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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone’s sick all the time because COVID weakens your immune system with every infection — making you more vulnerable to everything else.

By tern

Them: "If covid infections damaged our immunity then we'd be sick all the time!!"

Also them: "Why are we sick all the time!!"

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Them: "If covid infections damaged our immunity then we'd be sick all the time!!"

Also them: "Why are we sick all the time!!"

6:13 PM · Oct 19, 2025 · 14.1K Views

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 33m

Husband had to drive across town (south of the Yarra, eek!) to pick up some brewing equipment this morning. He’s just arrived back bearing gifts: a tiddly oggie for my lunch. 😍

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 3h

An airACT 747 veered off the runway on landing in Hong Kong, reportedly striking a ground vehicle. Local media are now reporting one occupant of the vehicle has died and the other has been taken to hospital. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3h

Australia hit by record flu season

🔹More than 410,000 lab-confirmed cases so far in 2025

🔹Only 25.7% of children aged 6 months to 5 years were vaccinated in 2025, the lowest since 2021

🔹Vaccination rates for over 65 slip to 60.5%, lowest since 2020

source: newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/10/aust...

20/10/2025

06:15

Australia posts record-breaking flu numbers as vaccination rates stall
Royal Australian College of GPs

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 15h

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 17h

Israel never had any intention of an actual ceasefire. Absolute cunts.

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 17h

This is very weird. We have feral deer in the Plenty Gorge Park & there’s a culling program, although it seems a bit sporadic. Why aren’t we just trying to eradicate them,!along with the bloody rabbits & foxes?

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

This decision by the Victorian government risks increased:

- Motor accidents & fatalities
- Agricultural & garden destruction
- Disease transmission
- Environmental harm & species extinctions
- Harm to culturally significant sites

All to appease the hunting lobby!

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Why Victoria has rejected calls to stop protecting feral deer

Victoria is the only mainland state that lists deer as a protected game species, rather than a feral pest to be managed.

www.smh.com.au

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 18h

ABC reported”thousands” in Melbourne. It didn’t look very impressive. 🤨

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 18h

A weird adventure I once had. Post-bodybuilding show, ridiculously tanned, stupidly lean & about to demolish some Indian food. You only had to ask me once to show off my biceps 😂

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing how the police always protect the fascists. 😑 And the ABC report I just read was incredibly biased and also lacking in actual info.

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 19h

How is this “inclusive”? Pandering to bigots is not what inclusivity means. 🙄

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 19h

SIL is so disorganised, she’s only just sent out invitations to her 60th. On the Mornington Peninsula. In 4 weeks’ time. Accommodation options are limited and expensive. 🙄

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 22h

All good, there have been no further notifications so that’s a sign it’s under control.

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 22h

2 minutes, not bad. 🚨

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 22h

Bushfire notification very close to home, now timing how long till I hear the sirens.

Not loving this wind. 💩

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Melbourne: ever helpful

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 1d

he’s truly unbothered by the no kings stuff. he’s not thinking about it at all and he’s definitely not mad.

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 1d

Contrast this with the Victoria “Uphold the Right” Police who flash-banged and pepper-sprayed loud but peaceful anti-Nazi protestors in Melbourne today

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 1d

Cops moving to bring the guns to face us meanwhile the fascists are starting to throw stuff (at us)

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely to see a young Michael J Fox

Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 1d

OK, after seeing the incredible stage musical, I need to rewatch the original Back to the Future

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 1d

Husband has crates full of gels from his old band days and I never knew this.

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Helena Handbasket @kerrynw.bsky.social · 1d

Council giving a heads-up on socials about fireworks tonight for Diwali. Can’t wait for all the racist comments tonight/tomorrow. 🙄

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year (January 2025) Special Envoy Jillian Segal confirms the US govt lobbied and convinced the Aust Govt to get her position established.

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User Clip: Jillian Segal

US applies pressure on Australia to introduce Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 2d

omg York is leaderless, reckon the Lancastrians are gonna try something

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