonsense. We could have housed 26,000 homeless people for a year with that amount of money.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
If the only ones you got left are healthy because you deliberately enacted policies that led to death for the others, well, there you go, everyone is healthy for now. But fall off that cliff into the unhealthy group, and your days become numbered, too.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Hey Australia...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, fracking, aka intentional cracking of our planet, causes tremors and earthquakes, per a report by the US Geological Survey. Australia has had fracking for a while. And funny, we're also getting mild-ish earthquakes
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Australia was COVID-free, and what kept bringing it in were planes and intentional quarantine oopsies by our version of Texas, New South Wales, who tried for months to get it embedded in communities so that the pubs would have customers again.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that person is fortunate, indeed, to have grandparents around as they enter adulthood. By 18, I'd already lost all of mine (age 10+), and by 22, I'd lost my dad as well.
Overcrowding in NSW hospitals ‘worst’ some doctors have seen as winter illnesses clog emergency departments
#NurembergTrials2.0
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
The US is getting BREXITed.
My son came home from his second day of school this year to see news coverage of the Minnesota school shooting. His reply was so simple and so out of reach. "They should just make a law that people can't have guns, why can't they just do that?" - Jack, age 11 We have failed our children so deeply.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
That's exactly it. No other option.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
great to see the scientific community move over to @bsky.app twitter has shifted to becoming something far more nefarious than simply being 'toxic' i hope this platform continues to onboard experts, and grow the community as a place to have safe conversations arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
(It took me a while, but I did indeed find a supplier about a month before the govt finally officially allowed people my age to get the mRNA version.)
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
It was shameful that we had to do that, and it sucks that US restrictions are even worse now.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
... vulnerable over 50 (the cutoff for the better vax) schemed and worked every supply avenue we could find, to find out through a friend who knows someone who knows someone, how to score the good stuff. (It was like college, revisited, lol.)
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I read that with a bit of a smirk because that's exactly what went on in Australia when the COVID vax first became available. Older folks got the less effective one with more side effects, Astra Zeneca. Younger folks got the good stuff (mRNA). So....
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
What's worse is that these disease carriers will travel internationally and infect others (vaxes are not 100% preventative, and many people can't get some vaxes).
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, that is low.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I have totally said that, more than once. Followed by, "I can make this work," without knowing how yet.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with her.
We’ll wait…🤔
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no end to the potential exploits of LLMs. I haven't found one yet, but acquaintances have found more than one. It's a problem for which no good solution exists.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
What? Didn't they get into government with a plan to reduce use of consultants and hire more civil servants?
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
And immigrants unable to purchase homes. Some of us planned ahead and did our sums, and figured on 5-7 years to get up the deposit. But the price rocket lit off and we could never catch up.
Jordon Steele-John has slammed the government’s Defence Housing bill which slugs taxpayers to build houses for US troops in Australia. “You should take a long, hard look in the mirror, the lot of you. and study the reflection that you find there.”🔥 #Senate
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
And yeah, many people f us are happy to pay for two so that someone who can't afford it could still get it.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Ok, it exists. Can we have it in Australia, please? Even if it's a costly other option that is private pay only, there:s precedent for two vaxes for the same thing, having different costs (Shingles vax).
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Gimmee the black eyed peas with jalapeno, though. I could get into that.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
100%.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Spectacular! Richard Boyle, ATO whistleblower, spared convictions and jail, and given 12 month good behaviour bond. Yay!!! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
The stuff just isn't crispy like it used to be. They've tried a compensation measure of a double-breaded chicken style, but it's just more breading and that is not something everyone wants.
"While AI is helping to solve some of the world's biggest environmental challenges, it also brings its own." How is AI solving environmental problems, exactly? Why are data centres "vital"? What alternatives are there? #environment
"the GI epithelium can serve as a long-term COVID reservoir, potentially driving inflammatory syndromes" in the gastrointestinal tract [of immunocompromised cancer patients in the study] #LongCovid www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Same.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
100%, David.
Guess where former defence ministers are? 👀 The revolving door is a real obstacle to good governance and it should be SHUT.
“Researchers documented enhanced wool quality with increased fiber strength and growth rates.”
Heart disease patients should get vaccinated against respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, cardiology experts say. Anyone with heart disease is high-risk, regardless of age, since infections can trigger heart failure and raise the chance of heart attacks.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not a fan, but this is by far not the worst example of legal child exploitation I'm aware of. Check out the sexy dance moves kids are being taught at some performing arts schools (and then they go on to perform with their troupe in public.) At least the pageants develop public speaking skills.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Lol, not just Auspost (and various other countries'postal services) has suspended deliveries to the US. So has DHL. You know who's gonna win big out of this, if anyone wins big? A company that has its own airline to move goods internationally. It's name? Amazon.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
100%. It's one of those rare unintended side effects that turned out to be positive.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol no. I guess some opinions are just too dumb to argue with because the person holding them wants to make up their own definitions of things. I'm blocking you.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
No, they are actually capitalists. Capitalist is not a class, it's a functional description.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok they got it half right.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Small businesses definitely own shite and definitely get screwed if not in political favour.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
FALSE. Crap loads of small business are indeed both capitalists and effedover.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
The ones without political favour, as I said.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
And none of that cancels out my original assertion, so why bring it up?
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
That is so cool. What a treat for the locals to see.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone who makes money through ownership of capital of some sort of whose primary 1 is money.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow!!
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
And on "how dare ya think you are too good for a unit", before anyone says it, I am old enough that this purchase will be my forever home and my expected retirement income doesn't support paying strata fees and levies. With my own land I can erect a granny flat and rent it out for $$$.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I am right there. Still renting despite $350k to put towards a deposit because I don't want the ongoing strata fee expense when older and the biggest mortgage I can get on a high Sydney income is $475k due to my age.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Because they don't want all capitalists to win. Just their inner circle.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I think looks are a prerequisite for Governor of California, more often than not. I mean, it does include Hollywood and many in the So Cal beaches subculture.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Besides, the video is so worth watching. Really.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just a spine. The right comms people.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
I am gasping at this. In retrospect, it's so obvious. But... Lololol. "Soon MAGA will have a new meaning" (re: a Make America Gavin Again flag styled like the orange one's). No, no, no, make it stop! Gavin-signed Bibles sold out. No, no more! Lololol! All items US-made, unlike the other. Lolol!
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I am GASPING. Give those media people massive golden handcuffs right now, to get them to stick around and to reward them for their excellence.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that's cool. Meanwhile, I wonder about all the stuff UNDER that flock of birds, lol.
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
Hey, Scott, life in the tech industry doesn't end at 45. What about white collar workers in our 50s and 60s? Work in the physical trades installing solar batteries doesn't suit most of us but we still require high paying work due to rent and mortgages. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
This. So this. It is definitely useful for automating small tasks to assist with everyday work, but even automation of small tasks requires a staggering number of AI provider credits, and most plans offer only a limited number of those per time period.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously??? FFS.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social)
This sounds really interesting. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...
Aussie who is not a rhino (@badcustsvc101.bsky.social) reply parent
I totally get what you mean about cutting out sweets. Freeze dried berries are fabulous.