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Debbie Fearon (she/her)
@debbiefearon.medsky.social
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Former health professional with an increasingly ridiculous mishmash of learned knowledge and lived experience. Living on Arrernte country. Please be kind 💚
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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · Aug 21
Today would have been Jennifer’s 29th birthday.

Still miss you Bub 💚
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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · Dec 30
Today, it’s 28 years since I lost my eldest child to severe congenital heart disease. Love you long time Jennifer Dulcie 💚
A cute baby lays in a hospital bed with oxygen tubing, IV line and a nasogastric tube accompanied by her favourite Elmo toy.
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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1h
The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

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The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day
I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…
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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d
So @kyleatink.bsky.social is Food Bank Australia's new ceo
She joins former nsw premier John Robertson who's the nsw ceo (so many ceos)

Here's one of my.old posts on foodbanks lol 😆
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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 48m
You could go ask for one of these hampers and try to feed your family on it, but that won't get the rent paid or pay the fare to get to the job centre to "reengage"

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d
Since it's #AntiPovertyWeek next week, I'm getting emails about fund- and "awareness"-raisers
Such as this Pantry Box Challenge where you attempt to live off the contents off this common charity food parcel for the week...

Carb city here we come!
Shopping List For the purpose of this challenge you can purchase the items yourself or for a $50 donation (cost of providing these items) you can nominate to get the whole experience and collect from our Community Food Centre located at 370 Pinjarra Road, Greenfields WA.  Pantry - Shelf Stable Items Pasta 500g Rice 1kg 1 Can Tomato Paste 170g 1 Can Lentils 420g 2 Min Noodles | Beef or Chicken 85g (5 packet) Quick Oats 750g Chicken Noodle Packet Soup 50g Soup Mix 500g Long Life Milk 1L 1 Can of Tuna 185g 1 Can Butter Beans or Four Bean Mix 420g 1 Can Baked Beans or Spaghetti 420g Vegetable Oil 750g *** Sugar 1kg *** Tea (100 pack) *** Coffee 200g *** *** Please note these item quantities are normally given out monthly not weekly  Fruit & Vegetals Carrots x 4 Onions x 2 Potatos x 6 Tomatos x 3 Apples x 2 Mandarin or Oranges x 2 Bananas x 3 Bakery Bread x 2 loafs
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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 59m
Marco De Jong helps shine further light on how intertwined NZ’s military is with the white supremacist military machine of the US, and how those links keep growing.
#nzpol

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 44m
Harm reduction works!

“The findings reinforce that while abstinence remains the safest option, switching from cigarettes to vaping may substantially reduce respiratory harm, a message with important implications for tobacco control and public health policy.”
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 1h
Who would have thought that vaping is safer than smoking?

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@drbfreeman.bsky.social

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Vaping carries far lower risk of wheezing than smoking, new CoEHAR study finds - Clearing the Air
A major study has found that cigarette smokers face the highest risk of wheezing, while exclusive vape users show no significant difference compared with
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 18h
This article is paywalled so don't worry if you're not a sub, but the point I want to make here is it's a real wake up call to the state of the country & why speaking to our own echo chamber won't help us.
BTW I'm pretty devastated by the Maori wards results here - about 54% so far reject #nzpol
Local govt results so far as govt forces ~42 Councils to pay for Māori ward referendum
Māori Wards suffer heavy retreats across the country
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te reo word of the day @te-reo-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Whakamā: To be ashamed, embarrassed, shy, bashful
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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 4h
Sunrise, Sunday, 12 October, from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

VERY windy 💨 day!

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 4h
NZ links to Five Eyes military technology could become tripwires if conflict breaks out, undermining our sovereignty
Network empire: how advanced military tech is reshaping Five Eyes
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5h
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h
Starving Children Screaming for Food as U.S. Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation and Death

Across Myanmar and in refugee camps along its borders, the suffering unleashed by US' gutting of its foreign aid has been severe and deadly, particularly for children, AP found
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Starving Children Screaming for Food as U.S. Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation and Death
A look at the outcome of Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3h
Marmot places are having tangible results on health and wellbeing. Just ask these people who are busy making it happen
How projects driven by Marmot principles are transforming Britain
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 10h
Good morning!
Burrowing owl perched over an irrigation canal.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 12h
Sir Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street while still prime minister, following lobbying by Lord Peter Mandelson, the BBC has confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 13h
🌞Total land required to replace coal fired energy
🌞Example assumes all solar:120,000 hectares
🌞 That’s less than 0.016 percent of Australia’s total land currently used for agriculture
🌞 Australian agriculture currently accounts for 58% of our land use
🌞And agrisolar = panels + grass/sheep etc
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noopkat @noopkat.fragile.systems · 12h
Tomorrow morning I am cycling 100km from Brisbane to the Gold Coast for cancer research 🚴‍♀️❤️

If you’d like to sponsor me (even small donations are super appreciated): fundraise.mater.org.au/s/120023/179...
Please support my ride
I’m taking on the Brisbane to Gold Coast Cycle for Cancer to raise money for cancer research at Mater. Please support my ride by making a donation today. Thank you.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 13h
Australian medical authorities say disturbing evidence is emerging of a possible return of previously eliminated diseases, as childhood immunisation rates continue to fall. satpa.pe/1KlwBMm
The rising risks of vaccine reluctance
The latest drop in childhood immunisation rates has raised concerns among medical authorities that some communities are losing herd immunity to diseases such as measles.
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The Pixel Project @thepixelproject.bsky.social · 13h
If you're in #Australia & need help re domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT 24-hour helpline at 1800737732 for information, counselling and support.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17d
There’s not a hope in hell those responsible for Robodebt will want you watching this. A must watch, available now on SBSonDemand #PeopleVSRobodebt
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Robyn D @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 1d
Another dead woman. 😥😥

Rockbank man charged with murder over the death of woman at Epping

#auspol
Man charged with murder over woman's death in Melbourne's north
A 50-year-old man faces court charged with murder after the death of a 44-year-old woman in Epping on Thursday night.
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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · 15h
When you want to hide the cholera, tuberculosis and typhoid outbreaks in your concentration camps (ICE detention centres) ☹️
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 15h
To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol
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TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 15h
Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol
Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder
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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 16h
Rightio. Bit of EV road trip drama.
Got to Caiguna Roadhouse, greeted with black screen of death on the charger, as it's been shut down due to issues with the generator.
Backtracked 60km to Wedgetail Inn arriving with 14% to use the crowdfunded 22kw.
So pissed that all 3 WA EV chargers are broken!!
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17h
CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

Continued below ⬇️
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BinChicken24 @binchicken24.bsky.social · 16h
#WildOz #wildflowers

Blue is not a colour often seen in flowers, but some of our wildflowers are stunning blue, these are a few blue beauties from my corner of WA.
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