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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 16h

An account of Gates' track record with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and its steam-rolling and strangulation of seed and food sovereignty

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Sep 23

Are philanthropic juggernauts like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a force for good?

Go beyond the typical fawning, hagiographic accounts from mainstream media with Alex Zaitchik's tremendous longread informed by on ground field work
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The New Colonialist Food Economy

How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South.

www.thenation.com

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 2d

A patient who created a popular sheet on how to deal with somebody in postexertional malaise (PEM) has adapted it for hospital staff

#MEcfs #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM

Hospital Guidance: Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) - Care Requirements
CLINICAL WARNING: When the patient is in PEM, any extra activity (sitting up, walking, answering questions) can worsen symptoms, reset recovery, and accelerate long-term decline. Strict protection of rest is required.
Overnight Care Guidance
Lighting and Noise: Keep the room dark and silent overnight. Avoid unnecessary door openings. Use minimal light if checks are required.
Sleep Protection: Do not wake for routine observations unless clinically essential. Cluster any checks to reduce disturbance.
Environment: Ensure call bell, water, and medications are within reach before settling for the night.
Communication: Avoid questions or conversation if the patient wakes. Speak quietly and keep interactions minimal.
Escalation: If pain, tachycardia, or instability occurs, respond calmly, minimise sensory exposure, and escalate as clinically indicated.
Documentation: Overnight staff should record sleep protection strategies and PEM episode status at shift start and end.
Personal Care - Showering and Hygiene
Daily shower prompts are not required. Please be guided by the patient as to when capacity allows.
General Principle: Patient will indicate readiness for washing or showering. No need to prompt daily. Frequency: Showering may be limited to once a week or less during severe PEM. Over-exertion can worsen symptoms.
Alternatives: Patient may use wet wipes or gentle seated wash in lieu of shower as tolerated.
Assistance: Provide quiet, minimal support (e.g., washcloths, seated wash). Avoid standing or prolonged exertion. Environment: Keep lighting low and surroundings quiet. Ensure seating for safety if required. Aftercare: Allow full recovery time after shower; avoid further activity immediately afterwards.
Shift Handover Note - Include in SBAR
S-Situation: PEM episode Yes No | Start: | Severity: mild/mod/severe
B- Background: ME/CFS with PEM; significant light/noise sensitivity; cognitive overload risk. …

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 2d

Better than deciding by goal difference but I don't understand why we don't just play a fifth game!

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crafty ghost @craftyanddevious.bsky.social · 2d

I love these spiky little dudes!!
#FlowerReport #bloomscrolling

Spiky red and orange waratah flowers in front of a green-lawned front yard

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 3d

‼️ALP using ICE tactics in Australia: "authorities have been conducting night-time and dawn raids on those within the cohort who have been granted a 30-year visa for Nauru"

Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 3d

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru. The Albanese Government have been accused of copying the ‘worst tactics of ICE’ in their treatment of the NZYQ cohort

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru

Australian authorities have been accused of copying the ‘worst tactics of ICE’ in their treatment of the NZYQ cohort

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 3d

‘JobSeeker… "the dole" — is currently below all poverty measures and is far below the average of similar nations, leaving 830,000 recipients with extremely low incomes’ - we should hang our heads in shame - it’s also economic nonsense #AusPol

Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 3d

Of course it’s the human thing to do but it’s also economically and societally smart to eliminate poverty. The pandemic showed us that it can be done, and that we all win from that investment.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix

In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...

www.abc.net.au

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 3d

#NDIS strikes again:

Letter received today, October the 28th, dated the 16th, saying that new medical information and reports from therapists have to be received by the 30th.

This is one example of the impossible demands placed on disabled people by the NDIA, and we are powerless to stop it.

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3-mob.com @3mob.bsky.social · 4d

Zimbabwe's netball team picks up important series win in Harare.

Follow the 3-mob.com Whatsapp Channel for Regular updates whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6d

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?

Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally. Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 6d

"This mould has some hints of house."

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 6d

youtube.com/shorts/rnD6E...

The most mould you've ever seen in a rental

YouTube video by PurplepingersTV

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Netball Scoop @netballscoop.bsky.social · 6d

Dame Noeline Taurua will resume full Silver Ferns coaching duties after the Northern Tour.

Read the full press release ⤵️ www.netballnz.co.nz/.../dame-noe....

📷 May Bailey-Ireland | Clusterpix Photography

#NetballNews #SilverFerns

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 6d

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 7d

For me, I think the "feeling" of laziness usually comes when I almost feel up to doing something but actually need rest. True "Laziness" seized to be possible long before I stopped being able to wash my hair, or read longform or stand long enough to cook a meal from scratch.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 8d

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 8d

Looks delicious! I used to love slow cooked meals but then I realised I have huge histamine issues and now I am thankful for pressure cookers.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 9d

A survey of 1,000 Victorian renters finds nearly four in five households faced a tenancy issue over a 12-month period — but only half of them escalated the issue by lodging a complaint.

Fear of retaliation stops renters from raising issues, survey finds

A survey of 1,000 Victorian renters finds nearly four in five households faced a tenancy issue over a 12-month period — but only half of them escalated the issue by lodging a complaint.

www.abc.net.au

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 8d

10 years ago, rent made up 28% of my budget, now it makes up 31.6%. My circumstances have stayed the same. I'm still on the DSP, sharing with 2 people in a similar house in the same area but rent is eating up more and more of the budget. Factor in the cost of literally everything else going up too!!

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 9d

The fact that this barnacled economist is using CPI rents indexed to 2019 to say that actually renters are doing fine is just so indicative of not only how out of touch people like this are, but also how profoundly bad at their jobs (neoliberal astrology for men) they are.

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 8d

I've spent the last half an hour trying to work out how much rent assistance I'll get when my rent goes up and it's @#$&ING IMPOSSIBLE.

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 8d

New growth unfurling: fern fronds going from coiled hairy monkey tails to tall lanky teens.

Tightly coiled new growth fern fronds covered in brown plant hairs giving a monkey like appearance.

Tall new growth fern fronds that are still coiled at the end but have lost most of their money down.

Close up of one new growth frond just beginning to unfurl.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8d

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found the average age of death for people who've experienced homelessness is 55 - almost three decades younger than the general population www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... cc. @purplepingers.bsky.social

New data on links between early death and homelessness - ABC listen

The Institute of Health and Welfare has examined the link between death and homelessness.

www.abc.net.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8d

A four-year-old girl died after she was denied extra NDIS support, with an inquiry hearing how planning failures are putting Aussie families at risk www.heraldsun.com.au/health/guide...

www.heraldsun.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8d

So the client is not funded for active overnights, but the client isn’t safe to get up alone through the night. You end up being pressured to do active nights without proper pay because the ndis funding isn’t available

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8d

This happens a lot in SIL and respite: NDIS plan funding doesn’t meet the complex care needs, but to fail to care for the client based on their needs is a failure of duty of care aboutregional.com.au/cobargo-char...

Cobargo charity chasing NDIS for $300k for care it provided | About Regional

Nardy House has spent months seeking reimbursement from NDIS for care it provided to a participant. Nardy House is a…

aboutregional.com.au

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 8d

Too many protests? Stop doing fucked up things then! 😆

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 8d

lol the video didn’t post, love this app

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The Socialist Party @aus-socialists.bsky.social · 8d

Full results from WA Socialists' first electoral foray - in statewide local council elections which were completed on 18th October. An average of 12.5 percent across ten council wards is a really good result for a party that only launched a few months ago!

A graphic outlining results across ten wards the WA Socialists ran in. The highest result is 24.01% and the lowest 3.71%. The average is 12.5%.

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