Debbie Fearon (she/her)
@debbiefearon.medsky.social
Former health professional with an increasingly
ridiculous mishmash of learned knowledge and lived experience.
Living on Arrernte country.
Please be kind 💚
ridiculous mishmash of learned knowledge and lived experience.
Living on Arrernte country.
Please be kind 💚
Pinned
29years ago, my first child died from congenital heart disease on NYE.
So, once Xmas and my birthday are over each year, my thoughts turn back to Jennifer Dulcie and I remember her and everything she taught me.
Love you my daughter - what a character you were in your short 4months of life.
So, once Xmas and my birthday are over each year, my thoughts turn back to Jennifer Dulcie and I remember her and everything she taught me.
Love you my daughter - what a character you were in your short 4months of life.
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This is an environmental win for the ages. They tried to start seabed mining in Aotearoa. For 12 years we fought back. And won. A magnificent alliance of iwi and environment NGOs and 100,000s of NZers www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Massive win for moana as Taranaki seabed mining application rejected - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace along with iwi and environmental groups are calling the decision to reject Trans Tasman Resources proposal to mine the Taranaki seafloor “a massive win for people power and the…
www.greenpeace.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:27 AM
This is an environmental win for the ages. They tried to start seabed mining in Aotearoa. For 12 years we fought back. And won. A magnificent alliance of iwi and environment NGOs and 100,000s of NZers www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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By fine Australian cartoonist Peter Broelman.
February 5, 2026 at 6:37 AM
By fine Australian cartoonist Peter Broelman.
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If you see a dog, post a dog
February 5, 2026 at 8:27 AM
If you see a dog, post a dog
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With alt text for the assist
February 5, 2026 at 7:43 AM
With alt text for the assist
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Thank you Kate Chaney, first politician to speak in parliament about the Terrorist Attack in Perth.
It still took 10 days from the attack.
Tell me Aboriginal people are treated equally, and I’ll rip you a new arsehole! Through your throat!
It still took 10 days from the attack.
Tell me Aboriginal people are treated equally, and I’ll rip you a new arsehole! Through your throat!
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Thank you Kate Chaney, first politician to speak in parliament about the Terrorist Attack in Perth.
It still took 10 days from the attack.
Tell me Aboriginal people are treated equally, and I’ll rip you a new arsehole! Through your throat!
It still took 10 days from the attack.
Tell me Aboriginal people are treated equally, and I’ll rip you a new arsehole! Through your throat!
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One from today, leaving work little early and walking through the gardens.
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 AM
One from today, leaving work little early and walking through the gardens.
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Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves
Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
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Reminding yourself & asserting to others that certain things, both past & present, are neither your fault nor your responsibility, is not "making excuses" or "avoiding accountability"-- it's making room for REALISTIC accountability, focused on your ACTUAL priorities & needs.
February 5, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Reminding yourself & asserting to others that certain things, both past & present, are neither your fault nor your responsibility, is not "making excuses" or "avoiding accountability"-- it's making room for REALISTIC accountability, focused on your ACTUAL priorities & needs.
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Life is too short to spend one minute longer than absolutely necessary thinking about someone whose presence in your life does not support your trauma recovery.
If they only hijack your focus from your goals & values, get good at mentally pivoting away from them. No shame.
If they only hijack your focus from your goals & values, get good at mentally pivoting away from them. No shame.
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Life is too short to spend one minute longer than absolutely necessary thinking about someone whose presence in your life does not support your trauma recovery.
If they only hijack your focus from your goals & values, get good at mentally pivoting away from them. No shame.
If they only hijack your focus from your goals & values, get good at mentally pivoting away from them. No shame.
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In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Women are never believed, only hysterical
Women are never believed, only hysterical
Females as likely to be autistic as males but boys more likely to be diagnosed, study says
Females as likely to be autistic as males but boys more likely to be diagnosed, study says
By age 20 diagnosis rates almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy
Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study.
Research led by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden scrutinised the diagnosis rates of autism for people born in Sweden between 1985 and 2020. Of the 2.7 million people tracked, 2.8% were diagnosed with autism between the ages of two and 37. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:52 AM
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Women are never believed, only hysterical
Women are never believed, only hysterical
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A mother of two autistic children living in regional Western Australia has shared her experience of navigating bureaucracy while caring for children with complex needs. #disabilities #carers #children
Mother of autistic children shares story in wake of WA family tragedy
A mother of two autistic children living in regional Western Australia has shared her experience of navigating bureaucracy while caring for children with complex needs. #disabilities #carers #children
www.abc.net.au
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
A mother of two autistic children living in regional Western Australia has shared her experience of navigating bureaucracy while caring for children with complex needs. #disabilities #carers #children
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#AA
Methanogens in gut microbiota: vital for health but linked to disorders. Balancing their roles key for nutrition and disease management. 🌱🔍
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/animadv-0025-0039
#balancing #nutrition #gut
Methanogens in gut microbiota: vital for health but linked to disorders. Balancing their roles key for nutrition and disease management. 🌱🔍
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/animadv-0025-0039
#balancing #nutrition #gut
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
#AA
Methanogens in gut microbiota: vital for health but linked to disorders. Balancing their roles key for nutrition and disease management. 🌱🔍
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/animadv-0025-0039
#balancing #nutrition #gut
Methanogens in gut microbiota: vital for health but linked to disorders. Balancing their roles key for nutrition and disease management. 🌱🔍
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/animadv-0025-0039
#balancing #nutrition #gut
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Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
February 4, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Ending a national rental affordability scheme (NRAS) in a housing crisis without any obvious solutions hitting the ground in any way at all is literally a government investing in classist power trips over people they leave destitute. 🤬 #auspol #housing
Ending a national rental affordability scheme (NRAS) in a housing crisis without any obvious solutions hitting the ground in any way at all is literally a government investing in classist power trips over people they leave destitute. 🤬 #auspol #housing
Fears for thousands of renters as rental affordability scheme ends
Vulnerable and elderly residents in homes subsidised by the National Rental Affordability Scheme are staring down decade-long waitlists for social housing as the scheme draws to a close.
www.abc.net.au
February 5, 2026 at 3:06 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Ending a national rental affordability scheme (NRAS) in a housing crisis without any obvious solutions hitting the ground in any way at all is literally a government investing in classist power trips over people they leave destitute. 🤬 #auspol #housing
Ending a national rental affordability scheme (NRAS) in a housing crisis without any obvious solutions hitting the ground in any way at all is literally a government investing in classist power trips over people they leave destitute. 🤬 #auspol #housing
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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I just want to remind everyone out there that rest is an actual thing you do and when you do it you aren’t doing “nothing,” you’re doing something essential to your health and wellbeing and also essential if you want to do *anything else.*
June 29, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I just want to remind everyone out there that rest is an actual thing you do and when you do it you aren’t doing “nothing,” you’re doing something essential to your health and wellbeing and also essential if you want to do *anything else.*
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Join the campaign to end the Partner Income Test.
www.endpartnerincometesting.com
www.endpartnerincometesting.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Join the campaign to end the Partner Income Test.
www.endpartnerincometesting.com
www.endpartnerincometesting.com
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Neo-Nazi leader Jacob Hersant was sentenced to one month in prison for a Nazi salute. When he participated in a violent group attack on hikers, including assault and armed robbery, he got 200 hours of community service. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
Neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant jailed after failed salute appeal
The judge lashed Hersant as being remorseless and described his behaviour as an assault on human dignity.
www.smh.com.au
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Neo-Nazi leader Jacob Hersant was sentenced to one month in prison for a Nazi salute. When he participated in a violent group attack on hikers, including assault and armed robbery, he got 200 hours of community service. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
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David Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about privatised state & council assets being sold off...
Like puking in their mouths about sewage in the ocean where we swim kinda squeamish?
Fuck privatisation, fuck libertarians
Like puking in their mouths about sewage in the ocean where we swim kinda squeamish?
Fuck privatisation, fuck libertarians
Reports lay bare criticisms of Veolia’s management of Wellington’s wastewater plants, but it was retained because of the high costs and risks in terminating the $170m contract.
Inside years of Wellington wastewater failures
Reports lay bare criticisms of Veolia’s management of Wellington’s wastewater plants, but it was retained because of the high costs and risks in terminating the $170m contract.
dlvr.it
February 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
David Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about privatised state & council assets being sold off...
Like puking in their mouths about sewage in the ocean where we swim kinda squeamish?
Fuck privatisation, fuck libertarians
Like puking in their mouths about sewage in the ocean where we swim kinda squeamish?
Fuck privatisation, fuck libertarians
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South Australia: Measles circulating undetected in Adelaide after infectious case identified, SA Health says
"SA Health said the adult acquired the infection locally, with chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier describing the case as "very much a concern".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
"SA Health said the adult acquired the infection locally, with chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier describing the case as "very much a concern".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Measles case in person who hadn't travelled 'very much a concern'
South Australia's health department says undetected measles is circulating in Adelaide, after an infection was identified in someone who had not recently travelled.
www.abc.net.au
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 AM
South Australia: Measles circulating undetected in Adelaide after infectious case identified, SA Health says
"SA Health said the adult acquired the infection locally, with chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier describing the case as "very much a concern".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
"SA Health said the adult acquired the infection locally, with chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier describing the case as "very much a concern".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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In America, the social fabric is starting to collapse. Australia must also learn that words shape our world | Martin Luther King III
In America, the social fabric is starting to collapse. Australia must also learn that words shape our world | Martin Luther King III
The work of strengthening social cohesion begins with a commitment to responsible language and civility that goes beyond legislation
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As I travel the world, I am reminded again and again that the health of a society is revealed not only in its laws or its institutions but in the way its people speak to, and about, one another. My father taught that nonviolence begins with language and the discipline to choose words that uplift rather than degrade, that clarify rather than distort and that build community rather than fracture it.
Last month in the United States, we marked the holiday that bears his name at a time when our own social cohesion is under immense strain. The rhetoric of public life has grown sharper, more cynical and more divisive. Too often, we speak as if our neighbours are adversaries rather than fellow citizens. But this erosion of respect is not unique to America. It is a global challenge and Australia is not exempt. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:53 AM
In America, the social fabric is starting to collapse. Australia must also learn that words shape our world | Martin Luther King III