Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
@chrisjordanclark.bsky.social
Bereaved mother. Feminist. Austen scholar. PhD. Writer. Reader. Artist. Horticulturist. Disabled. Angry pacifist. Atheist. Despair for the world. Masking and isolating. Covid isn’t over. Living in unceded lutruwita with a view of kanamaluka.
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newsGP - How COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain
Mounting research shows the disease can lead to an array of problems, including significant drops in IQ scores, writes Dr Ziyad Al-Aly.
www1.racgp.org.au
Covid isn’t over. And each infection damages the brain. Especially the parts that manage empathy and decision making.
Once you know that it’s easy to see what is happening and it’s terrifying.
www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
Once you know that it’s easy to see what is happening and it’s terrifying.
www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
So many people are wondering if behaviour and attitudes really are getting worse. Yes. Yes they are.
And this is why.
EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD COVID HAS BRAIN DAMAGE.
Reduced empathy, disinhibition, poor decision making, less analytical thinking.
The world is worse because people are losing humanity
And this is why.
EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD COVID HAS BRAIN DAMAGE.
Reduced empathy, disinhibition, poor decision making, less analytical thinking.
The world is worse because people are losing humanity
New studies come out all the time. I understand it’s hard to face but everyone should know the truth.
“Everyone [who’s] had COVID-19 tends to have some lasting reduction in brain blood flow (CBF), mainly in frontotemporal areas – even if they feel 100% recovered [and the infection was mild].”
“Everyone [who’s] had COVID-19 tends to have some lasting reduction in brain blood flow (CBF), mainly in frontotemporal areas – even if they feel 100% recovered [and the infection was mild].”
Latest 🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on Covid's impact on the right-occipital areas, where visual information is processed!
SARS-CoV-2 "...causes persistent cerebral hypoperfusion (mainly frontotemporal) that can still be detected months later..."
Full🎯🧵:
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SARS-CoV-2 "...causes persistent cerebral hypoperfusion (mainly frontotemporal) that can still be detected months later..."
Full🎯🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19921...
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
So many people are wondering if behaviour and attitudes really are getting worse. Yes. Yes they are.
And this is why.
EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD COVID HAS BRAIN DAMAGE.
Reduced empathy, disinhibition, poor decision making, less analytical thinking.
The world is worse because people are losing humanity
And this is why.
EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD COVID HAS BRAIN DAMAGE.
Reduced empathy, disinhibition, poor decision making, less analytical thinking.
The world is worse because people are losing humanity
Welcome to #Tasmania !
A 'massive' number of wildlife die on our roads. Experts say protections are falling far short
A 'massive' number of wildlife die on our roads. Experts say protections are falling far short
Wildlife-safe road features remain largely optional, a “nice-to-have, not need-to-have”, the author of new research warns.
www.sbs.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Welcome to #Tasmania !
I’m just a poor boy
From a poor family
Easy come, easy go
Anyway the wind blows
From a poor family
Easy come, easy go
Anyway the wind blows
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’m just a poor boy
From a poor family
Easy come, easy go
Anyway the wind blows
From a poor family
Easy come, easy go
Anyway the wind blows
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
This leads to what I mean by antifascist economics. It doesn’t target one party; it tackles the material conditions that make fascism appealing: insecurity, despair, unmet basic needs. Policies that make life affordable are not just social policy, they are democracy insurance.
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This leads to what I mean by antifascist economics. It doesn’t target one party; it tackles the material conditions that make fascism appealing: insecurity, despair, unmet basic needs. Policies that make life affordable are not just social policy, they are democracy insurance.
“What people are actually reacting to is the audacity of a disabled person expecting respect.”
This!
No one is attacking you, just asking you to think before you speak or type. When we know better we can do better.
Thanks 💜💙🩷
This!
No one is attacking you, just asking you to think before you speak or type. When we know better we can do better.
Thanks 💜💙🩷
—you gotta do to keep that respect. Not picky at all.
What people are actually reacting to is the audacity of a disabled person expecting respect. The right to self-name. The right to shape the conversation about themselves.
It’s not petty. Just assume we know something you don’t know about that—
What people are actually reacting to is the audacity of a disabled person expecting respect. The right to self-name. The right to shape the conversation about themselves.
It’s not petty. Just assume we know something you don’t know about that—
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“What people are actually reacting to is the audacity of a disabled person expecting respect.”
This!
No one is attacking you, just asking you to think before you speak or type. When we know better we can do better.
Thanks 💜💙🩷
This!
No one is attacking you, just asking you to think before you speak or type. When we know better we can do better.
Thanks 💜💙🩷
It was ALWAYS going to be based on how people look. There is no other way to police it.
ANYONE who doesn’t meet “femininity” standards will be suspect.
AS IF MEN HAVE EVER NEEDED TO DRESS LIKE WOMEN TO INVADE OUR SPACES AND ASSULT US!
We have more to fear from cis men than from trans anyone. FFS.
ANYONE who doesn’t meet “femininity” standards will be suspect.
AS IF MEN HAVE EVER NEEDED TO DRESS LIKE WOMEN TO INVADE OUR SPACES AND ASSULT US!
We have more to fear from cis men than from trans anyone. FFS.
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It was ALWAYS going to be based on how people look. There is no other way to police it.
ANYONE who doesn’t meet “femininity” standards will be suspect.
AS IF MEN HAVE EVER NEEDED TO DRESS LIKE WOMEN TO INVADE OUR SPACES AND ASSULT US!
We have more to fear from cis men than from trans anyone. FFS.
ANYONE who doesn’t meet “femininity” standards will be suspect.
AS IF MEN HAVE EVER NEEDED TO DRESS LIKE WOMEN TO INVADE OUR SPACES AND ASSULT US!
We have more to fear from cis men than from trans anyone. FFS.
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
In other news about people who apparently don’t have enough money……
WTF is WRONG with these guys? Can’t live without the bit of extra cash that promoting gambling gives them?
And again I will say it - cunts. The lot of them.
WTF is WRONG with these guys? Can’t live without the bit of extra cash that promoting gambling gives them?
And again I will say it - cunts. The lot of them.
ABC Sport and Australian cricketing legend Glenn McGrath part ways due to the former fast bowler's relationship with a betting company.
ABC and Test cricket legend part ways over gambling company sponsorship
ABC Sport and Australian cricketing legend Glenn McGrath part ways due to the former fast bowler's relationship with a betting company.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
In other news about people who apparently don’t have enough money……
WTF is WRONG with these guys? Can’t live without the bit of extra cash that promoting gambling gives them?
And again I will say it - cunts. The lot of them.
WTF is WRONG with these guys? Can’t live without the bit of extra cash that promoting gambling gives them?
And again I will say it - cunts. The lot of them.
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
Police are a white male protection unit. Absolutely depraved what they support these violent men with getting away with. What a fucking world the rest of us have to live in. Fucking hell
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her
Exclusive: A secret audio device recorded Bill Karran raping, hitting and choking his wife of 30 years – immediately after he was released, drunk, from a Queensland watch house
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Police are a white male protection unit. Absolutely depraved what they support these violent men with getting away with. What a fucking world the rest of us have to live in. Fucking hell
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
Feel free to RT/boost
Feel free to RT/boost
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
Feel free to RT/boost
Feel free to RT/boost
If a Muslim man had sent a death threat to a white male politician it would be terrorism. The media would be screaming.
Violence against women is quickly forgotten, even forgiven. If you are a woman of colour or of faith, you are considered fair game.
Australia is as racist & sexist as anywhere.
Violence against women is quickly forgotten, even forgiven. If you are a woman of colour or of faith, you are considered fair game.
Australia is as racist & sexist as anywhere.
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If a Muslim man had sent a death threat to a white male politician it would be terrorism. The media would be screaming.
Violence against women is quickly forgotten, even forgiven. If you are a woman of colour or of faith, you are considered fair game.
Australia is as racist & sexist as anywhere.
Violence against women is quickly forgotten, even forgiven. If you are a woman of colour or of faith, you are considered fair game.
Australia is as racist & sexist as anywhere.
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
My god.
Tasmania’s Macquarie Point Stadium by the (ruinous) numbers www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/17/t...
Tasmania’s Macquarie Point Stadium by the (ruinous) numbers
We've compiled the numbers to help you follow the coming — and supposedly final — stadium debate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
www.crikey.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
My god.
If @albomp.bsky.social wants to cut hospital costs MAYBE HE COULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYONE GETTING COVID OVER AND OVER?
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Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
If @albomp.bsky.social wants to cut hospital costs MAYBE HE COULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYONE GETTING COVID OVER AND OVER?
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bsky.app/profile/chro...
We lived with asbestos for decades - it was too hard and big to tackle - but now we take it seriously - which is good and as it should be.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
More than 70 ACT public schools closed over health fears from asbestos-contaminated children’s play sand
More than 70 ACT public schools closed over health fears from asbestos-contaminated children’s play sand
Education directorate closed schools for assessment and cleaning despite assessing health risk as ‘low’
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More than 70 public schools in the ACT were closed on Monday as fears grew over children’s play sand products that may contain asbestos.
The territory’s education directorate decided to shut their doors after it found “widespread” use of coloured play sand products sold at Kmart and Target, which were recalled on the weekend. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We lived with asbestos for decades - it was too hard and big to tackle - but now we take it seriously - which is good and as it should be.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
The other thing that not masking proves is that most doctors do NOT stay up to date with their reading of new medical research.
Those who are up to date wear a mask. Those who aren’t and don’t - well do you want them looking after your future?
#WearAMask
#ConnectTheDots
Those who are up to date wear a mask. Those who aren’t and don’t - well do you want them looking after your future?
#WearAMask
#ConnectTheDots
Doctors are not scientists and the fact that they are all not wearing N95s at work proves it.
The irony.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The other thing that not masking proves is that most doctors do NOT stay up to date with their reading of new medical research.
Those who are up to date wear a mask. Those who aren’t and don’t - well do you want them looking after your future?
#WearAMask
#ConnectTheDots
Those who are up to date wear a mask. Those who aren’t and don’t - well do you want them looking after your future?
#WearAMask
#ConnectTheDots
Cannot recommend this podcast highly enough for all my fellow #Insomnia sufferers.
Ep 167 is my personal favourite.
#Sleep
Ep 167 is my personal favourite.
#Sleep
Drown out the noise. 🎧 Escape to somewhere quiet.
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I live across the river from this monstrosity. When we queried noise levels and operating hours we were told that they were “self regulated”. Obviously that is working well.
And hidden in there is the fact that the state government has NO ENVIRONMENTAL BOND to cover rehab of the site.
CUNTS! 🤬🤬🤬
And hidden in there is the fact that the state government has NO ENVIRONMENTAL BOND to cover rehab of the site.
CUNTS! 🤬🤬🤬
🏭 Tas EPA has banned the use of waste from a manganese smelter outside the Bell Bay industrial area after 9000t were used for landfill without approval. Another 8000t of slag have gone to 10 more sites, but the locations have not been made public. #politas
▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/epa-rev...
▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/epa-rev...
Tas EPA says 9000t of smelter slag reuse lacked approval
The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has banned the use of waste from a manganese smelter outside the Bell Bay industrial area after an investigation found 9000 tonnes was used in road and const...
tasmanianinquirer.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I live across the river from this monstrosity. When we queried noise levels and operating hours we were told that they were “self regulated”. Obviously that is working well.
And hidden in there is the fact that the state government has NO ENVIRONMENTAL BOND to cover rehab of the site.
CUNTS! 🤬🤬🤬
And hidden in there is the fact that the state government has NO ENVIRONMENTAL BOND to cover rehab of the site.
CUNTS! 🤬🤬🤬
Reposted by Dr Chris Jordan-Clark
People are sicker now, society is sicker now, we are seeing a rise in premature deaths, cancers, neurological issues, and all other manner of illness is becoming so rampant that it seems like everyone is sick all the time. We know this to be true, we can see it with our own eyes.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
People are sicker now, society is sicker now, we are seeing a rise in premature deaths, cancers, neurological issues, and all other manner of illness is becoming so rampant that it seems like everyone is sick all the time. We know this to be true, we can see it with our own eyes.
Damned Whores and God’s Police changed my life when I read it in my first year of university in 1992. I’m sure it’s still being taught.
I still have that copy in my study and cited it recently. It’s still (sadly) relevant and important.
And this is a great article too.
I still have that copy in my study and cited it recently. It’s still (sadly) relevant and important.
And this is a great article too.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Damned Whores and God’s Police changed my life when I read it in my first year of university in 1992. I’m sure it’s still being taught.
I still have that copy in my study and cited it recently. It’s still (sadly) relevant and important.
And this is a great article too.
I still have that copy in my study and cited it recently. It’s still (sadly) relevant and important.
And this is a great article too.
Two hours and this person still has not replied.
I guess they might have a migraine still, which is shitty AF (I used to get them).
But still, I think getting long Covid “after every infection” is a situation that deserves a mask!
#CovidIsNotOver
#Covid19
#MaskingForever
I guess they might have a migraine still, which is shitty AF (I used to get them).
But still, I think getting long Covid “after every infection” is a situation that deserves a mask!
#CovidIsNotOver
#Covid19
#MaskingForever
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Two hours and this person still has not replied.
I guess they might have a migraine still, which is shitty AF (I used to get them).
But still, I think getting long Covid “after every infection” is a situation that deserves a mask!
#CovidIsNotOver
#Covid19
#MaskingForever
I guess they might have a migraine still, which is shitty AF (I used to get them).
But still, I think getting long Covid “after every infection” is a situation that deserves a mask!
#CovidIsNotOver
#Covid19
#MaskingForever
In news we need to face about Covid “This virus won't evolve to milder ever in relation to humans. And humans can't evolve to be immunocompetent against an immune-depleting virus. The virus is not compatible with human life.”
It will never be milder. We will never be immune.
It will never be milder. We will never be immune.
In the evolving path of this virus, humans are just a meso-species, the species in between. This virus won't evolve to milder ever in relation to humans. And humans can't evolve to be immunocompetent against an immune-depleting virus. The virus is not compatible with human life.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In news we need to face about Covid “This virus won't evolve to milder ever in relation to humans. And humans can't evolve to be immunocompetent against an immune-depleting virus. The virus is not compatible with human life.”
It will never be milder. We will never be immune.
It will never be milder. We will never be immune.