Weary life traveller, amateur photographer and learner artist. Ex-primary school teacher, publicist, media wiz kid, script writer. Retired and happy to just watch clouds roll by. Trying đŠ out. Calling my posts flutters đ
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Oxempic/Wegovy etc: âStudies suggest muscle loss with these medications ⊠ranges from 25% to 39% of the total weight lost over 36â72 weeksâ đ§Ș A portion of the weight loss is muscle loss- include resistance exercise training www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Only Murders in the Building is something we look forward to every year. Fantastic series. I canât see why it wouldnât get better as it goes along. Modern day Agatha Christie with sass. đ
MASA , Make America Sicker. Again Vax Quack Lacks Facts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Some more spring blossoms from my house in Canberra.
I do wish Bluesky enabled editing of text. Spellchecker always changes words on me.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages shouldâve made that very clear.
I was driving home after visiting my parents when I heard a news update on the radio. I cried. She represented to many a strong woman whoâd overcome a bad marriage and mental health issues and survived. But just as she started to be recognised for doing good works her life was ended.
Itâs a first step but really the issue has always been that while police may believe a rape victim they rarely advise them to go to court. This is due to the very low rate of successful prosecutions and the harsh, at times abusive, questioning the victim is subjected to.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
At least in science, high tech & higher ed areas where the USA has been ahead but is now ceding to China, a good % of 'American exceptionalism' over the past several decades has been built on imported talent, which isn't necessarily all-white and protestant. Dumb & dumber have reasserted control.
Symbolic of an American King, an America Croesus? What would that 'plain man' (and very smart man) Ben Franklin, & other Founding Fathers who signed the US Declaration of Independence & the 1787 Constitution, make of this? How can this be the USA? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Whatâs with the blurring on the photo?
Seems like a threat.
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
Good morning from #wheretheriverbends. Oh yes! Itâs crisp and clear, the gusty winds are gone and the sunâs gonna shine all day. The goodies are on the table, ready for Sunday grazing, EASE into your day and ENJOY đđđ
Why do you appreciate unions? Iâll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Does this vaccine protect against anything other than shingles? If you have herpes simplex for example does it protect against that recurring?
Tackling the small plastic waste concerns while ignoring massive plastic waste from supermarket packaging. How many items are packaged in multiple plastic wraps? Packages within packages. And those âmultiple useâ plastic bags are piling up in garbage.
It would be mostly kids and those under 60 who died. Itâs a silly idea given that age group does all the manual work in society.
It would be pretty obvious who did it given only Russia and the U.S. have it in their military labs today.
Itâs something the U.S. president does almost daily about anyone he doesnât like.
Denmark has apparently just created new copyright laws to protect your face, voice and images from being used online by others and by AI without your permission. Itâs the first country to do this.
A note on Linda Reynolds www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The world has done dark stuff happening care of human beings. So letâs be happy that nature gives us seasons and flowers are blooming in Australia.
Why is he so angry about his Lebanese relative being mentioned? Itâs a bit odd imho to hate foreigners moving to Australia so much and be a descendant of a foreigner.
Step 1: Another mass shooting. Step 2: Thoughts & fucking prayersâą. Step 3: Someone suggests maybe- just MAYBE- we try gun control. Step 4: NRA lobbyists slither in like swamp eels with checkbooks. Step 5: Congress says, âToo soon. Step 6: NOTHING. #GunReformNow #NRABloodMoney
đ¶â€ïžđ¶ Border Collie meets Aussie on the trail⊠play bows, tail wags & pure doggy diplomacy. Friendship sealed in seconds. đČâš #DogsofBluesky #CanineCompanions #Wholesome #WoofGang
This is fundamentally insane. Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
You have to wonder at this point whether he and his mob are U.S. agents working against Canada đ
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how theyâll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament â turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
Trump says immigrants must prove âgood moral characterâ â this from the guy who paid hush money to a porn star, stole from his own charity, and tried to overturn an election.
Letâs stop calling them âmedical miraclesâ, letâs instead call them, SCIENCE. Keep your miracles for your books of fantasy and fairy tales.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book â one by one â and choke on the lesson theyâre trying to erase. đđ„ #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
He might have done some good targeting crap diets if he wasnât also cutting funding to cancer research and shutting down child vaccination programs and access to healthcare for millions in the U.S. But yeah, letâs focus on the diet PR heâs put out.
She wonât. Sheâll slip back into her millionaire lifestyle as she comes from money.
Deal done for better treatment in prison and no doubt a pardon for her sex trafficking and pedophilia conviction.
The war was almost ended thereâs no way the nuclear âąïž bombs were needed. They were simply testing their destructive power on civilians and cities. They even picked the cities where they thought theyâd get less negative publicity from other countries.
Thatâs why Iâm asking you to join us in calling for a safer world without nuclear weapons. #CultureAgainstNukes
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshimaâkilling members of my family.
Vaccines have helped to control many diseases that caused widespread suffering in the past, and continue to do so to this day. Professor of Immunology Charles Bangham FRS explains why we know #vaccines work and why they are so effective: royalsociety.org/blog/2021/01...
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
The message: Your phone is running out of storage space! The reason:
Believe women who arenât convicted sex traffickers, yes.
Convicted, not just accused.
Well she got a transfer to a nice comfortable low security âprisonâ. Iâm guessing parole and possibly a pardon in the near future?
Trump destroying satellites that monitor weather and carbon. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
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Motherfucking wind farmsâŠ
Rosellas eating camellia flowers.
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/c... - details of my new article on conceptualising immunities in the COVID age with a graphic I made to illustrate it
People do this? Good grief đł
Why are covid antivirals still being rationed in Australia? Surely, like influenza antivirals, it should be completely up to a doctor who they prescribe these to?! Not some govt authority trying to save a buck đ” @AlboMP @healthgovau
The legal age of consent in the UK is 16. So the only charge he might be gotten on would be illegal solicitation if she were human trafficked or forced.
We had a guest for drinks on the deck tonight.
Iâm a little concerned at the imposition of digital ID in Australia to access the internet. đ The idea we are going to be monitored by government for all our online transactions and posts is frankly terrifying. The imposition of digital ID is either ignored or championed.
A big kangaroo is spending nights grazing in my street. Likely avoiding the cull happening in a nearby forest. Smart animal đŠ
When you skipped history class and the briefing.
It is so striking to be in a doctors office waiting room with sick patients and no one else is masking. Infection prevention and control in healthcare spaces seems like it has been lost to history and denial. #WearAMask, at minimum if you are sick.
The magpies in my backyard sun bake this way against warm surfaces. They look dead but are doing this to kill off parasites. Itâs funny to watch.
Film noir goddess. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Hello Blue Sky đ itâs nice to be away from twitter today.
Trump regime shuts down the Voyager space probe account. Shocking! x.com/NASAVoyager/...
Itâs alarming trumpsâ cost cutting team are shutting down the mars curiosity account on Twitter. x.com/MarsCuriosit...
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Did you know trumps cost cutting team are shutting down the curiosity account on Twitter? x.com/MarsCuriosit...
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Trumpâs cost cutting shutting down Twitter curiosity account. x.com/MarsCuriosit...
Trump is shutting down the mars curiosity account on Twitter. x.com/MarsCuriosit...
It's been nearly 24 hours now since this Australian reporter was shot. Still nothing from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social How many more Australians have to be shot before you take a position? @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Or is this just the price of doing business with the USA?
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
Australian Journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD, collaborating with Trump regime ICE forces, live on air. The regime loyalist took aim at the press and fired. #StopICE
Iâm alarmed for science education in America. Trumps team is shutting down the mars curiosity rover account on Twitter. Science is taking a big step backwards in the U.S. x.com/MarsCuriosit...
Thatâs a real shame. They havenât seen what the right wing has done to the U.S. and they didnât learn anything from the last world war.
I think Trump may have just sounded a death knell for American made movies. Is there any end to his stupidity?
âAll films set in Paris will now be filmed in Las Vegas-â
The plots of disaster movies that portray the end of civilization often begin with high-level Government Officials ignoring the warnings of Scientists. One of several lesson learned from the 2.5 hour @Netflix Documentary â Donât Look Up (2021).
Do they get death threats because theyâre black and the media in the UK have stirred up right wing nut jobs about that fact?
I think I added a fake account link.
Thank you SBS Viceland. May the Fifth is The Fifth Element marathon again. I look forward to this date every year đ„°đđ @lucbesson.bsky.social
Labor landslide. Will nobody think of the poor billionaires ?
Itâs a great day in Australia đŠđș today. May the 4th was with us đ
Brilliant Melbourne morning sky.
I predict Sky ânewsâ loses ratings as itâs obvious the majority of Australians rejected their right wing messages.
âLabor learned the lesson that it needed to focus on the concerns of voters. The Coalition did not. As Treasurer Jim Chalmers put it on the ABC election night Labor understood, particularly in an increasingly uncertain world, it does not have the time, luxury to stuff around on second-tier issues.â
Keeping this one for posterity. #auspol
Think of this: the Liberals have now lost ALL of Sydneyâs wealthiest postcodes, including the entire North Shore. All gone to Teal women. What does that tell you?
I canât believe the official White House account retweeted this insult to all Catholics around the world.
Thatâs a shame. For many years they resisted the extremists.
Especially the American Catholic Church.
They arenât political so they wonât. But itâs really disgusting.
Congrats on keeping trumpism out of Australia. You have a big job ahead. Medicare pays hardly anything towards medical scans and pathology tests now. Itâs in dire need of repair.
We hadnât won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
Guarantees their staying in opposition for decades.
Australiaâs 2025 election is more than a political outcome. It is a philosophical reaffirmation that power, when untethered from fear, returns to its rightful source. The people. In casting their votes, Australians did not just choose leaders. They reclaimed authorship of their future.
Australia just had a federal election, where we learned the following: - Australia isnât America, which everyone knows except the opposition - Itâs possible to overcome a media landscape stuffed with U.S culture war bullshit - Compulsory voting + you get a sausage for doing it = engagement!