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Debbie Fearon (she/her)

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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 💚

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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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning!

Burrowing owl perched over an irrigation canal.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 5h

🌞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 · 3h

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.

fundraise.mater.org.au

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 4h

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.

satpa.pe

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The Pixel Project @thepixelproject.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 15h

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.

www.abc.net.au

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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · 6h

When you want to hide the cholera, tuberculosis and typhoid outbreaks in your concentration camps (ICE detention centres) ☹️

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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

www.nytimes.com

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 6h

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 7h

#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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Bumbleebee @parrykylie.bsky.social · 10h

Of course, the reason that my area (and many others) had only old conservative choices is that it's become increasingly scary for anyone else to stand.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, we argue vociferously, backed by empirical research, that patients’ wellbeing and health outcomes will suffer from the Trump administration’s push to end DEI policies at US medical schools

The BMJ @bmj.com · 20h

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10h

Every single year.
Every single year, scientists discover that dogs are better for us than we ever knew before and and I don’t think we’re ever going to stop discovering how awesome dogs are for human beings

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h

Research suggests that dogs might have a deeper and more biologically complex effect on humans than scientists previously believed

The health benefits of owning a dog, according to science

www.independent.co.uk

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 12h

Luxon has always been a dud leader, marked by short term cost cutting at the expense of vision and strategy, uncaring of workers, known as a "ruthless" man, and setting up dubious deals with Middle Eastern military while feigning ignorance. His Cabinet is commensurate #nzpol

Luxon is a dud leader - and his tenure at Air NZ gave plenty of clues

Plus: Willis borrowed $12b for $14.7b of tax cuts while saying she wouldn't borrow a dollar or would resign. Mark Mitchell promised improved crime results or resignation. Both remain.

mountaintui.substack.com

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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · 9h

I’ll try a local store first but will go online if I can’t find one here.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 17h

Wrote this yesterday for #WorldMentalHealthDay

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

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…

phonakins.com

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 15h

A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven.

God says, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

“At last! Who shot JFK?”

God says, “Oswald, acting alone.”

Conspiracy theorist says, “Shit. This goes even higher than I thought…”

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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · 9h

Wondering where I can get an inflatable frog costume to wear trick-or-treating round the American part of Alice Springs/Mparntwe at Halloween? 🤣

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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 12h

Whenever I bend down to pick clothes off the floor I think briefly about entropy and the inevitable heat death of the universe and that all our attempts to create order are fruitless, tiny hands beating against the implacable mountain of time.

Then I look around for the other sock.

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Jenothee @jenothee.bsky.social · 11h

Remembering the Anne Aly meet & greet I went to pre-election. Asked her why ALP wont work with the Greens. She said its the Greens who wont work with the ALP. She also tried to say the Greens have corporate donors but looked sheepish when I asked if they were from fossil fuel corps.
#auspol

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 10h

So they've fired everyone at the CDC EIS (epidemic intelligence service, the "disease detectives") and the folks who do www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h... so a big day for Nurgle and other death cults. Also everyone at CISA. Fucking hell.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 9h

The way you'll bring this up and get a chorus of "Oh, I never thought of that" from cis people when it lives eternally in our heads....

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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