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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, well my English friend said people wouldn't know, so I was just going off that. Incorrect is a bit of a harsh way to start a reply!

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 1d

A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland

Public health warning issued after drugs known as nitazenes detected amid move to ban pill testing * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Teddy bear-shaped pills laced with synthetic opioids have been linked to a death in Queensland, triggering a public health warning about a group of highly potent illicit drugs called nitazenes. N-pyrrolidino-protonitazene and protonitazene were detected in toxicology and samples taken from pale yellow pills marked with the letter “Y” in the state’s south-east. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22h

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you like, you can practice moving your mind away gently from the arguments that start up inside your head w/people who aren't present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with. Do this as many times as you need.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

Pine Marten, Shelly Perkins.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 1d

Striding towards the ferry to head north over the harbour – Sydney in February 1968 (photo by R. Donaldson, State Library of New South Wales)

b&w photo of an everyday scene near a ferry wharf taking passengers to Neutral Bay and Cremorne and Mosman – at the centre of the shot is a woman wearing a dress that's billowing to the right. Other people are all and a newspaper headline 'Don Lane in Court' is displayed.

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 1d

Barely a week after the Queensland government banned drug testing facilities. All public policy has tradeoffs but the hard right consistently choose the ones that lead to bigger body counts

Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill

Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

www.abc.net.au

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 1d

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 1d

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 1d

📷 #Gaza, Palestine, 1900

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 2d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently people in the UK do not know what this means. Problematic, as it's my go to term for the act of making out.

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Pipa @pipapipia.bsky.social · 1d

Mini plants on a wall. So pretty.🌺

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

The national picture shows waiting times for gender identity clinics that far exceed the NHS's recommended maximum of 18 weeks.

But drilling down into the data from our investigation, 'The Gender Clinic Files' reveals huge disparities across the UK

👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

THE GENDER CLINIC FILES
12 YEARS
England
58 YEARS
Scotland
2 YEARS
Wales
41 YEARS
Northern Ireland
The average waiting times across the UK according to QueerAF analysis shows they vary wildly around the UK:

Estimated wait time for a first appointment as of March 2025 (in years) based on QueerAF analysis of data from FOIs

🔴 England - 12 years
🔴 Wales - 2 years
🔴 Scotland - 58 years
🔴 Northern Ireland - 41 years

This data is shown in an infographic with a map of the UK alongside logos of QueerAF and What The Trans?!

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 1d

Germany and Greece are quietly redefining EU asylum norms, by using national derogations to limit certain people's access to asylum. Read the new blog post from student researcher Ridam Gangwar ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1d

This #WorldMentalHealthDay it's crucial to remember that precarious, broken, or otherwise toxic environments cause or worsen mental distress.

They also undermine our efforts to care for one-another.

Although in challenging times that's exactly what we have to do.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'The River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge' by
Charles Ernest Butler (1864–1933)

(Government Art Collection)

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UCU Equality @ucuequality.bsky.social · 1d

Job insecurity, discrimination, unsafe working conditions, and unmanageable workloads are all barriers to good mental health. Take time out for yourself! Look after your mental health

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 1d

Fancy some bog porridge this #WorldPorridgeDay?
This is a photomicrograph of the 2,400-year-old gut contents of the Tollund Man; whose body was preserved after being deposited in a Danish bog.
It shows his last meal consisted of porridge and some fish.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Microscopic photograph of yellow-brown shapes.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 2d

We have RU OK day in Australia and it's awful. People are encouraged to ask people if they're OK. If someone asked me if I was OK, I would deck them. On the positive side, our department managed to accidentally steal some other department's mental health morning tea one year.

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh! This looks fascinating.

Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds @sspatleeds.bsky.social · 2d

Book Release! 🔖
Dr Jessica Martin has published 'Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis', via Bloomsbury Academic

The book explores gender inequality, media driven feminism, and a new kind of 'austerity celebrity'

Congratulations Jess! 📖

Check it out here: https://ow.ly/izBc50X8jc5

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 8d

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk, 1927–2013) :
Floral Passage, 2007
Stonecut and stencil
62.2 x 73.7 cm. | 24.5 x 29 in.

Ashevak, CC ONu RCA is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art.

Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi, named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father.

Kenojuak remembered Ushuakjuk as "a kind and benevolent man." Her father, a respected angakkuq (shaman), "had more knowledge than average mortals, and he would help all the Inuit people.” According to Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus. Her father came into conflict with Christian converts, and some enemies assassinated him in a hunting camp in 1933, when she was only six.

After her father's murder, Kenojuak moved with her widowed mother Silaqqi and family to the home of Silaqqi's mother, Koweesa, who taught her traditional crafts, including the repair of sealskins for trade with the Hudson's Bay Company and how to make waterproof clothes sewn with caribou sinew.

When she was 19, her mother, Silaqqi, and stepfather, Takpaugni, arranged for her to marry Johnniebo Ashevak, a local Inuit hunter. Kenojuak was reluctant, but in time, she came to love him for his kindness and gentleness, a man who developed artistic talents in his own right.

In 1950 a public health nurse arrived in her Arctic village; Kenojuak, having tested positive in a tuberculosis screening, was sent against her will to Parc Savard hospital in Quebec City, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. She had just given birth when she was forcibly transferred; the baby was adopted by a neighbouring family. Several of Kenojuak's children died while she was confined in hospital.

In 1966, Kenojuak and Johnniebo moved to Cape Dorset. Many of their children and grandchildren succumbed to disease, as did her husband after 26 years of marriage. Three daughters of Kenojuak, Mary, Elisapee Qiqituk, and Aggeok, died in childhood, and four sons, Jamasie, her adopted s…

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